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On this episode of the podcast, we speak to Alex Zekoff and Dan Parsons. Alex and Dan are the co-founders of Thoughtful Automation. They will share a little bit about the company and introduce us to what appears to be a new style of automation consultancy.

Mark and Brent catch back up with Tom Taulli, an author of books regarding RPA, AI and several Finance books. In his book, he talked about the basics of Artificial Intelligence which is called "Implementing AI Systems". He also have another book called "The Robotic Process Automation Handbook" which is a guide to implementing RPA systems which are both tackled in the podcast.

On this episode of the podcast, we speak to Doug Shannon. Doug is a veteran IT product lead that has been deep in the world of RPA. As a practitioner, Doug shares his experiences and strategies for what structures are working. Specifically, Doug makes the case for how an internal RPA team adds value. We talk citizen developers, security, and self-healing bots.

In this episode, Mark and Brent recap the past few weeks of news, toying with node-red, and take another look at attended vs unattended in a recent project.

On this episode of the podcast we talk with Allan Zimmerman, founder and maintainer of OpenRPA, a popular open source automation platform. Allan talks with us about how he got started in RPA and what he's working on now, including his work with IoT and the open source IBM backed orchestrator Node-Red.

On this episode of the podcast we speak with Stine Rasmussen, Senior Manager at BDO Denmark. Stine is a leader of IT and Digitization and is allergic to dumb work. She takes a refreshingly common sense approach to automation and RPA. Stine takes us through some strategies for bridging gaps to common organizational pitfalls that RPA-projects face as well as how Excel may be the right tool for the job after all.

On this episode of the podcast we speak with Antti Rauhala, co-founder at Aito. Aito is a predictive database that you can spin up and put into production quickly. Aito replaces the current machine learning tools that have a steep learning curve and generate single-purpose models. It seems like it could be a great fit for a variety of RPA applications. We talk to Antti about his background, the genesis of Aito and where the company is headed

We chat with Tom Kelshaw, managing partner, operations, and technology at Wavemaker, a global agency under the WPP umbrella. Tom walks us through his automation practice and how he eradicates dumb work. This is an interesting application of RPA outside of the usual domain.

We've been on a bit of hiatus. But we're not slacking. We've been busy working on a new open-source project called Bot Commander. In this episode, we chat about the project, what it does, and how it might be helpful. In short, Bot Commander is a human-friendly interface for running your bots on UiPath and Robocloud. With more platforms in the works, we talk about the project, why we built it and who it might be helpful for.

On this episode of the podcast, we chat with Anders Jensen an RPA Developer and author of the Anders Jensen RPA YouTube Channel. Anders has an interesting back story, coming from the world of online poker. We chat through his evolution into a full-time automation career and the growth of his fantastic YouTube channel.