AI Game Changers

For the final episode of 2020, and Season 2 of the AI Game Changers Podcast - I speak to Armin Müller, Director of Analytics for the Grocery Retail giant; LIDL. 

For those of you who don't already know LIDL, here's a couple of statistics;

Part of the Schwarz Group that saw €110b turnover in 2019
LIDL has 310,000 employees world wide 
11,000 stores
Over 200 Warehouses 
Operating in 32 countries...

So, they're pretty big

In this episode we deconstruct Armin's time moving from the world of consulting to an industry he had no experience in, building a team of 20+ Data Scientists in under 12 months, and his realisations building a Analytics practice. 

Not only is Armin  seasoned Analytics leader with deep experience building Analytics teams, he is also a great guy and super open with his learnings. 

I hope you enjoy this episode and have an amazing Christmas/New Year! 

An episode I have been waiting a very long time to record! 

Luka Lukic is heading the Engineering team for Lidar at Hyundai Mobis and we'll be talking about a number of things, but also a rather provocative topic this week and will be diving into the "Camera vs Lidar" argument I'm sure you all have heard of from primary provocateur, Musk.

Is the future of Autonomous Driving about diversity and Hybrid solutions? Or is anyone relying on Lidar doomed?

An absolutely cracking episode with an absolutely cracking guy! Thanks Luka... it was a pleasure and I hope you all enjoy it! 

This week on the AI Game Changers podcast I speak to the ULTRA inspiring, Franz Pfister - CEO and Co-Founder for DeepC, the Medical AI startup based in Munich. 

We dive into Franz's background and his transition from industry (Medicine/Healthcare) into AI and becoming an AI tech-entrepreneur. 

We also talk about the future of Healthcare and what an AI Embedded system would look like, as well as what the future Doctor looks like... super interesting! 

Outside of this, Franz - what a guy! Super inspiring, cool, humble... and incredibly passionate about his/DeepC's mission. 

Check it out... it's a cracker! 

This week on the AI Game Changers podcast, I speak to Ara Ghazaryan - Technical Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist for Scylla - the AI company who are building Computer Vision AI systems for Threat Detection & Prevention. 

Check them out here: www.scylla.ai 

Some of their use cases include:

Gun Detection
Thermal Screening 
Intruder Detection
Behaviour Recognition

Link to their youtube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU6MzaL01dkFRF8I1YoJubA 

Ara dives into his background building the business from the ground up, his transition from research to industry and finally his thoughts on what he believes the future will look like.

Check it out! 

This week on the AI Game Changers Podcast, I speak to Olav Stetter - the Head of Data Science for Konux (konux.com) - the AI & IOT Startup in Munich. 

I've always felt Konux is one of the real success stories of the AI community and it's an absolute pleasure to have Olav on the show. It absolutely did not disappoint and speaking to Olav was incredibly inspiring. Olav is one of those guys where you could listen to him for hours and enjoy every moment. His passion for his work was palpable and I hope you can feel it from this episode too! 

We dive into 2 main topics:

1. Data Science research - his thoughts on "how" and "why" - including what makes a great research project & team 

2. Challenges of driving impact and delivery in challenging environments. 

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did guys and gals! 

This week on the AI Game Changers Podcast, I speak to David Reger - CEO of Hans Robot. 

Wow, what an episode - We dove into David's background and his experience working with homeless people and people on death row in America, as well as how that transitioned into becoming a CEO of a top Robotics company. Not your usual journey that's for sure!

David also shared with us his beliefs about the future and where he sees the robotics industry in 5 years. 

A cracking episode and I loved talking to him. As always, let me know your thoughts!

This week on the AI Game Changers Podcast I speak to Alexey Grigorev, Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group and Author of Machine Learning Bookcamp (if you haven't already, definitely check it out!)

Alexey is well known in the community and this week we dive into his experience and journey in DS, but also what he thinks is the "secret sauce" to becoming a Lead Data Scientist.

If you want to hear from someone who's been there and done it... check out this episode.

Oh p.s.... Alexey has kindly given a 40% discount on his book!

Link to book: bit.ly/mlbookcamp 
Discount Code: grigorevpc
Alexey Twitter: https://twitter.com/Al_Grigor

If you're a founder or leader of an AI startup that's looking to scale, then this episode is for you!

This week on the AI Game Changers Podcast I speak to the ultra experienced Petter Torgersen.

Petter has had an extremely wide ranging career building tech teams for some of the most well known and prestigious brands such as Cisco, Schneider Electric, Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH, and most recently Volkswagen AG.

We dive into his time at AID and Petter shares his experience in baking values and culture into teams as well as creating rock star candidate experiences that enabled him and his team to build one of the most prolific technical functions in Germany.

We also touch on common pitfalls and blind spots businesses go through when trying to scale, as well as what really matters when building teams. (hint, it's not huge salaries!)

Alongside this, Petter is a super cool guy and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to him. What a great human being!

This is a cracker.

Yes! It's good to be back with Season 2 of AI Game Changers and to kick off I'm speaking to Kat Stambolieva, Co-founder and CEO of Nina Space - the AI Tech company that uses remote imagery and sensing to combat the global issue of mega fires. 

Not only is Kat an awesome human being who gives a shit about the planet and the world we live in, she is super intelligent and knows a thing or 2 about AI :) 

We dive into her journey and her "Why", covering her struggles and successes building a business in an ultra complex world. 

I loved speaking to Kat and I hope you enjoy the conversation. 
  

For the final episode of season 1 of the AI Game Changers Podcast - I speak to Roland Meertens.

Roland is a prolific Machine Learning Engineer in Munich and most recently he's been developing machine learning solutions for the perception problem of autonomous vehicles.

Previously he's worked on deep learning approaches for natural language processing (NLP) problems at Infor, computer vision for drones as a researcher at the TU Delft, and social robotics at SpirOps.

Roland is sharing his story with us this week and we'll dive into his experience, thoughts on AI & Robotics and as always predictions for the future.

Rounding off season 1 with a bang!