Stories in AI by Ganesh Padmanabhan

The Omicron Variant, AI in Pharma, LifeSciences, Quantum Computing | Dr. Kam Chana | Stories in AI

Listen to this very timely conversation with my friend, Dr. Kam Chana who breaks down the Coronavirus Omicron VOC (Variant of Concern), the Data and AI applications, and best practices in Lifesciences & Pharma, Quantum Computing, and much more, in the latest Stories in AI episode.
 
Bio
Dr. Kam Chana is Director of the Scientific Data and Computing Platforms group supporting research and development at Merck Research Labs. His group consists of Scientific Data Platform, High-Performance Computing, Applied Computing, and Site Reliability Engineering teams providing capabilities and platforms for data science, scientific algorithms and software engineering. In addition, his group supports capabilities for deployment engineering, instrumentation and monitoring of software, infrastructure and lab systems. His team utilizes and supports algorithms and platforms for cutting edge Data Science. Dr Chana has spoken about and is leading an initiative to develop Quantum Computing for life science R&D within Merck. Dr Chana holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and has 20+ years’ experience in scientific computing for the life sciences industry.

AI Adoption in Enterprises & Data Privacy | Ritu Jyoti | Stories in AI

Have a listen to my conversation with Ritu Jyoti, Group VP of AI and Automation Research and Advisory at IDC. I loved talking to Ritu because she has a deep industry insight into how modern enterprises are utilizing artificial intelligence to solve difficult problems while maintaining ethical privacy standards. I hope you enjoy this discussion.
Ritu's Bio: Ritu Jyoti is Group Vice President, Worldwide Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation Research with IDC's software market research and advisory practice. Ritu is responsible for leading the development of IDC's thought leadership for AI Research and management of the Worldwide AI and Automation Software research team. Her research focuses on the state of enterprise AI efforts and global market trends for the rapidly evolving AI and Machine Learning (ML) innovations and ecosystem. prior to joining IDC, Ritu held various executive-level positions in Product Management, Marketing, Solutions, Technology Alliances, and Consulting at companies such as Kaminario, EMC, IBM Global Services, and PwC Consulting.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritujyoti/
https://twitter.com/ritujyoti
Also, check out the IDC FutureScape Webcast: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation 2022 Predictions By: Ritu Jyoti here: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US48368021
A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations.

AI & Financial Services, Job Automation, Challenges of AI | Aruna Pattam | Stories in AI

The latest Stories in AI podcast presents you with a deep conversation with Aruna Pattam, head of AI & Data Science at HCL Technologies. In this chat we discuss a wide variety of topics from AI in the Financial Services industry, to job automation, and the challenges that corporations face with AI implementation. I'm sure you will enjoy this one.
 
Aruna's Bio:
Aruna Pattam is a Global AI thought leader and currently is the head of AI & Data Science managing Asia Pacific, Middle East and Japan region. Aruna was recently awarded the “The Most Admired Global Indians 2021” by Passion Vista - Luxury, Lifestyle & Business Magazine; “AI Changemaker Leader Awards 2022” by 3AI – AI & Analytics Association; “AI Global Ambassador 2022” by Swiss Cognitive – World leading AI Network.
Aruna has spent the last 22+ years delivering analytics platforms, decision support systems and analytics solutions using analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She has held many technical and executive leadership roles in Commonwealth bank of Australia, Westpac, AMP financial services, SAS Australia and had implemented solutions covering fraud detection, anti-money laundering, credit risk, privacy and compliance and so on.
Aruna is a thought leader, speaker, mentor, blogger, vlogger with the goal of educating and providing awareness on AI to the business and wider community. She regularly shares informative blogs, storytelling videos etc. aimed at demystifying AI and detailing the ever-expanding AI scope for business transformation.
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/arunapattam
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8_yY-2_KXa5wYrEQFmMp-Q/videos
Website https://arunapattam.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/pattamaruna
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@arunapattam
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aruna.pattam/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AI-by-Aruna-Pattam-109033684771898/
 
A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Web3, Future of NFTs, & Unstoppable Domains | Sandy Carter | Stories in AI

I had an amazing conversation with the unstoppable Sandy Carter, SVP & Channel Chief of Unstoppable Domains. This podcast is filled with insightful details into the future of decentralization. We talk about various topics ranging from the philosophy of Web 3.0 all the way to the technicals of NFTs and DAOs. If you are looking to learn about web3, NFTs, crypto and what you should be doing now, this is for you!
 
Sandy's Bio: TLDR: She's OG!
Sandy Carter is Senior Vice President and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains. In this role, she is responsible for driving new partnerships and integrations for Web 3.0, Blockchain, and NFTs. She is the founder of Women of Web3. Her mission is to onboard the world onto the decentralized web by building blockchain based identity platform. She helps her partners and customers accomplish that through the Unstoppable domain names which are minted as NFTs allowing users to replace hundreds of archaic cryptocurrency addresses with a single human-readable name that simplifies crypto transfers. The domains can also host decentralized websites, act as a chat ID and more. NFT Domains are user owned & controlled, and have no renewal fees.
Previously, Sandy was the Vice President for Public Sector Partners and Programs at AWS. In this role, she was responsible for driving next-generation partnering in cloud, machine learning, IoT and blockchain. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector. She grew the partner ecosystem over 45% as the ecosystem contributed significantly to the success of the business.
Sandy has been a founder and CEO of a startup, and her last role at IBM, she ran the Cloud and AI/ML Ecosystem on behalf of the IBM corporation. Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. She is also the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit.
Sandy is a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Federal 100 Award Winner, member of Fortune Most Powerful Women, and Women Leaders in Data and AI, Stevie Award Winner for Women of the Year Technology, CRN Women of the Channel 2021 Power 100, 2021 Cloud Girls Rising Inaugural Visionary Award, Top 50 Woman Leader in SaaS of 2021, Top 50 Women in Tech Influencers to Follow 2021, Top 50 Influencers, Top 150 Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021, Top 40 Cloud Computing Influencers on Twitter, Top 50 Digital Influencers, Awards Magazine Top 50 Women of Influence, Top 15 IoT Premier League, Lifetime Achievement Winner, 'Excellence in Cloud Achievement', AI Innovator Nominee of the Year, Top 10 AI Influencers 2019, Verdicts ten of the most influential people in artificial intelligence on Twitter during Q4 2020, and the Top 10 Cloud Computing Influencer.
 
A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college, or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

The AI Journal | Future of Tech | Post Covid-19 Workplace | Tom Allen | Stories in AI

Tune into this great conversation I had with Tom Allen, the Founder of The AI Journal. Together we take a deep dive into predictions for the future of technology, workplaces after Covid-19, and the great work he has done at the AI Journal.
 
Tom Allen Bio:
Tom is the Founder of The AI Journal, an AI-based media company that provides companies with research and consulting services. He built the company from his bedroom in February of 2020, and it has already reached over 1 million monthly web views.
https://aijourn.com 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-allen-515058b7/?originalSubdomain=uk
 
A note about our sponsors: A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.

Evolutionary Computing, Statistics vs AI, AI Winters, Future of AI | Babak Hodjat | Stories in AI

Had an amazing conversation conversation with Dr. Babak Hodjat, the CTO of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant. Babak is a deep thinker, researcher and a practical entrepreneur and we discussed evolutionary computing, how to use AI to optimize for multiple outcomes, Data lakes and Lake houses, AI winters and the most important work in Deep Learning today. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
 
Bio:
Babak Hodjat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Hodjat) is the CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist.
Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri.
Babak has published many papers in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 31 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan.
Reach Babak at https://www.linkedin.com/in/babakhodjat/

Enterprise AI, Singularity, Value Realization, Software 2.0, Ethics| Dr. Anand Rao | Stories in AI

I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Anand S Rao, Partner and Head of AI at PwC. We discussed similarities between Eastern philosophy and AI, how organizations are realizing value, what use cases are popular, the challenges in value realization, Software 2.0, Ethical AI and much more. 
 
Anand Rao Bio: 
Dr. Anand S. Rao is a Partner in PwC’s Advisory practice. He is the Global Artificial Intelligence Lead and innovation lead within PwC’s Emerging Technology practice. With over 35 years of industry and consulting experience, Anand leads a team of practitioners who advise C-level executives and implement advanced analytics and AI-based solutions on a variety of strategic, operational, and ethical use cases.
With his PhD and research career in Artificial Intelligence and his subsequent experience in management consulting he brings business domain knowledge, software engineer expertise, and statistical expertise to generate unique insights into the practice of ‘data science’. Prior to joining management consulting, Anand was the Chief Research Scientist at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute. He received his PhD from University of Sydney (with a University Postgraduate Research Award-UPRA) in 1988 and an MBA (with Award of Distinction) from Melbourne Business School in 1997.
Anand has also co-edited four books on Intelligent Agents and has published over fifty papers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in major journals, conferences, and workshops. He has received widespread recognition for his extraordinary contributions in the field of consulting and Artificial Intelligence Research. He has received the Most Influential Paper Award for the Decade in 2007 from the Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems organization for his contribution on the Belief-Desire-Intention Architecture; MBA Award of Distinction from Melbourne Business School, 1997 and University Postgraduate Research Award (UPRA) from University of Sydney, 1985; Distinguished Alumnus Award from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; He was recognized as one of Top 50 Data & Analytics professionals in USA and Canada by Corinium; one of Top 50 professionals in InsureTech; and has won a number of awards for his academic and business papers. Anand is an Adjunct Professor in BITS Pilani’s APPCAIR AI Center. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council, OECD’s Newtork of Experts on AI (ONE), OECD’s AI Compute initiative, Advisory Board of Northwestern’s MBA program, Responsible AI Institute, Nordic AI Institute, and International Congress for the Governance of AI.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandsrao/
Twitter:@AnandSRao
Medium: https://anandsrao.medium.com/
Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Anand-Srinivasa-Rao/145946928 

Data Driven Enterprises | Data Privacy | Data Mesh | The Evolving CDO | Hemal Shah | Stories in AI

This week, I present to you a very practical conversational with Hemal Shah, SVP of Data Management at Dell. In this episode we dive into the many problems enterprises face with data management, dealing with data privacy, and much more. Be sure to subscribe, and I hope you enjoy!
Hemal's Bio:
Hemal has been with Dell since 2008, currently serving as the Senior Vice President of all things data.  The Data team defines and drives the global data strategy for Dell Technologies. Prior to this role, he has led multiple IT functions and teams, supporting stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Services, Global Operations, Supply Chain, Online and Finance. He also led key IT strategy and architecture projects, including Digital Transformation, Mergers and Acquisitions.
Before joining Dell, Hemal was with KPMG/BearingPoint Inc. as a Senior Manager for the Customer Value Management team and Oracle practice. He has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute in India. He also has taken leadership courses at Yale University School of Management. Hemal currently lives in Bangalore India with his wife and two kids.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemal-d-shah/
Hemal's Data PoV Blog: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/taming-the-new-data-landscape-a-data-strategy-for-the-future/
 
A note about our sponsors:
A big thank you to Experian, whom you may know as the credit bureau, but they are at heart a data company. When you are buying a car or a home, sending your kids to college or borrowing to grow your business, Experian is most likely helping you behind the scenes. They unlock the power of data, to make better decisions, get access to financial services, and to prevent crime, unlocking a whole world of opportunities for individuals and organizations. Learn more at https://Experian.com.