The AI in Business Podcast

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Dr. Nick Pilkington, CTO and Founder of Drone Deploy. To date, DroneDeploy has raised 90+ million dollars for its cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform, which enables capabilities such as automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone, and industries adopting this technology include agriculture, real estate, mining, and construction. In this episode: Dr. Pilkington breaks down opportunities to enhance user experience and lower entry barriers for AI-driven technologies. Discover more opportunities, frameworks, and infographics for leveling up your AI capabilities with Emerj Plus: emerj.com/p1

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Dr. Dmitry Efimov, VP of Machine Learning Research at American Express. Dr. Efimov has lead the charge to detect fraudulent transactions and activity at Amex. Episode topics include: breaking down the evolution of fraud detection, the future of AI-driven fraud detection, and what's next for AI at Amex. Want to learn more about AI in financial services? Read Emerj's pdf guide: emerj.com/fin1

Today we welcome the return of the great and brilliant Bryton Shang, CEO of Aquabyte, which has raised $10 million to bring AI to fish farming. This episode focuses on the product and processes of Aquabyte as a case study in how to best service industrial managers and workers. Episode topics include: how to build AI products for non-technical audiences, keeping the data science (data labeling, feature selection, etc.) in the hands of the vendor, AI software as a service. Want to learn more about AI at the edge? Join industry leaders at the Edge AI Summit, hosted by Kisaco Research. Attend virtually, Nov 18-20th. Learn more: bit.ly/2RAv62n

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Manuel Terranova, CEO of Peaxy. Since 2012, Peaxy has raised $30+ million to expand its AI-driven platform, helping companies unlock the value of their industrial data. Manuel shares some really valuable insights: diving into the landscape of sensor data e.g. temperature, energy usage, flow rate, GPS, vibration, acceleration, etc., transformational opportunities for predictive analytics, and how to start exploring these opportunities. Learn more: peaxy.net

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Spence Green, CEO of Lilt. Lilt has received $35+ million in venture funding since 2015 to build its AI-powered language translation platform, which combines adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system. Episode topics include: how to simplify system integrations, when enterprise transformation is required before AI can be implemented, how Lilt can maintain brand voice in nuanced translations across many languages. Want the best of Emerj's insights? Try Emerj Plus: emerj.com/p1

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Bryton Shang, Founder & CEO of Aquabytes, which has raised $10 million to bring AI to fish farming. Bryton shows how AI is opening doors for transformation far from traditional high technology centers. Episode topics also include: how to create a successful AI product that fits into a conventional industrial workflow, how AI can be used to detect and support the health and behavior of fish at farms. Want to learn more about AI at the edge? Join industry leaders at the Edge AI Summit, hosted by Kisaco Research. Attend virtually, Nov 18-20th. Learn more: bit.ly/2RAv62n

Today's guest is the great and brilliant, Ron Bodkin. Ron has served as Director of Applied AI at Google, VP/GM of AI at Teradata, founded multiple technology ventures, and now leads AI & Engineering at Vector Institute and Schwartz Reisman Institute. In this episode, Ron shares how to avoid scattered projects by following a reliable roadmap for leveled investment in AI capabilities. Want to learn about Emerj's best practices and frameworks? Get Emerj's report: "Generating AI ROI": emerj.com/roi1

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Kurt Muehmel, Chief Customer Officer of Dataiku. Dataiku is a unicorn AI platform that has raised $250+ million since 2013 and outranked Google in Gartner's 2020 reports. In this episode, Kurt discusses some of the platform's powerful capabilities and brings it down to earth with some relatable examples. Want to discover more ways to apply AI in your organization? Join Emerj Plus: emerj.com/p1

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Matthew Mattina, Director of Machine Learning Research at ARM. ARM is a leading technology provider of silicon IP and custom SoCs at the heart of billions of devices. Mr. Mattina's research agenda covers deep learning, neural network design & optimization, and HW accelerator architecture, resulting in ISA extensions, SW libraries, novel microarchitectures for ML inference and training, and efficient neural network models. Episode topics include: Mr. Mattina's criteria for AI readiness and how to customize your AI Readiness Checklist. Are you a business or innovation leader exploring opportunities for leveraging AI? Check out Emerj's 9-page Pdf Guide, Beginning with AI: emerj.com/beg1

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Roeland Nusselder, CEO and Co-founder of Plumerai. Plumerai is making deep learning tiny and computationally radically more efficient, to enable inference on edge devices. Episode topics include: nuances of leveraging machine learning at the edge, the limitations and capabilities of ML processing on legacy and standard chipsets. Roeland is presenting at this year's AI Hardware Summit, hosted by our sponsor, Kisaco Research. Attend virtually, Sept 29 - Oct 7. Want to connect with AI industry leaders? Learn more about the Summit here: bit.ly/2Ywz1kU