Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Lois Melbourne & Ross Melbourne. Lois is an author presenting visions of what if her former life was exciting as a software CEO and entrepreneur, and she is now the Chief Story Officer at My Future Story. Within her nonprofit work for My Future Story she published The STEM Club Goes Exploring, and Kids Go to Work Day. She loves to coach kids and schools through the wonderment of career exploration with a mission to inspire kids toward purposely designing their futures. Her third book and the first novel is the Sci-Fi, "Moral Code". It was written in collaboration with our business partner and husband Ross. Ross is a lifelong innovator, entrepreneur, and patent holder. He has lived and worked in the US for 30 years, but grew up in England making stuff for fun. Ross developed the world's first automatic organization charting software and then co-founded Aquire with his wife, Lois. Ross is a proven business executive and technology leader using what he calls family-first ethics.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeMy Future StoryThe STEM Club Goes Exploring by Lois MelbourneKids Go to Work Day by Lois MelbourneMoral Code by Lois Melbourne and Ross MelbourneEnterprise resource planningCOBOLTuring testGPT: Origin, Theory, Application, and FutureLoisMelbourne.comRossMelbourne.comEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Ngan MacDonald. Ngan is the chief of data operations at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, where she is bridging computational methods with human experience to advance medical science and improve human health. Nana's, a 2022 cohort candidate for the Women In Bio 3/8 Initiative, named for the March 8, International Women's Day where her team seeks to increase startup board leadership for women in Chicago's Life Sciences. Finally, if that isn't keeping her busy enough, she is a healthcare senior advisor and McCormick BIIf you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeInstitute for Augmented Intelligence in MedicineWIB-RTP 3.8 InitiativeMcCormick BISDLC3rd Coast AI for Health BowlHealth Data Gymnasium21st Century Cures ActAHIPInvitae DNA health and medical testingFollow Ngan MacDonald on TwitterEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Cal Al-Dhubaib. Cal is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and Chief Executive Officer of Pandata, where his team empowers organizations to use artificial intelligence competitively. Cal has an emphasis on designing and building trustworthy AI, and is especially passionate about the ethics of AI and how organizations can build the right talent to support their AI initiatives. Cal has been listed on the Crain's Cleveland 20 in their 20s, and Cleveland Smart 50. He is the first data science graduate from Case Western Reserve University and an advocate for careers and educational pathways in data science through regional week workforce development initiatives.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodePandataCase Western Reserve UniversityH2o.aiOhioXFintechRev1 VenturesLab651A Conversation with Andrew NgOpen Data Science ConferenceCleveland Big Data User GroupEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Fraser Gray-Smith. Fraser is a business strategy professional that specializes in using analytics to drive value in organizations. He takes advantage of his unique mix of technical skills and business acumen to uncover valuable insights, develop business cases, create management buy-in and manage the execution of projects. Outside of work, Fraser likes to learn about leadership and politics. He also enjoys experimenting with emerging technologies in the finance and machine learning fields.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeBell CanadaSlalomSlalom CareersGartner hype cycleMarkov chainCS50: Introduction to Computer Science - Harvard UniversityMIT OpenCourseWareAndrew Ng's Machine Learning CollectionSo Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal NewportEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Stefan Krawczyk. Stefan is a data-focused leader and polymath engineer. His interest has spanned design, implementation, integration, and peer education of data-related systems. Most recently, his focus has been on futurization and model-serving systems and platforms. He has a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics from Victoria University at Wellington, and a master's in computer science from Stanford University specializing in artificial intelligence.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeHonda Research InstituteSpark ML Programming GuideStitch FixStitch Fix Algorithms TourJupyter NotebookStitchfix/HamiltonStefan Krawczyk on TwitterEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Shawn Hymel. Sean is a machine learning DevRel Engineer, Instructor and University Program Manager at Edge Impulse. He creates compelling technical videos, courses and workshops around edge machine learning that inspire engineers of all skill levels. Shawn is an advocate for enriching education through stem and believes that the best marketing comes from teaching, you can be found giving talks, running workshops and swing dancing in his free time.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeEdge ImpulseTensorFlowIntroduction to TensorFlow for AI, ML, and Deep LearningMicrosoft AzureGitHubDeveloper Marketing Does Not Exist by Adam DuVanderYoutility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype by Jay BaerShawnHymel on AdafruitGartner hype cycleSparkFunSpiking neural networkNeuromorphic ComputingField-programmable gate arrayA Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff HawkinsEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Pete Warden. Pete's mission is simple: Organizing the physical world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. He was the founder and CTO at Jetpac where he built a technical team and created a unique data product that analyzed the pixel data, over 140 million photos from Instagram and turn them into in depth guides for more than 5000 cities around the world. Jetpac was acquired by Google in 2014. From there, he was a founding member and technical lead of the TensorFlow mobile team responsible for deep learning on mobile and embedded devices. Today, he is the CEO at Useful Sensors. He is also the co-author of the highly successful book entitled TinyML published by O'Reilly. Pete holds a Bachelors of Science from University of Manchester and a Doctor of Philosophy and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodePete Warden on TwitterPeteWarden.comJetpacTensorFlowTinyMLQuantizationWake WordsEvgeni GousevArduinoEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket.The conversation this week is with Younes Amar and Mohammed Sabri. Younes is the head of product at Wallaroo, an enterprise platform for production AI. As a product leader, he is responsible for vision, strategy, and roadmap and for building product teams that use qualitative and quantitative data to deliver effective product designs and experiences. Mohamed Sabri is the founder of Rocket Science and the ML Ops Institute where he is developing the next generation of ml ops engineers using a data science mentor at MIT and wrote a book on data science essentials called Data Science Pocket Guide.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeWallarooRocket ScienceML Ops InstituteData Science Pocket Guide by Mohammed SabriGoogle Cloud PlatformAmazon Web ServicesJupyter Notebookilluminate-aiEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket.The conversation this week is with Daniel Kornev. Daniel is Chief Product Officer for DeepPavlov.ai, which is the developer behind the Deep Pavlov Open Source Conversational AI stack for building voice assistants. Daniel has also served as an adviser to the Alexa prize team from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Before DeepPavlov he founded and led an AI-driven startup called Zet Universe, and was both a technical program manager at Google and a dev evangelist at Microsoft. Daniel has an MS in computer science and has done extensive research in computer vision interaction.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeDeepPavlov.aiDeep Pavlov Open Source Conversational AIDeepPavlov DreamZet UniverseMicrosoft ResearchYandexGPT-3Speech-to-Text: Automatic Speech RecognitionDandelion APINielsen Norman GroupEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Neil Sahota. Neil is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations AI advisor, Chief Innovation Officer, and globally recognized speaker and author of the award-winning Best Business Book of 2019. Own the AI Revolution. Neil is a founding member of the UN's AI For Good initiative, and is actively helping them build out their ecosystem of strategic partnerships. Additionally, through his work with the Global Fortune 500 companies as a change maker, he created a disruptive thinking framework to show people how you can think differently.If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!Emerging Technologies NorthAppliedAI MeetupResources and Topics Mentioned in this EpisodeOwn the AI Revolution by Neil SahotaIBM ResearchIBM WatsonWatson and the Jeopardy! ChallengePalantirRainforest ConnectionHybrid intelligent systemAI for GoodEnjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens