AI in the Wild

Today I’m joined by Dr. Anuj R. Shah, a Cardiovascular Disease Specialist and the Founder of Apex Heart and Vascular Care. He holds seven board certifications in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Shah has been awarded “Top Doctors of NY and NJ” since 2015. He's quickly become a leading thought leader in the field of Cardiology and has been an avid proponent of applying AI in the field. On this episode, we dig into how AI tech is being implemented by Cardiologists and leading to improved care for their patients.

Today I’m joined by Sunny Parikh, Vice President at the Partnership Fund of NYC & the Head of the Fintech Innovation Lab in NY. As Head of the Fintech Lab, Sunny works with emerging fintech and insurtech companies hoping to break into the industry and helps them collaborate with senior executives from over 40 leading financial and insurance institutions. Join us as we dig into all things fintech, the future of finance, and how AI is being applied across the industry.

On this episode, I am joined by Damir Wallener, CEO of EIO Diagnostics, a company building a new class of agriculture tech tools to diagnose udder diseases in dairy animals. Damir is an experienced executive and serial entrepreneur, successfully operating in various sectors including AgTech, FinTech, and Consumer Electronics. With a Bachelor's focused in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, he has brought his engineering process to the future of Agtech. EIO is funded by SOSV and part of Food-X 2017.

On this episode, I speak with Paul Blankley, Founder & CTO of Ex Quanta: AI Studio. Ex Quanta is a tactical SWAT Team of data scientists and engineers creating AI-focused SaaS businesses & building customized AI tools for clients, to help supercharge sales and increase retention. Prior to starting the company, Paul held R&D positions at Roche and completed his masters in Data Science at Harvard.

Paul has channeled his love of AI, Art, & Data, to create his own AI Art. Something he's been working on developing for over 9 months. Paul has successfully generated Cubist Art, purely generated from AI models.

On this episode I am joined by Lloyd Danzig, Chairman & Founder of the International Consortium for the Ethical Development of Artificial Intelligence, also a known as ICEDAI, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring that rapid developments in A.I. are made with a keen eye toward the long-term interests of humanity. Lloyd and I discuss how AI is being leveraged across the sports betting industry.

Prior too ICEDAI, Lloyd managed institutional portfolios for BlackRock, led data science initiatives at Samsung, and helped build machine learning engines for SimpleBet, a sports betting startup powered by machine learning.

As a company started in 13', Wallarm is one of the early Ai pioneers in the CyberSecurity space. I had the pleasure of speaking with Ivan Novikov, CEO and Co-Founder of Wallarm. Ivan and his team have built a powerful ai platform which automates real-time application protection, and security testing, for websites, microservices and APIs across public and private clouds. Wallarm is a Y-Combinator backed company and has received tremendous recognition from top tier publications such as Cybersecurity 500, Inc, & CIO Review.

This week we have on Josh Nicholson, former cancer researcher & CEO of scite.ai. scite combines deep learning with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work. With a PH.D in Cell Biology & as a former cancer researcher himself, Josh knows the challenges of drug discovery and has been dedicated to improving the industry. By building a transparent and reliable community, scite is making science reliable again.

This week we have on Caroline McCaffery, CEO & Co-Founder of ClearOPS, a company which helps vendors respond to inquiries about their privacy and security operations. By marrying her past experiences as General Counsel at notable data startups, Clarifai and Sailthru, with her law degree from NYU Law, Caroline, and the ClearOPS help startups navigate the timely and costly enterprise procurement process while helping them stay in compliance with new policies such as GDPR.

This week we have on Vipin Chamakkala, Principal Investor at Work-Bench, an enterprise technology venture capital fund in NYC investing in & supporting the next generation of enterprise startups. Vipin has spent the majority of his time in the infrastructure, data, and the AI space, helping enterprise startup founders navigate the murky waters of selling and working with enterprise corporations. Vipin was recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.

This week, I sit down with Jake Mendel, an entrepreneur-turned-banker working with Silicon Valley Bank's Early-Stage Practice. We get into all things startups and specifically focus on how Digital Healthcare and the introduction of AI have affected the healthcare industry and patient care.