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Nav Dhunay, president and CEO of Imaginea Ai (imaginea.ai), presents a detailed overview of artificial intelligence technology that is bringing more efficiency and productivity to businesses globally. Dhunay brings a diverse background and experience to the position of president and CEO of Imaginea Ai. Dhunay has made significant achievements in the fields of artificial intelligence and clean technology and is a respected voice in multiple fields, including technology and energy. He is a sought-after expert in the area of early emerging trends in evolving technologies. Dhunay has strong ties to Silicon Valley and an intense drive to push for innovation within his companies by fostering an environment where experimentation and collaboration are encouraged. Dhunay's prime areas of focus are in technology, corporate development, management, business operations, strategy, product development, startups, and company culture.
Dhunay's company, Imaginea Ai, is an artificial intelligence company whose mission is to help industries work better, faster, more efficiently, and smarter. The Imaginea Ai platform was crafted with the idea that innovation arrives through the liaison of global talent, leading-edge products, and highly driven commercial organizations, and by allowing AI to be fully integrated. Dhunay states that AI is not accessible to everyone so his company wants to change that dynamic in terms of access to clean data and affordability, etc. He explains that by increasing the global pool of data scientists, costs can come down across the board.
Dhunay talks about Imaginea's platform specifics, and how it provides an opportunity for organizations to engage in meaningful, technology-driven partnerships in order to tackle real-world problems. By linking with global AI technologies and specialist talent, and allowing buyers and sellers to transact with complete transparency and security, Dhunay's team seeks to truly democratize AI.
Dhunay discusses the importance of tech talent and nurturing data scientists. He gives an overview of how 99-cent apps have truly changed the way some businesses work by simplifying tasks through the use of these apps. And he explains how cryptocurrency and blockchain has innovated the platform by simplifying transactions and processes. And Dhunay speaks about the possibility that Imaginea Ai may soon develop their own token or work with other top cryptocurrency that is currently in the marketplace, in order to further accelerate access to their platform.
The AI expert provides details on some of the areas that he and his team at Imaginea Ai are excited about, such as the marketplace that Dhunay refers to as a smart market, which is a place where data scientists can commoditize their artificial intelligence. Dhunay explains that he wants to give data scientists this opportunity to share the work they create, outside of their job, to provide them additional revenue, and to give the community more AI options to utilize for their work-related tasks and functions. Dhunay states that he hopes to give the community a one-stop-shop platform that benefits the creators, and the users, as artificial intelligence technology is applied on a mass scale to dramatically change industrial operations worldwide.
Sarah Hill, chief storyteller, and CEO of Healium (tryhealium.com) provides a thoughtful overview of her exciting industry that is helping people to get in touch with their feelings and emotions and influence them in a positive way through the use of technology. Hill is the CEO of StoryUP XR, the visionary company behind Healium. She is a former television journalist for the NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri and a savvy media technologist with over 25 years experience building successful platforms. Hill has a strong journalistic background and many years experience as an interactive reporter often focused on the world's negativity and trauma, and as such she is a national Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America, and twelve-time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller. She began working directly with augmented reality filters during her live TV newscasts in 2011 focusing on a variety of XR inputs such as heart rate variability and respiration trackers.
Hill's journalistic passion has taken her all over the world as she has delivered powerful stories of the human spirit originating in the Amazon, Congo, Zambia, UAE, Guatemala, and China. She holds a bachelor of journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Hill's company, Healium, is the first augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR) channel that is powered by biometrics. Hill details the Healium headband and how it measures gamma asymmetry that is associated with our feelings, such as love, joy, appreciation, openness, etc. Healium's platform allows users to engage and take a more active role in their personal well being, to become more self-aware of the power of their feelings.
The Healium experience is delivered through wearables including a low profile brain-computer interface (BCI). As stress is now considered to be an actual epidemic, Hill expresses the urgency to develop methods to alleviate stress and connect with our emotional state. Hill states that their platform helps users achieve a heightened sense of self-awareness, via biometrics, as the data helps to make users aware of the power of their emotions. She discusses neuromeditation and Dr. Jeff Tarrant's fascinating work as his team uses state-of-the-art biofeedback technologies to monitor the brain and body in order to train the nervous system to return to a more optimal state.
Hill discusses some of the published studies that concluded Healium's platform demonstrated a reduction in anxiety for various users. She recounts stories of individual users who have shared their experiences learning about and trying Healium for the first time. And she details some of their comments regarding the experience, their recalled memories, feelings of altered states or relaxation and others while using the platform.
The Healium low-profile headband known as a brain-computer interface senses electrical activity in the brain and a virtual reality headset then immerses the user into the experience. Additionally, the Healium augmented reality experiences are designed to work without goggles as well, with a simple smartphone. Hill shares her thoughts on the overall experience that users receive and how her team is extremely concerned that every user's experience is a positive one.
Alysa Hoffmeister, senior product marketing manager at Cutera (cutera.com), discusses the expanding, changing, and exciting face and body aesthetic industry and how her company, Cutera, is solving problems and providing industry professionals with the tools to satisfy their patients' needs. Hoffmeister explains the work they do at Cutera, developing advanced laser light and energy-based aesthetic systems for practitioners worldwide.
Hoffmeister is a seasoned medical device professional with a strong background in the industry. She is a results-oriented leader with extensive experience in sales, sales management and training, product/marketing management, and customer retention, as well as new business development. She is a powerful strategic sales professional who excels in advanced marketing for robust revenue growth. Her incredible experience includes tenure at Syneron Candela as their senior territory manager where she focused heavily on dermatology/plastic surgery and CO2RE Intima for OB/GYN. Additionally, Hoffmeister was VP of sales & marketing and general manager NA for DIP-Tech, territory sales manager and senior director of marketing at Alma Lasers, and the women's health care and general imaging ultrasound senior account manager for Philips.
The aesthetic technology-marketing expert explains some of the technology behind their products, such as the effects of laser contact with the skin, blasting melanin, etc. She discusses the technical aspects such as wavelength and depth that pertain to laser work for tattoos, freckles, and other skin issues that concern patients.
Cutera develops devices that give medical aesthetic professionals the ability to evolve in the expanding and competitive face and body aesthetic industry. Cutera's one-of-a-kind devices offer professionals the opportunity to innovate and provide new and exciting options for their patients, solutions that get results. As Hoffmeister explains, Cutera partners with physicians to fully understand their needs, in order to properly deliver ideal solutions that exceed their expectations and ultimately provide superior patient satisfaction. Cutera's products are engineered at the highest level for maximum performance, safety, and efficacy.
Hoffmeister provides information and details about Cutera's other products, such as their non-invasive radiofrequency devices that are utilized for fat destruction. But as Hoffmeister explains, their process is slow (about 12 weeks) and effective, a more measured response that targets the fat cells with heat, over time, so they can be eliminated through the body. She discusses their many products and how solutions need to be unique, tailored specifically to individual patient's needs, and how Cutera's goal is to make that possible. She details how Cutera's solutions can target trouble areas for patients, reducing pockets of fat wherever they occur.
And Hoffmeister expounds upon the many areas that are popular and growing in the aesthetic care industry, but as she mentions, non-invasive fat reduction is by far the number one procedure in demand in the industry overall. She discusses the Cutera expansion and how demand for their products is booming, but Cutera is not a company that rests on its laurels and as such their research team is continually working to develop new, innovative products for the future, to help improve patients' lives.
Ravi Sharma, the co-founder, and CEO of OOTify (ootify.com) delivers an informative overview of the important work his company is engaged in that seeks to bring quality mental health care to everyone who needs it. Sharma has a wealth of experience in multiple sectors of industry and is a proven leader in business, technology, and investing, but his passion and primary goal is to improve mental health options for everyone. Sharma's background includes his tenure at Western Asset Management Company where his skills in on-boarding quality lenders, drafting underwriting guidelines for investment mandates, loan level due diligence for credit and compliance, and more, helped lift the company to a higher level of success. And in just 3 years at Western Asset Management Company, Sharma grew the loan portfolio to more than $1 billion, targeting double-digit returns. Before his successful time with Western Asset Management Company, Sharma helped to build and then exit several tech companies. He is a strong advocate for mental health and clean technology.
Sharma describes OOTify as a mental health marketplace that seeks to match individuals with the best possible providers for their unique needs. OOTify is a community of professionals, mentors and peers focused intently on personal development and helping individuals build healthier relationships. Part of the company name, 'oot,' is derived from the Hindi language; it means, simply, to 'lift up,' and OOTify's mission is certainly all about lifting people up. OOTify allows users to connect with mental health professionals, a life coach, or verified mentor, easily and swiftly, via their phone. Sharma describes the many options users can take advantage of on the platform, such as audio, video, or messaging, connecting with trained professionals who can help, right from the comfort of the user's phone. It's on-demand online therapy that seeks to improve lives. Sharma discusses 'the fabric,' which is his term for the community forum that is a compilation of different threads that is modified by multiple, qualified individuals who provide support. Users can benefit from hearing and reading about others' experiences, engage in Q&A with experienced professionals, and more.
Sharma describes how OOTify's powerful mental health technology utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to match mental health providers, life coaches, and other carefully screened professionals to users through their open marketplace. OOTify will assist with the intake process via their AI chatbot, streamline it, and improve the process of delivery of quality mental health care. And Sharma discusses the importance of quality matching, which is why OOTify's intake process is essential. For as Sharma states, while the most educated and celebrated authority on a particular mental illness may seem perfect on paper, credentials, and experience aside, that individual may not be right for everyone because it is critical that the mental healthcare seeker connect or vibe well with their mental health care provider.
The healthcare technology advocate discusses the massive amount of feedback he has received from healthcare professionals who appreciate how OOTify is leveraging technology to bring care to individuals. Healthcare professionals acknowledge the power of the OOTify application as it hosts powerful productivity tools such as HIPAA compliant video, audio and messaging, and also assists with billing and scheduling. OOTify stresses however that the AI does not make any care decisions for those seeking help, but rather is leveraged to help providers match with new clients, gain insight via client data metrics, and generally be more efficient overall, so they can spend their time helping people as opposed to doing administrative work.
Sharma details the OOTify rewards program and other ways in which they seek to acknowledge and support those providers who receive exceptional feedback and high ratings from users. He provides information on some notable acknowledgments of their groundbreaking mental health technology work that they have received from respected institutions such as the USC Keck School of Medicine.
OOTify partners with prestigious institutions such as the University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University, and others, as well as many respected businesses and community leaders. And the community is supported by technologists, businesses, many other academic institutions, non-profits, teachers, parents, and nearly everyone who grasps the importance of providing quality mental health care.
Jolene Creighton, founder, and editor-in-chief at Futurism, LLC (futurism.com), provides expert insight into the state of our advancing technologies and what the future holds for society. Some of Creighton's past accomplishments include her tenure as co-founder of From Quarks to Quasars and her noted work as a freelance writer with Hattiesburg American. She was an instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Creighton's Ph.D. work was focused on digital media & discourse analysis at the University of Southern Mississippi and her master of art study was at SUNY Brockport where she studied English language and literature/letters working toward her thesis on digital communication and viral storytelling. Creighton received her BA from Keuka College in Keuka Park, NY.
Creighton is a noted public speaker and writer in the field of science via digital, print, and video output. She has taught more than two dozen university courses on writing and communication. Creighton's work as editor-in-chief at Futurism brings together her many varied interests and profiles her expertise on the topic of future science and its applications across various media.
Creighton discusses the pace of change as technology is accelerating, and the additional power that is packed into our devices as they decrease in size but expand in capability. She touts the many benefits of the changing technology landscape such as the nearly instantaneous reporting of news and events through media platforms such as YouTube and others that have revolutionized the news dissemination avenues.
Futurism is a media publication that covers the science and technology that is currently shaping our future. Creighton discusses their overall intention for the platform. Futurism's mission is to deliver captivating news and further the dialogue about forward-thinking products and narratives that make an impact on our world. Futurism, as Creighton explains, seeks to bring thought-provoking news items that bridge the expanding areas of science and technology. She details the interesting case studies and questions that surround the safety, science, and responsibility of autonomous vehicles as they dramatically expand into development and use in our society. She discusses the vigorous scientific debate that revolves around vaccinations, and other significant areas of science and medicine, and more, and how fear of technology can sometimes keep people from accepting proven science that can improve their lives or help to keep them safe.
The futurist technology advocate also discusses some of the more dubious applications of technology such as social credit systems that rate the quality of someone as a citizen. She details how China is using algorithms to judge individuals and how parenting could be one way to increase someone's score, as bizarre as that idea may seem. She provides information on the government policy and research that goes into the development of technology and the checks and balances that are in place to ensure that technologies benefit people in a safe and effective manner.
As technologies can be utilized for good and bad purposes and are being generated at a blistering pace, it is important to ensure that the development and release of technologies are monitored by multiple entities for the good of society. However, Creighton stresses that the overpublicized 'worst case scenarios' that technology detractors speak and write about are typically absurd and unrealistic, and have little to no chance of becoming reality. In essence, she states that most advancing technologies will be used to benefit our lives in multiple ways.
Andrew Smith Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Cerego (cerego.com), delivers an informative overview of the ways we learn and how technology and AI is improving learning and increasing retention. Lewis's passion for research was spawned at the Bronx High School of Science, and it was his insatiable curiosity for learning that carried him on to become one of the founders of Cerego's learning method. Lewis and his team launched Cerego to create an open platform that could improve memory and quantify knowledge. His obsession with advanced learning was the motivation behind his successful launch of three education and technology companies, including the notable Princeton Review of Japan.
As Lewis states, their mission is to make people smarter and improve learning through the use of AI and cognitive science. Lewis's company, Cerego, is an advanced platform that can successfully drive a business or collaborative team's training, learning, and skill set acquisition opportunities. Simple to use, yet multidimensional within, Cerego's platform reinvents the basic elements of learning software by focusing on precisely how people learn as opposed to what they learn, for a more immersive learning experience that gets results. Cerego is revolutionizing the learning and training process for many companies and universities, and others are coming forward steadily to adapt Cerego's successful platform for their teams. Lewis explains the importance of meta-cognition and the concept that very smart people may not necessarily be efficient learners, and Lewis intends to improve learning for everyone with his technology.
The platform's algorithms deliver a schedule that efficiently guides learning for each individual, to help them achieve the maximum success in a manner that works for them by integrating detailed learning data, detailed scientific models of memory decay, and of course—the individual's own personal learning history. Cerego users have achieved stellar results, as Cerego utilizes evidence-supported cognitive science algorithms working at the root of the platform to deliver instructional and quiz content to users at the right time, before the information is forgotten, which supports their learning and increases retention.
Lewis discusses the error corrective model, which is essential the platform's ability to learn and improve how it delivers its information pursuant to each individual's unique process. And he expounds upon some of the specific advantages, such as success rates for users and how in addition to the elevated number of users who now pass their tests more easily and quickly, their retention of the learned information is greatly increased as well. Additionally, instructors are reducing training time and repurposing that time on more one-on-one personal student interactions.
Lewis discusses the company's focus on K-12 education, higher education, corporate, and government applications. Lewis explains how higher learning through technology teaching methods helps to create better, more satisfied employees and more successful, empowered students. Additionally, employers can access the learning data on individual employees, which can help employers place their employees into specific job functions, tasks, and areas in which they are best suited and will excel.
Until now, the products marketed for various stages of childhood have been designed in a generic, one-size-fits-all way that ignores critical stages of growth and development. But things are done differently at SmiloBaby, a direct consumer baby and child brand that's backing the design of its products with science in order to create the safest, most innovative, and most effective products.
As the CEO and co-founder of SmiloBaby, Joshua Weisman explains their two core products, the first of which is a palette support pacifier. Using finite element analysis to study how generic pacifiers deform in the mouth during use and lead to malocclusions and crossbites, the team at SmiloBaby has created a pacifier that supports the palette during the first 16 weeks of life when it grows by 30 percent. The second core product is a feeding bottle with a patented valve and nipple shape that's been designed based on finite element analysis and a study of fluid dynamics. The result? A bottle that reduces air intake, thereby preventing common problems that result from generic bottles, such as ear infections, colic, and gas ingestion.
With a team comprised of pediatricians, pediatric dentists, and lactation consultants, parents can feel confident that they're giving their child the best when they buy from SmiloBaby. Tune in to learn about their other products, and visit smilobaby.com to make some purchases of your own.
In 2003, Jimmy Moore weighed 410 pounds and was dependent upon multiple prescription medications for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and respiratory issues; he was just 31 years old. Fast forward to today, and he's living his best and most healthy life, and as the author of Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet and the creator of the popular podcast Livin' La Vida Low-Carb, he's doing everything he can to help others through their own health struggles.
He joins the podcast today to focus on the common struggles faced by most who transition to the keto diet, including the "keto-flu" which can cause fatigue, an insatiable appetite, headaches, and muscle cramps. "If you're getting any of those symptoms, that is a telltale sign that you need four things in abundance," says Moore. What are they? Tune in for the answer and an explanation as to why they'll get you through the toughest part of transitioning to the keto diet, as well as Moore's invaluable tips and insight on a number of other topics.
Retinad VR is a company that was born out of a major problem that emerged in the VR industry about four years ago: the inability to measure and understand user interactions, sentiments, and behavior. Alexander Haque, CEO of Retinad, and Maryam Saboor who works as a strategic consultant for Retinad join the podcast today to discuss the acquisition of novel metrics, such as head, hand, and eye movements that produce what's called a kinematic fingerprint.
With over 10 million VR headsets in use, the amount of data uptake has phenomenal potential but is too voluminous and messy to be useful unless it can be organized and analyzed in a way that makes sense--and that's where Saboor's strategies come into play. So, what insights has the team at Retinad gained so far? To put it simply, part of what they're learning is what differentiates a good versus a bad user experience with VR. Contrary to the belief that a 360° scene should be enough to engage a user, the team at Retinad has learned that what a user really needs is something that's not visual at all: audio.
Hitting users with an audio queue within the first five seconds of a VR experience encouraged them to move around and increased completion of the VR experience by 80%. This is just one of several surprising findings and interesting topics discussed, so tune in for the full conversation. To learn more, visit retinadvr.com.
HealthTap was founded about eight years ago with the goal of improving the accessibility of quality healthcare advice, guidance, and the right type of medical care at the right time. With more and more people turning to their mobile devices and an increasing reliance on social media these days, what better platform for a healthcare resource than a mobile application? As the co-founder of HealthTap, Dr. Geoff Rutledge figured there wasn't one, and he's been delighted with the progress and success that he's seen so far.
HealthTap allows anyone who has a question about their health to immediately receive an answer pulled from the largest library of content from doctors. And if a user has a new or unique question, they can simply submit it and receive a tailored response from a physician within a matter of a few hours--all at no cost. To date, over six billion answers have been provided by doctors via HealthTap.
Do you need to go to the ER? Should you schedule an appointment with your primary doctor tomorrow? Or would you be better served by scheduling an appointment with a specialist in a few weeks? Many of us find ourselves asking these questions, and until now, not everyone has had a way of getting a quick and reliable answer. And this is just the first level of guidance provided by HealthTap; once a user has been directed to the right level of care, HealthTap will guide them through the process of actually receiving that care.
With over 140,000 doctors signed up on the HealthTap platform and several on call in 47 states, users can find some peace of mind in knowing that with the tap of a button, they can speak with a physician in less than one minute. This is unlike anything that's been done before and holds great promise for patients and the healthcare industry in general--not just in this country, but around the world. Tune in and visit healthtap.com to learn more.
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