The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

On Silicon Valley Insider this month host Keith Koo has had a series of interviews on Artificial Intelligence. First was with Beena Ammanath, Global VP of Innovation (AI, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder of the non-profit Humans for AI: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast Next was Professor Gary Smith of Pomona College on his book the "The AI Delusion" which he said AI is good for some repetitive tasks but will not become cognitive to the point where they have common sense. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-19-18-podcast The series continues with how AI technology can be used effectively to transform an industry and profession like accounting without losing jobs. Jotham Ty the CEO of Gappify a technology company commmitted to transformation the accounting industry automating thousands of mundane tasks through the use of Bots utlizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Hear how Jotham and team started with a successful consulting firm during the Sarbanes-Oxley (SoX) ear to determining the need to make accounting tasks and the accountants' function less boring and mundane. There are 1000s of accounting tasks that can be automated without losing jobs. Gappify is a an AI technology that the accounting world can embrace. More info on www.gappify.com For the Cyber/Privacy-Tip of the week, Keith talks about how your identity can be revealed using DNA even if you never have taken a DNA exam. In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jenny Dearborn, EVP of People for SAP. Jenny is considered one of the "Top 50" women in technology. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo continues his series on Ariticial Intelligence and interviews special guest Gary Smith who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca. Gary was also a professor at Yale and has written over 80 academic papers and 13 books and with his most recent being "The AI Delusion". Keith and Gary talk about why Gary wrote his book and why AI is not yet ready to take over the world. AI is good for very specific tasks but not yet ready for task that involve critical thinking or human judgment. Gary is noted for a term he uses frequently "torturing data" in reference to finding causation in any data set whether valid or not. As a reminder, "correlation is not causation". Gary's book is available on Amazon.com For the Cyber-Tip of the week, Keith talks about what to do if you had files lost from the Windows 10 upgrade. In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jotham Ty who is the Founder and CEO of Gappify a Silcion Valley startup developing accounting "bots". Instead of training entry level accountants, Joatham is training people to develop accounting bots. Tune in next week to about Gappify. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews special guest Beena Ammanath, Global VP of HPE Innovation for Aritifical Intelligence, Data Analytics and Blockchain. Beena was recently named "Woman of the Year" in Data Analytics by U.C. Berkeley and she is also the founder and CEO of Humans for AI a non-profit focused on encouraging diversity and empowering minoritie in the workforce to be confident and successful in using emerging AI technology. Keith and Beena talk in depth about what AI's potential is for the future and how people can not get left behind by learning the skills necessary to thrive in a technology driven world. Beena discusses how diversity is not just about ethnicity and gender, but also socio economic. That effectively embracing technology can lift up all of the affected groups. For the Cyber Tip of the week, Keith gives his recommendations for Apple iOS 12 settings. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

Silicon Valley Host Keith Koo reports from the greater Shanghai region of China in which he was part of an economic trade mission to discuss mutually beneficial business collaborations between the USA & China in spite of the recent tariffs and tensions between the two trading partners. Keith's economic mission was part of the US Minority Business Agency and the Zion Shanghai Investment Company. Today's show focused on the following guests: 1) Wendy Yang, President of the Zion Shanghai Investment Company which focuses on cross-border business between the USA, China and Europe. 2) Deborah Magid, Director of Strategy - IBM Ventures who discusses the technologies such as IoT, A.I. and Big Data. 3) Aeronyde an innovative Florida based UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) startup that is researching how UAVs can work not only in the USA but in other regions including China. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires, Technology for Good

This week while Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is in China speaking at several conferences in the greater Shanghai region of China the show is releasing a rebroadcast of "Cross Border Venture Capital and M&A with Sophie Liao of Oyster VC" Don't miss next week's show as he does a recap of his week speaking at several cross-border business summits in Shanghai, Zhejiang & Jiangsu provinces: 1 3rd Annual International Trade Fair & Inaugural Tongxiang Elite Development Convention, Tongxiang, Hangzhou, China. (Tongxiang is the permanent site of China's world internet conference.) 2) European and American High Technology Exchange and Summit - Shanghai 3) European and American High Technology Exchange and Summit - Suzhou His guests will include: Wendy Yang: President of Zion Shanghai Investment Company Deborah Magid: Director of Strategy, IBM Ventures Edgar Munoz, CEO of Commercial Drone Startup Aeronyde of Melbourne, Florida Each will share their points of view on how companies in the USA and China are still trying to do business with each other given the tariffs and tensions between the two trading partners. This week's rebroadcast show notes: Silcon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and Special Guest Sophie Liao, Founder and Managing Partner of Oyster Venture Capital celebrate Chinese New Year - 新年快乐 (Xīn Nián Kuài Lè)! by discussing the many challenges and rewards of cross border business. Hear how Sophie went from documentary filmmaker to selling her first business which then led to her to becoming a successful venture capitalist (VC). Sophie and Keith discuss Venture Capital and Mergers and Acquistions and how their deep understanding of business goals while balancing that with inherent cultural differences led to their successes in leading cross border M&A projects. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber all have one thing in common... They didn't succeed in China. Find out why and how you can avoid their fate by listening to this show! First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

The Silicon Valley Insider Show: Hugh Molotsi - Author of The Intrapreneur's Journey | CEO of Ujama | Former VP of Innovation - Intuit. Thanks to all of our listeners on 1220AM KDOW, 860AM KTRB and podcast listeners in 88 countries. On this week's show, Keith Koo's special guest is Hugh Molotsi - Co-author of The Intrapreneur's Journey, CEO of Ujama & Former VP of Innovation and at Intuit and Intuit Fellow. First winner of the Intuit Founder's Award. Learn about Hugh's incredible 22 year journey at Intuit touching virtually very major product that exists today and inventing Intuit's payments platform. Hugh discusses the concept of an "Intrapreneur" vs an Enterpreneur. How there are often untapped ideas and talent already within your organization and how organizations usually overlook the potential. Hugh's book the "Intrapereur's Journey" is the first book under Eric Ries author of the "Lean Startup" book and creator of the "Lean Startup Method" and gives an actionable template using the "Intrapreneur's Empowerment Model". Hugh also discusses that even though a life-long technology innovator, writing a book came with its own unique challenges and how he overame those to produce a very compelling outcome. Don't miss Keith discuss the following: 1) What is 5G? 2) Teslas are both the easiest cars to hack/steal and the easiest to recover 3) Would you be comfortable if your company uses Artificial Intelligence to predict your future performance review and salary increase? There is one very large company that is already doing just that. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

The Silicon Valley Insider Show: Emerging Technology for Humanity. Thanks to all of our listeners on 1220AM KDOW, 860AM KTRB and podcast listeners in 87 countries. On this week's show, Keith Koo's special guest is Jerry Cuomo, VP of Blockchain Technologies and IBM Fellow. Hear Jerry's story of how he was one of the originators of IBM Websphere and then became the CTO for Websphere before discovering the promises of blockchain technologies which led to his leading all of IBM's research in blockchain, distributed ledger and IBM's membership in the HyperLedger consortium. Jerry talks about his passion for "Blockchain for Good" and gave Keith the very first interview regarding IBM"s new project addressing self soverign identity for healthcare called Hu-manity. Jerry also gives reference to the need for a directory or "yellow pages" for permissioned (like HyperLedger) and permissionless (decentralized) blockchains. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

The Silicon Valley Insider show is celebrating its 1 year anniversary! Thanks to all of our listeners on 1220AM KDOW, 860AM KTRB and podcast listeners in 87 countries. This week's show gives the history of the show and has guests from the production of the show as well as highlights from this past year. 1) Craig Roberts, Salem Media Program Director and host of "Lifeline & 6) the behind the scenes team at Silicon Valley Insider that make the show! Highlights from past shows with true innovators in their domains: 2) Meet Michael Hermus former Chief Technology Officer of the US Department of Homeland Security and what it is like to be a techologist and innovator working with the government. 3) Futurist and keynote speaker - Dr. John Mattison, Chief Health Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente on the hope of medical breakthroughs that are coming in the next 9-18 months. 4) Dr. Drew Taylor - CEO of Acorn a company that is preserving your cells/genes for "rebooting" your health in the future 5) Jonathan Nelson of the Hack Fund who is innovating Venture Capital with a true heart to serve developing nations with access to the same funding sources that are available in Silicon Valley. 5) A replay of Keith's safety tips for using apps like Pokemon go First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is reporting onsite at the Call For Code event at 42-Silicon Valley with the City of Fremont, CA, IBM & Tulip Industries. In the first segment, Trevor Riggen, CEO of the American Red Cross for the Northern California Region & Willie Tejada Chief Developer Advocate of IBM who discusses using technology to combat the raging wildfires in California. In the second segment, Tim Robinson, Developer Advocate at IBM shares his experience of working with developers at the Call for Code Day at 42-Silicon Valley In the third segment, Keith catches up with IBM Chief Digital Officer and former AOL President and CEO of Razorfish, Bob Lord, to discuss how IBM became the founding sponsor of the Call for Code initiative and how IBM has given global developers the power of direct access to IBM's code to save lives and solve for societal problems. In the fourth and final segment, Keith is back in the studio with the Call For Code Day -Silicon Valley's first place team the Menlo Muppets and their product Evachain which helps civilians and emergency responders in verifying fires, planning escape routes and allows people to volunteer and first runner-up, Wildifre detection using tech to develop early detection and warning systems using real time data and serving that data to early responders and those affected by a wildfire. As a reminder, Call For Code (https://callforcode.org/) is a global initiative to address humanitarian issues such as natural disasters and disaster relief which Silicon Valley Insider www.svinz.biz with Keith Koo has been promoting for several months leading up the Call For Code Day Silicon Valley. Keith wants everyone to know that was a complete honor to truly bring a community together to host this event. Call for Code is sponsored David Clark Cause, IBM and also in part by the American Red Cross, the United Nations as well as other affiliates and supporters such as Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo is very pleased to have special guests Lily Mei, Mayor of Fremont, CA, Willie Tejada, GM and Chief Developer Advocate of IBM and Josh Trujillo of 42 Silicon Valley as he discusseds how it was an honor bringing all these groups together to put on a truly community driven event which is the first (and only) North American "Call For Code" day hackathon at 42 Silicon Valley's campus to combat and support wildfires. Sign up for the Call for Code here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/call-for-code-hackathon-silicon-valley-tickets-49010749471?aff=erelexpmlt In the first segment, Josh Trujillo discusses how 42 opened their doors to host the event as it aligns with 42's mission to educate and serve the community. https://www.42.us.org/ 42 was also recently featured on the show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-17-18-podcast) In the second segment, Mayor Lily Mei of Fremont discusses the importance of technology in solving for natural disasters, disaster notification and disaster relief in communities especially in not easily reached populations during a disaster such as the homeless. In the third and final segment, Keith has Willie Tejada, GM and Chief Developer Advocate of IBM about how IBM became a major sponsor of the Call for Code initiative and how natural disasters cannot be stopped by technology but how technology can help communites react and recover faster. Tulip Industries who was not on this week's show is also a lead sponsor of the Call for Code event. Following their emerging technologies conference in June of 2018 https://tulipconf.com/ Tulip is bringing advanced technology advocacy and education to the public. Tulip was featured on this show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-4-20-18-podcast As a reminder, Call For Code (https://callforcode.org/) is a global initiative to address humanitarian issues such as natural disasters and disaster relief which Silicon Valley Insider www.svinz.biz with Keith Koo has been promoting for several months leading up the Call For Code Day Silicon Valley. Keith wants everyone to know that was a complete honor to truly bring a community together to host this event. Call for Code is sponsored David Clark Cause, IBM and also in part by the American Red Cross, the United Nations as well as other affiliates and supporters such as Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires