Today's guest is Afsheen Afshar. Afsheen is a Senior Business Executive and Deep AI Expert who has extensive experience across a variety of industries and enterprises driving large scale technological transformation associated with hundreds of millions in value. He held the first executive-level data and analytics role in multiple industries and companies.

Afsheen regularly advises start-ups, universities, investors, enterprises, and others across the globe on how best to leverage modern technology. He is active on multiple Advisory Boards in New York and Chicago by exploring multiple opportunities that can help catalyze large-scale technological transformation for traditional enterprises.

In the show, Afsheen will discuss:

The motivation for helping companies embrace AI,

Bridging the culture gap between business and technology,

Key steps on how to digitalise your business,

How to be successful within the data world,

The importance of effective communication skills,

and What to look for when hiring Data Scientists

Today's guest is Alexey Grigorev, Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group in Berlin. OLX empower people to upgrade their lives with their products and services aimed at making the exchange of goods and services easy and convenient for everyone. This benefits local communities and beyond with 350 million people using their leading marketplaces every month.

Founded in 2006, OLX Group combines the spirit and agility of a startup with the strong backing of one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world, Prosus. They improvise, experiment and listen to customers, as they aim to bring together teams to collaborate in an inclusive environment where all voices are heard.

In the show, Alexey will tell you about:

How he got involved in Data Science and Machine Learning,

OLX’s platform for online classified adverts,

His interesting Deep Learning projects,

Challenges of bringing Machine Learning models into production,

The role of the Full Stack Data Scientist

and What you can learn from his recent books

Today's guest is David Kuntz, Head of Data Science at Degreed in New York. Degreed is the upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities. They integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers, such as courses, articles, projects etc. and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles and goals.

David is a global leader in the field of AI-driven adaptive learning/personalized learning within Higher Education and the digital learning industry. He currently leads the Data Science function at Degreed, where they are leveraging extensive learner and skill data to help millions of people build the skills they need to build their future.

In the show, David will tell you about:

What is Degreed’s learning experience platform,

The challenges they are solving with data science,

Introducing Machine Learning to personalise offerings,

Building an effective data science team,

The biggest learns in his career,

and How to be a successful data scientist.

Today's guest is Joern Klinger, CEO and Co-Founder at biotx.ai in Berlin. Founded in 2017, biotx.ai delivers predictive biomarkers as a basis for decision support in precision medicine. They use novel, state of the art, machine learning approaches specifically designed to find complex patterns in biomedical data.

biotx.ai has the only AI specifically designed to make wide data manageable. Using graphs of contextual knowledge about metabolic pathways, protein co-expression and protein-protein interactions, they are able to separate the meaningful features from the noise. This allows them to apply all the benefits of big data to wide genomic data.

In the show, Joern will tell you about:

The motivation for setting up Biotx,

Developing a new strategy in response to COVID-19,

How Biotx stand out from the competition,

Challenges they need to overcome within drug discovery,

Transitioning from research into a business-focused startup,

Interesting use cases of their work in production,

and New trends and breakthroughs within biomedicine

Today's guest is Andrei Lopatenko, VP of Engineering within Search and Conversational AI at Zillow Group. Andrei brings years of experience designing, building and scaling world-leading search engines for hundreds of millions of users. Andrei has led various teams to build customer and business Machine Learning and NLP platforms within the real estate, e-commerce & retail sectors.

Founded in 2006, Zillow Group's mission to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter. Their homes are the heartbeat of their lives and they believe that finding a home shouldn’t be so hard in today’s always-on world. That’s why Zillow Group are reimagining the real estate transaction and changing the way people buy, sell, rent and finance their homes.

In the show, Andrei will discuss:

What Zillow Group offer in the real estate sector,

His motivation to constantly evolve and learn new things,

Challenges that his team are solving at Zillow Group,

Experience building successful engineering teams,

Advice for academics moving into industry,

Exciting trends in the search engine space

and What he enjoys about his role

Today's guest is Christoph Schwerdtfeger, Head of AI and co-founder at Signatrix in Berlin. Signatrix are using cutting-edge AI methodology and computer vision research to bring transparency to your retail and store environment. Be it at the checkout area, the open entrance area or other parts of the store, Signatrix offer the security of making your cameras notify you as soon as something happens.

In the show, Christoph will discuss:

Signatrix’s impactful work in the retail sector, such as detecting shoplifting,

Using Deep Learning to build and design their products,

Contributing to open-source computer vision projects,

Showing their customers the true potential of AI in the industry,

How AI will continue to shape the future of retail,

and Action recognition and understanding video content

Today's guest is Alexander Franz, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sennder in Berlin, who are Europe’s number one digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. With its in-house-developed platform, Sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market.

Sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers and logistics management solutions to shippers. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, Sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders.

In the show, Alex will discuss:

Sennder’s services within freight shipping,

The role of Data Science and Machine Learning at Sennder,

Applying Machine Learning within dynamic pricing,

Challenges they face day-to-day working with data,

How Route planning network automation will add value to customers,

and Emerging trends he sees impacting logistics.

Today's guest is Alix Lacoste, VP of Data Science at BenevolentAI in New York. BenevolentAI is the global leader in the development and application of AI for scientific innovation. They aim to accelerate the journey from inventive ideas to medicines for patients by developing AI to generate new treatments for some of the world’s 8,000 untreated diseases.

BenevolentAI's team of technologists, AI researchers and scientists build and applies AI to the entire drug discovery and development process. Alix leads the Data Science team, who responsible for developing machine learning and data science technologies to improve and evaluate the drug target identification pipeline from rare to more common diseases.

In the show, Alix will tell you about:

How she got involved in the Data Science world,

What is unique about Benevolent’s work within healthcare,

Their goal to fulfil the potential of AI within drug discovery,

Interesting projects she is currently working on,

What she loves about her job,

and Challenges to be aware of in building a successful data science team.

Today's guest is Kryztof Urban, Director of Data Science at HelloFresh in Berlin. HelloFresh are the world's leading meal kit provider with 281 million meals delivered to 2.97 million households worldwide in 13 countries across 3 continents in 2019. HelloFresh supplies everything you need to prepare quality, delicious, home-cooked meals. Every ingredient is carefully planned, locally sourced and delivered to your door when it’s most convenient for you.

In the show, Kryztof will tell you about:

The role of Data Science and Machine Learning at HelloFresh,

Optimizing communication to build a data-driven culture,

Deciding what projects are worth investing in,

Important Skills of a Data Scientist at HelloFresh,

The benefits they bring to customers,

and Future tech trends he believes will impact the industry.

Today's guests are Guven Toprakkiran, Data Engineer & Leonardo D’Ambrosi, Lead Data Scientist at Opinary in Berlin. Opinary's groundbreaking technology aggregates, analyses and visualises opinions and understands what the world is really thinking in real-time. Over 84 million monthly users understand complex debates at a glance and share their view with a single tap.

With offices also in London and New York, Opinary makes content interactive for leading global publishers like The Times, HuffPost, Forbes and many more. Blue-chip brands like Bayer, Siemens, Ford and MasterCard use their record-breaking engagement, conversion rates and premium reach for best-in-class content marketing and insights.

In the show, Guven and Leonardo will tell you about:

How Opinary help clients engage audiences,

Technical and business challenges they need to overcome,

Using data to optimize customer engagement,

Building real-time recommendation systems,

Making sense of textual data,

Predicting the engagement rate of content,

And The importance of collaboration between data scientists and data engineers.