The Pulse of AI

On today's podcast I am joined by Toby Phillips who is the executive director of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President of AI and Analytics at Cognizant to talk about the Xprize Pandemic Response Challenge. The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $550k, four month challenge that focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict CODI-19 infection rates and to prescribe Intervention Plans (IPs) that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies. Summary of Podcast: (0:29) Founding of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker project (4:01) The origins of Cognizants AI response effort (6:08) The creation of the Xprize Challenge and it's goals (11:29) The type of data Oxford collects and how they collect it (15:53) Insights into the importance of sharing data and how it increase its value (19:15) How is new data incorporated into the models and how they are retrained (27:15) Human in the loop: The roles of humans and AI in this project (31:22) Unexpected and counter-intuitive results (34:33) The Oxford project as a model for addressing other global problems (38:53) How Covid has changed business and policy leaders view towards data collaboration (40:25) Last thoughts and takeaways

On this podcast I have the pleasure of being joined by Ben Taylor, Datarobots Chief AI Evangelist. Ben is a recognized and engaging speaker for AI with over 16 years of machine learning experience. He has a diverse career including work with Intel/Micron, as the HPC/AI expert for the hedge fund AIQ where he built out models using a 600 GPU cluster to predict stock movements based on the news, and as the Chief Data Scientist for HireVue. He joined DataRobot in early 2020 when they acquired an AutoML start-up that he co-founded by the name of Zeff.ai. I hope you enjoy the conversation! Conversation Summary: Ben's unique career journey (1:10) DataRobot's elevator pitch (5:27) Insights into why so many AI project in the enterprise are failing (6:27) How he helps educate C-suite leaders around what AI can, and can't, do (10:00) AI is expensive, so how should leaders determine where to apply AI to drive the most value? (13:34) Dealing with the shortage of AI and data science talent (16:32) Exploring the fundamental differences between software development and AI/Data Science projects (18:19) The challenges and opportunities around data/AI moving from the IT department into the business units (22:22) Is the Chief Data Officer the right role to drive digital transformation? (24:29) What does the ideal CDO look like? (27:32) Importance of storytelling for the Journey to AI (28:50) Should it be humans plus machines or machines plus humans for true digital transformation? (31:32)

On this podcast I am excited to be joined by Amir Banifatemi of Xprize and Babak Hodjat of Cognizant to talk about a new Xprize Challenge which is designed to develop AI driven insights and solutions to help government officials make better policy decisions around closures and re-opening efforts in response to Covid. This challenge is based on work started early in the pandemic, completely pro bono, that Babak and his team at Cognizant did based on their expertise in Evolutionary AI. It is really groundbreaking work! I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

On this podcast discussion I talk with Jay Gopinath, GM of Advanced Tech, Platforms, Innovation Data and Analytics @ Toyota North America and Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI and Analytics for @Cognizant, about the sweeping changes that data and AI are driving in the over century old automotive industry.

On this podcast I am joined by Evan Sparks, Co-Founder and CEO of Determined.ai, to talk about how AI differs today from SaaS software, why that difference will be eliminated in the future, ways in which companies should look at determining if AI is a viable solution to valuable problems, how to successfully build and deploy AI once that determination has been made and so much more. If you are on the journey to AI in the enterprise this is a podcast that will be an invaluable resource to help overcome many of the challenges that you face on that path.

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.