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The conversation this week is with Sam Cartford. Sam is doing cybersecurity by day and is the co-founder of his own startup called Babbl, which he is working on anytime else. Babbl is a website that tracks stock market news sentiment, it aggregates and runs sentiment analysis on thousands of finance articles to distill high-impact information and ultimately help investors supplement their current research. This saves them time, reduces bias, and helps them gain insights. It was recently accepted into the beta fall 2022 cohort and was a part of Twin City Startup Week where it was listed as a standout by the Business Journal. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Sam Cartford on Twitter Babbl Twin City Startup Week CrowdStrike Robinhood Coinbase Red Wing Ignite GPT-3 Stable Diffusion Sebastian Ruder Neuro-linguistic programming Beautiful Soup Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Peter Scott. Peter is the author of Crisis of Control: How Artificial Super Intelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race. He holds a Master's of Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 16 years. But today actually spends his time as an author, futurist and business coach focusing on assisting clients through exponential change. He has appeared on radio, TV and podcasts, in addition to giving a TEDx talk. He has a new book out called Artificial Intelligence and You: What AI Means for Your Life, Your Work and Your World.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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Crisis of Control by Peter Scott Artificial Intelligence and You by Peter Scott Neuro-linguistic programming C.P. Snow Artificial Intelligence and You podcast Moore's law Artificial general intelligence Capsule neural network HumanCusp.com Enjoy!Your host,Justin Grammens

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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode My Future Story The STEM Club Goes Exploring by Lois Melbourne Kids Go to Work Day by Lois Melbourne Moral Code by Lois Melbourne and Ross Melbourne Enterprise resource planning COBOL Turing test GPT: Origin, Theory, Application, and Future LoisMelbourne.com RossMelbourne.com Enjoy!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 BI 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine WIB-RTP 3.8 Initiative McCormick BI SDLC 3rd Coast AI for Health Bowl Health Data Gymnasium 21st Century Cures Act AHIP Invitae DNA health and medical testing Follow Ngan MacDonald on Twitter Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Pandata Case Western Reserve University H2o.ai OhioX Fintech Rev1 Ventures Lab651 A Conversation with Andrew Ng Open Data Science Conference Cleveland Big Data User Group Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Bell Canada Slalom Slalom Careers Gartner hype cycle Markov chain CS50: Introduction to Computer Science - Harvard University MIT OpenCourseWare Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Collection So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Honda Research Institute Spark ML Programming Guide Stitch Fix Stitch Fix Algorithms Tour Jupyter Notebook Stitchfix/Hamilton Stefan Krawczyk on Twitter Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Edge Impulse TensorFlow Introduction to TensorFlow for AI, ML, and Deep Learning Microsoft Azure GitHub Developer Marketing Does Not Exist by Adam DuVander Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype by Jay Baer ShawnHymel on Adafruit Gartner hype cycle SparkFun Spiking neural network Neuromorphic Computing Field-programmable gate array A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Pete Warden on Twitter PeteWarden.com Jetpac TensorFlow TinyML Quantization Wake Words Evgeni Gousev Arduino Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Wallaroo Rocket Science ML Ops Institute Data Science Pocket Guide by Mohammed Sabri Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services Jupyter Notebook illuminate-ai Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode DeepPavlov.ai Deep Pavlov Open Source Conversational AI DeepPavlov Dream Zet Universe Microsoft Research Yandex GPT-3 Speech-to-Text: Automatic Speech Recognition Dandelion API Nielsen Norman Group Enjoy! 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota IBM Research IBM Watson Watson and the Jeopardy! Challenge Palantir Rainforest Connection Hybrid intelligent system AI for Good Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Tom Doyle. Tom is a veteran in the semiconductor industry working in many different areas over the last 35 years, including RF and satellites, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit solutions, IP software, and sales. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from California State University. Tom is the CEO of Aspinity. Aspinity is a world leader in the design and development of analog machine learning chips that are revolutionizing the architecture of always-on sensing devices that run on batteries. Aspinity is the second startup Tom founded and is the first focused on a semiconductor chip. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Aspinity Aspinity Careers TinyML Cookbook by Gian Marco Iodice  AnalogML Linear and Non-Linear Analog Signal Processing What is Vibration Analysis and What is it Used For? Microcontroller Moore's Law  Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Gian Marco. Gian is a tech lead in the machine learning group at ARM and the author of the TinyML Cookbook published in April of 2022. At ARM Gian looks after the ML performance optimizations for the arm compute library, which he co-created in 2017 to get the best performance on ARM Cortex-A CPUs. ARM Compute Library is currently the most performant library for machine learning on ARM. And it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide from servers to smartphones. Gian holds an MSC with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa in Italy and has several years of experience developing machine learning and computer vision algorithms on edge devices. And 2020. John co-founded the TinyML UK Meetup Group to encourage knowledge-sharing, educate and inspire the next generation of machine learning developers on tiny power-efficient devices. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode TinyML Cookbook ARM ARM Cortex-A AlexNet VGG-16 Arduino Breadboard Edge Impulse TinyML UK Meetup Group  Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Blair Newman. Blair is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of experience creating business value within the information technology industry. He's a decisive leader managing and overseeing PnLs, building pipelines, and generating multimillion-dollar cost savings by acquisitions and IT transformations. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Newton AI where he and the team helped companies automatically build extremely tiny and explainable models without needing a Machine Learning background. Prior to his current role. He was head of computing services and solutions at T-Systems North America for more than 10 years. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Newton AI T-Systems North America Bell Integrator tinyML Foundation TensorFlow Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Machine Learning Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Amelia innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She's a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She's a 2019-2020 Mozilla Foundation Open Web Fellow in partnership with MIT Open Doc Lab, and MIT's Co-Creation Studio working on ethics and values-driven software development toolkit, among many other accomplishments. In 2019. She was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama's world headquarters for the summit on fostering universal ethics and compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a MacArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 Video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star. She holds a bachelor's degree in art and visual technologies from George Mason University, a master's degree in transmedia from the University of Texas at Austin, and MPS and ITP from New York 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode StudioAmelia.com Digital Worlds Institute MIT Open Doc Lab MIT's Co-Creation Studio Wendy Red Star Seneca-Cayuga Nation Eastman School of Music A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Ethical Source AlphaGo Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Stack Overflow No-Funding.com Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Bryant Cruse. Bryant has been a pioneer in the application of AI technology to difficult real-world problems. He graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he acquired his lifelong interest in the philosophy of Epistemology. Or how we know what we know. After serving for eight years as a naval aviator, he returned to school for an MS in Space Systems Engineering from John Hopkins. While on the mission operations team for the Hubble Telescope, he found a personal mission to change the way spacecraft was operated by seeking a way to capture human knowledge and computers. This work led him to a six-month residency at the Lockheed AI Center in Palo Alto, he went on to found two successful AI companies, both of which were ultimately acquired by public corporations. New Sapience is his third technology company. The patented technology represents more than 15 years of development and a lifetime of thinking from first principles. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode New Sapience MySapiens.com Forward to the Future Lockheed Advanced Technology Center Symbolic artificial intelligence Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Stochastic Optimization Algorithms Aristotle's Categories Western Canon Books Turing test Carl Rogers Psychologist Biography ELIZA effect Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Rob Telson. Rob is an experienced sales leader with a demonstrated successful history working in the software and semiconductor industry, skilled and driving growth, negotiation, sales management, organizational leadership and technology. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Harvard Business School, and is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at BrainChip Holdings Limited, a company that is focused on software and hardware-accelerated solutions for advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode BrainChip Holdings Limited BrainChipInc on Youtube Neuromorphic Computing Akida Neural Processor MobileNetV1 Explained TinyML Foundation Brownfield vs. Greenfield Development Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Brandon Satrom. Brandon is the VP of Developer Experience and Engineering at Blues Wireless, a driven technologist and experienced leader with a background in product management, strategy, architecture, software development and developer advocacy. He describes himself as a technologist first, and loves to use what he knows and learns to teach others how to build things and solve problems with the latest technologies and platforms. Finally, he has a mentor at the RIoT Accelerator Program, and will actually be presenting at our applied AI meetup on July 7, he'll be speaking on Smarter Everything with the ML and the IoT.  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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Blues Wireless RIoT.org Arduino Raspberry Pi TensorFlow Gartner Hype Cycle Research Methodology JSON Syntax Edge Impulse NDC Porto Conference for Software Developers TinyML: Machine Learning Grokking Deep Learning Hackster.io Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Jigyasa Grover. Jigyasa recently co-authored a book titled Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning. The book is a combination of a myriad of experiences from brief stints at Facebook, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Institute of Research and Development France, involving data science, mathematical modeling, and software engineering. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a master's degree in computer science and an artificial intelligence specialization. Jigyasa is presently applying her past experiences and knowledge towards applied machine learning in the online advertisement prediction and ranking domain. She served as the director of Women Who Code and lead of Women Techmakers for a handful of years to help bridge the gender gap and technology. In her quest to build a powerful community of girls and boys alike. And believing we rise by lifting others. She mentored aspiring developers and machine learning enthusiasts in various global programs. 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 North AppliedAI Meetup Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode Follow Jigyasa Grover on Twitter Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning Women Who Code Women Techmakers Internet Relay Chat Google Summer of Code FOSSASIA Pharo General Data Protection Regulation Enjoy! Your host,Justin Grammens