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This week we are diving into the topic of AI strategy with a new series devoted to exploring how to build an enterprise-wide AI strategy and align company efforts to optimize long-term ROI while still seeing an immediate return with leaders at top companies. To start the series, we welcome back David Carmona. David is the General Manager for Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at Microsoft. In this episode, David speaks about how Microsoft didn't get its AI strategy quite right initially and what they learned from their approach. The critical takeaway he shares is educating leadership to bring everyone to a level of solid conceptual understanding of AI. He explains how this educational element became a crucial underpinning for how they turned things around and built a strategy that can help inform where they are going as a company. If you're interested in unlocking our AI best practice guides, frameworks for AI ROI, and more resources, visit emerj.com/p1.
This is another episode in our AI is Here series, and today, we're focusing on AI in the hospital setting. In this episode, we discuss patient data and being able to guide a patient's treatment journey with artificial intelligence. Our guest is Dr. Kostas Papagiannopoulos. Kostas is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leeds University and serves as Thoracic Surgeon for Leeds Teaching Hospitals. He is also a Medical Advisor to several substantial medical device companies and, until recently, was President of the European Society for Thoracic Surgeons. In today's episode, Kostas discusses where he's seeing AI make its way into the hospital setting and some of the critical barriers to adoption, and how leaders should overcome them. This series is brought you to by SambaNova Systems. SambaNova believes that AI is here, and we've partnered with them to bring you leading experts across industries to discuss where AI is making an impact today.
In this episode, we're focusing on the theme of artificial intelligence in the manufacturing industry. Today's guest is Scott Everett, CEO and Co-Founder at Eigen Innovations Inc. Scott discusses a variety of use-cases and ends this episode with some critical insights for our listeners working in the manufacturing space and some key adoption lessons that are transferable across industries for our listeners working in other sectors. This episode is sponsored by AI Partnerships Corp (AIP). AIP represents a network of 125 companies in AI and emerging technologies and serves as a matchmaker between buyers and sellers in the space. To learn more about AIP, stay tuned until the end of this episode. If you'd like to learn more about Emerj Media and how to reach our global executive audience, visit emerj.com/ad1.
Today's guest is Christophe Makni, Head of Business Operations at Migros Bank. Christophe shares a few key insights in this episode, starting with where natural language processing is finding a fit in banking today and the real deployments in the world. Secondly, he provides straightforward advice on identifying the low-hanging fruit for natural language processing and, in particular, document processing. Finally, towards the end of this episode, Christophe shares his ideas on encouraging adoption and some critical lessons he's learned through real adoption experiences. This episode is part of our ongoing AI is Here series. We have partnered with SambaNova to bring you this special series featuring AI leaders across industries to discover where AI is making an impact today. Make sure to tune in to the rest of the series here on The AI in Business Podcast on your preferred podcast platform.
Today's guest is Nick Pilkington, CTO of DroneDeploy. We're focusing on clean energy in this episode, and Nick walks us through how artificial intelligence is becoming more relevant in the renewable energy sector. He goes in-depth about where drones and AI serve to improve processes and safety for residential solar and EV charging companies. In the past five years, there's been a lot of change in the energy sector, and Nick provides his perspective on where the future is taking us, including what kinds of new capabilities drones and machine learning can bring to bear. This episode is brought to you by DroneDeploy. To learn more about Emerj Media and how to reach our global executive audience, visit emerj.com/ad1.
Today's guest is Sanjay Chopra, CEO and Founder of Cognistx. Based in Pittsburgh, Cognistx is a firm that works with propane and commodities distributing companies. In this episode, Sanjay discusses the problem with the inefficient delivery of propane. He also provides a lot of detail on the importance of data in terms of what kind of data we need to track and how it can be used to unlock value. Sanjay also shares his perspective on what this particular AI application might mean for the future of transportation and delivery of other commodities beyond propane. This episode is sponsored by Cognistx. If you're an AI vendor and would like to know more about working with Emerj to reach a global executive audience, visit emerj.com/ad1.
Today's guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. In this episode, Peter provides a full-circle perspective on how data can inform maintenance processes and optimize specific outcomes. He also discusses some of the challenges in bringing these applications to life and some of the obstacles that GE has had to overcome. Peter speaks about these challenges as transferable lessons across different elements of heavy industry that have really made AI start to come to life. This episode is part of our special AI is Here brought to you by SambaNova Systems. SambaNova believes that AI is here, and we've partnered with them to bring you leading experts in varied industries and discuss where AI is hitting the ground running today.
Today's guest is Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of YSEOP. In this episode, we discuss two core questions: first, how are enterprise leaders measuring the success of AI programs that are being used to augment human productivity? The second question is about where humans fit in the loop. In other words, why are humans still critical for certain kinds of workflows and decision-making processes? Emmanuel discusses the concepts of accountability and transparency and how those themes fit into humans' role as orchestrators of AI in the enterprise. He also gives his perspective on where he sees augmentation happen in the life sciences space while discussing several of YSEOP's use-cases applicable in other industries. Our sponsor of today's episode is YSEOP. If you're interested in reaching Emerj's global audience, be sure to visit emerj.com/ad1.
Today's guest is Arun Iyengar, CEO at Untether AI. Untether is a semiconductor firm based in Toronto, but with employees all over North America, including Silicon Valley. Arun previously worked with AMD, another major hardware and software firm in the Bay Area, before stepping into his current CEO role at Untether AI. In this episode, Arun shares some insight on the potential use-cases for video processing with artificial intelligence and some of the existing barriers for AI hardware, and how we might potentially overcome them. He also provides a perspective on where hardware is taking us into the future. There are a lot of use-cases for AI on the edge and there are a lot of new use-cases for video and image data – how can hardware play its part in being able to not only reduce the compute and financial cost of video processing but also open up new capabilities and enable businesses to do things that they couldn't do before? This episode is brought to you by Untether AI If you're interested in reaching Emerj's global audience on the biggest B2B AI podcast on the web, be sure to visit emerj.com/ad1.
Today's guest in our second episode of the AI is Here series is Gero Gunkel, COO for Zurich Customer Active Management at Zurich Insurance. He was formerly the company's Global Head of AI. In this episode, Gero provides his perspective on the accessibility of NLP applications in insurance and where it's making a difference today. Gero also gives a good idea of why that is, what use-cases he's seeing make a dent today, and connects those thoughts to what the future of insurance looks like. This special AI is Here episode is brought to you by SambaNova Systems, the sponsor of this series. SambaNova believes that AI is Here, and we've partnered with them to bring these episodes to you. Find out more about sponsored content and how to engage with the Emerj audience at emerj.com/ad1.
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