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Salesforce.com (http://Salesforce.com) is not just the classic CRM company that you all know and love.  With SFDC’s AI powered Einstein Analytics platform, you can now go beyond business intelligence.  Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton%0A) and Brett (https://twitter.com/broberts2261%0A) sit down with Sean Alpert (https://twitter.com/seanalpert?lang=en), Vice President of Product Marketing and Jonathan Wray (https://twitter.com/jonathan_wray), Director of Einstein Analytics Product Management to explore what Salesforce is doing in the analytics space and how they are providing an AI engine to discover insights, predict outcome and find recommendations.  Sean and Jonathan provide an overview in they Einstein platform and talk about the trends they are seeing in the world of AI and analytics and how Salesforce helps their customers combine their business intelligence and artificial intelligence for AI augmented analytics.

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS44

Salesforce.com is not just the classic CRM company that you all know and love.  With SFDC’s AI powered Einstein Analytics platform, you can now go beyond business intelligence.  Cory and Brett sit down with Sean Alpert,

Cloud computing gets a lot of attention when we have any conversation about AI and Big Data.  To learn more about the current state of AI in the Cloud, Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) caught up with Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure Data, Rohan Kumar for a discussion around the reasons public cloud providers are working to enable new services, why data is so critical to any AI endeavor and understand the real impacts that his team is delivering around the world.

Full show notes can be found at - http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS43 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS43)

Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/291731793).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Cloud computing gets a lot of attention when we have any conversation about AI and Big Data.  To learn more about the current state of AI in the Cloud, Cory Minton caught up with Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure Data,

Brett Roberts and Cory Minton sit down with Dr. Stephen Thomas, professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University to explore AI in the world of academia.  Stephen discusses the recently announced Queen’s University new management bu...

Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) and Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sit down with Dr. Stephen Thomas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepthom/?originalSubdomain=ca), professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University to explore AI in the world of academia.  Stephen discusses the recently announced Queen’s University new management business degree in artificial intelligence (MMAI) that will help fill the talent gap for much-needed managers who can apply AI strategies to business decisions.  The team explores some of the core AI concepts with Stephen to get his opinion on AI today and what AI will look like in the future.

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS42 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS42)

Erin K. Banks and Cory Minton spoke with Rob Antczak, Chief Technology Officer of PowerAdvocate, A Verisk Analytics business. Their SaaS platform is called "Energy Intelligence Platform" and is six products focused on bringing suppliers together and a ...

Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek) and Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/cory_minton) spoke with Rob Antczak (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-antczak-b938178/), Chief Technology Officer of PowerAdvocate (http://marketing.poweradvocate.com/), A Verisk (https://www.verisk.com/) Analytics business. Their SaaS platform is called "Energy Intelligence Platform (http://marketing.poweradvocate.com/products)" and is six products focused on bringing suppliers together and a mechanism to understand where the dollars are going. The platform provides insight to Electric Utility and Oil and Gas customers. They have 85% of the North American market in electric utilities and oil and gas. The platform is to improve and help analyze spend (purchasing materials and labor) and understand the information and data at a granular level. This in turn helps them go to market as well evaluate and negotiate with vendors as to what the items should cost. Rob goes into great detail about the platform, where all this data has come from, the importance of security, and the data management process.

Anchoring (https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/anchoring.htm) - Cognitive Bias

Scrum Master (https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-scrum-master)

CI/CD (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3271126/ci-cd/what-is-cicd-continuous-integration-and-continuous-delivery-explained.html)

Innovator’s Dilemma (https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244)

A Conference Call in Real Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ)

Azores (https://www.visitazores.com/en)

Newsroom (https://www.hbo.com/the-newsroom)

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS41 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EPS41)

In honor of World Beard Day (https://worldbeardday.com/) taking place on September 1st and to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Big Data Beard Podcast, we thought we would do something a little special.  Cory and Brett waxed up their beards and sat down Taylor Welden (https://www.instagram.com/taylorwelden/), VP of Austin Facial Hair Club and reigning U.S. National Beard Champion to talk about the other part of the Big Data Beard Podcast… the beard.

Cory and Brett dive into the world of facial hair competitions and learn about what truly goes on during these popular competitions.  Taylor also provides the audience with some top notch facial forest grooming advice as well as some product recommendations and more.  So wax up your beard or skip a day of shaving and jump on in to celebrate our 1 year anniversary.  Cheers!

As a reminder, the Big Data Beard has partnered with some of the best Big Data Conferences around the world to bring you not only great shows recorded at the conferences, but also some great discounts if you want to come join us to learn from the industry's best and brightest!  Here's the details on our conference partnerships:

Strata AI Conference (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/146117)- September 4-7 in San Francisco, CA - 20% off most passes with promo code "PCBEARD"

Strata Data Conference NYC (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/159902)- September 11-13 in New York City- 20% off most passes with promo code “PCBEARD”.

Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP40 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP40)

In honor of World Beard Day taking place on September 1st and to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Big Data Beard Podcast, we thought we would do something a little special.  Cory and Brett waxed up their beards and sat down Taylor Welden,