The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Constantine Boyadjiev, Managing Director, Global Risk & Compliance Analytics Practice Lead at Protiviti. Founded in 2002, Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti provides clients with consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit through their network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries. Operating at the intersection of data engineering, advanced analytics and cutting-edge technology, Constantine enables clients across industries extract data-driven insights, translate such into risk decisioning, and immunize against current and emerging threat vectors. He leads a global team of high performing data scientists and analytic thought leaders, while architecting cross-industry strategies, building assets and developing capabilities to combat today’s disparate vulnerabilities across a variety of domains and risk typologies. In the episode, Constantine will discuss: Interesting roles he’s held over the years, The interesting work they do at Protiviti, What his role in Global risk and compliance analytics involves, An insight into the data team and current projects, Use cases of the benefits that the bring to clients, and What the working culture is like at Protiviti

Today's guest is William Santana Li, CEO at Knightscope in Mountain View, CA. Founded in 2013, Knightscope is a leader in the development of autonomous security capabilities and on target to disrupt the $500 billion security industry. Knightscope leverages unique technology that combines next generation functionalities including self-driving, robotics and artificial intelligence. The company builds Autonomous Security Robots that are designed to provide 24/7/365 security to a variety of locations that include places where people live, work, visit and study. Knightscope's ASRs have been proven to enhance safety across a range of locations including hospitals, corporations, school campuses, entertainment venues, logistics and storage facilities, and manufacturing plants. Knightscope's ASRs are highly cost-effective and may be deployed to enhance traditional security systems and law enforcement functions. Knightscope's ASR solutions can be customized to suit specific needs of the location of deployment to enhance security and safety while also providing customer assistance capabilities. In the episode, William will discuss: The work Knightscope do in fighting crime, The impact they are making in the industry, Behind-the-scenes on how the technology all comes together, What excites him for the future of Knightscope, Their business model and engaging with enterprise customers, Use cases of where Knightscope can be deployed & Exciting opportunities to work with Knightscope

Today's guest is Bibhrajit Halder, Founder and CEO at SafeAI in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 2017, SafeAI are accelerating the World's Transition to Autonomous Mining and Construction. Safe AI's open and interoperable solution is giving off-highway equipment owners access to vehicle-agnostic autonomy that previously didn't exist. The significant value of this is demonstrated through gains in increased worksite productivity, safety and cost savings. Enabled by autonomy, each vehicle can add approximately 1,000 additional hours of productivity per year. It’s the difference between capital projects being completed in four years instead of five, and significantly under or over budget.  This is the beginning of a new era for heavy industry an era that is smarter, safer and more productive than ever. SafeAI is at the forefront of this movement to transition heavy industry to connected and autonomous worksites. In the episode, Bibhrajit will discuss: The interesting work they do at SafeAI, How he has seen the autonomous industry evolve over the past 20 years, Behind the scenes into how they are using AI, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, What excites him for the future of SafeAI & Exciting opportunities to join the team at SafeAI

Today's guest is Brett DiNatale, Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial Analytic Solutions at PRECISIONxtract. Founded in 2017, PRECISIONxtract accelerates value realization by enabling data science, leveraging analytics and innovating with technology to transform the way we connect with customers. The company's seasoned team of industry experts leverages best-in-class data mining, innovative analytic methodologies, deep customer knowledge and state-of-the-art strategic frameworks to create high-yield, actionable solutions. Brett leads a team of data scientists, solution architects and analytic consultants to design optimal analytic solutions to their clients' business needs. His role is to lead the vision for and execution of innovative analytical methods addressing strategic commercial needs for clients. Whether it's building analytic evidence for a point in time strategy, designing and building a BI platform or leveraging advanced methods to answer business questions, they can provide a right-sized solution. In the episode, Brett will discuss: The work they are doing in the pharmaceuticals sector, Typical projects his team work on in Commercial Analytic Solutions, Benefits their products bring to customers such as predicting patient behavior, Current structure and working culture of the team, What the future holds for PRECISIONxtract,and What they look for when growing the team

Today's guest is Semih Korkmaz, Co-Founder at Stoovo in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Stoovo believe you should never be limited when it comes to opportunities. Everyone deserves to be in control of their finances and the way they work. That's why the Stoovo app empowers people to work and earn on their own terms. In the episode, Semih will discuss: The origins & current work they do at Stoovo, An insight into the problems they are solving for customers, The role of AI and it’s impact in the business, Current projects the team are working on, Plans for growth and what the future holds, and What he learned from building a startup

Today's guest is Ben Tengelsen,  VP of Data Science at IntelyCare in Greater Boston, MA. Founded in 2014, IntelyCare are the leading tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations in the U.S. Through their AI-based platform, they schedule and match nursing professionals with open assignments at 1,600+ organizations across the country. In doing so, they provide nurses and nursing assistants with unprecedented flexibility in their work lives, while at the same time empowering healthcare organizations to take control of how they manage nursing staff. Ben leads a team of data scientists and analysts in their mission to generate as much value as possible from IntelyCare's data. They are experts at statistical and predictive modeling, but are also fullstack engineers when it comes to scaling and deploying models. Projects include a state-of-the-art pricing algorithm (AI based, learns in real time), a powerful recommendation engine (used for both in-app recommendations and targeted messaging), and various forecasting algorithms to manage things like on-call pools, engagement campaigns and last-minute requests. In the episode, Ben will discuss: The work IntelyCare do helping nurses, How they use data at IntelyCare, The role of Machine Learning & Data Science within the platform, What it’s like to be part of the Data Science team, The impact of Covid-19 within the business, and Plans for growth & what the future holds for IntelyCare

Today's guest is Erik Duhaime, Co-Founder and CEO at Centaur Labs in Boston, MA. Founded in 2017, Centaur Labs offers medical data labeling (classification, segmentation etc.) from a network of medical experts. Instead of having to choose between the high cost of hiring physicians or the low quality of crowdsourced/blended teams, they offer an alternative that leverages collective intelligence and performance based incentives. Centaur Labs' technology - developed by researchers at MIT - collects multiple opinions per case with labelers competing against each other for cash rewards. This process ensures that quality assurance is baked into the process since the labelers are incentivized to perform at the highest level on every case analyzed. Centaur Labs offers industry leading accuracy, affordable pricing and very low management overhead on the part of the client since all engagements include a dedicated customer success manager. In the episode, Erik will discuss: Their mission to annotate the world’s medical data, Early challenges and the journey of building the company, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, Combining AI with the user experience, An insight into the team and working culture, and What the future holds for Centaur Labs.  To find out more, check out the website www.centaurlabs.com

Today's guest is Andrew Konya, CEO at Remesh in New York. Remesh was founded in 2014 with the mission to create a technology that could truly represent the will of the people and amplify their collective voice. As a company, they believe in the power of helping people understand one another, which requires engaging, exchanging ideas, and having a dialogue with groups of people at a massive scale. Remesh believe that conversations that bridge cultural, political, social, economic and geographic divides ultimately lead to a more unified and less divided world. Remesh's platform leverages AI to analyze the opinions and interactions of up to 1,000 participants in real-time and helps understand the responses that best represent the group, all in a matter of minutes. You can discover trends and themes that were most common with your audience, compare and contrast responses between audience segments, and export all of your data in just one click. Customers across many industries use Remesh to better understand their audience, enabling them to make better products, companies and governments. In the episode, Andrew will discuss: The origins and current work he does with Remesh, How the company has evolved over the past nine years, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, The role of AI & ML in their platform, Plans for growing the team, and  What excites him for the future at Remesh

Today's guest is Christopher Li, Co-Founder and CEO at BioBox Analytics in Toronto, Canada. As their understanding of life sciences grow, so does the scope of research. Legacy software was built to tackle challenges that now represents a small fraction of modern research needs. BioBox is revolutionizing the way they do research by creating the world’s most intelligent and intuitive data analytics platform for modern scientists. Scientific breakthroughs are often just around the corner, but when the tools are scattered all over the place, they can be missed. BioBox was designed to provide scientists with all the tools they need along their journey all in one place. BioBox is a platform that manages your data and your research computing infrastructure, which means you spend less time looking for data and setting things up, and more time for your research. In the episode, Christopher will discuss: The journey to founding BioBox Analytics, Their mission and challenges they are solving within scientific research, The role of Data & Machine Learning in the BioBox platform, The current make-up of the engineering team, Plans for further growth and upcoming projects, and The impact BioBox Analytics are making in the industry

Today's guest is Mehrshad Setayesh, CTO at NextHealth Technologies in Denver, Colorado. NextHealth Technologies is demystifying the most complicated industry in the land: the American healthcare system. They empower decision makers  to cut through the complexity and get to better decisions faster, and ultimately do what everybody needs: make healthcare more affordable. Health plan leadership - from the C-suite, to program managers, to critical initiatives champions - all stand to benefit from NextHealth Technologies. Together, they will identify which members to engage and how to reach them. Through personalized outreach and analytics, they can predict who’ll enroll, participate and stick with each program. In the episode, Mehrshad will discuss: The interesting work he does with NextHealth, How the tech & data team is structured for success, Use cases of the AI & ML projects they deliver for customers, The success they’ve enjoyed in the past couple of years, Plans for growing the team, and What excites him for the future at Nexthealth