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Today, Jon Knisley (the host of hello, Human and a long-time technologist helping companies adopt and utilize emerging digital solutions) talks with Matt Gustitus, the founder and lead advisor at Digital Workforce Solution. 

In today's healthcare ecosystem, every health system, hospital, and physician is being asked to do more with less. Healthcare providers face increasing pressure to manage revenue, optimize utilization, and reduce costs. At the same time, they are being asked to prevent illness, optimize care, and improve patient outcomes. Fortunately, new technologies are providing a lifeline. It is estimated that AI applications can cut annual US healthcare costs by $150 billion in 2026. A large part of these cost reductions stems from changing the healthcare model from a reactive to a proactive approach, focusing on health management rather than disease treatment.

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Talking Points:

What is Digital Workforce Solution and what is their mission?

How we can leverage technology in health care

The current state of AI adoption in the health care sector

Is AI adoption helping simplify the “easy things” as well as the “big shiny” objects?

The top three opportunities for AI to impact healthcare in the next few years

The big challenges that may slow the adoption of AI in the health sector

The model that works best for adopting AI

The impact of ethics and explainable AI in healthcare

Resources/Links:

Digital Workforce Solution 

FortressIQ

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Today, Jon Knisley (the host of hello, Human and a long-time technologist helping companies adopt and utilize emerging digital solutions) talks with Max Vicino, the director for AI, IoT, and automation at Avanade about this episode’s topic: citizen services powered by AI.  

The technology’s enormous disruptive potential is not limited to the private sector. Citizen services powered by AI and machine learning help make welfare payments, speed immigration decisions, detect fraud, improve veterans’ care, and much more. Max gives us his perspective and insight on the exciting uses and future of AI for citizen services and the public sector. He dives into both the opportunities as well as the challenges that may slow the adoption of AI.

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Talking Points:

The background behind Avanade and Max’s role at Avanade

The current state of AI adoption in the public sector

State/local organizations’ flexibility to experimenting with technology

Opportunities for AI to impact citizen services in the next few years

Challenges that may slow the adoption of AI

Closing the gap and driving more applied AI programs to the public sector

Ethics and explainable AI in the public sector

Resources/Links:

Avanade

FortressIQ

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Today, Jon Knisley, the host of hello, Human and a long-time technologist helping companies adopt and utilize emerging digital solutions, talks with Tara Robinson, the founder and product marketing manager for TrackRacks, an all-in-one management service for fashion companies, which uses product recognition to revolutionize sample trafficking.

Fashion is one of the biggest global industries. Revenues in the apparel market are expected to reach two trillion dollars by the year 2025. While you might not think of fashion first when you think of artificial intelligence, people like Tara are changing that every day. Like any other business, the fashion industry is quickly turning to AI to make their companies more efficient, predict the future of the industry, and can replace marketing aspects like photoshoots.

As an industry leader, Tara shares her insight and knowledge of the fashion industry as well as AI development in order to give us a unique take on what AI can and will do for the fashion industry.

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Talking Points:

Tara’s journey into the fashion industry

How Tara used automation to fix a problem in the fashion industry

The changes that the fashion industry had to make because of the pandemic

Technological trends to look out for in the future of fashion

Building a tech-based company without the technological background

How TrackRacks will expand in the future

What Tara finds exciting about AI and the fashion industry

How AI and tech can help eliminate the waste from apparel and fashion

Resources/Links:

Tara Robinson, LinkedIn

TrackRacks

FortressIQ

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Today, Jon Knisley (the host of hello, Human and a long-time technologist helping companies adopt and utilize emerging digital solutions) talks with Jessica Zych, the Vice-President for Strategic Partnerships at FortyOak, the go-to firm for talent first automation strategy. Jessica, like Jon, keeps an optimistic perspective on the human and robot/AI partnership in the future, where both humans and AI can work together. Today, through her optimistic lens, she shares her opinions on the increase of AI adoption in the HR talent space, how to create a high-performance automation team, and what the future holds for the hybrid workforce.

The Great Resignation is here and it's real. The last several months have seen a tidal wave of resignations. Job transitions among Gen Z are up 80% year-over-year, and they're up by 50% for millennials. To help handle the uptick in transitions, AI-enabled technology solutions are delivering productivity, efficiency, and accuracy to the traditionally human-centered process. Using AI frees up recruiting teams to spend more time on the work that humans are best equipped to handle: conducting phone screens, building relationships, compiling offers, and guiding stakeholders through the process. AI can be deployed to simplify interview scheduling, screen resumes, and identify passive candidates. At the end of the day, AI is helping companies hire better and faster.

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Talking Points:

The elevator pitch on FortyOak

Jessica’s AI background and her journey to FortyOak

How companies are infusing AI into their business processes

The increase in adoption in the HR talent space

The importance of monitoring and eliminating the bias in AI output

Process and technology considerations for recruiting

The recipe for creating a high-performance automation team

Jessica’s vision for the future of the digital workforce

Resources/Links:

FortyOak

FortressIQ

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Surbhi Rathore is the CEO and the co-founder of Symbl.ai, a leader in conversation intelligence. Today on the hello, Human podcast, Surbhi and host Jon Knisley talk about the latest news and future surrounding conversation intelligence. 

Conversation intelligence provides businesses with meaningful and actionable insights directly from the voice of customers as well as employees, in order to understand and predict behavior. It also allows us to measure and optimize marketing performance, detect correct call handling issues, and deliver more personalized and relevant experiences online and over the phone. Because of conversational intelligence, managers and employees can have more time to handle the analysis instead of spending all of the time gathering the data.

Talking Points:

Surbhi’s background and the start of Symbl.ai

Surbhi’s experience as a woman in AI

How women can get into data science

The difference between intelligent voice automation and conversation intelligence

Symbl’s approach to the market

Measuring conversational intelligence

How Symbl can be used within different industries

The shifting of more remote work and how that has been beneficial to Symbl

What is the big data problem?

What excites Surbhi about AI

Resources/Links:

Symbol.io

FortressIQ

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Food delivery robots are just one of the many examples of artificial intelligence applications in the food industry.

Robot-powered Zume Pizza, valued at almost $4 billion, was one of the first of Derek Pietz’s projects in the food and restaurant industry. With a background in hardware, he started his own company- L2Fwhich built custom equipment to help businesses in the food and beverage space automate, which included building robots too. Now he’s making an impact as the VP of Automation at Hyphen Technologies (Formerly Ono Food Co.) where he’s crafting productivity tools for restaurants, analyzing restaurant data, and building robotic appliances. 

Labor shortages in the food and beverage industry are nothing new, but after a global pandemic, the industry was hit harder than ever. Foodservice organizations are turning to automation and robotic solutions to help conquer labor shortages and enhance food safety.  Utilizing automation alongside employees can streamline processes, including production, assembly, quality control, and reporting. The time and labor saved allows for individuals to focus on cognitively challenging tasks and hospitality, while redundant work is mastered by a machine.

 

Talking Points:

Derek’s background as a mechanical engineer and how it led into the food and beverage industry

How the power of AI has been utilized in the food and beverage space

L2F’s mission and purpose

How automation may play a larger role in the food and beverage industry

Hyphen and how it is saving the industry

Leveraging technology to let people focus on the human aspect

Artificial intelligence versus machine intelligence

What excites Derek about the future of AI in the food and beverage industry

 

Resources/Links:

UseHyphen.com

FortressIQ

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Marketing and sales have transformed over the years. What was once cold calling and email drip, has transformed into chat bots that engage with customers all across the world. 

In this episode of hello, Human, we will be diving deep into the application of AI into sales and marketing. Today we’re talking with Anu Shukla about the history, the implications, and the ethics involved in AI integration into marketing strategies. Anu is a four-time CEO and founder with two exits to date over $300 million.

Co-Founder and executive chairman of Botco.Ai, Anu Shukla, is an industry pioneer in the marketing automation space. She’s an industry expert and is transforming the way businesses communicate with their new and existing customers. Analyzing conversations, learning about a business; processes, and understanding a customer wants and needs is the very base of successful marketing automation.

Talking Points:

Anu’s background and journey into technology

The transformation of AI in marketing and where it is going

How Botco.ai is using and applying data and AI to create intelligent chat solutions

Automation is an enabler and not a destroyer of the workforce

Anu’s involvement with Elevate VC 

What excited Anu about AI in marketing and beyond

Anu’s advice for the next generation of leaders

Resources/Links: 

Botco.Ai

FortressIQ 

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Today, Jon Knisley, the host of hello, Human and a long-time technologist helping companies adopt and utilize emerging digital solutions, talks with Pankaj Chowdhry, the founder and CEO at FortressIQ. They discuss the latest topics in artificial intelligence and how it’s being applied in the real world. Specifically we are going to explore and uncover the mystery of data. How are businesses using their data? How do you do so effectively? In what ways can organizations keep up with all of this constantly evolving technology?

We are fortunate to have a true industry leader give us his perspective and insight on capturing and unlocking process data, and ultimately decoding work. In addition to being the founder and CEO of FortressIQ, Pankaj also kicked off the artificial intelligence center of excellence at Genpact. Before that, he was the CEO of ThirdPillar systems, where he designed and delivered lending platforms for commercial banks, processing billions of dollars in transactions.

For a while now, companies have looked to better leverage their data. It's not surprising because we know that data-driven organizations win in the market and outperform their peers, but companies are awash in data. Tons of information is available, from CRM systems regarding customers, to ERP applications providing insight on financial practices, to security sources helping us prevent cyber attacks. Today Pankaj talks about how organizations can use data to more effectively determine the cause of their problems and how to best operate. 

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Talking Points:

How FortressIQ has impacted or adjusted shifts in data usage trends

Examples of counterintuitive data

Discovery process intelligence discovery and traditional process mining technology

Uncovering more data and operations to alleviate challenges and help programs scale across an enterprise

Defining decoding and how that adds value to an enterprise

Tackling operational excellence by decoding work

How organizations keep up with constantly evolving technology

Resources/Links:

FortressIQ

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Welcome to the second season of the hello human podcast, where we're going to discuss the latest topics in artificial intelligence and how it's being applied in the real world. A special thanks to fortress IQ for their continued sponsorship of the show. My name is John Knisley, and I am back for season two as your host of the hello human podcast. 

This season, we are going to be talking with the leading practitioners of AI solutions that are having a real impact. Each episode, we'll explore a specific industry, upcoming sessions, tech, everything from healthcare providers and corporate security to luxury, fashion, and quick serve restaurants. Every industry is unique in AI is having a material impact on every one of them.

So settle in for another season of hello human and hear what the leading voices in AI are working on today and predict for tomorrow. Subscribe anywhere you listen to podcasts. Welcome back humans. And thanks for listening.

Today’s focus is all about human intelligence versus machine intelligence. Our guest, Dr. Yael Gold-Zamir is the CEO of Embryonics, gives us a unique insight on this topic. Embryonics focuses on developing and applying data-driven solutions to improve the success rates and the journey of fertility treatments. 

Computers have always been superior to humans when it comes to computational-heavy work. Our brains are simply not wired to handle as much data as a computer. As humans, our domain has always been judgement dependent expert decision-making. But that gap is narrowing. Computers have been out-performing humans in various fields for a number of years. Embyonics is just one of those examples. Embryonics technology out-performed a panel of embryologists in predicting which embryos would result in pregnancy by over 20%. According to their website and backed by the countless lives they’ve changed, their algorithm boasts a 12% increase of positive predictive value and a 29% increase of negative predictive value.

In today’s episode, host Jon Knisley, long-time technologist, and series producer Elizabeth Mitelman talk with Dr. Yael Gold-Zamir about the use of AI in the medical field, specifically in IVF. How has AI helped the field of fertility? How can you use AI in the medical field to change lives for the better? Dr. Yael Gold-Zamir shares her passion for medicine, her story of being the first woman in her community to get a medical degree, what it taught her, and her advice to women who want to go into the ever-evolving world of technology and AI.

Talking Points:

Dr. Yael Gold-Zamir’s journey into the medical field, specifically IVF

The importance of experience versus data

Where can we get the best outcome: human diagnosis, AI diagnosis, or a combination of both?

How to avoid bias within the industry

The decision to build and run Embryonics

Using AI to better the lives of women and their families

What does the future of AI look like?

Advice for the next generation of women in AI and technology

Resources/Links: 

Yael Gold-Zamir, LinkedIn

Embryonics

“Data-Driven Prediction of Embryo-Implantation Probability Using IVF Time-lapse Imaging”

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