Today's guest is Dominik Raute, Co-Founder and CTO at Justwatch. Based in Berlin, JustWatch redefines how users discover movies and TV shows in the booming jungle of streaming and content. The platform has rapidly grown to over 10 million entertainment users per month in 32 markets worldwide. JustWatch is on track to become the ultimate search and discovery platform for the "New TV“ era.

In the show, Dominik will tell you about:

The interesting work he’s doing with Just Watch,

Applying Machine Learning in their core business,

Challenges to be aware of when moving into AI and ML,

How he built an effective Machine Learning team,

Collaboration with Business Intelligence,

and What makes their media recommendation systems stand out

Today's guest is Johnny Quach. At the time of recording, Johnny was the Chief Product Officer at Airhelp in Berlin and has since moved onto a new adventure in Dublin. Johnny is a passionate entrepreneur looking to make an impact and believes vision should be results-driven and executed strategically.

He has success building successful companies across Germany, the UK, Brazil, Singapore and Thailand to name a few. He scaled from ten to 50 people at Airhelp, who are the world’s largest organization specializing in air passenger rights. They help travellers get compensation for delayed or cancelled flights and in instances of denied boarding.

In the show, Johnny will tell you about:

The interesting roles he’s enjoyed over the years,

What Airhelp is all about & how they use data,

The challenges of bringing together and data and product teams,

Most important KPI’s for the data analytics team,

How to drive business value and ROI,

and What he has learned throughout his career

Today's guest is Steffen Heilmann, Chief Technology Officer at Aroundhome in Berlin. Steffen is an internationally experienced senior executive with proven leadership skills that include IT strategy, business transformation, application development and outsourcing/vendor management. Steffen has a passion for motivating people and building high-performing, agile teams.

Steffen is responsible for all technical aspects and resources within Aroundhome. He is establishing a technological vision for the whole organisation and leading technological development to support the continuing growth and driving change at Aroundhome.

In the show, Steffen will tell you about:

What Aroundhome is all about,

Changes he has brought in since joining Aroundhome,

The goal of building a new data platform,

Challenges they needed to overcome,

Advice on how to build a new data strategy in your business,

and The importance of collaboration.

Today's guest is Mark O’Neill, Chief Technology Officer at KeyMe. Founded in New York in 2012, KeyMe is North America's most trusted full-service locksmith with guaranteed service quality. Their network of self-service kiosks are located thousands of retail locations across the country which supports the duplication of home, office and vehicle keys.

KeyMe's kiosks are complemented by the KeyMe locksmiths who provide unrivalled service quality for emergency lockouts and other skilled access and home services. As KeyMe's CTO, Mark brings two decades of experience in growing and leading multiple teams, as well as architecting and building systems to meet evolving eCommerce and media industry objectives.

In the show, Mark will discuss:

The services KeyMe offers to customers

Challenges they are solving using Machine Learning

Interesting Engineering and Data Analytics projects they are working on

Plans for further growth

Key traits they look for in the hiring process

Why he loves his role at KeyMe

Advice to academics on following your passion.

Today's guest is Max Philipp, Head of Data at Honeypot in Berlin. Founded in 2015, Honeypot is Europe’s leading tech job platform. Honeypot help build great engineering teams by connecting companies with technical talents from all over the world.

With Honeypot, you can hire faster through their pre-screened talents and recruit more transparently through profiles stating tech-stack, salary and location preferences. They believe technical recruitment should be simple and efficient with developers on Honeypot having a 90% response rate and an average of 25 days to make a hire.

In the show, Max will discuss:

The mission of Honeypot’s online job portal,

Setting up their recommendation system,

Developing stronger technical skills within Python and R,

The importance of data-driven decision making,

and How he plans to further scale Honeypot.io.

Today's guest is Jason Davis, Co-Founder and CEO at Simon Data in New York. Simon is a tool that transforms your data into clear insights that let you get more out of your marketing. You can connect your data in minutes, create customized segments, deploy to existing channels and discover what your customers want. Simon Data is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.

In the show, Jason will discuss:

How they enable brands to better use their data

Benefits they bring to customers

Building a successful team at Simon Data

What he loves about his role

What’s in store for the future at Simon Data

Key traits they look for in an ideal candidate

Today's guest is Brad Cordova, CEO at Canotic. Founded in 2019 with offices in Berlin and Washington, Canotic's AI Compiler uses AI + Humans to generate, structure and label any type of data. 

Canotic structure and label your data using data programs, which are flexible building blocks that can take any input (images, video and text etc.) and convert it to any output, such as classification, tagging and anonymization.

In the show, Brad will share with you:

The inspiration for setting up Canotic,

Canotic’s work in Labelling Data,

The challenges they face working with data,

Interesting use case of their work with an Agriculture company,

How Canotic can help you manage your data,

Human Intelligence & Machine Learning,

and The impact of Software 2.0 on society

Today's guest is Jason Ezratty, who is the Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Data Scientist at Brightfield in New York. Founded in 2006 as a workforce strategy consultancy, Brightfield has been a strategic advisor to the world’s largest companies looking to build, expand or optimize extended workforce programs.

Brightfield is the leading augmented analytics company powering the economics of digital transformation in the new world of work. The massive market inefficiencies caused by a lack of transparency into the price and performance of the extended workforce compelled Brightfield to replace anecdotes with data-driven facts by building a proprietary augmented analytics platform for unified workforce optimization.

In the show, Jason will tell you about:

How he transitioned into the world of Data Science,

Who are Brightfield and the benefits they bring to clients,

How they are using Data Analytics and Machine Learning in their product,

The exciting future ahead at Brightfield,

Why Brightfield is a great place to work,

and His key tips to aspiring developers and data scientists

Today's guest is Baver Acu, Chief Technology Officer at German Autolabs. Founded in Berlin in 2016, German Autolabs is a pioneer in automotive voice AI. Their Automotive Voice Assistance platform offers a full stack conversational assistance solution for the mobility sector. The fully offline-capable platform provides customizable white-label technology solutions for global verticals such as automotive and fleet management.

With its retrofit hardware, Chris the digital co-driver, German Autolabs bypasses automotive development cycles by leveraging deep domain knowledge of driver behaviour through the biggest connected fleet on the road. Chris is the first digital assistant made for drivers which allows you to safely operate your phone by voice and gesture while driving to message, navigate, make calls and play music. Chris lets you keep your eyes on the road.

In the show, Baver will discuss:

Products that German Autolabs offer to their customers

How their Voice Assistant compares to the competition

The features of their Automotive voice assistant

Impacting driver safety

Challenges they need to overcome

How AI will impact the automotive industry

Today's guest is Dr. Olivia Lewis, Head of Data Science at The Unbelievable Machine, who are an independent full-service provider for big data, cloud services and managed hosting. Founded in 2008 with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna, The Unbelievable Machine are developing precise solutions for individual business challenges of renowned customers such as Deutsche Post, Audi, Delivery Hero and Metro Group.

In the show, Olivia will discuss:

What attracted her to the world of data science,

The services provided with the Unbelievable Machine,

The importance of Data quality,

Driving Active Learning in their business,

Their interesting work with Evonik building chatbots,

and Interesting research breakthroughs that excite her.