The Pulse of AI

On this podcast I am joined by CEO and Founder of Eightfold.ai, Ashutosh Garg. Eightfold.ai is experiencing phenomenal growth and just raised an additional $125 million in funding to make it Silicon Valley’s newest unicorn. People are a company’s greatest asset and AI is dramatically changing how companies identify, engage with and grow talent. Eightfold.ai’s mission is to enable the right career for everyone in the world. A lofty goal that Ashutosh is laser focused on achieving. I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did!

Coming off of Dataiku’s recent announcement of raising $100 million in new funding I got the opportunity to speak with their Chief Customer Officer Kurt Muehmel.  Dataiku is one of the world’s leading AI and machine learning platforms, supporting agility in organizations’ data efforts via collaborative, elastic, and responsible AI, all at enterprise scale. Dataiku provides one simple UI for the entire data pipeline, from data preparation and exploration to machine learning model building, deployment, and monitoring, and everything in between. Hundreds of companies across the Global 2000 in retail, healthcare, finance, transportation, public sector, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and more use Dataiku to underpin their essential business operations.  On this podcast we cover a range of topics relevant to business leaders including: Understanding the value of data The challenges and solutions to creating a data driven culture Re-imagining the customer experience in a data and AI driven world And many more I hope you enjoy the podcast!

On this podcast I am joined by Phil Le-Brun, former CIO of McDonalds and now Enterprise Strategist @ AWS, and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics @ Cognizant to talk about how companies can create a data centered and driven culture. and why treating data as a first class citizen is important to this process. Data is moving from the IT department into the business units and the heavy lifting of digital transformation going forward is really going to be around creating a culture that is data driven and that treats data as a first class citizen.

On this podcast I am joined by Pallab Deb, Head of Partner Solutions and AI Partnerships at Google Cloud and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about the value of data. As companies increasingly look to leverage data in their business processes, and as data has moved from the IT department to the business units, the need to understand the value of data, set up processes and build a culture to include business partners in the use of data and fully center their organization around data has become critical to a company's success.   These two thought leaders offer insights, advice and real world examples to help you do just that!

On this podcast I am joined by JG Chirapurath, VP Azure Data, Artificial Intelligence & Edge and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant to talk about how business leaders can use data in times of rapid change. If you are trying to figure out how to navigate a world where your historical data models have been made obsolete by the disruption caused by Covid then this is a podcast that will help. In this wide ranging discussion these two thought leaders offer insights, advice and real world examples to help you address this challenge and thrive.

Data perishability is always an issue but it gains significance in times of rapid change. Covid brought into stark relief just how volatile the world can be, and of course volatility wreaks havoc on historical data models. As business leaders accelerate their focus on data they are realizing that they need to take different approaches to derive maximum value from their data. Over the next four podcasts I will be joined by thought leaders, business leaders and technologists in the AI and Data space to talk about how companies should be looking at their data in times of rapid change.  On this podcast I am joined by two executives from Cognizant - Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics practice and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI.  We dig down into the issues around data perishability and explore ways leaders should be adjusting to a volatile world. We also talk about how Cognizants approach using Evolutionary AI helps solve this problem.  

Countries are rushing to create national AI strategies that will ensure that they dominate the field of AI for the foreseeable future. This involves investing in research, fostering and encouraging partnerships between government, academia and business as well as making sure that we train our current workers, as well as our young people, in the skills they need to fill the well paying jobs of the future. AI is built on data and so we also need to find a responsible way to collect and use data which respects the privacy of US citizens while allowing breakthroughs in AI technologies. In short, we have some heavy lifting ahead of us to make sure that we get it right.   On this podcast I am joined by Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about all of these issues. It is a fascinating conversation because we get the perspective of a policy leader as well as a senior executive at a leading AI company.

 I am pleased to have Congressman McNerney (R-CA) and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant, joining me on this podcast to talk about the Future of Work in a world quickly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence. We all know that AI will eliminate some jobs, create many new jobs and will fundamentally change all jobs. To prepare our current workers, as well as those who are in school and yet to enter the workforce, for the new and exciting jobs of the future we need a concerted effort between government and business.  In this interesting and far ranging conversation we explore the issue and talk about ways that government and business can help both individually, and in partnership, to ensure that our workforce is prepared.  For anyone interested in this topic this really is a must listen. I hope you find the conversation thought provoking. 

For this discussion I am joined by Congressman Will Hurd of Texas and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about what a national AI strategy should look like here in the United States.  Congressman Hurd (R-TX) along with Robin Kelly (D-IL), and working closely with the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), recently released a white paper on a national artificial intelligence strategy called “AI and the Workforce”.    Recommendations of the white paper include: Calling on the US to take a larger role in AI Embracing an AI-driven economy Preparing the workforce for a transition to AI  Bret Greenstein is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant, leading over 26,000 associates worldwide focused on Data and AI based transformation Bringing together these two leading voices, one from government and the other from industry, gives us the opportunity uniquely explore issues that are central to developing an effective national AI strategy including: How do we develop a national AI strategy that allows us to compete against countries that have different views and restrictions around the collection and use of data? How should we protect data privacy? How do we address bias in AI algorithms? How do we encourage and develop public/private partnerships to further our national strategic AI goals? How do we train our workforce so that these goals can be realized? And much more.

On this show I am joined by Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen to talk about Evolutionary AI: What it is, how it is being used today, the challenges it faces, the opportunities it offers and what its future might entail. If you are at all interested in Evolutionary AI then you will find this discussion extremely informative and interesting. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.