The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

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

Today's guest is Noam Fine, Head of AI at Vonage. Founded in 2001, Vonage are making communications more flexible, intelligent and personal to help enterprises the world over stay ahead. Headquartered in New Jersey with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia , Vonage provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform. Vonage's communications Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems. Their fully programmable unified communications and contact center applications are built from the Vonage platform. This enables companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or remotely, providing enormous flexibility and ensuring business continuity. In the episode, Noam will discuss: The interesting work they do at Vonage, How they are applying AI in their core products, Benefits that their products offer to customers, The current make up of the team & plans for growth, and What excites him for the future at Vonage

Today's guest is Sivan Bercovici, Chief Technology Officer at Karius in California. Founded in 2014, Karius sees a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. With the Karius Test™, they deliver unprecedented diagnostic insights to enable physicians to make rapid treatment decisions. By using genomics and AI to map a patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood draw, Karius moves closer to a vision of a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. Sivan is an innovator in Artificial Intelligence, pioneering the development of complex computational and data platforms, as well as novel machine-learning models designed to address critical challenges in human disease. Prior to Karius, Sivan was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lifecode, where he led the development of the analytical platform and validation of several clinical assays across oncology and rare hereditary diseases. In the episode, Sivan will discuss: His journey to joining Karius, How they use AI and Machine Learning to identify disease-causing pathogens, The impact that they bring to customers, What excites him for the future at Karius, The potential of AI in the diagnosis of infectious diseases and beyond, and Future opportunities to work with Karius

Today's guest is Ben Kirshner, Director of Data Solutions at Civis Analytics in Chicago. Founded in 2013, Civis Analytics helps organizations use data to gain a competitive advantage in how they identify, attract and engage their audiences. With a powerful combination of best-in-class data, cutting-edge software solutions, and an interdisciplinary team of data scientists, developers and survey science experts, Civis works with leading public and private sector organizations to make data-driven decision-making essential to how they do business. This week, they announced the launch of its cloud-based Digital Equity Intelligence Center, a comprehensive suite of data and interactive tools enabling a precise understanding of broadband affordability, access and adoption issues across communities. The Digital Equity Intelligence Center leverages Civis Analytic's ability to create a single source of data truth and scales the expertise of their best-in-class data analytics consulting practice, encapsulating its models in a user-friendly application which allows teams to create specific audiences for campaign activation. In the episode, Ben tells us about: The work they do at Civis Analytics How he transitioned into a leadership role What a typical project life-cycle looks like Plans for growth in 2022 Why Civis Analytics is a great place to work

Today's guest is Andrei Duchko, Head of Marketing Intelligence at trivago in Dusseldorf. trivago is a global accommodation meta-search that empowers millions of travelers every month in their search for the ideal hotel. Their team of creative and focused minds from all corners of the globe, wake up every day to build a product, that makes your search of accommodation straight forward, simple-to-use and unbiased. Andrei is the Head of Marketing Intelligence where he leads the data-driven optimisation of trivago's marketing spend towards incremental value by providing data, insights, performance measurement, setting up experimentation and building automated bidding solutions. He works with skilled Data Scientists, Analysts, Statisticians and Engineers to drive marketing performance at trivago. In the show, Andrei will discuss: How trivago are improving the Travel experience, How they are leveraging data in their platform, Challenges of applying AI in Digital Marketing, The future of AI in the Marketing and Advertising sector, and  Advice on how to be successful within data science