Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Fraser Gray-Smith. Fraser is a business strategy professional that specializes in using analytics to drive value in organizations. He takes advantage of his unique mix of technical skills and business acumen to uncover valuable insights, develop business cases, create management buy-in and manage the execution of projects. Outside of work, Fraser likes to learn about leadership and politics. He also enjoys experimenting with emerging technologies in the finance and machine learning fields.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Bell Canada
• Slalom
• Slalom Careers
• Gartner hype cycle
• Markov chain
• CS50: Introduction to Computer Science - Harvard University
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Collection
• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

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Your host,
Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Stefan Krawczyk. Stefan is a data-focused leader and polymath engineer. His interest has spanned design, implementation, integration, and peer education of data-related systems. Most recently, his focus has been on futurization and model-serving systems and platforms. He has a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics from Victoria University at Wellington, and a master's in computer science from Stanford University specializing in artificial intelligence.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Honda Research Institute
• Spark ML Programming Guide
• Stitch Fix
• Stitch Fix Algorithms Tour
• Jupyter Notebook
• Stitchfix/Hamilton
• Stefan Krawczyk on Twitter

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Shawn Hymel. Sean is a machine learning DevRel Engineer, Instructor and University Program Manager at Edge Impulse. He creates compelling technical videos, courses and workshops around edge machine learning that inspire engineers of all skill levels. Shawn is an advocate for enriching education through stem and believes that the best marketing comes from teaching, you can be found giving talks, running workshops and swing dancing in his free time.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Edge Impulse
• TensorFlow
• Introduction to TensorFlow for AI, ML, and Deep Learning
• Microsoft Azure
• GitHub
• Developer Marketing Does Not Exist by Adam DuVander
• Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype by Jay Baer
• ShawnHymel on Adafruit
• Gartner hype cycle
• SparkFun
• Spiking neural network
• Neuromorphic Computing
• Field-programmable gate array
• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Pete Warden. Pete's mission is simple: Organizing the physical world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. He was the founder and CTO at Jetpac where he built a technical team and created a unique data product that analyzed the pixel data, over 140 million photos from Instagram and turn them into in depth guides for more than 5000 cities around the world. Jetpac was acquired by Google in 2014. From there, he was a founding member and technical lead of the TensorFlow mobile team responsible for deep learning on mobile and embedded devices. Today, he is the CEO at Useful Sensors. He is also the co-author of the highly successful book entitled TinyML published by O'Reilly. Pete holds a Bachelors of Science from University of Manchester and a Doctor of Philosophy and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Pete Warden on Twitter
• PeteWarden.com
• Jetpac
• TensorFlow
• TinyML
• Quantization
• Wake Words
• Evgeni Gousev
• Arduino

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Your host,
Justin Grammens

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The conversation this week is with Younes Amar and Mohammed Sabri. Younes is the head of product at Wallaroo, an enterprise platform for production AI. As a product leader, he is responsible for vision, strategy, and roadmap and for building product teams that use qualitative and quantitative data to deliver effective product designs and experiences. Mohamed Sabri is the founder of Rocket Science and the ML Ops Institute where he is developing the next generation of ml ops engineers using a data science mentor at MIT and wrote a book on data science essentials called Data Science Pocket Guide.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Wallaroo
• Rocket Science
• ML Ops Institute
• Data Science Pocket Guide by Mohammed Sabri
• Google Cloud Platform
• Amazon Web Services
• Jupyter Notebook
• illuminate-ai

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Your host,
Justin Grammens

NOTE: I am excited to announce that all listeners of the Conversations on Applied AI Podcast are eligible to receive a 50% discount at the 2022 Applied AI Conference! Just use the discount code of "podcast" when purchasing your ticket.

The conversation this week is with Daniel Kornev. Daniel is Chief Product Officer for DeepPavlov.ai, which is the developer behind the Deep Pavlov Open Source Conversational AI stack for building voice assistants. Daniel has also served as an adviser to the Alexa prize team from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Before DeepPavlov he founded and led an AI-driven startup called Zet Universe, and was both a technical program manager at Google and a dev evangelist at Microsoft. Daniel has an MS in computer science and has done extensive research in computer vision interaction.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• DeepPavlov.ai
• Deep Pavlov Open Source Conversational AI
• DeepPavlov Dream
• Zet Universe
• Microsoft Research
• Yandex
• GPT-3
• Speech-to-Text: Automatic Speech Recognition
• Dandelion API
• Nielsen Norman Group

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Neil Sahota. Neil is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations AI advisor, Chief Innovation Officer, and globally recognized speaker and author of the award-winning Best Business Book of 2019. Own the AI Revolution. Neil is a founding member of the UN's AI For Good initiative, and is actively helping them build out their ecosystem of strategic partnerships. Additionally, through his work with the Global Fortune 500 companies as a change maker, he created a disruptive thinking framework to show people how you can think differently.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Own the AI Revolution by Neil Sahota
• IBM Research
• IBM Watson
• Watson and the Jeopardy! Challenge
• Palantir
• Rainforest Connection
• Hybrid intelligent system
• AI for Good

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Tom Doyle. Tom is a veteran in the semiconductor industry working in many different areas over the last 35 years, including RF and satellites, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit solutions, IP software, and sales. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from California State University. Tom is the CEO of Aspinity. Aspinity is a world leader in the design and development of analog machine learning chips that are revolutionizing the architecture of always-on sensing devices that run on batteries. Aspinity is the second startup Tom founded and is the first focused on a semiconductor chip.

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• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Aspinity
• Aspinity Careers
• TinyML Cookbook by Gian Marco Iodice 
• AnalogML
• Linear and Non-Linear Analog Signal Processing
• What is Vibration Analysis and What is it Used For?
• Microcontroller
• Moore's Law 

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Gian Marco. Gian is a tech lead in the machine learning group at ARM and the author of the TinyML Cookbook published in April of 2022. At ARM Gian looks after the ML performance optimizations for the arm compute library, which he co-created in 2017 to get the best performance on ARM Cortex-A CPUs. ARM Compute Library is currently the most performant library for machine learning on ARM. And it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide from servers to smartphones. Gian holds an MSC with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa in Italy and has several years of experience developing machine learning and computer vision algorithms on edge devices. And 2020. John co-founded the TinyML UK Meetup Group to encourage knowledge-sharing, educate and inspire the next generation of machine learning developers on tiny power-efficient devices.

If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!

• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• TinyML Cookbook
• ARM
• ARM Cortex-A
• AlexNet
• VGG-16
• Arduino
• Breadboard
• Edge Impulse
• TinyML UK Meetup Group 

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Blair Newman. Blair is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of experience creating business value within the information technology industry. He's a decisive leader managing and overseeing PnLs, building pipelines, and generating multimillion-dollar cost savings by acquisitions and IT transformations. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Newton AI where he and the team helped companies automatically build extremely tiny and explainable models without needing a Machine Learning background. Prior to his current role. He was head of computing services and solutions at T-Systems North America for more than 10 years.

If you are interested in learning about how AI is being applied across multiple industries, be sure to join us at a future AppliedAI Monthly meetup and help support us so we can make future Emerging Technologies North non-profit events!

• Emerging Technologies North
• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Newton AI
• T-Systems North America
• Bell Integrator
• tinyML Foundation
• TensorFlow
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Machine Learning

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Your host,
Justin Grammens