The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Sivakumar Lakshmanan, CEO of Antuit.ai, a Zebra Technologies company. Founded in 2013 in Dallas, Texas, Antuit.ai is rethinking the way consumer products and retail companies use AI to solve real business problems. They offer solutions that inform the most important business decisions, from supply chain to merchandising to marketing, empowering world-class retail and consumer products companies to digitally transform their businesses to achieve substantial business results. Sivakumar has extensive experience in driving supply chain transformation leveraging advanced analytics. He has advised many Fortune 500 companies on demand forecasting, supply chain planning, network design, and inventory optimization across CPG, Retail and Manufacturing.  He joined antuit.ai in 2013 as a Partner and lead for developing new business in Asia. In his current role as a member of the Executive team and head of Forecasting and Supply Chain business unit, Sivakumar is responsible for driving revenue growth, client success and thought leadership. In the episode, Sivakumar will discuss: Antuit’s interesting work within the supply chain sector, An overview of the challenges they solve for customers, How the data & tech team is set up for success, What a typical project life-cycle looks like, Why Antuit is a great place to work, The future of Antuit and AI in supply chain, and Plans for further growing the team

Today's guest is Fredrik Spets, Digital Transformation Director at Saab in Sweden. Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by 18,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. They design, manufacture and maintain advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Fredrik is leading the digital transformation journey at Saab where he is focused on digitalizing and automating their ways of working within the Saab enterprise as a whole. Fredrik also drives strategies and initiatives for more efficient operations and administration such as robotic process automation, digital workflows and cross functional digital initiatives. He is also the lead of the Intelligent Automation/Hyperautomation Center of Excellence team at Saab. In the episode, Fredrik will discuss: Using ServiceNow at Saab for their onboarding process, Challenges they faced in successfully implementing ServiceNow, The importance of transparency and communication, Analysing their approach and feedback loops, Solving problems when things didn’t go to plan, The rollout and the benefits it brought to Saab’s employees, and What the future looks like for ServiceNow at Saab

Today's guest is Prashant Natarajan, VP of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is the leading AI cloud company who are on a mission to democratize AI for everyone. Customers use the H2O AI Cloud platform to rapidly make, operate and innovate to solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas. H2O.ai is the trusted AI partner to more than 20,000 global organizations, over half of the Fortune 500 and one million data scientists. Prashant is an enthusiastic, collaborative and results-focused executive who loves to build new businesses, transform existing ones, and ensure happy and repeat customers. He has a proven track record as product leader, product led growth expert, a trusted customer advisor/confidant, and an impactful domain expert in insurance, health, life sciences and financial services. Also a best-selling author, Prashant strives to demystify cloud, data, analytics, AI/ML and digital transformation for business leaders, domain experts and non-technologists. In the episode, Prashant will tell us: What H2O.ai is all about, His role and day-to-day life within the team, An insight into the work they do within Life Sciences and Healthcare, The culture & why they are a great place to work, Upcoming projects & what’s in store for the near future at H2O.ai, and Where he sees the future of AI in the industry

Today's guests are Umashangar Ariyaratnam & Alexis Mendoza, Co-Founders at Proceed in France. Proceed are an integrator, a consulting company and a training center on a human scale. This means that they favour expertise in their areas of choice such as the management of services and information systems on ServiceNow,  support for change and training, and the Convergence and transformation in national or international environments. Proceed chairman Alexis is a Program Director of international transformations from several IT departments, an expert in the implementation of IT organizations, in particular global Service Desks, and an accredited ITIL trainer. CEO Umashangar is a Factory Director and Service Delivery Manager having implemented several teams of developers and process managers on different French or global ServiceNow platforms. In the episode, Umashangar and Alexis will discuss: The interesting work they do at Proceed, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice, An insight into some of the customers they work with, Case study of the impact they bring to customers, How they manage to help people to change, and What does the future hold for the ServiceNow platform

Today's guest is Theo Petropoulos, Director of Data Science at Abacus.AI. Founded in 2019 with headquarters in San Francisco, Abacus.AI is the world’s first cloud AI platform that handles all aspects of machine and deep learning at enterprise scale. For repeatable use-cases such as churn prediction, time-series forecasting and deep-learning based personalization, they offer an extremely customizable end to end autonomous AI service where their expert AI agents wrangle data, train machine and deep learning models, and monitor them in production. In addition to all available open source algorithms, Abacus.AI has developed techniques to train custom neural networks that outperform classical models and are easily automated. For custom, highly specific models, Abacus.AI offers a state-of-the-art toolset that allows ML practitioners and data science teams to wrangle data, build real-time machine and deep learning features, upload ipython notebooks, monitor model drift and set up CI/CD for machine learning systems. Their MLOps infrastructure helps you go to market, 10x faster than any other industry leading platform. In the episode, Theo will discuss: The interesting work he does with Abacus.ai, Use cases of the problems they solve for customers, Enabling the citizen data scientist, Day-to-day projects the data science team work on, Benefits that Abacus are brining to customers, and What the future holds for Abacus.ai

Today's guest is Chris Whitney, Chief Digital Officer at Monarch Tractor in California. Monarch Tractor are leading the digital transformation of farming. Monarch believes in putting farmers first with their smart electric tractor enhancing existing farm ecosystems. Monarch helps farmers by addressing labor availability, meeting consumer demands for sustainability and providing actionable data-driven farming insights. Monarch enables economically competitive organic and beyond farming through intelligent electro-mechanical solutions that replace harmful chemicals. While driven by bleeding-edge technology, the Monarch Tractor still plows, tills and hauls better than any other tractor in its class. The Monarch Tractor will both spur and enable future generations of farming technologies. They have the technology and the team to develop, build and scale the Monarch to digitally transform farming around the world. In the episode, Chris will discuss: His background and what attracted him to Monarch Tractor, Their interesting work using AI and Robotics in the Farming sector, His role and current projects the team are working on, Use cases of the impact they are bringing to the industry, Why Monarch Tractor are a great place to work, The future of AI and automation in the Farming industry

Alex Song, CEO and Founder at Proxima, discusses the interesting work he does with Proxima, problems they solve for customers, how he structured the data team for success, attracting top talent to Proxima, and plans for growth and hiring into the team.

Today's guest is Howard Ting, CEO at CyberHaven in Palo Alto, CA. Every day, millions of sensitive documents, files and other data are being exfiltrated because traditional data security products have failed to do their job, resulting in an estimated $600 billion annual cost to the US economy. These data breaches cause severe near and long-term impact, including stolen IP, business interruptions, loss of customer trust, weakened competitiveness and significant financial penalties. Cyberhaven will help organizations secure all of the data they must protect in order to compete and thrive in the digital economy. It’s one big hairy problem but Cyberhaven are up to the challenge. Howard joined Cyberhaven as CEO in June 2020 and in the past decade, he has played a critical role in scaling Palo Alto Networks and Nutanix from initial sales to over $1billion in revenue, generating massive value for customers, employees and shareholders. Howard has also served in GTM and product roles at Redis Labs, Zscaler, Microsoft and RSA Security. In the episode, Howard will discuss: The work CyberHaven are doing within Data protection, What’s new and innovative approach their approach to the market, How they are applying AI at CyberHaven, The day-to-day life within the tech team, What’s in store for the near future, & Why CyberHaven are a great place to work

Today's guest is Sofiia Shvets, Co-Founder and CEO at Let’s Enhance in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Let's Enhance is a deep tech AI company that builds End-to-End imaging solutions for photo enhancement and optimization. This helps to get control over the quality of user-generated content and make it look better for higher conversion rates. Supported by Techstars, Nvidia and Google for Startups, Let's Enhance are used by more than four million people worldwide and their API is automating image enhancement for Fortune 500 companies. Let’s Enhance offers state-of-art AI technology for improving photo quality, removing compression, automating retouch and low light correction using deep learning methodology. In the episode, Sofiia will discuss: The origins and current work at Let’s Enhance, Behind the scenes on how the AI platform comes together, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, How the team is set-up for success, Upcoming projects and what’s in store for the near future, and Why Let’s Enhance is a great place to work

Today's guest is Sid Roy, Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Devron in New York. Founded in 2020, Devron is rethinking the way data science platforms read and share insights across datasets. Sensitive data is often siloed off in private networks, on-premise and in entrenched environments, limiting data scientists in deriving actionable insights for business decisions. Multiple parties often duplicate or lose track of data being shared within and across organizations, often increasing data engineering and cloud costs. Devron is enabling data scientists to build on top of decentralized data stores. They reduce the clutter and steps required for data engineers and scientists to conduct data science and they obviate the need to centralize and duplicate data. Devron is on the path to build the next-generation data science and machine learning platform to enable decentralized analytics. They foresee a globally distributed data fabric that preserves the privacy of the source data, freeing it to drive innovation and insights and unleashing its untapped value. In the episode, Sid will discuss: The mission of Devron’s Federated ML platform, Examples of the customers using Devron’s platform, Building the ML function from the ground up, Transitioning from academia into the startup world, Plans for growth and why to consider a career with Devron, & What excites him for the future at Devron