Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Miles Porter. Miles is an experienced data scientist focused on image processing, time series analysis, and combinatorial optimization opportunities. He is currently a lead data scientist at Trimble Central AI. He holds a BA in math and did graduate work in applied math at Colorado State. He's worked as a consultant at a range of companies such as Medtronic, BestBuy, and bluestem. Brands. He's also a musician, playing jazz bass and teaching taekwondo. 

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!

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• AppliedAI Meetup

Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Trimble Inc
• Eigenface
• Six Sigma
• Reinforcement learning
• Mike Hugo - Using AI Technologies for Biomedical Analysis
• TensorFlow
• Project Management Institute
• Trimble Spot
• Trimble Dispatch Assistant
• Electronic Logging Devices
• Sabina Stanescu - Building Better Products Using Responsible AI and MLOps
• An Introduction to Statistical Learning
• Miles Porter’s Blog

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Justin Grammens

The conversation this week is with Scott Litman. Scott is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits under his belt and someone whom I highly respect and appreciate for what he has done for the technology community here in the Twin Cities. Currently, he is the co-founder, managing partner, and CRO at Lucy.ai. Lucy is an AI-powered knowledge management platform. You see combed through more data in a minute that an entire team could sift through in a year, unlocking, democratizing, and making it instantly accessible to those who need it. Lucy has earned significant recognition and is being adopted by many of the world's biggest ad agencies and Fortune 1000s. Scott also gives back by being on the board of multiple organizations and a co-founder of the Minnesota Cup. The Minnesota Cup is an annual competition that seeks to support and accelerate the development of the best breakthrough ideas from across Minnesota. They are looking for the next generation and the next entrepreneurial success story in our state. More information on the Minnesota cup can be found at mncup.org. Finally, this is a little bit of a blast from the past. But I'd like to tell people that Scott was one of my first bosses after getting out of college. He absolutely had an impact on me at that young age on how to build a technology business through solid culture and leadership.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Lucy.ai
• Lucy.ai/careers
• Minnesota Cup
• Industry 4.0
• Industrial IoT
• Captovation.au
• SmartThings

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The conversation this week is with Francis Brero. Francis is an aspiring hands-on T Rex obsessed with levering science to improve efficiency and effectiveness. He is a data scientist converted to sales along the way. Currently, he helps B2B SaaS companies get the most out of their inbound pipelines by automating the high-cost low leverage work of researching, qualifying, and engaging leads. He's the co-founder and CTO at MadKudu. MadKudu helps SaaS companies increase conversion rates, upsell, and eight and customer retention. It analyzes customer behavior in your app and enriches leads with relevant data to find out what truly makes people engage. It then predicts, which is a word that we like here on the podcast, which customers you should engage with and tells you why and when finally, it recommends actionable next steps to increase conversion and engagement.

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!

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• MadKudu
• AgileOne
• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
• The 4-Hour Workweek
• GPT-3
• GitHub Copilot
• A Whole New Mind
• AlphaGo
• Instructables.com

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The conversation this week is with Scott Brown. Scott is a business focus Senior Technology executive with 25 years of experience in transforming organizations, solving complex problems, and building globally distributed systems. He drives cross-functional strategy development, continuous improvement and is committed to growing talent and developing the next generation of leaders. He's currently the CEO of Transfur, Transfur makes it easy to request, send, manage and review veterinary medical records. Unlike other solutions in the market, Transfur leverages many advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, to extract, analyze and present clinically relevant information from an animal's medical records with no software to install. Scott holds a BS in aerospace engineering and as a mentor at the Minnesota emerging software advisory where he provides sea level pro bono mentoring to emerging software companies.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• PeopleSoft Applications
• Medtronic
• Captovation
• Omnia Fishing
• Redstamp
• Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
• High Alpha
• Varsity Venture Studio
• Great North Labs
• TensorFlow
• AWS DeepLens
• A.I. For Anyone
• Teachable Machine

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The conversation this week is with Paul Denman. Paul started his career as an engineer focused on new innovative technologies. He is passionate about technology and its integration to solve business problems and has a number of accomplishments in automation, AI, IoT medical device robotics, machine vision, and hard automation. As a member or advisor to corporate leadership, Paul is viewed as a key contributor and collaborator credited with identifying and securing missing links that have improved corporate growth, profitability, and new product sales. Most recently, Paul has been focused on robotics, automation, and machine learning using edge analytics for Industry 4.0. Paul holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Industry 4.0
• Mindsphere
• Ability
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• GE Predix Platform
• TensorFlow
• K-Means Clustering
• Boon Logic
• Field-programmable gate array
• Gartner hype cycle
• Nippon Pulse
• Fortran
• Alphametrics
• Illumina
• International Society of Automation
• Laboratory Research & Innovation Group
• Bio-Rad Laboratories

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The conversation this week is with Jeff Coyle.  Jeff is a cross-discipline data-driven inbound marketing executive with 20 plus years of experience managing products and website networks focused on helping companies grow. He's the co-founder and chief strategy officer at Market Muse.  Market Muse is an industry-leading technology and methodology for content planning and evaluation. It combines artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning algorithms to produce actionable insights for inbound marketers, AI, NLP, and ML. Jeff holds a BS in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization in usability.  And most importantly, Jeff is a co-founder at Silver Bluff Brewing and a 2020 US Open beer championship winner for Silver Bluff Mexican lager.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Market Muse
• Silver Bluff Brewing
• TechTarget
• Hemingway Editor
• Grammarly
• MarTech
• GrepWords
• MadKudu Data Science Studio

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The conversation this week is with Josh Braaten. Josh is the CEO of Brandata where he and his team use brand measurement, consumer insights, and growth solutions to turn fast-moving companies into market leaders. Prior to Brand Data, Josh was a Senior Director of Marketing at Lead Pages.  From venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 companies, Josh has developed his skills in high-growth digital marketing environments by working with brands that want to grow fast. As a business consultant, turned technologist turned marketer turned entrepreneur, I can't wait to talk with Josh about his career path and where he sees the future of artificial intelligence going in a variety of industries.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Snappoo.com
• Google Glass
• Machine Learning
• The Terminator
• Black Mirror
• The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• How Brands Grow by Byron Sharp
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng
• 1000 Brains by Jeff Hawkins

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The conversation this week is with Jacob Solawetz. Jacob is a Machine Learning Lead at RoboFlow where he’s developing and scaling computer vision using autoML model training and deployment. Prior to RoboFlow he was a Senior Quantitative Associate Analyst at Travelers. Jacob holds a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis where he majored in Mathematics, Economics, Philosophy, and Computer Science. That quite a range of things to be studying. I love it! Welcome, Jacob and thank you for being on the program.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Labeling
• Andrew Yang
• The War on Normal People
• 1000 Brains
• MATLAB

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The conversation this week is with Eri O'Diah. Eri is a seasoned strategist who has been applying experience as a creative at the intersection of Black, immigrant, millennial, women to deconstruct biased systems and advocate for equitable social outcomes. A leading priority of her work currently, is the study of unconscious bias and how deep learning and emerging technologies can be used to better understand and accelerate the deconstruction of cognitive bias and reduce the impact on marginalized groups.

Her career highlights include more than 10 years in marketing, entrepreneurial experience; developing and managing complex projects, being 2019 LLS Woman of the Year Nominee, and named 2020 Emerging Business Owner by the National Association of Women Business Owners - Minnesota Chapter.

She is a graduate of California State University Northridge with an extensive background in digital marketing strategy, social media, and web development. In her free time, she can be found in a yoga class or volunteering as the regional director of BDPA-Midwest. 

Most recently Eri has founded SIID. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, SIID™ Technologies applies big data and emerging technologies to evaluate, uncover, and correct the influence of human biases on decision-making and communication. You can learn more at SIID.AI

 
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! 

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Murder of George Floyd
• Minnesota Nice
• Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
• MIT
• MIT Incubator
• Nazism
• 1619 Project
• Caste
• Weapons of Math Destruction

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The conversation this week is with Erik Zwiefel. Erik is is a Director and Technical Specialist in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning group at Microsoft. He helps customers build out Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and open source data science packages. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lead Data Scientist at Target as an operational Lead for the Enterprise Data, Analytics, and Business Insights Testing team.

He holds a master's degree in business intelligence and has taught graduate-level courses in the Master's of Science Business Intelligence and Analytics program at Saint Josef’s University.

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! 

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Business Intelligence
• Biochemistry
• Spotfire
• Python
• Azure
• Emotional Intelligence
• GPT3
• Accelerating Returns
• StackOverflow
• Solution Architect
• MLOps
• Kaggle
• GitHib Copilot
• AI and Music
• Music and AI
• Amazon CodeGuru
• Assistive Technology
• Brandon Sanderson - Skyward Series
• Quantum Computing
• Open AI
• AI Dungeon
• Jon Coons
• AIoT
• Federated Learning
• Azure RTOS

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