Executive Panel: How Can Data Science, ML, and AI Best Support Executive Goals

Today is a special episode. We welcome three executive guests from different organizations to share their experiences and insights about how data science can best support executive goals. Ginette Methot: I'm Ginette Curtis Seare: And I'm Curtis Ginette: And you are listening to Data Crunch Curtis: A podcast about how applied data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world. Ginette: Data Crunch is produced by the Data Crunch Corporation, an analytics training and consulting company. There's a lot going on here at Data Crunch. Just this last week we finalized the merger of Vault Analytics and Lightpost Analytics under the new banner of the Data Crunch Corporation, which improves our capabilities to serve our clients head over to datacrunchcorp.com to check out our training and consulting offerings. For our executive panel, today we'll be talking to Simon Lee, the chief analytics officer from Waiter; Fatma Kocer, who is the vice president of data science engineering at Altair, and Rollen Roberson who is the president at Trianz. Curtis: So, welcome everyone to the executive panel. We are super excited to have you guys here. You are all executives and companies that are doing amazing things with data science. So the audience knows, again, we're talking about today, the topic is how data science, machine learning and AI can best support executive strategy and business goals. How, how does that function really work? Let's start maybe with Simon and then Fatma and then Rollen, if you could just give us a little introduction, and we'll get going from there. Simon Lee: Thanks. I'm Simon Lee. I'm actually kind of a mixed bag when it comes to data science and analytics. I've got about 20 years of experience using analytics and advanced algorithms, you know, in a whole bunch of different industries like transportation for example, airline rail, trucking, ocean carriers, printing, publishing, manufacturing, finance and delivery. Delivery is where I'm currently at. Waiter is a restaurant, food delivery company in small and mid size market. So probably a lot of people haven't heard of us because we're in the smaller communities, but, we're trying to make a big splash. So yeah, that's who I am. Curtis: Awesome. Thanks for being here. Fatma Kocer: Hi, this is Fatma Kocer from Altair engineering. I am a civil engineer by training, although I never get a chance to practice it. Um, my background is multidisciplinary design, exploration and optimization. And I was in the auto industry before I joined Altair. Um, there, I've done several things throughout the 14 years that I've been here, but always keeping, designing solution optimization as the core of my responsibilities. And Altair is a global technology company. We provide software in solutions for product development, data intelligence and high performance computing. We are located at headquarters in Michigan in Troy, Michigan where I'm speaking from and we have offices in I think 25 countries now. So that would be me. Curtis: Great. Thanks for being here, Fatma, and, ah, Rollen. Rollen Roberson: Right. Thank you. Good Morning. Rollen Roberson with Trianz. You know, for my own background, I've a similar to Simon. I'm kind of a mixed bag, I've been in the industry for 20 plus years, I'm solely in the digital transformation space. Uh, working from startups, mid-level companies through global service integrators, uh, working with Trianz currently to really expand the growth and a use within AI and IoT within the organization. And our customer base, Trianz is a company that has 1,500 plus employees, global offices mainly serving the, upper, mid-tier and enterprise level customer base, uh, solely focused on digital transformation and the use of those higher technologies for greater return on value. How Can Data Science and AI Have an Impact On Your BusinessCurtis: That's awesome.