Leading With Data

In this exciting first episode of Leading with Data for the new year 2025, we are honored to host Navin Dhananjaya, Chief Solutions Officer at Merkle. With over 27 years of expertise in data, analytics, and technology for Fortune 1000 companies, Navin has been at the forefront of transforming customer experiences. He played a pivotal role in developing Merkle GenCX, leveraging generative AI to redefine customer engagement.

This week, we sat down with Anand Ranganathan, Chief AI Officer and Co-founder of OneByZero. A seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience at IBM and multiple startups under his belt, Anand now leads global consulting projects in Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Data Platforms, while building a talented team of over 50 professionals across three countries.
Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll learn in this insightful episode:

➡️ Anand’s journey into data science and AI, and what his early days in the field looked like.
➡️ Why he left a decade-long career at IBM to venture into entrepreneurship and the challenges he tackled.
➡️ The story behind his first startup, Unscramble, and its milestones.
➡️ How he adapted to the structural differences between building Unscramble and OneByZero.
➡️ Key lessons learned from his journey and what he’d do differently now.
➡️ Exciting future trends in AI and the evolution of agentic workflows.
➡️ His advice for aspiring professionals, drawing from his 30+ patents, extensive industry experience, and entrepreneurial journey.

Don't miss out on this thought-provoking conversation!
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This week, we have Alan Nichol, Co-founder & CTO of Rasa, a leading open-source conversational AI company that empowers developers to create advanced bots capable of more than just answering simple questions. With a rich academic background and a passion for innovation, Alan has built a thriving product, maintained an open-source version, and fostered a strong community around it.

Celebrating 50 episodes of Leading with Data, this time, we’re joined by Didier Rodrigues Lopes, Founder and CEO of OpenBB, a company revolutionizing the space of open-source financial tools. Before founding OpenBB, Didier worked as a sensor fusion engineer at NURVV, where he played a pivotal role in enhancing the GNSS receiver’s time-to-first-fix, re-imagining altitude estimation with Kalman Filters, and designing a GPS filtering algorithm to improve accuracy.

This week, we’re joined by Mark Landry, Director of Data Science & Product at H2O.ai and a top-ranked Kaggle Grandmaster. With extensive experience supporting data science for various H2O.ai products and award-winning applications developed with PwC, Mark’s journey spans data science, business intelligence, and data warehousing roles across healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing.

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in store:

  ➡️Mark’s early competition days and how they shaped his role at H2O.ai.
   ➡️Key lessons from competitions and their real-world applications.
   ➡️His perspective on GenAI and recent advancements in AI.
   ➡️A closer look at how H2O Document AI works.
   ➡️Thoughts on the evolution of LLMs and Vision Transformers.
  ➡️ The role of agentic AI in solving today’s business challenges.
   ➡️An overview of his work on multimodal training for H2O’s LLM, including its process and applications.

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We’re thrilled to feature Eleni Verteouri, AI Tech Lead and Director at UBS, who has over a decade of experience in model development and innovation in the financial sector. A recognized leader in responsible AI, Eleni has helped shape modern financial technologies as an advisor, lecturer, and recipient of the Forbes Cyprus 20 Women in Tech Award 2024. She holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance from ETH Zurich and an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras.

Join us as we talk with Bob van Luijt, CEO & Co-Founder of Weaviate, a rapidly growing database company pioneering AI-native applications through an open-source cloud platform. Bob is a recognized thought leader on open-source, digital technology, software business, and business philosophy.

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Join us as we sit down with Rohan Rao, Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai, for an exciting episode of Leading With Data. With his vast expertise in AI and machine learning, Rohan helps build cutting-edge solutions across industries. In this podcast, the Quadruple Kaggle Grandmaster and 9-time Indian Sudoku Champion shares with us his roadmap for selecting LLMs.

In our latest episode, we’re thrilled to host Gaurav Agarwal, the Founder and CEO of RagaAI, a pioneering AI testing platform. With over 15 years of experience in the AI industry, Gaurav is a recognized thought leader. Before founding RagaAI, he served as Vice President and Head of Software Product, Engineering, and AI at Ola Electric Mobility and held key positions at NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and Ola.

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