Today’s guest is Daniele Cordioli, Head of Solutions Consulting for EMEA at Expert.ai. In this episode, Daniele discusses what contract analytics means and the concrete use-cases we can get from it. There are two big transferable lessons that Daniele highlights in this interview. The first lesson is determining the low-hanging fruit cases where AI can save money and reduce risk when dealing with your volume of contracts. Second, the proper method to establish where the business value lies in your own business. This episode is sponsored by expert.ai. If you’re interested in reaching Emerj’s global AI-focused executive audience through podcasts, emails, sponsored content, and more, you can contact us at emerj.com/ad1.

Today’s guest is Carlos Escapa, AI Global Business Development Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook), and in this episode, we explore what business leaders need to know about open source. Carlos clarifies what open source is and what is relevant for enterprise leaders, and the kinds of situations in which open source tools might be more suitable. He also discusses where leveling up and retaining talent crosses over with open source. Be sure to join Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1 to unlock our entire library of AI use-cases, best practice guides, white papers, frameworks, and more.

This week’s guest is Peter Tu, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at GE Global Research. Peter joins us to discuss the transition from the previous era of AI into the current “third wave” of AI in a way that will make sense for business people. He also shares insight on what it’ll take for AI to make the leap to contextual adaptation and what this might mean for business leaders in terms of how it could affect their current processes. If you’re interested in discovering AI trends and being able to identify AI use-cases and trends in your industry, be sure to stay tuned until the end of this episode to learn more about Emerj’s tools designed for business leaders and how to access them to discover more AI opportunities and maximize AI ROI.

This week’s guest is Rajkumar Bondugula, Fellow and Luminary Scientist at Verizon. Rajkumar holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and was previously the Principal Data Scientist at Equifax. In this episode, Rajkumar clarifies some of the critical differences between business intelligence, analytics, and data science. He also discusses how these concepts build upon one another and help businesses level up their services. If you’re interested in more insights on building AI maturity, building proper data science teams, being able to identify high-value AI projects and move them forward, be sure to check out Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1 to unlock our AI best-practice guides, whitepapers, and entire AI use-case library.

Our guest this week is Stacey Shulman, Vice President Internet of Things Group / GM Health, Life Sciences and Emerging Technologies at Intel Corporation. In this episode, Stacey discusses where she sees AI make its way into healthcare now, how Covid has affected how adoption has been prioritized, and its consequences in the future. Stacey’s insights about how healthcare is evolving are correlated to how other enterprises are also adjusting their strategies or potentially should be in the setting of the ongoing pandemic. If you’re interested in unlocking our AI best practice guides, frameworks for AI ROI, and specific resources for AI consultants, visit emerj.com/p1.

Today’s guest is Anand Mahurkar, Founder and CEO of Findability Sciences. With about 100 employees worldwide, Findability operates in a variety of industries, including manufacturing. In this episode, Anand provides an in-depth overview of the workflows that are impacted in predicting inventory and resource use in manufacturing. He also discusses what it looks like to determine the data sources you’re going to use and influence the workflows you will use to make more informed forecasting decisions. This episode is sponsored by Findability Sciences. If you’re interested in finding more high ROI use-cases in your sector, be sure to download our free PDF brief, “3 Ways to Detect AI Trends in Any Sector,” at emerj.com/t3.

Today’s guest is Bob Gaines, Managing Director of Business Development at SambaNova Systems, a firm based in the Bay Area that has raised $1B to date. Bob has worked in financial services and technology with companies like IBM, Cray Supercomputing, Deephaven Data Labs. In this episode, he brings his perspective on how this technology has evolved regarding AI’s impact in finance and where it’s going. He also discusses how AI is being used not just to look at the individual entities exchanging funds but also to look at the behavior of the entities around them and the entities they do business with. This episode is sponsored by SambaNova Systems. Visit emerj.com/ad1 to learn more about reaching our global audience.