Today Emerj welcomes the return of the great and brilliant Ash Fontana, General Partner at Zetta Ventures. Zetta primarily invests in AI-first companies with B2B business models, with a portfolio including Kaggle, Domo, and other notables. Ash's career has spanned private equity, investment banking, as well as venture capital. In this episode, he offers a valuable perspective on where AI is taking financial services. Episode topics include: AI-driven risk measurement, risk prediction, and risk mitigation. Want to learn more about AI in financial services? Get Emerj's pdf guide: emerj.com/fin1

Today's guest is the great and brilliant Ron Glozman, CEO of Chisel AI. Chisel is an AI-driven platform for commercial insurance, which won Gold at the 2019 Zurich Innovation World Championship and the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge in 2018. The platform recognizes over 500 insurance-specific data points, including limits, premiums, deductibles, coverages, exclusions, and more. In this episode, Ron shares how he helps leaders make the business case for his AI-driven solutions, breaking down the challenges and opportunities for AI in insurance and in general. Want to discover more AI use cases in insurance? Get Emerj's AI in Insurance Cheat Sheet: emerj.com/ins1

Today's discussion is with Andrew Clark, cofounder of Monitaur, a Techstars-funded startup that provides auditability, transparency, and governance for companies using machine learning software. Andrew formerly served as Pincipal Machine Learning Auditor at Capital One. And in this episode he shares how AI can audit and monitor algorithms so they don't pose regulatory risks, breaking down why this is necessary, and how it works. Click here to learn more about opportunities for applying AI in financial services: emerj.com/fs1

Kevin Dewalt, founder of Prolego, shares AI project do's and don'ts from a consultant's perspective. Kevin previously served as Director of Strategic Alliances at In-Q-Tel, VC arm for the CIA and US intelligence community, now focuses on training, strategy, and implementation of AI applications for Fortune 500 companies. Are you working to catalyze AI for your organization or your clients? Enroll with Emerj Plus: emerj.com/p1

Yinglian Xie, CEO of DataVisor, shares great analogies and practical insights about what fails and what works when putting together a capable team for AI implementation. Learn more about how to make the business case and deploy AI: emerj.com/p1

Rob Delaney, VP at VC firm Carrick Capital Partners, shares some predictions and hopes for his portfolio companies as they navigate through the economic storm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. What's changing about our industries? What needs to change about the way we handle data? How are strategic priorities shifting? Rob shares his valuable perspective on these and other topics in this episode. Want to learn more about how to get started deploying AI in your business? Download Emerj's free guide here: emerj.com/beg1

Today's interview is with Aki Ranin, Cofounder of Bambu, a robo-advisor platform based in Singapore. Bambu has raised millions to expand in Asian and American banking markets. Aki is also an adjunct lecturer on AI and machine learning at Singapore Management University. In this episode, he breaks down where AI fits into the world of robo-advisors and is frank about where AI isn't needed. For quick insights, download Emerj's AI in Financial Services Cheat Sheet: emerj.com/fin1

Building a scaleable and productive AI product for the enterprise is not easy. Our guest this week helps listeners think through how to go about it successfully. Suhas Uliyar, VP of Product Management for Digital Assistant AI, Mobile, and Integration at Oracle, discusses why security and scale are key to building AI products that will actually deliver value at large companies. If you're interested in building AI products for the enterprise or want to get started with AI at your company, be sure to download our Beginning With AI Guide at emerj.com/beg1.

Our guest this week has a unique perspective on how technology priorities are changing in financial services as the pandemic unfolds: Sébastien de Brouwer, Chief Policy Officer at the European Banking Federation. We speak with him about how the financial services industry is struggling during the crisis, as well as which jobs will ultimately survive and which will not. If you want to discover how some of the largest companies in financial services are investing in AI, join our new Emerj Plus membership at emerj.com/plus

At this time, many strategic initiatives are being put on pause. The initiatives that tend to still have momentum are related to either driving efficiencies or reducing risk. And when it comes to risk, few are greater than regulatory risk. This week, we interview Yinglian Xie, CEO and co-founer of DataVisor. Yinglian discusses how AI fits into the compliance landscape in financial services. If you want to explore more AI use-cases across financial services and see what the big players in the sector are doing, you can use our AI Discovery tool with Emerj Plus. Learn more at emerj.com/plus