Data Futurology - Leadership And Strategy in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science

DialogCONNECTION was founded in 2008 by our Director and Lead Consultant, Dr. Maria Aretoulaki. Maria has been designing Speech IVRs and Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) since 1996, long before Voice Assistants, but also before telephone self-service was mainstream. She got into Voice through a Post-Doc in Spoken Dialogue Management for Speech recognition applications, after having got a PhD and an MSc in NLP and Machine Learning and a BA (Hons) in Linguistics & English.

In this episode, Dr. Maria explains how she started in the data space. When looking through the list of available master's degrees, she found one in machine translation and was utterly fascinated. Dr. Maria learned how to translate Spanish sentences into English sentences using machine translation. There are all sorts of rules and contexts that the machine needs to learn. For instance, because language is complex, it's difficult for a machine to pick out which sentences belong in the summary of an article. Humans can't even all agree on which sentences belong in a summary!

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Craig Rowlands is the Senior Executive Information Management at Medibank. Craig’s role is to provide thought leadership, aligned with expertise in delivering pragmatic business focus information management solutions whilst leading improvements in the data landscape. Whilst at Medibank, Craig has transitioned Medibank from a legacy data management team to a cloud first data capability based on a DevOps methodology to provide Medibank with the right technology, process and people to achieve its long term aspirational objectives.

He has an extensive background in data, commencing in the UK until he moved to Australia in 2011. Whilst in the UK Craig worked for blue chip banking and finance industry leaders such as Barclays, First Direct, GE and Hbos. His first role in Australia was with ANZ as Head of Decision Systems. Craig joined Medibank from Latitude Financial Services (formally GE) where as Head of Data Management he led a large team responsible for data strategy & design, data governance and business intelligence reporting.

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Catherine Havasi's dream and mission are to give computers the ability to think about the world more like a person and less like a machine. Equally important is putting this innovation into practice in a way that effects real business outcomes and transforms our everyday lives. Catherine has twenty years of experience in directing and doing cutting edge research, operationalizing it, and using it to drive real results.

In this episode, Catherine explains how she started in the data world.

Read this full episode summary on our website: #120 Natural Language Processing with Catherine Havasi – CEO

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Dr. AnnMaria has a proven track record in founding successful businesses. 7 Generation Games is her fourth company and a spin-off of her consulting firm, The Julia Group. She was previously the president of R&R Consulting and Vice President of Spirit Lake Consulting, Inc. and is also currently CEO of the Julia Group. Both the Julia Group and Spirit Lake Consulting went on to generate over $1 million in contracts. She has authored grants that have received tens of millions of dollars in funding, including more than $30 million for Native American programs.

Read this full episode summary on our website: #119 Finding Success in Data-Driven Entrepreneurship with Dr. AnnMaria De Mars – President

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#1 in our new Innovation and Entrepreneurship Series, Andrew is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon) and Associate Professor in International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has worked and researched in over twenty countries, including two years living in Kenya, where he led a significant eye disease study and the development and testing of Peek.

In this episode, Andrew reveals his own story and how he found out about his poor vision. When Andrew got glasses, his life completely changed.

Read this full episode summary on our website: Smart Tech Meets a Smart Dr’s Passion to Solve Blindness with Andrew Bastawrous  – Co-Founder & CEO

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Max Métral is a self-motivated professional with a successful track record in data science and analytics cross-functional roles for worldwide organizations. In this episode, Max dives deep into his background and how he found his interest in data.

Read this full episode summary on our website: #117 Driving commercial opportunities with Max Métral  – Senior Analytics Manager

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In this episode, we hear a panel discussion from Stuart Garland- Director of Blink Recruitment and Data Futurology Director & Podcast Host, Felipe Flores. With the current pandemic drastically affecting the Australian Data Science market, it can feel scary and unknown to people who are looking for a new role or career change within the industry.

Read this full episode summary on our website: Navigating The COVID-19 Landscape: Changes For Data Scientists in the Job Market

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At Queen's University, Stephanie Kelley is a Ph.D. Candidate in Management Analytics at the Smith School of Business. Her research focuses on the ethics of analytics and artificial intelligence in financial services. She uses methods from management analytics and organisational behaviour to understand the causes and prevention methods for AI ethics challenges.

Stay tuned as Stephanie discusses measuring ethics, how countries are taking a stance on AI ethics, and why AI ethics are a competitive advantage.

Read this full episode summary on our website: AI Ethics with Stephanie Kelley – PhD Candidate in AI Ethics at Queen's University, IEEE Ethically Aligned Design for Finance Working Committee Member

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Rishal is a solutions architect at Entelect. Rishal founded Prolific Idea in 2015, where innovation is cultivated through research and technology. Prolific Idea has since launched a collaborative productivity platform, Hivemind, and is currently building a straight-through document processing platform, Viszen.tech.

In this episode, Rishal dives deep into his story and explains how he got involved in the tech industry. Read this full episode summary on our website: #114 Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms with Rishal Hurbans  – Solutions Architect

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Dane Hillard is a software engineer and web developer interested in education, biotechnology, and open source. Today, he shares about the exciting world of web development and how he started. Dane speaks about the future of web development.

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>>> #113 Practices of the Python Pro with Dane Hillard – Author and Lead Web Application Developer

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