EP 111: Piyanka Jain (President & CEO of Aryng) talks with us about ways to build a data culture at your company -- and how to tie data literacy programs to KPIs that matter to your business.

Piyanka writes for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, InsideHR, and other publications. She has been a featured speaker at American Marketing Association conferences, Microsoft Modern Workplace, Predictive Analytics World, Growth Hacker TV, GigaOm, Google Analytics User Conference and more.

Learn more about her work: https://aryng.com/

EP 110: Brandon Quach talks about his academic background, career choices and work leading data science teams.

Brandon is the Principal Data Scientist at Teradata and Chairman of the Data Science Roundtable for Tech San Diego.

He holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Caltech, an M.Eng from UCSD, and a B.S in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.

Episode 109: In this week’s #DataTalk, we chat with Louise Maynard-Atem about her love of data and leading innovative projects at Experian. Louise earned her PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of Manchester and MSci in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. More details:

https://www.experian.com/blogs/news/datatalk/louise-maynard-atem/

Episode 108: In this week’s #DataTalk, we chat with Michael Gale about ways businesses need to change in order to thrive in our digital age. He is the author of “The Digital Helix” and host of the Forbes Insights Futures in Focus podcast.

Michael Gale founded Strategic Oxygen in 2001, which was widely seen as one of the technology industry’s primary data toolset for marketers, used by over 20 brands and used to model over $4 billion in marketing and sales investments.

Gary Saarenvirta, founder/CEO of Daisy Intelligence, is recognized as one of North America’s preeminent authorities on artificial intelligence. Gary is a passionate evangelist for the application of A.I. and reinforcement learning in strategic merchandising decisions. He’s not afraid to challenge the status quo when it comes to the advantages of deep learning over traditional approaches to data mining and analysis, both in speed and precision.

Episode 106: We chat with Dr. Shervin Khodabandeh from Boston Consulting Group about digital transformation and ways to effectively launch AI strategies in your organization.

In this week’s #DataTalk, we chat with Sherrell Dorsey about her love of data, technology and passion for improving inclusion and diversity in tech. She started coding when she was 14 years old at the Technology Access Foundation in Seattle -- and spent her summers in high school as an intern at Microsoft, learning how to manage labs and build software. She later founded BLKTECH Interactive and ThePLUG to encourage more diversity in tech. She also earned her Master's in Data Journalism from Columbia University.

This is episode #104. Today we get a chance to learn from Karen Hao.

Karen graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Energy Studies. After graduation, Karen worked as an application engineer at a Google X urban sustainability spinoff and later served as a data scientist for Quartz.

Karen is the AI reporter at MIT Technology Review, where she writes about the intersection of technology, ethics and social impact. Learn more about her at: KarenDHao.com

Ted Way is a senior program manager on the AI and Advanced Architectures team at Microsoft, with the mission to accelerate AI and other workloads in the cloud and edge.

Ted holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering, MS degrees in electrical engineering (signal processing) and biomedical engineering, and a PhD in biomedical engineering, all from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.

Episode 102: Mike Delgado chats with Dr. Susan Schneider about her book “Artificial You: AI and The Future of Your Mind.”

Susan Schneider is an American professor of philosophy and cognitive science. She holds the NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress and NASA, directs the AI, Mind and Society (“AIMS”) Group at the University of Connecticut, and is a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Follow her on Twitter: @DrSueSchneider