AI Today Podcast

Gil Alterovitz, Director of AI at the Department of Veterans Affairs, leads groundbreaking initiatives to enhance healthcare for veterans. He discusses the creation of the National Artificial Intelligence Institute and its role in integrating medical and genomic data for better health outcomes. The conversation touches on innovative AI strategies to engage veterans, including a nonprofit matching them with clinical trials. Alterovitz also addresses the ethical implications of AI in healthcare and the need for user-friendly, explainable applications.

Over the last decade, data and analytics has grown to be more than just a quantitative support function. In this episode of the AI Today we interview Shiv Misra who is the Head of Medicare Retention Analytics at CVS Health. He has a very diverse background working at multiple large organizations. He shares with us how these various companies have approached data, some of the insights and challenges for dealing with data and AI from a healthcare and insurance perspectives, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Importance of Data Harmonization, Interview with Shiv Misra at CVS Health at Cognilytica.

Data is increasingly playing an important role at organizations, and especially financial institutions. Data privacy is increasingly becoming an important topic and something that should be considered through all stages of the data lifecycle and ML model lifecycle. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Rajeev Sambyal who is Director, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at BNY Mellon.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How Data Privacy is Impacting AI – Interview with Rajeev Sambyal, BNY Mellon at Cognilytica.

Khalifeh Al Jadda, Director of Core Data Science at The Home Depot, discusses how AI is transforming e-commerce by enhancing product recommendations, addressing challenges in data science adoption in retail, utilizing sentiment analysis, and exploring the future impact of AI on efficiency, safety, and health.

On the AI Today podcast we often discuss how AI is being applied at the federal level. However many states are also applying automation and AI technologies as well. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He shares will us how automation, advanced data analytics, and AI play an increasing role in state government, some unique challenges around data at the state level, some interesting or surprising insights you can share about how Virginia is using ML and AI and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI at the state level: Interview with Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia at Cognilytica.

Morningstar has been forward thinking in their use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance various processes. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Shariq Ahmad, Head of Technology for Morningstar’s Data Collection group. He shares with us how Morning is automating data collection, lessons learned along the way, as well as insights on responsible AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automating Data Collection: Interview with Shariq Ahmad, Head of Technology for Morningstar’s Data Collection group at Cognilytica.

Voice assistants are increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. It should come as no surprise then that one of the visions for voice assistants is to bring voice applications to vehicles. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Shyamala Prayaga, Autonomous Digital Assistant Vision Lead at Ford.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Humanizing Privacy and Ethics: Interview with Shyamala Prayaga, Autonomous Digital Assistant Vision Lead at Ford at Cognilytica.

It’s so surprise that the Federal Government is adopting AI. However it’s often less talked about how AI is being adopted at the state and local level. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dan Hoffman, Assistant City Manager for the City of Gainesville. He shares will us how automation, advanced data analytics, and AI play an increasing role in local government, some unique challenges local governments face with implementing AI solutions and attracting AI talent, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI at the City Level, Interview with Dan Hoffman, Assistant City Manager of Gainesville, FL at Cognilytica.

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has a long history with AI. As the first Director of the Artificial Intelligence & Technology Office (AITO) within the DOE, Cherly has been helping to develop, deliver and manage AI technologies in support of DOE with over 600 AI projects currently in place. In this podcast we explore how AI is impacting the DOE, their perspective on ethics and responsible use of AI, how the DOE is engaging industry and private sector in their AI efforts, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI’s Long History At Dept. of Energy, Interview with Cheryl Ingstad, Director, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Office at Cognilytica.

For many years banks have been at the forefront of using technology to help with many operations and processes. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jad Abou Maarouf who is Chief Data Officer at a regional mid-atlantic bank. He shares with us how banks are thinking about using automation and AI and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Human Side of Data for AI, interview with Jad Abou Maarouf, Chief Data Officer at Cognilytica.