The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Felix Faber, Founder and CEO at MindPeak GmbH in Hamburg. Founded in 2018, MindPeak's mission is to make microscopical analysis accessible for everyone in the world. They automate visual processes in the clinical laboratory with Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. The demand for medical image analysis is growing rapidly but the number of cancer experts remains the same - this results in growing workloads per specialist. MindPeak help cancer experts meet this challenge. They build automation tools for visual diagnosis using state-of-the-art AI and deep learning. Their tools assist cancer experts in providing reliable and reproducible diagnoses. This frees specialists from tedious, repetitive tasks such as quantification of cells or biomarkers and allows them to focus on tasks where their human expertise is indispensable. In the episode, Felix will discuss: The exciting work he is doing with Mindpeak, Applying AI within pathology, How AI and automation is making people’s lives easier in the industry, Challenges they are solving using data science, How Covid-19 has transformed digitalisation in Healthcare & What’s in store for the future at MindPeak

Today's guest is Robert Parviainen, Senior VP of Data Science at Seriously Digital Entertainment in Los Angeles. Founded in 2013, Seriously combines a world-class creative team with a mobile-first experience to develop brands that can make a difference. Seriously build global entertainment franchises that come to life first as best-in-class mobile games and they are passionate about great storytelling and epic world-building, desperate conflict and hilarious comedy, unique characters and unlikely heroes. Seriously build brands that not only succeed commercially but also can give back to the world. They are driven to make great games, to tell great stories and to build the next generation of entertainment experiences. They want to make games that keep you playing in the blue glow of your phone until the small hours or to fire up quickly for just one more round during your lunch break. They create experiences that can inspire you and maybe, just maybe, make the world a better place. In the episode, Robert will tell you about: The interesting work they do at Seriously Digital Entertainment, The journey of building a data team from scratch, What he would do differently if tasked to start again, How they are applying data science & analytics to impact the gaming industry, How new technology has impacted the sector, The Data Science’s team input into game design & Exciting opportunities & what’s in store for the future

Today's guest is Victor Hanson-Smith, Head of Computational Biology at Verge Genomics in San Francisco. Founded in 2015, Verge Genomics is a next-generation biopharmaceutical start-up using systems biology to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. Verge's approach offers a breakthrough opportunity to identify drugs that dramatically improve patient outcomes and fundamentally lower the cost curve of pharmaceutical development. Victor leads a world-class team to discover new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. His team develops algorithms and software that integrates multiple types of genomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic data in order to reveal molecular mechanisms that cause disease pathology. They computationally predict small molecules and gene perturbations that can therapeutically reverse these mechanisms and test their predictions in living models, including human cell cultures and rodent models. In the episode, Victor will tell you about: What makes a good Computational Biologist, What attracted him to the field, The interesting work they do at Verge Genomics, How they are applying AI within the business, Overcoming challenges within AI ethics & Exciting opportunities and plans for growth within the team

Today's guest is Dan Hedstrom, VP and Chief Information Officer at Cubic Corporation in San Diego. Listed on America's Best Midsize Employers, by Forbes in 2018, Cubic Corporation is the parent company of major businesses: Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Mission & Performance Solutions (CMPS). CTS is a leading integrator of payment and information technology, and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide. CMPS is a leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking, and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the US and allied nations. CMPS also provides Networked Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defence, intelligence, security and commercial missions. In the episode, Dan will tell you about: The interesting work he does at Cubic, How he got into the world of ServiceNow, Why ServiceNow is key to Cubic, Advice to C-Suite execs embarking on a Digital Transformation, What he’s learned during his career so far and Where he sees the future of ServiceNow

Today's guest is Oleg Stavitsky, CEO and Co-founder at Endel in Berlin. Founded in 2018, Endel is a technology that creates personalized sound environments to reduce stress, improve sleep and boost productivity, all of which are backed by neuroscience and the science of circadian rhythms. Endel's technology is presented as an ecosystem of products and is designed to be integrated into various hardware and platforms in mobility, hospitality and workspaces. The soundscapes are algorithm-powered and designed to gently rise and fall in line with immediate internal and external conditions like location, time zone, weather and heart rate. In the episode, Oleg will discuss: Endel’s impact in improving your sleep and productivity, How they went about developing their product, How Machine Learning will help enhance the user experience, The importance of personalisation, Upcoming projects for 2021 and The goals they want to achieve at Endel

Today's guest is Narine Hall, Founder and CEO at Inspace Proximity. Founded in 2020, InSpace is a lightweight virtual communication platform with a smart proximity-based audio interface that allows participants to mingle around the space and participate in multiple conversations at the same time, just like in physical spaces. Visual cues indicate where people are and how engaged they are in each conversation. InSpace empowers people to be in charge of their virtual meeting experience. Participants can work in different parts of the space and exchange information by moving near and far from each other. In the episode, Narine will tell you about: The motivation for setting up InSpace, Their interesting work within virtual education, What makes them stand out from the competition, Challenges they needed to overcome to achieve success, How the platform will continue to evolve in the near future &  Exciting opportunities on a possible career with InSpace

Today's guest is Harold Li, Director of Data Science at VTS in New York. Founded in 2012, VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing and asset management platform, bringing together landlords, brokers and tenants to make deals happen. VTS software enables office, retail, and industrial landlords and brokers to transform their leasing process and convert leads to leases 41% more efficiently. MarketView, the industry’s first market benchmarking product, gives landlords real-time information to inform deal negotiations and leasing strategies. Completing the VTS platform offering is the VTS Market & Marketplace - the industry’s first, integrated online marketing platform and marketplace - which is designed to drive tenant demand for landlords and remove friction from the leasing process for tenants and tenant rep brokers. In the episode, Harold will discuss: Key Learns building data science teams at Lyft and Blue Apron, The current work he does with VTS, What attracted him to the real estate sector, Interesting projects the Data Science team are working on, What he looks for when hiring into the team, What the future holds for VTS and How new technology will continue to evolve the Real Estate industry

Today's guest is David Arbour, Service Delivery Manager and Senior ServiceNow Architect at GlideFast Consulting in Louisiana. Founded in 2015, GlideFast is a consulting firm that is dedicated exclusively to ServiceNow. As an Elite ServiceNow Partner, they are committed to the success of our clients and employees. In everything they do, their top priorities are exceeding client expectations and delivering exceptional service and solutions to business challenges. GlideFast's expert team of developers and architects have worked both on the customer side and the consulting side. This gives them unique perspectives and skillsets when it comes to implementing, integrating and managing the ServiceNow platform for clients. At GlideFast Consulting, they believe that business outcomes, processes and technical architecture are the core to successful projects. They believe that solutions are a service and provide top results in every engagement. In the episode, David will discuss: His day-to-day role at GlideFast, How he got into the world of ServiceNow, What makes Glidefast a great place to work, Why ServiceNow is now a key player within the market, Use cases and the benefits that Glidefast brings to customers, Advice for project work and implementations with ServiceNow & Key learns from working within leadership in the field

Today's guest is Martin Miller, former Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Blackhawk Network. Martin works with business owners and executives to deliver productized solutions and improve user experience and service delivery. He brings process and building expertise in software design and development, enterprise architecture, deployment, data security and compliance. He has a proven track record of success directing cross-functional and multi-site teams in agile scrum environments, combined with a talent for effective IT projects, capacity planning and implementation. In the episode, Martin will tell you about: The great work he did with BlackHawk, How ServiceNow is adding value to their business, Interesting projects they are working on, Key advice when starting  your implementation journey & Advice he would offer to his younger self

Today's guest is Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Director of Natural Language Processing at YUKKA Lab in Berlin. Founded in 2016, YUKKA Lab provides fact-based actionable insights to the financial markets. With YUKKA Labs Augmented Language Intelligence,  it generates a systematic and efficient overview of topics and trends observed in the financial news. YUKKA's self-developed algorithms are leading-edge, containing Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Their solutions enable users from fields of asset management, market research, financial advisory, risk management and sales to handle the rapidly increasing amount of various financial data in real-time. In the episode, Núria will tell you about: The work they are doing at YUKKA Lab, The knowledge we can obtain from text mining financial news, Challenges of working within text understanding, Recent trends that have taken NLP to the next level, Insights from text mining that they have introduced into their product and Benefits that these new features bring to clients