Nick Schmidt, CEO of Solas.ai, introduces his new startup dedicated to helping organizations minimize bias in the AI they use to make critical business decisions.   In this episode, Nick talks about how his family history led to his interest in combining advanced math and social equity.  And how his new company uses unique techniques to monitor your AI models for potential bias, and then tells you where you are at risk for bias (gender, socio-economic, etc), and then presents you with viable alternatives.   You can learn more about his company at https://www.solas.ai. I enourage you to connect with Nick at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpschmidt/.   Listen to the episode on your preferred platform (#Spotify / #ApplePodcast / #Alexa / #Jiosaavn / etc.) at www.JamesCo.cc/18 Or watch at https://youtu.be/I6LQ77g4Mnw

A quick look at Fast Companies 15 next big innovations, and a preview of a future episode on AI and Bias.  

Shyam Mamidi, Founder and CEO of Natsoft Asia, joins us today to talk about blockchain.  What is the blockchain (in real-life)?  How does it work? What additional enabling technologies are needed for blockchain to really bring value to organizatoins?  

And he walks us thru a project where the Australian government is using blockchain to monitor and track the full-cylce of hemp production:  origin, sowing, flowering, harvesting thru logistics and storage.

Information on NatSoft Seed to Sale Traceability -->  https://natsoft.us/hi-track.php

I encourage you to connect with Shyam at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-mamidi-a841412/

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Dr. Joe Nyangon is a power and energy systems engineering economist, he discusses his use of spatial analytics to analyze adoption trends for residential Energy Efficiency (EEMs) in New York state. His paper explored whether building attributes or socio-economic factors influenced adoption of energy efficiency measures.  

Joe's findings can help guide policy makers as they create policy and financial incentives to encourage equitable adoption of solar and other renewables technologies.  You can download his paper at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15567249.2020.1868619?journalCode=uesb20.  

I encourage you to connect with Joe at https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjosephnyangon/.  

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Or watch at https://youtu.be/qxOI3XXpfqM

Andy Palanisamy (Director, Smart Cities at Parsons Corporation) provides his personal views on how cities evaluate innovation opportunities, new urban data paradigms, mobility, and his path from India thru Harvard and into Smart Cities. 

I encourage you to connect with Andy at https://www.linkedin.com/in/transportgooru/. 

Listen to the episode on your preferred platform (#Spotify / #ApplePodcast / #Alexa / #Jiosaavn / etc.) at www.JamesCo.cc/12 

Or watch at https://youtu.be/WhzZkM2ZUfQ.

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800 million people around the world rely on subsistence fishing for a living.  Devleena Bhattacharjee discusses how her company, Numer8, uses satellite information, open data, and analytics to help subsistence fishing communities more accurately locate fish in real-time, so they spend less time at risk in the open sea, less money on fuel, and improve their catch.

Connect with Devleena at https://www.linkedin.com/in/devleenas/

Her company is at https://www.numer8.in/ofish

More information on their work:  https://www.techemerge.org/pilots/numer8

Episode video: https://youtu.be/YEntkB5r8Nw

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Dr. Timea Nochta is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Local Government Studies (Public Administration, University of Birmingham, UK), and an MSc in Architecture and Engineering (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary).

Dr. Nocta discusses her recent work examining how City Digital Twins can be used to better inform policy-makers on they consider the costs and benefits of municipal initiatives.   

Dr. Timea Nochta can be contaced at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/tn328 or https://www.linkedin.com/in/timeanochta.

Her paper "The Local Governance of Digital Technology – Implications for the City-Scale Digital Twin" can be found at https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/CDBBResearchBridgehead/2019ECRs/2019ECRNochta

Episode video: https://youtu.be/JLfgtNIKRD0

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(The Spanish version of this interview is published as Episode 7)

Dr. Jose Funes is an economic geographer with the Washington DC Mayor's Office of Planning.  He describes his use of spatial analytics and open data to pinpoint areas in Washington DC that would be most impacted by the health and unemployment effects of COVID.  He is originally from Honduras, and discusses how he has used spatial analytics to analyize West Nile, agricultural yields, rice nutrition in Rwanda, and now COVID impacts in Washington DC.  

Dr Jose Funes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-funes-phd-4a80856/)

Dr Jose Funes’ published paper that inspired this interview. (https://opdemographicdatahub-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/1d351bc1b80446adb84ababae0221441)

Episode video: https://youtu.be/uRsvkraykPs

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