The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Nicole Clark, CEO and Co-Founder at Trellis Research in Los Angeles. Founded in 2017, Trellis is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges, opposing counsel, motions, dockets and legal issues. They make state trial court data searchable and analyze it to give law firms insights into the way judges are ruling. Legal teams are able to "Google" search state trial court records and uncover key intelligence on opposing counsel, motions, rulings, dockets and other legal issues. Prior to founding Trellis, Nicole was a business litigation and labor and employment attorney who handled litigation in both state and federal courts. She regularly represented multinational corporations in claims ranging from high-profile trade secret disputes to complex class-action litigation. Frustrated by sending internal emails and collecting anecdotes on judges in order to make strategic case recommendations, she built Trellis to solve her own need for access to data, information and analytics at the state trial court level. In the episode, Nicole tells us about: The origins of Trellis Research, Early challenges of bringing the concept to life, Benefits that the platform currently brings to users, Interesting projects & day-to-day life of the engineering team, What the future looks like for Trellis Research and Why Trellis Research is a great place to work

Today's guest is Maxime Gariel, Chief Technology Officer at Xwing in San Francisco. Founded in 2016, Xwing is on a mission to build the world’s smartest and cleanest air mobility system. They are transforming the way airplanes fly to make regional mobility radically safer, more efficient, accessible and sustainable than ever. Their software integrates sensors and maps with onboard flight control systems to allow regional aircraft to navigate, take off and land safer than ever before. Xwing's work begins with converting today’s leading cargo aircraft into remotely-operated airplanes, so every regional route can be serviced reliably to give every person in every corner of the world improved access to all the goods and essentials they need. They featured on TIME Magazine’s 2021 Best Inventions List after completing the world’s first fully autonomous cargo flight and making aviation history. Beyond the cargo market, Xwing plan to expand their technology safely to other areas of commercial aviation. In the episode, Maxime tells us about: Xwing’s autonomous flight technology, Challenges of bringing their Proof-of-concept to production, How they are using AI in their product, The success they’ve enjoyed thus far & what’s to come, The current make-up and working culture of the team, and What excites him for the future at Xwing

Today's guest is Keshav Pingali, CEO and Co-Founder at Katana Graph in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2020, Katana Graph helps today’s forward-looking, data-driven organizations turn boundless data into a competitive advantage. Their flagship technology is an AI-powered graph intelligence platform that uses an unparalleled combination of novel graph algorithms, graph neural network architecture and the latest advances in hardware acceleration to power faster, more accurate insights at unmatched scale and performance. From comprehensive fraud detection in real time and 360-degree views of the customer to maximizing R&D time and cost efficiencies, Katana Graph empowers customers to perform and perfect business-critical tasks that help set them apart from the competition. They work closely with customers to identify new ways to make massive data work for them, by supporting decentralized workloads for graph query, analytics, mining and AI to fuel a new era of rich applications and insights never before possible. In the episode, Keshav will discuss: The origins of Katana Graph and journey to now, The interesting work they do in Graph Technology, Use cases within Healthcare and Fintech, Behind the scenes of their graph intelligence platform, The successful growth of the team, How they attract and retain talent at Katana Graph, and The importance of working culture

Today's guest is Kevin Goldsmith, Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda. With more than 20 million users, Anaconda is the world’s most popular data science platform and the foundation of modern machine learning. Anaconda pioneered the use of Python for data science and continue to steward open-source projects that make tomorrow’s innovations possible.  Their enterprise-grade solutions enable corporate, research and academic institutions to harness the power of open source for competitive advantage, groundbreaking research and a better world. Kevin is an experienced leader in high-performing product, research and shared technology engineering organizations. His technical areas of expertise include service scalability, user experience, consumer product development, GPGPU, multi-core, connected architectures, signal processing, domain-specific languages and graphics. Kevin currently oversees innovation for Anaconda's current open-source and commercial offerings, and develops new solutions to bring data science practitioners together with innovators, vendors and thought leaders in the industry. In the episode, Kevin will discuss: The work he does with Anaconda, Benefits that the Anaconda Nucleus brings to users, Company culture and what it’s like to work at Anaconda, Interesting projects and plans for growing the team & Upcoming AI trends that excite him in the industry

Today's guest is Rachel Warren, Senior Data Scientist at Buzzer in New York. Founded in 2020, Buzzer allows sports fans to discover the live moments that matter the most to them and is the best way to experience “lightning in a bottle” moments live from anywhere. Buzzer work with some of the largest sports leagues in the world such as the NBA League Pass, NHL and PGA Tour. With their partnership deals, they will be identifying, notifying and providing their users access to short-form live content for the best moments in their respective sports. Buzzer is powered by their proprietary algorithm and partners with the most-watched sports leagues and media companies to bring fans thrilling real-time Buzzer Moments. Their team of developers, partner managers, designers, data scientists, product managers and more work diligently and thoughtfully to deliver sports fans these live moments they can't live without. This distributed team of over 50 people was formed in the midst of a global pandemic and they have also built their culture remotely. In the episode, Rachel will discuss: The fascinating work they do at Buzzer, What their mobile sports platform offers to users, Three trends they focus on the sports media industry, The role of Data Science and ML in the platform, What it’s like to be part of the team, and What excites her for the future at Buzzer

Today's guest is Bharti Sharma, Global Head of ITSM, Service Availability and Service Management Platform at Aon. Bharti is a high-impact professional with over two decades of rich multi-cultural experience in leading IT Strategy, Service Operations & Delivery. She is passionate about developing ideas and driving initiatives towards enterprise service management and digital transformation to enable business outcomes. Bharti is also a strong advocate of Diversity & Inclusion and develop culturally diverse, equitable and inclusive teams. In her current role, Bharti is accountable for designing, managing and reporting on core IT Service Management processes across the enterprise to drive service availability improvements at Aon. She is also responsible for the strategy, design, governance and implementation of ServiceNow as the Enterprise Service Management Platform to enable IT and business teams to deliver high quality, consistent outcomes by leveraging best practices towards driving transformation and innovative solutions. In the episode, Bharti will talk about: Her journey within ServiceNow & her current role at Aon, Why ServiceNow is the platform of choice, Macro trends she is seeing within Digital Transformation, The value that ServiceNow brings to organizations, Advice to C-Suite executives embarking on their transformation journey, 3 steps to building a winning team and Advice she would offer to her younger self

Today's guest is Bradlay Pryde, COO and Co-Founder at OneThree Biotech in New York. Founded in 2018, OneThree Biotech was born out of the largest precision medicine institute in America with the purpose of decreasing the failure rate of bringing therapeutics to market using biology driven AI. Their technology was built in a lab setting, allowing them to engineer their methodologies around real-world results. While working with major biotech and pharma partners, OneThree Biotech validated their predictions through work in target discovery, compound and combination therapy identification, toxicity prediction, biomarker selection and much more. Their predictions have been validated with partners such as AstraZeneca and Jubilant. For example, they predicted the top indication and mechanism of action for Oncoceutics asset ONC201 which was subsequently validated in a Phase II trial. In the episode, Bradlay will discuss: The work he does with OneThree Biotech, The journey of building up the company from scratch, How the pandemic impacted the business, Interesting projects and milestones they are working towards, How they attract top talent & What excites him for the future at OneThree Biotech

Today's guest is Varun Ganapathi, Co-Founder and CTO at AKASA in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, AKASA believe every dollar spent on healthcare matters because healthcare matters to everyone. AKASA are on a mission to remedy the financial and operational complexity crippling healthcare in America. They have successfully built a team of experts who could develop an entirely new approach to automation that is purpose built for revenue cycle management in healthcare. AKASA is the leading developer of AI for healthcare operations. AKASA scales human intelligence with leading-edge AI and ML securely trained on customer data to learn unique systems, continuously adapt to changing environments, and deliver comprehensive automation and analytics for complex workflows. The result is a seamlessly integrated, customized solution that reduces operating costs, frees up staff to do the work they love and helps health systems allocate resources to where they matter most. In the episode, Varun will discuss: His journey to founding AKASA, The interesting work they do in the Healthcare industry, Applying AI to reduce mundane and repetitive tasks, Their human in the loop approach, The success they have enjoyed since launching three years ago, Plans for growing the team and What excites him for the future at AKASA

Today's guest is Ryan Schonfeld, Founder and CEO & Jordan Hill, Head of Product at HiveWatch in Los Angeles. HiveWatch was built on the idea that physical security needs an overhaul. Constantly hearing "because that's the way it's always been done", inefficiencies stemming from disparate systems and antiquated practices plague the security industry. Honing the frustration of security leaders everywhere, they recognized the need for a platform to make physical security more proactive and more informed. HiveWatch 's Security Fusion Platform™ allows security teams to bring together data from their existing disparate security systems and provides them with an intelligent, holistic and actionable view, enabling them to respond to prioritized, “de-noised” risks. It is HiveWatch's mission is to empower organizations to protect their people through intelligent orchestration of their physical security programs. With better communication, more insights and less noise, they move security teams from chasing threats to preventing them. In the episode, Ryan & Jordan will discuss: The interesting work they do at HiveWatch in the security space, Day-to-day life within the engineering team, The importance of company values and culture, Their success to date and growing the team, How they attract high-quality talent, Their focus on the customer experience and What the future looks like for HiveWatch

Today's guest is Max Dawson, Managing Director at BlueLabs. Founded in 2013, BlueLabs revolutionizes how organizations approach complex challenges and activate their audiences. Whether the goal is selling a product, signing up individuals for healthcare, turning out the vote, or mobilizing activists and donors, they help their clients change behavior and drive results. BlueLabs digs deep into the data to understand your audience and their journey. BlueLabs tests everything to find winning strategies, tailor outreach to each person and bring these processes to scale through analytics technology and machine learning. They have run more than 1,500 randomized experiments, built hundreds of models, generated 10 billion touchpoints, reached virtually every contactable person in the United States, and driven significant gains in some of the highest-profile private sector, advocacy and government programs. In the episode, Max will discuss: His background and journey to BlueLabs, The fascinating work they are doing at BlueLabs, Interesting projects they are working on, Benefits they bring to customers, Why BlueLabs is a great place to work and How they attract top talent to the company