Get Your AI On!

NannyML is an OSS Python library to detect silent model failure, estimate the performance of ML model even without ground truth, and robustly identify data drift. In this episode we meet Hakim - he love to talk about: machine learning, decision making, bayesian stuff, performance estimation, and bunch of other stuff.

Data scientist focused on human behavior modeling, process optimization, and AI-assisted strategic analysis. Experience in the software industry, finance, online games and e-commerce, and the non-profit sector. More about Marcelo here: https://blog.rinesi.com/

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and, as CEO, he was focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplished their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales. He's now Group Partner at Y Combinator and member of the Board of Directors at Algolia.

Since October 2020 Marius researched and thought at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL). His current project, funded by the Templeton WCF, is an attempt at better understanding the notion of "spiritual intelligence" from a psychological, computational and theological perspective.

Between 2017 and 2020 he completed a PhD in ethics at the University of Strasbourg (FR). His thesis analysed the potential philosophical and theological implications of human-level Artificial Intelligence.

Software Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience in SaaS, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems and Data & AI/Machine Learning Platforms. Currently in charge of the Einstein ML Data Lake at Salesforce. Hands-on software architecture & engineering, technical leadership, people management, management of large inter-disciplinary projects. Experience in both startups and large companies.

A Geek Maker Leader and Artificial Intelligence enthusiast passionate about technologies. Since 2013, he has participated on various entrepreneurship projects that brought him to web-mobile full-stack development, Growth-Hacking, Community-Management and Machine-Learning skills. For the past years he's been focused more on his leadership quality helping companies to grow from start-up to scale-up. 

John Zerilli is a philosopher with particular interests in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the law. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, in the University of Cambridge, and from May 2021 will be a Leverhulme Trust Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has published numerous articles, canvassing law, political economy, philosophy, and cognitive science, and three books, of which the two most recent are The Adaptable Mind (Oxford University Press, 2020) and A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2021).

Roi Krakovski is Founder & CEO Usearch.com - the web search engine built entirely from AI-generated data. It eliminates the need to collect users’ data, such as search queries to be bootstrapped or improved. Its groundbreaking technology generates synthetic data that is identical to real users’ data, thus making it accurate, scalable, independent and truly private.

Raluca is a co-founder at ETIQ, a start-up that tackles unintended bias in automated decision making and she has spent the past 10 years working in data science and analytics across a variety of sectors. She has a BA from Amherst College in Massachusetts, and an MA from the University of York. In 2020 Raluca won the prestigious Women in AI award. Raluca’s experience spans managing large teams to hands-on data product development. 

Sylvain Utard - General Manager AI at Algolia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvainutard/). Algolia Acquires MorphL, Launches AI-Powered Predictive Experiences and Personalization: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/01/26/2164201/0/en/Algolia-Acquires-MorphL-Launches-AI-Powered-Predictive-Experiences-and-Personalization.html

This is the last episode of 2020 and it's a mix of moments collected from my guest speakers throughout the year, in no particular order: Markus Lampinen, Andreea Georgescu, Sebastien Provencher, Paul Ortchanian, Titus Capilnean, Cristian Olarasu, Terence Tse, Rudradeb Mitra, Andraz Bole, Marina Pavlovic Rivas. Enjoy and see you with a new season next year!

Paul Ortchanian - Founder/CEO Bain Public, Product Leader + Mentor + Investor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulortchanian/

Andraz Bole is the Co-founder & CEO at Lightmass Dynamics, where he’s building a more efficient foundation for real-time 3D graphics and simulation.

Ines is a data analytics professional, experienced in Telco, Direct Marketing, and NGOs.

Impassionate product manager in an agile, B2B SaaS MarTech & data company. Profound background in Data-Driven Advertising, Marketing Analytics and Business Intelligence. Curiously following web-, tech- and new media-related trends. Creative thinker. Digital native. An admirer of beautiful designs. Technology lover. Early adopter. Challenger of status quo’s.

Rudradeb Mitra - an AI Engineer turned tech Entrepreneur, Founder at Omdena, a platform for building AI for the real-world through global collaboration. He published 10 research papers on AI and he’s the author of the Creating Value With Artificial Intelligence book that you can find on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Value-Artificial-Intelligence-Engineering-ebook/dp/B07H68JLBR

Marina is the co-founder and CEO at Eli where they enable women to take control of their health across their lives, by providing them with powerful information on their daily hormone profile.

Terence is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech, a London-based tech company specializing in the development and integration of AI solutions that help organizations save time, money and resources by tacking process inefficiencies and data waste. He is also a Professor at the London campus of ESCP Europe Business School.

He is a co-author of The AI Republic: Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation, an international bestseller on Amazon. He also co-wrote the best seller Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership. The DRIVE framework has also led Chartered Management Institute’s own magazine Professional Manager in the UK to name Terence as one of the 18 new voices in 2018 that reshape management and leadership. Talent Quarterly in the US called the DRIVE framework one of the 24 trends transforming talent management in the years to come.

He also wrote the book Corporate Finance: The Basics.

Kostas has tons of experience as a product manager in companies such as Microsoft, Skype or BBC and he's now building the world's most advanced Artificial Intelligence Fashion Stylist for retail.

Consumer internet junkie with a passion for platforms and experience design. Forbes 30under 30 | 2013. Now tackling global growth at Nike. Previously attacked the enterprise at Lore IO. 10+ years of experience in growing technology companies. Background in new product initiatives, software product design and development. Figuring out gaps between prod/eng and business teams. Deep interest in big-data technologies and AI/machine learning.

Raul is a Techstars alumnus (NYC'18) with 15+ years of expertise in software development, product management and business management, prior to TypingDNA he co-founded other startups, helped launch several other innovative software products and coded core software components used by millions.

Titus Capilean has 10+ years of experience delivering up to 20X hyper-growth in 12 mos. / scaling to 2+M FB fans by building high-profile, global digital presences + hyper-active developer eco-systems & communities, generating national buzz w/efficient digital ad spend. At Appen he's heading up Brand, PR, Social Media, Research, Content, Thought Leadership, Customer Evidence.

Andrei Savu - Principal at Sweat Equity Ventures. Ex-Twitter, Cloudera and PMC member at Apache Software Foundation. Sweat Equity Ventures is a Value Accelerator, a new kind of investor that invests expertise and time in exchange for equity. SEV is represented by a team of highly experienced operators; entrepreneurs and technologists; founders with decades of building highly successful companies, launching products used by millions, and creating billions of dollars in commercial value.

Sebastien Provencher has 20 years of experience in the tech industry, a well-rounded product-focused senior executive with horizontal experience in many industry verticals such as AI/ML, Marketplaces, Enterprise SaaS, just to name a few. Over the last 12 years, he's been a key member of senior leadership teams and in roles that report directly to the CEO. Since 2011, he has been paying it forward in the startup community by advising & mentoring emerging entrepreneurs, recently named All-Star Mentor by Techstars.

With a background in mathematics and operations research, Andreea's interests lie in complex systems, predominantly in business and economics. She's passionate about bringing math, data, and creativity to tangible decision problems.