IMPLEMENTED (AI, Advanced Analytics)

Conversational AI to automate physician charting following patient visits

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:17:14 +0000

In this episode I discuss with Harjinder Sandhu, CEO of Saykara, about conversational AI applied to the medical space to help capture doctor patient conversations to help charting.

We also touch on future trends, the growth in telemedicine and the broader opportunity of AI to help provide better care.

Better pricing, supply chain and merchandising decisions to drive sales and profitability uplift in Retail, using Analytics and AI

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:58:40 +0000

Conversation with Professor Gurhan Kok, Founder and Chief Scientist at Invent Analytics about making better pricing and supply chain decisions in retail to drive sales and profitability uplift

https://www.inventanalytics.com/

AI supported human pairing to drive value in customer center interactions

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 8 Sep 2020 04:47:42 +0000

In this episode I discuss the benefits of find the best pairing between customers and agents/employees in customer service and sales, using AI, with Cecilia Braggiotti, SVP and Head of Growth of Afiniti.

Connecting loyalty programs using Blockchain

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 2 Sep 2020 04:41:16 +0000

In this episode I discuss connecting loyalty programs and loyalty points exchange using Blockchain, with Animesh Ghosh, CEO and Co-Founder at KornChain a London based start-up.

Predicting demand for newly launched consumer products using AI

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:21:49 +0000

In this episode I discuss predicting demand for newly launched products using AI with Tim Hall, CEO and Co-founder at Simporter.

AI enabled interactive, conversational audio ads

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:58:38 +0000

In this episode I cover an interesting application of AI Voice technology. I discuss with Stas Tushinskiy CEO and Co-founder of Instreamatic about their interactive, conversational audio ads platform.

See example below https://instreamatic.com/?sampleId=insurance

AI for network security

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:33:00 +0000

In this episode I discuss AI applied to network security, with Geoff Coulehan, Head of Sales and Strategic Alliances at MixMode.

Mixmode is a leading AI cybersecurity company based in Santa Barbara, California.

Geoff does a fantastic job explaining recent network security challenges for enterprises and MixMode's novel approach.

AI in Customer Service

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 06:13:21 +0000

This episode covers AI in Customer service, including customer service automation discussed with Chris Kellner, Global VP Sales and Partnerships at Digital Genius. The integration between natural language processing and other internal workflows makes DigitalGenius very effective as Swiss based On shoes example shows.

I also summarize other customer service applications discussed in past episodes (Gamalon, Cresta AI and Zhuiyi Technologies).

AI for industrial enterprises

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 04:54:35 +0000

In this episode I cover AI in the industrial space with Henry Guo from Petuum. We start our conversation with the origin and the mission of Petuum. Petuum focuses on AI for autonomous, supervised steering of manufacturing operations. We discuss why this is important for clients, benefits and implementation considerations.

Artificial Intelligence in China

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 7 Jul 2020 05:36:04 +0000

In this episode I am coming back to the topic of Artificial Intelligence in China. It features my conversation with Claire Xiong, Director business strategy at Zhuiyi Technology, a China based leader in AI virtual assistant technology for enterprise.

Many articles and books on the development of AI in China present the role of the government in setting up the ambition to make China the global AI leader. This might create however the impression that AI in China is driven only top down as the vibrant research and start-up ecosystem is not well known.

Synthetic (AI generated) media for enterprise applications

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 04:00:21 +0000

This episode covers synthetic (AI generated) media for enterprise use, the benefits and practical applications and considerations on ensuring legal and ethical use.

I discuss with Victor Riparbelli, Co-founder and CEO at Synthesia about synthetic video: state of technology, business applications and benefits as well as future potential.

Synthesia's tech in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiiSAvKJIHo

Drive business performance through leveraging data and analytics throughout the retail value chain

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:48:38 +0000

Joel Beal, Co-founder and CEO at Alloy discusses how brands and CPGs drive business value from data and analytics on the entire value chain, from production to consumer demand. We talk about how players across this value chain, retailers, logistics companies, co-packers share data such as inventory levels, sales, shipments, through Alloys' platform, for the benefit of all. We also cover the relevant use cases and benefits such as reducing working capital and waste but also improving service levels, reducing out of stocks and driving growth.

AI enabled revenue operations for better sales forecasting and pipeline management

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:33:24 +0000

Vernon Bubb, Managing Director at Clari, a leading revenue operations platform talks about helping sales organizations with forecasting, pipeline management and sales analytics with the help of AI. We cover success stories and impact, and end with the most important changes in behavior, among sales professionals using Clari, during Coronavirus lock-down and beyond.

Real time business intelligence and financial performance monitoring powered by machine learning

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 05:42:06 +0000

David Drai, Co-founder and CEO at Anodot, talks about how Business Intelligence tools must evolve in a data driven world and how Anodot uses machine learning to autonomously track key operational and financial KPIs and detect and alert on revenue leaks and cost spikes in real time. We discuss applications, success stories and implementation considerations.

AI powered digital transformations, lessons from China's lead in the field of AI

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:28:03 +0000

Mark West, Head of Europe of 4Paradigm, a China based AI leader and a unicorn, talks about 4Paradigm's technology, its applications and success stories. We also cover key AI trends in China, as well as post-Covid developments in further digitization and use of AI for Chinese enterprises.

Machine learning as a service

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:25:00 +0000

Atakan Cetinsoy, VP Predictive Applications at BigML talks about trends and opportunities of applying machine learning in enterprise. We cover BigML’s machine learning as a service platform, its application, use and success stories. We end with Atakan’s views on success characteristics of data driven companies.

E-commerce powered by AI and personalization

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 8 Jun 2020 05:12:51 +0000

TJ Brenninkmeijer, Executive VP BloomReach EMEA talks about key e-commerce trends during Covid crisis and beyond and how BloomReach is powering a quarter of the booming online commerce, with the help of AI and personalization. We end with TJ's view on the opportunities of AI to further drive e-commerce.

Automate project planning, scheduling and administration using AI, for project driven organizations

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 05:38:50 +0000

Rob Massa, Chief Revenue Officer at Forecast, discusses how Forecast helps project based organizations such as consulting firms or agencies, automate project planning, budgeting and administration with the help of AI.

A short history of machine learning applications in business; creativity, automation and deployment at scale

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 3 Jun 2020 04:54:59 +0000

Rosaria Silipo, Principal Data Scientist at Knime, discusses the recent history of the practice of machine learning, starting with some of the the early 90's applications to the most promising use cases of today and tomorrow. We also cover innovation with machine learning, automated machine learning and its limitations and challenges with deploying machine learning models.

Rosaria kindly offered a free download code of her book https://www.knime.com/knimepress/practicing-data-science.

Comment on Twitter for the code https://twitter.com/ChipAlexandru

Links related to some of the more technical topics in the podcast

Crisp-DM cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-industry_standard_process_for_data_mining

Long Short-term memory applied to Natural Language Processing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_short-term_memory

Unsupervised learning at scale to fight financial crime, improve capital returns and liquidity in Financial Services

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 1 Jun 2020 05:44:31 +0000

Simon Moss, CEO of Symphony AyasdiAI, shares his view of the opportunities in AI for the Enterprise. We discuss Ayasdi's unique approach to unsupervised learning (Topological Data Analysis), its applications in Financial Services such effectively fighting financial crime, improving capital return and liquidity, and reducing risk. We end with Simon's view on implications of AI deployment on organizations.

Links to interesting topics referred to in the podcast:

JP Morgan COIN project https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/jpmorgan-marshals-an-army-of-developers-to-automate-high-finance

Ayasdi's diabetes https://www.ayasdi.com/blog/healthcare/identification-of-type-2-diabetes-subgroups-through-topological-data-analysis-of-patient-similarity/

Augmenting human expertise to drive productivity using machine learning

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 28 May 2020 06:12:39 +0000

Zayd Enam, CEO of Cresta discusses applying machine learning to raise abilities of employees to expert level. We cover applications of Cresta's technology to sales and customer support, impact achieved and implementation considerations. We close with Zayd's views on how machine learning could boost human productivity,

AI supported human to machine web conversations

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 26 May 2020 05:45:23 +0000

Sanji Alwis, VP Business development at Gamalon discusses their unique approach to conversational AI, unsupervised learning that is editable and auditable by humans. Sanji shares practical applications, success stories and his views on which technology will best facilitate human to machine conversations. All episodes and articles: www.implemented.info

Tools to build the modern enterprise

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 25 May 2020 04:41:47 +0000

Read aloud from my article "Tools to build the modern enterprise" by Chip Alexandru.

You can also find and share this article at www.implement.info

Mining data for insights to help business users with their daily activities

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 21 May 2020 05:00:17 +0000

Dorian Selz, Co-founder and CEO at Squirro, talks about using machine learning to extract timely insights from the vast amount of structured and unstructured data and make them available to improve business activities and decision making. We cover concrete application such new lead generation and churn management, customer service or risk management. We end with Dorian's view on business areas where AI could make a difference in the next years.

Better coding through machine learning

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 20 May 2020 05:52:52 +0000

Boris Paskalev, Co-founder and CEO at Deepcode shares how mining millions of already written code lines, helps programmers solve bugs, be more productive and ultimately write better code. We also talk about the future of coding as activity and of the job of a programmer.

Machine learning powered micro-segmentation and customer messaging to drive revenue lift

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 19 May 2020 06:20:22 +0000

Conversation with Jamie Miller, CEO of Amplero, a leading AI-powered personalization platform. We cover key trends in marketing technology. Jamie shares his view on the benefit of delivering personalization at micro-segment level and success stories. We end with Jamie's perspective on what will change post-Covid with regard to the use of technology in the marketing departments.

Unlocking the value in enterprise voice data at scale

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 18 May 2020 05:24:56 +0000

Scott Stephenson, Founder and CEO at Deepgram shares his views on the importance of voice data for the modern enterprise. We discuss how Deepgram helps understand voice at scale and in real time, concrete problems this could help solve, practical applications and success stories. We end with Scott's perspective on the future of voice technology for enterprise.

Unsupervised cognitive computing, a system that learns autonomously to drive the digital transformation

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:40:31 +0000

Andrea Pitrone, Chief Customer Success Officer and Chief Product Officer at Loop AI Labs shares his view of unsupervised cognitive computing and enterprise transformation. We discuss the technology and practical applications. We end with the future of implementing AI/cognitive solutions in industry.

Image recognition for enterprise, state of technology today, business applications and future potential

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:05:08 +0000

Matt Zeiler, Founder and CEO at Clarifai, shares his amazing personal story that led to founding of Clarifai and his views on the state of image recognition today. We discuss about Clarifai's AI platform capabilities and applications of image recognition in business. We end with Matt's take on the future of computer vision in business

Delivering personalization effectively and at scale

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Wed, 13 May 2020 05:10:34 +0000

Conversation with Anoop Vasisht, general manager Europe at Dynamic Yield about implementing digital personalization at scale. Anoop shares successful examples across industries and his views on sectors showing further potential. We close with some perspectives on the future of personalization.

Completing the customer journey loop, linking digital interactions with phone conversations

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 12 May 2020 04:49:45 +0000

Gregg Johnson, CEO at Invoca, a leader in call tracking and conversational analytics, discusses how Invoca helps marketers complete the customer journey, when customers moves between online research and discovery and offline/call center interactions. We touch on how to use AI on Conversational data to generate business insights while ensuring privacy and compliance. We end with Gregg's view on the future applications of voice technology.

Automated machine learning to increase adoption, productivity and value generated for enterprise

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:51:50 +0000

Boris Cordes, Director Channels at Data Robot, talks about current challenges with Artificial Intelligence adoption in enterprise and how DataRobot platform helps increase productivity and scalability. We discuss success cases in insurance, banking, retail and other industries. We end with considerations regarding AI implementation.

Enterprise data discovery and management, for security, privacy and value extraction

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Fri, 8 May 2020 05:01:27 +0000

Andrew Ettinger, Chief Revenue Officer at BigID shares his views on the risks and opportunities in data management. We discuss how BigID helps companies discover their critical data, ensure its security and privacy and ultimately extract value. We end with some thoughts on the future of managing data.

Improving productivity of AI modelling, for business critical applications

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 7 May 2020 05:09:22 +0000

Nick Payton, B2B market leader at Sigopt talks about the typical steps in AI/machine learning model development, how Sigopt helps some of the most advanced companies using AI to do better models, faster and key trends in using AI in the industry,

Artificial Intelligence applications in business using RapidMiner, a leading data science platform

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 07:36:49 +0000

Ralf Klinkerberg, one of the founders of RapidMiner, a leading data science platform shares his views on what is artificial intelligence, data mining, deep learning, data science. We discuss the applications in business, the success factors for companies implementing AI and the potential of AI for society and business.

Geospatial analytics, generating insights from satellite images using computer vision and machine learning

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:57:47 +0000

Bryan Yates, General Manager EMEA at Orbital Insight, shares how they help companies, non-profit organization and governments to understand what is happening on the ground by processing images from satellites, balloons and other unmanned vehicles and overlaying it with other types of data such as GPS tracking data. We discuss how generated insights help supply chains, sustainability efforts, fighting disease and other areas.

Advanced analytics/AI based, one-to-one marketing communication at scale, assortment and store optimization

chip.alexandru@gmail.com (Chip Alexandru) — Tue, 7 Apr 2020 15:18:09 +0000

Conversation with the Antti Syväniemi, CEO of Houston Analytics about practical application of Analytics and AI.

We cover how AI and Advanced Analytics can support human decision making in 1 to 1 marketing at scale and store/assortment optimization. We also discuss how companies could implement such solutions and what benefits could be expected. Finally, Antti shares his views on what will change with regard to companies using data and analytics, once current Corona virus crisis is over.