The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is François Candelon, Global Director at the BCG Henderson Institute in Paris, France. The BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. With nearly 30 years experience working with Boston Consulting Group, François' work has been published in prestigious business and management magazines such as Harvard Business Review & MIT Sloan Management Review, and has presented at multiple global conferences. His most recent work focuses on AI and data analytics in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. In 2021, François was short-listed for Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in Digital Thinking for his work with the BCG Henderson Institute. In the episode, François discuss: His role as 50% practitioner & 50% researcher, Optimizing Humans plus AI as a system, Use cases of how this system can impact your business, The importance of embracing change and being consistent, What is possible with AI and challenges to be aware of, The importance of a Human in the Loop approach, and Looking towards the Democratization of AI

Today's guest is Marin Ferara, Senior Data Scientist at Data Insights GmbH. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Munich, Data Insights generates real added value from data, such that their customers can remain competitive. The company employs the latest ideas, a pre-emptive approach and creative mindsets to achieve intelligent results from data. Data Insights covers the entire project cycle, is constantly aligned with customers’ needs and requirements, and supports them in implementing Big Data, Data Science and Cloud projects. In the episode, Marin discuss: His role and current work at Data Insights, Problems they are solving for customers, The challenges of applying AI in the industry, Delivering to customer expectations, His predictions for the future of AI

Today's guest is Donal Tobin, CEO at integrate.io in San Francisco. Founded in 2012, Integrate.io allows organizations to integrate, process and prepare data for analytics on the cloud. By providing a coding and jargon-free environment, their scalable platform ensures businesses can quickly and easily benefit from the opportunities offered by big data without having to invest in hardware, software or related personnel. With Integrate.io, every company can have immediate connectivity to a variety of data stores and a rich set of out-of-the-box data transformation components. In the episode, Donal discuss: Helping companies centralise their data in a data warehouse, The rise of Data Warehousing & current trends, Use cases of how eCommerce companies benefit from Data Science, Insights into Search, Customer Lifetime Value, Customer Retention & more, What a typical project life cycle looks like, and What excites him for the future at integrate.io

Today's guest is Maarten Braspenning, Founder & CEO and Alexander Lukyanov, Scientific Director at BISC Global. Founded in 2017 by an experienced team of bioinformaticians, statisticians and business leaders, BISC Global's goal is to help customers overcome their challenges in data-analysis, pipeline automation, visualization and compute environments. Over the past few years, BISC Global has grown to become one of the world’s premier consulting companies in bioinformatics, statistics and ML/AI. With teams located in Boston, San Francisco, Belgium and Switzerland, BISC Global supports a variety of data analysis tools, including machine learning (data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis, (un)supervised learning, neural networks, deep learning), bioinformatics (single-cell transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, epigenomics), and statistics (experimental design, mathematic modelling, signal-to-noise enhancement, and independent data cross validation). In the episode, Marten and Alexander discuss: The motivation for setting up BISC Global, The role of AI and Machine Learning in their products, Use cases of the benefits that they bring to customers, Team structure and typical projects they work on, The journey of building a startup from the ground up, Why BISC Global is a great place to work and What the future holds for BISC Global

Today's guest is Walter Mayo, CEO at Expert.ai in Boston, MA. Expert.ai is the premier AI platform for language understanding. Its unique hybrid approach to NL combines symbolic human-like comprehension and machine learning to transform language-intensive processes into practical knowledge, providing the insight required to improve decision making throughout organizations. By offering a full range of on-premise, private and public cloud offerings, expert.ai augments business operations, accelerates and scales data science capabilities and simplifies AI adoption across a vast range of industries including Insurance, Banking & Finance, Publishing & Media, Defense & Intelligence, Life Science & Pharma, Oil Gas & Energy, and more. In the episode, Walter will discuss: The work he does with expert.ai, Helping organizations understand the language of their business, Current projects the team are working on in ML, Automation and NLP, The current make-up and culture of the team, What the future holds for expert.ai, Plans for growing the team

Today's guest is Jeff Seibert, Co-Founder at Digits in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2018, Digits' mission is to provide the real-time visibility and powerful, actionable intelligence that business operators and their finance teams require to chart their course in the world. From their concierge efforts to the smallest details in their product’s design and implementation, Digits are constantly pushing the boundaries on how to delight customers, ship industry-defining products at scale and build true friendships with each other along the way. Digits gives you live, total visibility into your business by combining advanced machine learning, full-historical statistical analysis, and layers of proprietary datasets and heuristics. Digits leverage the latest in machine-learned algorithms to automatically identify patterns, intelligently classify incoming data and detect anomalies. Digits are a fully distributed team of engineers, designers and operators who collaborate remotely, but synchronously, from homes and co-working spaces across the Americas. In the episode, Jeff will discuss: The origins and journey of building out Digits, The role of Data Science and Analytics in their platform, Plans for growing the team with recent Series C funding, Their culture as a fully remote company, The impact that Digits bring to customers, Why Digits is a great place to work & What excites him for the future at Digits

Today's guest is Ravi Mayuram, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Couchbase in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 2009, Couchbase believes data is at the heart of the enterprise. They empower developers and architects to build, deploy and run their mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers a high-performance, flexible and scalable modern database that runs across the data center and any cloud. Many of the world’s largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on. As CTO, Ravi is focused on driving deeper customer and partner relationships and evangelizing Couchbase in the market. He joined Couchbase from Oracle, where he served as senior director of engineering and led innovation in the areas of recommender systems and social graph, search and analytics, and lightweight client frameworks. Ravi was responsible for kickstarting the cloud collaboration platform at Oracle. Previously in his career, Ravi held senior technical and management positions at BEA, Siebel, Informix, HP and startup BroadBand Office. In the episode, Ravi will discuss: What Couchbase is all about, A typical Customer journey and benefits they bring to users, Problems they are solving using AI and Data, What it’s like to work at Couchbase, Upcoming projects & what the future holds, & Exciting opportunities to work with Couchbase

Today's guest is Travis Toulson, ServiceNow Architect at CodeCreative in Raleigh, NC. When transitioning from working in maintenance and production into IT, Travis faced a lot of challenges breaking in. Information was hard to find unless you already knew what to look for and he felt people were generally unhelpful. Because of this, it took him around five years just to learn to code and a few more years to cross into IT. When at rock bottom, Travis promised himself that if he made it, he would do everything he could to hold the door open for others. Thanks to the ServiceNow Community, it’s members, and an amazing group of mentors and recruiters, Travis was given an opportunity better than he ever imagined. Following through on his commitment, Travis uses CodeCreative to share educational content to help people start and grow their careers on the ServiceNow platform. In the episode, Travis will discuss: How he got into the world of ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice, Favorite projects he has worked on, New innovations he is seeing within ServiceNow, and The current work he is doing with CodeCreative

Today's guest is William Balance, CEO at Lavender in New York. Founded in 2020, Lavender is your AI email assistant that combines everything you need to easily write emails that get replies. Lavender provides real time AI-driven coaching on your email, allows you to research your prospect without leaving your inbox, confirm their email is valid, check if your email will land in SPAM, see how it looks on mobile, plus much more. Some of the world's largest companies use Lavender to boost opens and double replies. In the episode, William will discuss: His journey to founding Lavender, Building their AI email assistant & the success it brings to customers, How they utilize NLP and internal technology in their product, The impact of the pandemic on sales & communications, What the future looks like for Lavender and Exciting opportunities to join the team

Today's guest is Oscar Beijbom, Co-Founder at Nyckel in San Francisco. Founded in 2021, Nyckel is democratizing access to machine learning for companies of all sizes. Instead of needing teams of ML specialists and years of expertise, Nyckel allows developers to add state-of-the-art machine learning to their applications in minutes. Nyckel's API-first design enables a fast and secure fully automated integration of ML into your application. You can also scale to millions of invokes on day one with an instant model deploy to elastic inference infra with 99.99% uptime and 300ms latency. They also offer highly parallelized AutoML trains and evaluates top deep learning methods on your data in seconds. In the episode, Oscar will talk about: The motivation for setting up Nyckel, Use cases of the benefits they can bring to customers, An insight into their data & engineering team, What’s in store for the near future at Nyckel, & Why Nyckel is a great place to work