Today’s guest is Dr. Charles Martin, Founder of Calculation Consulting. Charles has worked on real enterprise deployments with companies like eBay, BlackRock, and exciting startups like Aardvark, which Google acquired. Today’s episode is part of our ongoing Monday series highlighting one key factor for one specific successful enterprise deployment. In today’s episode, Charles discusses a project with Walmart focusing on the use-case of product recommendations in different languages and geo-regions. The main success factor he speaks about is the champion who brings the project through to success. He specifically describes the qualities and behaviors of a good champion. Stay tuned until the end of this episode to learn more about our resources to help AI champions in the enterprise.

[AI Success Factors] - Improving Product Recommendations at Walmart - with Dr. Charles Martin

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[AI Success Factors] - Improving Product Recommendations at Walmart - with Dr. Charles Martin

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