The Pulse of AI

Join me as I speak with AI thought leader Dr. Michael Zeller about how companies should be focused on quickly accelerating their AI efforts in light of the crisis caused by the Covid pandemic. Business leaders that were already well down the path of AI deployment have weathered this storm better than those that weren’t. The time to deploy AI is now.  We cover many interesting topics that will be interesting to business leaders who are trying to figure out how to both quickly deploy AI during this crisis and how to build a strategic roadmap for longer term transformation. I hope you enjoy the podcast!

Join me as I talk to Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, founder and CEO of Casper.ai, to learn how their technology, using AI and IoT, power robot homes and how when implemented in nursing homes and assisted living facilities it greatly reduces death from communicable diseases. Covid has exposed just how vulnerable seniors are who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. In fact, studies show that so far fully 20%+ of all deaths due to Covid in the US have occured in assisted living facilities. But it isn’t just Covid that is a threat to them. With their compromised and fragile immunities many in assisted living facilities die of the seasonal flu and other contagious maladies every year. Building “robot homes” could dramatically reduce these deaths and increase life expectancy. Casper.ai’s vision is to fundamentally change how seniors age in their homes and how assisted living facilities are run. I This is a really interesting podcast and offers a true vision of the future. Enjoy! 

Join me in this engaging and insightful conversation with Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Labratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and Bret Greenstein, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the AI & Analytics Practice at Cognizant, where he leads over 26,000 associates worldwide focused on Data and AI based transformation We talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting companies, accelerating their digital transformation, opportunities for innovation in this time of crisis and examine how various companies are succeeding based on their previous digital transformation efforts while still others are forced to play catch-up.  This is a must listen for business leaders seeking to deploy data and analytics to build resiliency and business success in this time of crisis.

Over the coming weeks and months, in partnership with Cognizant, we have an exciting line-up of AI thought leaders drawn from academia, business, and the technical sides of Applied AI as well as interviews with business leaders on the front lines of digital transformation. The mission of this exciting speaker series is to make AI understandable and actionable to help you unleash the power of data and AI in your enterprise.  In this podcast I talk to two Cognizant executives, Bret Greenstein who is the SVP and Global Head of the AI and Analytics Practice at Cognizant and Babak Hodjat who is the VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. I ask them about their AI journey, how Cognizant is focused on AI delivery, thoughts around the importance of this podcast series for business leaders and we also talk about how the Coronavirus pandemic we are experiencing will drive digital transformation going forward.

On this podcast, I sit down with Shahin Farshchi of Lux Capital and we talk about his career journey, explore questions around the current and future state of AI, and dig down into just a few of Lux’s many investments including Braid Health, Zoox, aeva, mythic and planet.

The war for talent is real and companies are looking to gain a recruiting edge. By applying AI to the process allows you to build stronger relationships with target candidates which makes recruiting much easier. Join me in this podcast with Founder and CEO of Sourceress Kanun Qui in a wide ranging discussion that includes not only how Sourceress does what it does but also how to get girls interested in coding, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley for engineers and much more. 

Clinical trials for new drug development are time consuming and expensive. It is hard to get participants to join drug trials, to participate fully and to stay in once they are in. This means that clinical trials for new drug development are time consuming and expensive. Which leads to fewer drugs coming to market at more expensive prices.  In this podcast AICure’s Chief Medical Officer, Ed Ikeguchi, explains how AICure is looking to fundamentally change this entire paradigm through the application of AI. This is a fascinating story and a good look into how AI can dramatically impact healthcare and medicine.

One of the more frustrating things we face in modern cities is trying to find parking spaces. Sometimes it seems that half of our lives are spent circling around the block again and again hoping for a miracle.  Joining me on this podcast is Eyal Amir, CEO of Parknav, which is applying AI and predictive analytics to solve this problem. It’s pretty cool.

In this wide ranging conversation with Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist, neuroscientist, author and more we talk about the way Untapt is leveraging deep learning to make the hiring process more efficient, the reasons deep learning is so important, insights into how to work with clients who are not “data first” and much, much more.

Babak Hodjat is a luminary in the world of AI and in this conversation we cover a number of topics but center much of our conversation around the increasing evidence of a disconnect among a significant number of c-level leaders between their expectations of AI and what is actually happening within their companies in terms of AI.