This is our second episode of our new Monday series highlighting AI Success Factors. Our guest is Beena Ammanath, the current Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute. Beena is also the Founder of Humans for AI, an organization that provides AI education for underrepresented female minorities, and recently wrote a new book called "Trustworthy AI". In this episode, she discusses one of GE’s early AI projects around procurement and how using a crawl, walk, run strategy can lead to tens of millions of dollars in savings. Be sure to tune in next Monday for the next episode in this series and start your week with pivotal insights about how to turn AI into ROI no matter what industry you’re in.

Today’s guest is Carlos Escapa, AI Global Business Development Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook), and in this episode, we explore what business leaders need to know about open source. Carlos clarifies what open source is and what is relevant for enterprise leaders, and the kinds of situations in which open source tools might be more suitable. He also discusses where leveling up and retaining talent crosses over with open source. Be sure to join Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1 to unlock our entire library of AI use-cases, best practice guides, white papers, frameworks, and more.

Today’s episode is the first of our new Monday series, AI Success Factors. This series will feature a short episode every Monday for the next four months geared towards starting your week with a look at what it takes for AI to succeed across industries and sectors. Our first guest of this series is Raefer Gabriel, VP of Engineering for Oracle’s Digital Assistant. Raefer previously worked as Head of Engineering for Conversational AI at Amazon. In this episode, he explores a book recommendation use-case, looking at Amazon’s roots from a new perspective. Raefer also identifies two key success factors: firstly, communicating value and strategically selecting projects, and secondly, picking your battles. Tune in next week for the second episode of this series to learn how to make your AI projects and ideas even sharper.

This week’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. Peter joins us to discuss the transition from the previous era of AI into the current “third wave” of AI in a way that will make sense for business people. He also shares insight on what it’ll take for AI to make the leap to contextual adaptation and what this might mean for business leaders in terms of how it could affect their current processes. If you’re interested in discovering AI trends and being able to identify AI use-cases and trends in your industry, be sure to stay tuned until the end of this episode to learn more about Emerj’s tools designed for business leaders and how to access them to discover more AI opportunities and maximize AI ROI.

This week’s guest is Rajkumar Bondugula, Fellow and Luminary Scientist at Verizon. Rajkumar holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and was previously the Principal Data Scientist at Equifax. In this episode, Rajkumar clarifies some of the critical differences between business intelligence, analytics, and data science. He also discusses how these concepts build upon one another and help businesses level up their services. If you’re interested in more insights on building AI maturity, building proper data science teams, being able to identify high-value AI projects and move them forward, be sure to check out Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1 to unlock our AI best-practice guides, whitepapers, and entire AI use-case library.

Our guest this week is Stacey Shulman, Vice President Internet of Things Group / GM Health, Life Sciences and Emerging Technologies at Intel Corporation. In this episode, Stacey discusses where she sees AI make its way into healthcare now, how Covid has affected how adoption has been prioritized, and its consequences in the future. Stacey’s insights about how healthcare is evolving are correlated to how other enterprises are also adjusting their strategies or potentially should be in the setting of the ongoing pandemic. If you’re interested in unlocking our AI best practice guides, frameworks for AI ROI, and specific resources for AI consultants, visit emerj.com/p1.

Today’s guest is Anand Mahurkar, Founder and CEO of Findability Sciences. With about 100 employees worldwide, Findability operates in a variety of industries, including manufacturing. In this episode, Anand provides an in-depth overview of the workflows that are impacted in predicting inventory and resource use in manufacturing. He also discusses what it looks like to determine the data sources you’re going to use and influence the workflows you will use to make more informed forecasting decisions. This episode is sponsored by Findability Sciences. If you’re interested in finding more high ROI use-cases in your sector, be sure to download our free PDF brief, “3 Ways to Detect AI Trends in Any Sector,” at emerj.com/t3.

Today’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, Deephaven Data Labs. In this episode, he brings his perspective on how this technology has evolved regarding AI’s impact in finance and where it’s going. He also discusses how AI is being used not just to look at the individual entities exchanging funds but also to look at the behavior of the entities around them and the entities they do business with. This episode is sponsored by SambaNova Systems. Visit emerj.com/ad1 to learn more about reaching our global audience.

Our guest this week is Dr. Seth Dobrin, the Global Chief AI Officer at IBM, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. In this episode, Seth returns to the podcast to speak about AI governance in terms of enabling innovation and driving better results for enterprises. He also discusses the right way to structure and think about AI governance to allow for efficiency and higher quality products. This episode is sponsored by IBM. If you’re interested in reaching Emerj’s business audience, be sure to visit emerj.com/ad1 to learn more about our media services.

Today’s guest is Remi Duquette, Vice President of Innovation and Industrial AI at Maya HTT. Maya HTT is an engineering and industrial AI services firm that Remi’s been with for twenty years. Remi draws on his hands-on experience to discuss the challenges and opportunities of improving productivity with AI in manufacturing. Today’s episode focuses on the question of where artificial intelligence can be implemented into existing workflows to improve output. This episode is sponsored by Maya HTT. If you’re interested in reaching Emerj’s global enterprise audience, check out emerj.com/ad1 to learn more.