Ladies Learning Code (LLC) is a not-for-profit organization with the goal of teaching 200,000 Canadian women and youth to code by 2020. It’s a fantastic organization that Georgian Partners is proud to support. In this episode, Steve Leightell speaks to two of LLC’s founders, Melissa Sariffodeen and Laura Plant, to learn more about who the organization works with, what their goals and objectives are, and how they’re making a difference in tens of thousands of lives each year.

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Natural language processing (NLP) is a growing application of artificial intelligence. It can bring tremendous value to your client interactions and take your company down entirely new paths of process automation. In this episode, Jon Prial talks to Jason Brenier, CTO of Idibon, a San Francisco based company that provides cloud-based natural language processing services. Find out how your business can benefit from this amazing technology.

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In part 2 of our discussion on Machine Learning, Georgian Partners’ Madalin Mihailescu continues his conversation with Jeremy Barnes, founder and CEO of Datacratic. In addition to learning about Datacratic and its machine learning database (MLDB) offering, you’ll also find out about other tools and services CTOs need for training machine learning models, the latest trends shaping the machine learning field and much more.

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Jeremy’s company Datacratic and the tools it offers (0:49)

Everyone’s talking about machine learning and how it can be applied to solving some of today’s top business problems. CTOs know that it’s becoming an imperative for building successful software products. But is it really the answer and, if so, how can companies over come the many execution gaps that exist? In this first episode of a two-part series, Georgian Partners’ Madalin Mihailescu talks with Jeremy Barnes, the Founder and CEO of Datacratic to get some unique perspectives about both the technol

More than $4 billion in venture capital has flowed into digital healthcare companies over the past couple of years alone. It's an exciting and evolving sector and one that could see trillions of dollars shift hands over the next few decades. To learn more, Georgian Partners' Steve Leightell joins Jon Prial for a discussion with Jeff Margolis, the Chairman and CEO of Welltok, a company that helps population health managers guide and incentivize consumers to optimize their health.

To be successful, today's companies not only need to be thinking about data security and privacy, they also have to be part of their DNA from day one. In fact, data security and privacy need to pervade companies, infiltrate their culture, and even end up in the hands of the sales teams to build trust. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Ben Sapiro, Senior Director of Security, Privacy, and Compliance at Vision Critical.

For B2B SaaS companies, creating value is the name of the game and critical for long-term success. But doing so is never easy. It takes discipline and a razor-sharp focus on the few key drivers. In this episode, Jon Prial talks to an entrepreneur who knows this all too well. As the former founder and CEO of PeopleAnswers, a predictive talent analytics software company, Gab Goncalves has been there and done that. Find out what it took for him to sell the business in 2014 at more than 7x revenue.

Montréal is a hotbed of activity for deep learning. Fueled by ambitious entrepreneurs and some ground-breaking research coming out of the University of Montréal, the city is at the forefront of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. In this episode, Jon Prial is joined by two machine learning practitioners: Nicolas Chapados, Chief Science Officer at Imagia, and Jean-François Gagné, Entrepreneur in Residence at Real Ventures.

If you want to get deep insights into what's happening in tech, sometimes the best way to learn is by talking to VCs. In this episode, Jon Prial chats to JS Cournoyer, general partner at RealVentures about the firm's fund and its approach to a variety of tech trends, including big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Find out where the industry is headed direct from someone with his finger on the pulse.

Target, Jeep, Ashley Madison. You don't have to look very far to find examples of major security breaches happening at businesses all around us. And it's not just the big guys that are at risk either. Companies large and small are finding themselves under attack. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with veteran entrepreneur and CTO Richard Hyatt about why it's so important to put security first in your business, and why keeping your environments separate is such a critical part of that process. You'll hear abo