Intel Chip Chat

Sixto Cancel, Founder and CEO of Think of Us, joins us to discuss using AI to improve support for foster youth. Think of Us, which started as a commitment to action from the Clinton Global Initiative University, leverages technology, data, and multimedia to improve policy, practice, and outcomes for youth and families. In this interview, Cancel talks about Think of Us’ work to facilitate the transition from foster care to adulthood, Think of Us’ use of AI to identify promising pathways from foster care to self-sufficiency, the organization’s engagement with the technology community at large to find new ways to improve child welfare, and the potential for AI to identify promising pathways from foster care to self-sufficiency. For more information on Think of Us, please visit http://thinkof-us.org/ and follow Cancel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Sixtocancel.

Lila Ibrahim, Chief Operations Officer for Coursera, joins us live from Intel AI Day in San Francisco. Coursera is an international leader in online education, offering more than 1,700 courses to more than 23 million learners worldwide. As first announced at AI Day, Coursera has named Intel as one of its first corporate content partners. Together, Coursera and Intel will develop and distribute courses to democratize access to artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this interview, Ibrahim talks about her and Coursera's history, reports on Coursera's progress delivering education at massive scale, and discusses Coursera and Intel's unique partnership for AI. For more information on Coursera and Ibrahim's work, please visit http://www.coursera.org and follow Ibrahim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lilaibrahim.

Toby Ford, Assistant Vice President of Cloud Technology, Strategy, and Planning at AT&T, joins us to discuss AT&T's cloud strategy. Ford is one of the architects of AT&T's efforts to move 75% of its network traffic to virtualized network functions by the year 2020. In this interview, Ford talks about why NFV and SDN are so important to meeting customer demand, reports on AT&T's network virtualization efforts thus far, and predicts where AT&T will next focus its virtualization efforts. For more on Ford's work, please visit http://about.att.com/innovation/sdn.

Kathy Ball, Manager E&P Analytics and Data Science for Devon Energy, joins us live from Intel AI Day in San Francisco. A data science pioneer in the oil & gas industry, Devon Energy uses AI to find oil and gas more effectively, efficiently and safely. In this interview, Ball assesses the use of AI technologies within Devon and the industry at large and reports on business outcomes Devon is realizing via AI. For more information on Devon Energy's use of AI, please visit http://www.dvn.com and follow Ball on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Ballka3.

Kathy Ball, Manager E&P Analytics and Data Science for Devon Energy, joins us live from Intel AI Day in San Francisco. A data science pioneer in the oil & gas industry, Devon Energy uses AI to find oil and gas more effectively, efficiently and safely. In this interview, Ball assesses the use of AI technologies within Devon and the industry at large and reports on business outcomes Devon is realizing via AI. For more information on Devon Energy's use of AI, please visit http://www.dvn.com and follow Ball on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Ballka3.

In this special edition of Intel Chip Chat, John Healy, GM for the Datacenter Network Solutions Group at Intel, and Jeff Spagnola, VP for Service Provider Sales at Cisco, discuss the future of NFV and SDN. In this wide-ranging conversation, Healy and Spagnola talk about the current state of the market for NFV and SDN from a sales team perspective, share lessons learned from the last five years of NFV and SDN implementations, and offer a look at how Cisco and Intel have partnered to drive this ecosystem. Healy's and Spagnola's discussion originally aired as a webcast that can be viewed at https://intel.sherpadm.com/portals/sdnnfv/. For more information on Intel's and Cisco's work in network transformation, please visit http://networkbuilders.intel.com.

In this special edition of Intel Chip Chat, John Healy, GM for the Datacenter Network Solutions Group at Intel, and Jeff Spagnola, VP for Service Provider Sales at Cisco, discuss the future of NFV and SDN. In this wide-ranging conversation, Healy and Spagnola talk about the current state of the market for NFV and SDN from a sales team perspective, share lessons learned from the last five years of NFV and SDN implementations, and offer a look at how Cisco and Intel have partnered to drive this ecosystem. Healy's and Spagnola's discussion originally aired as a webcast that can be viewed at https://intel.sherpadm.com/portals/sdnnfv/. For more information on Intel's and Cisco's work in network transformation, please visit http://networkbuilders.intel.com.

Jack Weast, Principal Engineer and Chief Systems Engineer for Automated Driving Solutions at Intel, joins us to discuss Intel’s car, connectivity, and cloud solutions for the next era of driving. In this interview, Weast outlines Intel's vision for automated vehicles, talks about the advances needed for more sophisticated autonomous driving use cases, and reports on Intel's work with ecosystem partners to develop an end-to-end technology portfolio to power this revolution. For more information on Intel autonomous driving technologies, please read our white paper "A Matter of Trust: How Smart Design Can Accelerate Automated Vehicle Adoption," http://intel.ly/2jF8hM6.

Matt Yurdana, Creative Director for the Internet of Things Experiences Group at Intel, joins us to discuss user interfaces for autonomous vehicles. Intel is working with academic and industry partners to research, design, and prototype the experiences people will have with highly- and fully-automated vehicles. In this interview, Yurdana discusses the critical need to earn consumer trust in autonomous vehicles, envisions the future of in-car experiences as we shift from drivers to passengers, and gives a peek behind the scenes of the Intel user experience labs that are helping define the next era of driving. For more information on Intel autonomous driving technologies, please read our white paper "A Matter of Trust: How Smart Design Can Accelerate Automated Vehicle Adoption," http://intel.ly/2jF8hM6.

Jack Weast, Principal Engineer and Chief Systems Engineer for Automated Driving Solutions at Intel, joins us to discuss Intel’s car, connectivity, and cloud solutions for the next era of driving. In this interview, Weast outlines Intel's vision for automated vehicles, talks about the advances needed for more sophisticated autonomous driving use cases, and reports on Intel's work with ecosystem partners to develop an end-to-end technology portfolio to power this revolution. For more information on Intel autonomous driving technologies, please read our white paper "A Matter of Trust: How Smart Design Can Accelerate Automated Vehicle Adoption," http://intel.ly/2jF8hM6.