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.

This week’s guest is Gregory Diamos, Machine Learning Systems Engineering at Landing AI. Run by one of the most prominent names in the business AI world, Andrew Ng, Landing AI has raised over $50M to date. Before Andrew founded Landing AI, he and Gregory worked together in the Baidu Silicon Valley Research Lab. In today’s episode, Gregory discusses a broad set of AI use-cases in agriculture that he thinks are going to make the most significant impact in the years ahead. 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 Joe Bradley, Chief Scientist, SVP Data Science & ML at LivePerson. Joe was previously the Senior Director for Data and Personalization Science at Nike before joining the team at LivePerson. In this episode, Joe breaks down how LivePerson approaches the conversational interface dynamic with their customers. Joe also discusses some of the challenges in getting to a genuinely conversational level and what’s possible today. If you’re interested in more NLP use-cases or want to learn more about chatbots or search-and-discovery, be sure to download our free PDF brief “The Executive Guide to NLP” at emerj.com/nlp1.

Today’s guest is Bhaskar Deka, Global Head of Product Management and AI at EdCast. Based in the Bay Area, EdCast has raised over $100M and has more than 400 employees to date. This episode focuses on onboarding new employees and what it looks like to upscale, train, and get new team members up to speed with machine learning to help make our teams more effective. Bhaskar also discusses his genuine take on the issues and concerns surrounding AI ethics and governance. 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.

Our guest this week is Joseph Berti, VP of AI Applications at IBM. In this episode, Joseph discusses the current capabilities of AI and IoT, highlighting specific use-cases where he’s seen value delivered in the industry. He also talks about where this technology combination takes us and what leaders should be aware of future trends. If you’re interested in gaining support, competitive intelligence, or a deeper understanding of the vendor ecosystem with a current AI initiative, visit emerj.com/aiol to learn more about our enterprise-level research or AI Opportunity Landscape.

Explore the shift to forecasting in business intelligence with AI integration. Learn about anomaly detection, machine learning in financial services, and challenges of integrating AI. Discover the importance of simplicity and AI integration in business tools.

This week’s guest is Everton Paulino, Business Development Executive of Automotive & Manufacturing at SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has raised approximately $1B to bring their hardware and software solutions to market. In this episode, he brings experience to bear and discusses three unique use-cases for where AI might make a difference in the future of manufacturing. This episode is brought to you by SambaNova Systems. If you’re interested in reaching Emerj’s global executive audience through our podcasts, newsletter, website, or more, visit emerj.com/ad1 to download our media kit and learn more about our sponsored content guidelines and offerings.

Today’s guest is Faustino Gomez, CEO, and Co-Founder of NNAISENSE. NNAISENSE is a firm focused on developing AI solutions for the physical world, and we spoke with their other Co-Founder, Jürgen Schmidhuber, about two years ago. If you’re interested in listening to Jürgen’s episode, you can find it on Apple Podcasts or Soundcloud. In today’s episode, Faustino discusses one particular use-case that NNAISENSE is focused on in additive manufacturing. Faustino has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and was a senior researcher for over ten years at the IDSIA, a well-known artificial intelligence lab in Lugano, Switzerland. To access Emerj’s frameworks for AI readiness, ROI and strategy, visit emerj.com/p1.

Our guest this week is Sanjay Deshmukh, Executive Vice President of Findability Sciences. Findability is a SoftBank-backed firm here in the Boston area with about 100 employees around the world. In this episode, he discusses how Findability is applying artificial intelligence in the world of collections. He also talks about the personalization of messaging, optimizing the use of call center agents, and categorization. This episode is brought to you by Findability Sciences. If you’re a listener here but not yet a subscriber on emerj.com, you can download our free PDF brief called “The AI in Financial Services Cheat Sheet” at emerj.com/fin1.