This is a conversation with Jeff Croft, a seasoned expert in AI and its applications in business, covering his experiences and perspectives on leveraging AI for enterprise transformations. Jeff shares insights on the pitfalls of prolonged deliberation over AI adoption, the critical role of relationship selling in the era of infinite choices, and the proven strategies for integrating AI to achieve tangible business outcomes. He highlights the impactful use of AI in solving expensive and mundane problems within organizations and emphasizes the importance of a direct, action-driven approach towards technology adoption. Through examples from his tenure at Palantir and his advisory roles, Jeff paints a broad picture of the digital transformation landscape, offering valuable lessons on navigating the challenges and seizing the opportunities presented by generational AI technologies in modern enterprises.

Ari Kaplan is Databricks' Global Head of Evangelism, and a leading influencer in AI, databases, and sports analytics. He in known for innovating Major League baseball, creating the Chicago Cubs and Orioles analytics departments, and being President of the worldwide Oracle users group (22,000 members) when Oracle acquired MySQL, Java, and Peoplesoft. He traveled the world with McLaren Formula 1, assisting the racing strategy team to bring AI models to production. Caltech awarded him as an "Alumni of the Decade" and IBM as "Data Science Celebrity".

Welcome to another episode of The Manny Bernabe Show, where we explore the latest trends and insights in the world of AI and business. In this episode, we're excited to have Jon Weiss, an accomplished innovation and technology executive, join us to discuss the transformative potential of AI and analytics for small and midsize manufacturers.

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I’m joined by Ben Jacques to talk about the keys to successful machine learning in IoT. Ben is Director of Engineering for SpinDance, which specializes in architecting, building and managing connected smart products.

Shownotes: https://www.mannybernabe.com/posts/-030-unlocking-business-value-with-ai-at-the-edge-(iot)-w-ben-jacques

I’m joined by author Jimmy Soni to talk about his latest book “The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley”, which has become national best seller, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and listed by the Financial Times as “Books to Read in 2022”.

Show Notes: https://www.mannybernabe.com/episodes/-029-musk-thiel-coups-hackers-fraud-and-the-founding-of-paypal-w-author-jimmy-soni

I’m joined by Wallaroo Founder & CEO, Vid Jain, to chat about Wallaroo’s work with the US Space Force on satellite predictive analytics. We chat about solving a central challenge in getting value from your data science’s investment: model deployment, management, and ongoing monitoring.

Adam King, enterprise leader @ Medtronic, joins me to talk about finding practical AI applications for medical devices. Adam and I will chat about the process of finding an AI use case for MedTech and how/why business leaders can learn more about AI. Medtronic employs 90,000 people across 150 countries and is considered one of the world’s largest medical device companies.

Charlotte is a digital transformation strategy consultant and sales coach. She is helping traditional technology providers make the leap to a strategic, consultative-led teams delivering digital transformation services.

Michael is an adviser, entrepreneur, educator, and investor. In 2018, he exited his company LexPredict, an legal/NLP company. His latest venture licens.io helps startups and investors navigate the buying and selling process.

I talk with Dorian Smiley on why so many companies are having trouble with getting at business value with AI and data investments.