The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

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

Today's guest is Mona Khalil, Data Science Manager at Greenhouse Software in New York. Founded in 2012, Greenhouse Software is the fastest-growing provider of enterprise talent acquisition software. Thousands of the smartest and most successful companies like Cisco Meraki, Time Inc. and Airbnb use Greenhouse’s intelligent guidance to design and automate all aspects of hiring throughout their organizations, helping them compete and win for top talent. In the episode, Mona will talk about: The work Greenhouse are doing within talent acquisition, Day-to-day life of the Data Science team, How the wider data team has evolved in the past 3 years, Current projects the team are working on, What’s in store for the near future, & Exciting career opportunities with Greenhouse

Today's guests are Chris Blakey, Senior Director of Data Science & Kristian Fryer-Kelsey, Head of Data Products at Universal Music Group. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists, and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. With 12 years of experience at UMG, Kristian heads the team behind the app Universal Music Artists. He creates the strategy and execution of UMG’s UMX data product suite, four products that service UMG’s: Artists (UMA), Labels (UML), A&R’s Discovery of Unsigned Artists (UMD) and a Financial view (UMC). Chris has also spent 12 years working for UMG and has played an integral role in the core team that has driven change throughout the business, ranging from designing and building full analytics platforms to finding custom solutions to unique business problems. In the episode, Chris and Kristian will talk about: The work they do with Universal Music Group, Problems they are solving within music campaigns & marketing, An insight into their data product suite UMX, The market response to their innovations in the industry, The working culture at Universal Music Group, and Day-to-day life within the Data Science & Analytics team

Today's guest is Max Henderson, Chief Data Officer at Datastream Cyber Insurance. DataStream Insurance is a specialist cyber insurance broker that focuses on helping small and medium sized businesses get the best cyber insurance coverage. They work in partnership with your existing technology and cybersecurity teams to build a comprehensive cyber risk program that combines technology and insurance to keep you safe from the damage caused by cyber attacks. As the Chief Data Officer, Max helps facilitate projects involving machine learning, data science and mathematical modeling. Max has provided technical solutions in cyber, quantum computing, bioinformatics and natural language processing domains, including holding Data Scientist positions at Rigetti Computing, QxBranch, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Lockheed Martin. Max also has a PhD and MS from Drexel University in Physics as well as a BS in Physics from West Chester University. In the episode, Max discusses: His background and journey to Datastream, An insight into the Cyber Insurance market, Problems they are solving for customers in the sector, Interesting projects the data team are working on, & Why Datastream is a great place to work

Today's guest is Vicki Harris, Director of Business Development at Thirdera. Founded in 2021, Thirdera is a global services provider that uses ServiceNow to help enterprises unlock their business and customer workflows in the cloud through digitization and automation. Thirdera brings together the power of the ServiceNow platform and its limitless potential across the world of work. Thirdera's architects, developers, consultants, designers and project managers help their customers transform, get more from ServiceNow and unlock hidden potential. They are ushering in the next era of transformation, digitization, automation and partner expectation, all with and at the speed of NOW. In the episode, Vicki will discuss: Her background and current role with Thirdera, Problems they are solving using ServiceNow within Telecoms, Use cases of the benefits it brings to the industry, The importance of change management & Future innovation within the Telecoms sector