AI Today Podcast

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dive deep into Level 0 Automation, why so-called “dumb” automation provides tremendous value to your team when implemented correctly. This episode shares examples for immediate ROI with Level 0 automation, how your team should go about identifying and prioritizing opportunities for Level 0 automation, how to plan and iterate, then implement automation.

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For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However, what exactly do you automate? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss how to find automation opportunities in business processes, questions your team should ask when figuring out what to automate, and when and when not to start with “low hanging fruit”.

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In our first ever AI Today podcast we asked the question “Does AI Matter?” and we revisited this question in our one year anniversary podcast as well. Now about 5 years from our first ever podcast episode we wanted to ask this question again: Does AI still matter in 2022? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig into this question and share how AI has changed and evolved over the past 5 years.

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For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However before even figuring out what to automate you should have a solid understanding of your business processes and tasks. But, what exactly is a business process? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what a business process is, define processes versus tasks, and bring this into the context of automation.

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Data science is transforming business and generating new value across the organization. However, for large organizations they need a centralized group that centers on a discipline’s vision, governance, technique, and framework. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer Venkat Gunnu who is Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast.

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For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However, figuring out what to automate, why to automate, and what return on investment (ROI) it will provide can be tricky. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss level 0 automation – what is it, why organization should look to automate processes, and what questions to ask in order to get started.

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Shopify has over 1.7 million merchants across over 175 countries, with hundreds of millions of consumers shopping at their stores. By leveraging the scale of their data they are able to create new experiences for their merchants, and apply Machine Learning at scale. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ella Hilal, who is the Head of Data Science, Engineering, Revenue and Growth at Shopify.

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As companies are looking to leverage cognitive technology, and deploying machine learning models, organizations need to make sure they have the correct people, processes, and technology in place to succeed. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss with Anil Kumar, Exec. Director AI Industrialization at Verizon what AI industrialization is and how Verizon is moving from pockets of AI/ML to AI/ML being implemented across the organization.

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The idea of bringing organizations from automation to intelligence is about the journey, not the destination. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss and overview of the automation to intelligence journey including introducing benefits of automation, discussing why the automation journey matters, and how to go about moving up the ladder of automation to intelligence.

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Heavily regulated industries such as healthcare can pose unique challenges, but also provide unique opportunities with it comes to AI and ML. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Vignesh Shetty who is Senior Vice President & General Manager Edison AI and Platform at GE Healthcare Digital.

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