How AI Built This

Heather is the Global Head of Data Science, Analytics & Visualisation at Specsavers managing a team of data scientists and analysts, and advising on best practise as well as Specsavers’ global data science strategy.

We had a great chat, going through Heather's career & education, from her thoughts on the PhD experience, to working for start-ups, a massive cruise company, a small sports retailer and now a global opticians!

Really enjoyed this one!

I hope you enjoy!

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Wojtek is the Co-Founder of NannyML, a start-up whose product bridges the gap between business and AI in production, monitoring decisions made by ML systems, and ensuring they are stable and reliable.

A Data Scientist by trade who built a successful consultancy firm, he is now building NannyML to help companies get the maximum value out of their investment into AI.

They have always been fully remote and are continuing to grow throughout the pandemic and have big plans for next year and beyond!

I hope you enjoy!

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Oguzhan is the Co-Founder and Head of AI at Top Data Science, a data science consultancy HQ'd in Finland.

We had a great chat about his PhD experience, setting up a data science consultancy, the work they do and how they ended up being acquired very quickly!

A fun chat and a good guy!

I hope you enjoy!

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Eero is the CEO of Valohai - the last MLOps Platform you'll ever need to try!

They provide Machine Learning Infrastructure as a Service - helping companies solve the challenge of MLOps in one easy to use platform - all whilst having lots of fun.

A Finnish native who has been shaped by the US start-up scene and was a lot of fun to talk to!

I hope you enjoy.

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Niels is the CEO and Founder of Sprout.ai an insurance technology company using AI to help automate the claims process as well as identifying potentially fraudulent claims for some of the biggest insurance companies in the world.

Sprout came about after a personal experience of using an insurance company and realising their was a problem that he could potentially fix.

After successfully raising money, growing a great team and working with some of the industries biggest names - Niels & the team are growing from strength to strength.

I hope you enjoy!

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Sanjay is the Head of Products and R&D at Transwap a fintech who have recently set up shop in Edinburgh with a brand new R&D hub.

We had a great chat about how he has turned his passion for AI from a hobby into a career, which is pretty inspiring!

Transwap are super interesting and it's cool to see them set up in Edinburgh for their R&D hub.

I hope you enjoy!

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Chris is the Lead Product Manager at Manchester AI phenomenon Peak.

A Data Scientist by trade and someone with a super interesting background and journey into data, it was great to chat to Chris.

We also chatted about Peak's upcoming one day data conference, AltitudeX which is being held in Manchester on November 4th - check it out www.altitudex.live or get in touch with me for more information.

I hope you enjoy!

As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. And for this episode we are sponsored by Peak and their data conference AltitudeX

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John is the newly appointed CEO of Edinburgh headquartered Data Analytics start-up Forth Point, focusing on helping organisations realise the potential of industry 4.0

Using his experience of setting up Aquila Insight, growing the team and company all the way to acquisition by Merkle, John is excited to jump back into start-up world and do something awesome!

We chatted about everything from his early days as a Data Scientist to setting up Aquila Insight, lessons learned and his thoughts on recruitment.

I hope you enjoy!

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Rich is the CEO of Gigged.AI, a new platform using Artificial Intelligence to help people take advantage of the 'Gig Economy'.

After a varied career in Sales, including a hugely successful stint at a multi-national Recruitment Agency, Rich was burnt out. He decided to take a break from everything and even dedicated a few months to training for an amateur MMA fight!

After some time to process everything and realising a side gig he had started whilst at Gartner had the potential to be something bigger, he and his Co-Founder went for it!

A great chat with a very interesting guy.

I hope you enjoy!

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Matt is the Head of Data Science at Manchester based scale-up Netacea!

I've known Matt for a long time so was buzzing to get him on the show.

He's experienced both sides of being recruited into data and hiring his own team so was a great person to have on.

I hope you enjoy!

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