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Today's guest is Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, Co-Founder and CEO at Signos in California. Signos provides a new way for people to act on their body’s unique response to what they eat to lose weight and kickstart a healthier life. Signos is the only company that combines a CGM with an AI-driven app to deliver real-time glucose monitoring for optimal health and weight management. Signos translates an individual’s metabolic signals into timely recommendations for eating, exercise and better health. As members begin their Signos journeys, they log what they eat allowing the Signos platform to learn each person’s glucose reaction to specific foods. Once calibrated, Signos uses that data to provide personalized nutrition suggestions, including which foods are best for each member, when to eat them and when to exercise to bring glucose levels back within their optimal weight loss range. In the episode, Sharam will talk about: The work Signos are doing within weight loss, The journey of bringing his concept into production, Navigating the user experience, The role of AI in the platform, The impact that Signos bring to customers, Plans for growing the team & What the future holds for Signos

Today's guest is Constantine Boyadjiev, Managing Director, Global Risk & Compliance Analytics Practice Lead at Protiviti. Founded in 2002, Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti provides clients with consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit through their network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries. Operating at the intersection of data engineering, advanced analytics and cutting-edge technology, Constantine enables clients across industries extract data-driven insights, translate such into risk decisioning, and immunize against current and emerging threat vectors. He leads a global team of high performing data scientists and analytic thought leaders, while architecting cross-industry strategies, building assets and developing capabilities to combat today’s disparate vulnerabilities across a variety of domains and risk typologies. In the episode, Constantine will discuss: Interesting roles he’s held over the years, The interesting work they do at Protiviti, What his role in Global risk and compliance analytics involves, An insight into the data team and current projects, Use cases of the benefits that the bring to clients, and What the working culture is like at Protiviti

Today's guest is William Santana Li, CEO at Knightscope in Mountain View, CA. Founded in 2013, Knightscope is a leader in the development of autonomous security capabilities and on target to disrupt the $500 billion security industry. Knightscope leverages unique technology that combines next generation functionalities including self-driving, robotics and artificial intelligence. The company builds Autonomous Security Robots that are designed to provide 24/7/365 security to a variety of locations that include places where people live, work, visit and study. Knightscope's ASRs have been proven to enhance safety across a range of locations including hospitals, corporations, school campuses, entertainment venues, logistics and storage facilities, and manufacturing plants. Knightscope's ASRs are highly cost-effective and may be deployed to enhance traditional security systems and law enforcement functions. Knightscope's ASR solutions can be customized to suit specific needs of the location of deployment to enhance security and safety while also providing customer assistance capabilities. In the episode, William will discuss: The work Knightscope do in fighting crime, The impact they are making in the industry, Behind-the-scenes on how the technology all comes together, What excites him for the future of Knightscope, Their business model and engaging with enterprise customers, Use cases of where Knightscope can be deployed & Exciting opportunities to work with Knightscope

Today's guest is Bibhrajit Halder, Founder and CEO at SafeAI in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 2017, SafeAI are accelerating the World's Transition to Autonomous Mining and Construction. Safe AI's open and interoperable solution is giving off-highway equipment owners access to vehicle-agnostic autonomy that previously didn't exist. The significant value of this is demonstrated through gains in increased worksite productivity, safety and cost savings. Enabled by autonomy, each vehicle can add approximately 1,000 additional hours of productivity per year. It’s the difference between capital projects being completed in four years instead of five, and significantly under or over budget.  This is the beginning of a new era for heavy industry an era that is smarter, safer and more productive than ever. SafeAI is at the forefront of this movement to transition heavy industry to connected and autonomous worksites. In the episode, Bibhrajit will discuss: The interesting work they do at SafeAI, How he has seen the autonomous industry evolve over the past 20 years, Behind the scenes into how they are using AI, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, What excites him for the future of SafeAI & Exciting opportunities to join the team at SafeAI

Today's guest is Brett DiNatale, Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial Analytic Solutions at PRECISIONxtract. Founded in 2017, PRECISIONxtract accelerates value realization by enabling data science, leveraging analytics and innovating with technology to transform the way we connect with customers. The company's seasoned team of industry experts leverages best-in-class data mining, innovative analytic methodologies, deep customer knowledge and state-of-the-art strategic frameworks to create high-yield, actionable solutions. Brett leads a team of data scientists, solution architects and analytic consultants to design optimal analytic solutions to their clients' business needs. His role is to lead the vision for and execution of innovative analytical methods addressing strategic commercial needs for clients. Whether it's building analytic evidence for a point in time strategy, designing and building a BI platform or leveraging advanced methods to answer business questions, they can provide a right-sized solution. In the episode, Brett will discuss: The work they are doing in the pharmaceuticals sector, Typical projects his team work on in Commercial Analytic Solutions, Benefits their products bring to customers such as predicting patient behavior, Current structure and working culture of the team, What the future holds for PRECISIONxtract,and What they look for when growing the team

Today's guest is Semih Korkmaz, Co-Founder at Stoovo in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Stoovo believe you should never be limited when it comes to opportunities. Everyone deserves to be in control of their finances and the way they work. That's why the Stoovo app empowers people to work and earn on their own terms. In the episode, Semih will discuss: The origins & current work they do at Stoovo, An insight into the problems they are solving for customers, The role of AI and it’s impact in the business, Current projects the team are working on, Plans for growth and what the future holds, and What he learned from building a startup

Today's guest is Ben Tengelsen,  VP of Data Science at IntelyCare in Greater Boston, MA. Founded in 2014, IntelyCare are the leading tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations in the U.S. Through their AI-based platform, they schedule and match nursing professionals with open assignments at 1,600+ organizations across the country. In doing so, they provide nurses and nursing assistants with unprecedented flexibility in their work lives, while at the same time empowering healthcare organizations to take control of how they manage nursing staff. Ben leads a team of data scientists and analysts in their mission to generate as much value as possible from IntelyCare's data. They are experts at statistical and predictive modeling, but are also fullstack engineers when it comes to scaling and deploying models. Projects include a state-of-the-art pricing algorithm (AI based, learns in real time), a powerful recommendation engine (used for both in-app recommendations and targeted messaging), and various forecasting algorithms to manage things like on-call pools, engagement campaigns and last-minute requests. In the episode, Ben will discuss: The work IntelyCare do helping nurses, How they use data at IntelyCare, The role of Machine Learning & Data Science within the platform, What it’s like to be part of the Data Science team, The impact of Covid-19 within the business, and Plans for growth & what the future holds for IntelyCare

Today's guest is Erik Duhaime, Co-Founder and CEO at Centaur Labs in Boston, MA. Founded in 2017, Centaur Labs offers medical data labeling (classification, segmentation etc.) from a network of medical experts. Instead of having to choose between the high cost of hiring physicians or the low quality of crowdsourced/blended teams, they offer an alternative that leverages collective intelligence and performance based incentives. Centaur Labs' technology - developed by researchers at MIT - collects multiple opinions per case with labelers competing against each other for cash rewards. This process ensures that quality assurance is baked into the process since the labelers are incentivized to perform at the highest level on every case analyzed. Centaur Labs offers industry leading accuracy, affordable pricing and very low management overhead on the part of the client since all engagements include a dedicated customer success manager. In the episode, Erik will discuss: Their mission to annotate the world’s medical data, Early challenges and the journey of building the company, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, Combining AI with the user experience, An insight into the team and working culture, and What the future holds for Centaur Labs

Today's guest is Andrew Konya, CEO at Remesh in New York. Remesh was founded in 2014 with the mission to create a technology that could truly represent the will of the people and amplify their collective voice. As a company, they believe in the power of helping people understand one another, which requires engaging, exchanging ideas, and having a dialogue with groups of people at a massive scale. Remesh believe that conversations that bridge cultural, political, social, economic and geographic divides ultimately lead to a more unified and less divided world. Remesh's platform leverages AI to analyze the opinions and interactions of up to 1,000 participants in real-time and helps understand the responses that best represent the group, all in a matter of minutes. You can discover trends and themes that were most common with your audience, compare and contrast responses between audience segments, and export all of your data in just one click. Customers across many industries use Remesh to better understand their audience, enabling them to make better products, companies and governments. In the episode, Andrew will discuss: The origins and current work he does with Remesh, How the company has evolved over the past nine years, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, The role of AI & ML in their platform, Plans for growing the team, and  What excites him for the future at Remesh

Today's guest is Christopher Li, Co-Founder and CEO at BioBox Analytics in Toronto, Canada. As their understanding of life sciences grow, so does the scope of research. Legacy software was built to tackle challenges that now represents a small fraction of modern research needs. BioBox is revolutionizing the way they do research by creating the world’s most intelligent and intuitive data analytics platform for modern scientists. Scientific breakthroughs are often just around the corner, but when the tools are scattered all over the place, they can be missed. BioBox was designed to provide scientists with all the tools they need along their journey all in one place. BioBox is a platform that manages your data and your research computing infrastructure, which means you spend less time looking for data and setting things up, and more time for your research. In the episode, Christopher will discuss: The journey to founding BioBox Analytics, Their mission and challenges they are solving within scientific research, The role of Data & Machine Learning in the BioBox platform, The current make-up of the engineering team, Plans for further growth and upcoming projects, and The impact BioBox Analytics are making in the industry

Today's guest is Mehrshad Setayesh, CTO at NextHealth Technologies in Denver, Colorado. NextHealth Technologies is demystifying the most complicated industry in the land: the American healthcare system. They empower decision makers  to cut through the complexity and get to better decisions faster, and ultimately do what everybody needs: make healthcare more affordable. Health plan leadership - from the C-suite, to program managers, to critical initiatives champions - all stand to benefit from NextHealth Technologies. Together, they will identify which members to engage and how to reach them. Through personalized outreach and analytics, they can predict who’ll enroll, participate and stick with each program. In the episode, Mehrshad will discuss: The interesting work he does with NextHealth, How the tech & data team is structured for success, Use cases of the AI & ML projects they deliver for customers, The success they’ve enjoyed in the past couple of years, Plans for growing the team, and What excites him for the future at Nexthealth

Today's guest is Jay Nanduri, Chief Technical Officer at Truveta in Seattle. Founded in 2020, Truveta's aim is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Clinical data from their members is de-identified daily and brought together in an unprecedented data platform to enable research on all health conditions. Truveta believe their collective de-identified data can be used to accelerate research, advance health equity and save lives. Jay is a former Microsoft Technical Fellow with over twenty years of experience, 25+ patents and several publications that demonstrate exemplary technical and business leadership. He has a proven track record of managing and delivering mission critical projects from conception to delivery. Jay also has extensive hands-on experience in designing highly scalable distributed systems, big data, big graph, secure internet platforms, fraud prevention, BI analytics, Ecommerce, personalization, workflow systems and Machine Learning/AI platforms. In the episode, Jay will discuss: His background and previous experience with Microsoft, What motivated him to move to Truveta, The work they do at Truveta and defining their mission statement, Their focus on data coverage, data quality, data consumption and community, Using AI for the benefit of health systems, researchers and clinicians, Using Healthcare Data responsibly and Career opportunities within AI in Healthcare

Today's guest is Adam Gotlin, Head of Business Analytics at Kaia Health in New York. Founded in 2016, Kaia Health is a leading digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders including musculoskeletal conditions and COPD. Kaia Health uses innovative technology such as AI and Computer Vision, and works with medical experts to create an interdisciplinary digital approach. This empowers and motivates individuals to take control and self-manage their condition with effective, non-pharmacological, digital alternatives at low costs. In the episode, Adam will talk about: The work they do at Kaia Health in home rehabilitation care, The role of AI in their platform, Creating the best user experience for customers, The impact of Covid-19 on the business, How the tech team is set up for success, The culture and what it is like to work at Kaia Health & What the future holds for the company

Today's guest is Jason Christiansen, Chief Technology Officer at Epic Sciences in San Diego. Founded in 2008, Epic Sciences is developing novel diagnostics to personalize and advance the treatment and management of cancer. Epic’s mission is to enable the rapid and non-invasive detection of genetic and molecular changes in cancer throughout a patient’s journey. The company was founded on a powerful platform to identify and characterize rare cells, including circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Epic's technology helps match patients to targeted therapies and monitor for drug resistance, so that the best treatment path can be chosen at every clinical decision point. Today, they partner with leading pharmaceutical companies and major cancer centers around the world. Their goal is to commercialize our technology to increase the success rate of cancer drugs in clinical trials and improve patient outcomes by providing physicians with real-time information to guide treatment choices. In the episode, Jason will discuss: The work he is doing with Epic Sciences, Current projects the data science team are working on, Use cases of the impact their products bring to the industry, What the future holds for Epic Sciences & How they attract top talent to join the team

Today's guest is Meghan Gaffney, Founder and CEO at VEDA Data Solutions. Founded in 2015, Veda are on a mission to accelerate patients’ ability to access the care they need, reduce financial loss in the healthcare system and create efficiencies that drive healthcare innovation. They are motivated by a belief that the tools to make a better world are being developed right now by talented scientists around the globe and they can harness those tools to solve the problems impacting people every day. Today, over 15 million people rely on Veda's tools to power the healthcare industry. Meghan provides resources and strategic leadership to our employees and serves as a liaison to their customers and partners. With over 15 years of experience working with federal and state elected officials and consulting on technology opportunities, she has experience helping people– from elected leaders to impact organizations– achieve their goals. She is a passionate advocate for AI and Machine Learning, and believes it will create unprecedented economic opportunity for the United States and the world. In the episode, Meghan will discuss: The motivation for founding Veda, Getting her idea off the ground from a technical perspective, The current make-up of the team, Use cases of the impact that Veda brings to customers, Interesting projects the Tech and Data team are working on, The importance of diversity and inclusion, and  What excites her for the future at Veda

Today's guest is Jack Loss, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Improvix Technologies in Virginia. Founded in 2012, Improvix Technologies is a certified IT Services company focused on developing, implementing and managing innovative solutions that help their customers accomplish their mission. To this end, their stellar track record highlights a consistent delivery of cost-effective, strongly-secure, and highly-integrated IT solutions that exceed customers’ expectations and enhance the government’s technology landscape. Improvix pride themselves on providing fully customized solutions based on industry best practices, whether its rearchitecting a custom application before moving it to the cloud or developing a secure means of communication for overseas travel. Their capabilities consist of, but are not limited to, Cybersecurity, Cloud, as well as traditional, IT infrastructure, Splunk, ServiceNow, Application Development, Customer Service, Enterprise Mobility management and mobile application design, Data Analytics, Salesforce, and Business Intelligence. In the episode, Jack will discuss: Trends that Improvix work on to assist partners, What excites him about working on the Splunk platform, Advice for successful Splunk implementations, What’s next for the platform in the Government sector, Plans for growth and exciting opportunities at Improvix and Key learns on his journey so far in Splunk

Today's guest is Aaron Kwittken, CEO and Founder at Prophet in New York. Founded in 2020, PRophet (owned by Stagwell) is the first-ever AI-driven software-as-a-service platform designed by and for the PR community to help predict media interest and sentiment before a story is pitched. PRophet samples millions of reporters’ stories spanning thousands of print media outlets using a combination of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning technologies to help perfect a PR professional's pitch to a reporter and maximize results. Aaron is a highly acclaimed industry leader, entrepreneur, and seasoned corporate affairs and integrated communications strategist for more than 30 years. Aaron began his career in public affairs and crisis management, and held numerous senior agency leadership roles before starting his own agency in late 2005. He’s counseled hundreds of organizations, from F100 listed companies to private and high growth brands across multiple sectors. Aaron has received numerous honors, most recently being named a PRovoke 2021 Innovator 25 for his comms-tech leadership. In the episode, Aaron will talk about: The motivation for founding PRophet, Building their AI-driven SaaS platform, Success to date and plans for the future, Use cases of the impact the platform brings to users & Why you should consider a career with PRophet

Today's guest is Samee Zahid, Staff Software Engineer (ML & Data) at Chipper Cash in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Chipper Cash is a venture-capital-backed Financial technology company that builds software to enable free and instant Peer-to-peer Cross-border payments in Africa and Europe; as well as solutions for businesses and merchants to process online and in-store payments. It is their mission is to provide the most trusted and accessible financial services for people living in Africa and beyond. Samee is a generalist engineer skilled at end-to-end Machine Learning such as data analysis, feature engineering, model training and deployment, data infrastructure, evaluation systems and A/B experimentation. He leads the Intelligence team at Chipper Cash to tackle machine learning and big data problems with an engineering mindset. Samee develops with a strong product focus and big picture instinct, and is excited about emerging tech's ability to transform lives in developing economies. In the episode, Samee will talk about: The work they do at Chipper Cash within FinTech, How they are using Data Science and Machine Learning, An insight into some projects the team are working on, Moving from a large company like Google into a startup, What the future holds for Chipper Cash & Exciting career opportunities with the company

Today's guest is Martin Miller, Director of AI/ML Product Operations at Levi Strauss & Co in San Francisco. Founded in 1853, Levi Strauss pioneered labor and environmental guidelines in manufacturing, and they work to build sustainability into everything they do. Their brands — Levi’s®, Dockers®, Denizen® and Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ — stand for freedom and self-expression around the world. For more than 160 years, they have used the strength of their brands to lead with their values and make an outsized impact on the world. Martin's expertise lies in delivering solutions and improving user experience and service delivery. He bring process and building expertise in code-complete design and development, enterprise architecture, deployment, data security and compliance. He has a proven track record of success directing cross-functional and multi-site teams in agile scrum environments, combined with a talent for effective IT projects, capacity planning and implementation. In the episode, Martin will discuss: His role & how the use AI/ML at Levi Strauss & Co., What a typical project life cycle looks like, The current make up of the tech team, What’s in store for the near future and Why Levi Strauss & Co. is a great place to work

Today's guest is Guruduth Banavar, Founding CTO and Head of Discovery at Viome. Founded in 2016, Viome's mission is to make illness optional by predicting and preventing chronic diseases through a deeper understanding of an individual’s biology at a molecular level. In order to enhance their understanding of the origin and progression of diseases, they use a systems biology approach combined with mRNA analysis and their state-of-the-art AI platform. Their goal is to digitize, decode and decipher human biology to prevent, treat and cure chronic diseases and cancer. Guruduth is a leader in Artificial Intelligence known for his work on Host/Microbe Molecular Data Analysis, IBM Watson AI Systems, Smarter Cities, Services Innovation, Mobile Computing and Distributed Systems. As founding CTO at Viome Life Sciences, Guruduth leads AI and co-leads clinical research. His role encompasses clinical research, epidemiology, machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics, as well as data and software architecture and development to deliver products in an agile way, in addition to executive management responsibilities. In the episode, Guruduth will discuss: His background and journey to Viome, Their mission and work they do within chronic diseases, The role of AI, ML and Biology in achieving their mission, The current team and plans for growth, and What excites him for the future at Viome