Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Mona Akmal. Mona is the CEO and co-founder at Falcon AI. Falcon is the first intelligence platform for the entire GTM team, which includes marketing, sales, and account management. She is a product and engineering veteran who builds resourceful, kind, and output-driven teams at scale, with a passion for crafting elegant solutions to technically difficult problems. She has grown teams, businesses, and many products at Microsoft, Code.org, and Zulily. 

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Email Mona Akmal
• Falcon AI
• Graphics Device Interface
• B2B SaaS
• Hour of Code
• Scratch
• Project Jupyter

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Eric Olson. Eric is the co-founder and CEO at Consensus a search engine that uses AI to surface expert answers. Prior to Consensus, he worked at Draft Kings analytics, where he built cool models and created new metrics to better understand their users. In 2017, he graduated with a master's of science in predictive analytics from Northwestern University and was a three year starter for the Northwestern University football team and a four time academic, All Big 10 honoree.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Follow ConsensusNLP on Twitter
• Google Scholar
• PubMed
• Allen Institute for AI
• ChatGPT
• Natural language processing
• BERT (language model)
• Attention is All you Need

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The conversation this week is with Dr. Antonio Di Fenza. Antonio has a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Romantic Languages, Literature, and Linguistics from Cornell University. He has envisioned and written a project of a chatbot trained on philosophers and poets that is capable of meaningful interactions. Additionally, he is currently a futurist providing inspiration, suggestions, and solutions for the period of humanity's transition to the time when it will coexist with super intelligence. 

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Dr. Antonio Di Fenza on LinkedIn
• The Singularity Is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
• The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
• Artificial general intelligence
• The Millennium Project
• CodePilot.ai
• 4 Optimistic Takes on the Future of AI by Alberto Romero

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The conversation this week is with Panos and George Karagiannis, co-founders of Moveo.AI. Both of these guys are passionate about new technologies and always eager to learn. They love turning ideas into practice by working with people that share the same enthusiasm about technology as they do at their company. They are building a new type of conversational AI platform that works on automating mundane tasks, using no-code platforms and self-learning capabilities to transform customer experiences. 

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• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Moveo.AI
• Natural language processing
• Software as a service
• GPT-3
• General Data Protection Regulation

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with George Bryant, a partner of Fulton Analytics. Fulton Analytics is a Minnesota-based data analytics strategy and consulting company committed to delivering data success. Their data success framework aligns people's processes and technology toward agile data transformation. George has a passion for soccer as well as being a head coach for a number of teams around the Twin Cities. 

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• George Bryant on Twitter
• Fulton Analytics
• Ameriprise Financial
• SQLSaturday
• Microsoft Power BI
• Flight Vector Conference
• Air Medical Transport Conference

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The conversation this week is with Sam Cartford. Sam is doing cybersecurity by day and is the co-founder of his own startup called Babbl, which he is working on anytime else. Babbl is a website that tracks stock market news sentiment, it aggregates and runs sentiment analysis on thousands of finance articles to distill high-impact information and ultimately help investors supplement their current research. This saves them time, reduces bias, and helps them gain insights. It was recently accepted into the beta fall 2022 cohort and was a part of Twin City Startup Week where it was listed as a standout by the Business Journal.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Sam Cartford on Twitter
• Babbl
• Twin City Startup Week
• CrowdStrike
• Robinhood
• Coinbase
• Red Wing Ignite
• GPT-3
• Stable Diffusion
• Sebastian Ruder
• Neuro-linguistic programming
• Beautiful Soup

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The conversation this week is with Peter Scott. Peter is the author of Crisis of Control: How Artificial Super Intelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race. He holds a Master's of Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 16 years. But today actually spends his time as an author, futurist and business coach focusing on assisting clients through exponential change. He has appeared on radio, TV and podcasts, in addition to giving a TEDx talk. He has a new book out called Artificial Intelligence and You: What AI Means for Your Life, Your Work and Your World.

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• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Crisis of Control by Peter Scott
• Artificial Intelligence and You by Peter Scott
• Neuro-linguistic programming
• C.P. Snow
• Artificial Intelligence and You podcast
• Moore's law
• Artificial general intelligence
• Capsule neural network
• HumanCusp.com

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The conversation this week is with Lois Melbourne & Ross Melbourne. Lois is an author presenting visions of what if her former life was exciting as a software CEO and entrepreneur, and she is now the Chief Story Officer at My Future Story. Within her nonprofit work for My Future Story she published The STEM Club Goes Exploring, and Kids Go to Work Day. She loves to coach kids and schools through the wonderment of career exploration with a mission to inspire kids toward purposely designing their futures. Her third book and the first novel is the Sci-Fi, "Moral Code". It was written in collaboration with our business partner and husband Ross. Ross is a lifelong innovator, entrepreneur, and patent holder. He has lived and worked in the US for 30 years, but grew up in England making stuff for fun. Ross developed the world's first automatic organization charting software and then co-founded Aquire with his wife, Lois. Ross is a proven business executive and technology leader using what he calls family-first ethics.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• My Future Story
• The STEM Club Goes Exploring by Lois Melbourne
• Kids Go to Work Day by Lois Melbourne
• Moral Code by Lois Melbourne and Ross Melbourne
• Enterprise resource planning
• COBOL
• Turing test
• GPT: Origin, Theory, Application, and Future
• LoisMelbourne.com
• RossMelbourne.com

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The conversation this week is with Ngan MacDonald. Ngan is the chief of data operations at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, where she is bridging computational methods with human experience to advance medical science and improve human health. Nana's, a 2022 cohort candidate for the Women In Bio 3/8 Initiative, named for the March 8, International Women's Day where her team seeks to increase startup board leadership for women in Chicago's Life Sciences. Finally, if that isn't keeping her busy enough, she is a healthcare senior advisor and McCormick BI

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine
• WIB-RTP 3.8 Initiative
• McCormick BI
• SDLC
• 3rd Coast AI for Health Bowl
• Health Data Gymnasium
• 21st Century Cures Act
• AHIP
• Invitae DNA health and medical testing
• Follow Ngan MacDonald on Twitter

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The conversation this week is with Cal Al-Dhubaib. Cal is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and Chief Executive Officer of Pandata, where his team empowers organizations to use artificial intelligence competitively. Cal has an emphasis on designing and building trustworthy AI, and is especially passionate about the ethics of AI and how organizations can build the right talent to support their AI initiatives. Cal has been listed on the Crain's Cleveland 20 in their 20s, and Cleveland Smart 50. He is the first data science graduate from Case Western Reserve University and an advocate for careers and educational pathways in data science through regional week workforce development initiatives.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Pandata
• Case Western Reserve University
• H2o.ai
• OhioX
• Fintech
• Rev1 Ventures
• Lab651
• A Conversation with Andrew Ng
• Open Data Science Conference
• Cleveland Big Data User Group

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Justin Grammens