The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Mike Brooks, Director of Product Management at Gather AI. Founded in 2017, Gather AI are on a mission to bring the power of data analytics to the physical world. The company's autonomous drones employ state-of-the-art Machine Learning technology to help operations take flight. Cutting-edge warehouses use Gather AI’s drone-powered inventory monitoring to decrease the cost of inventory accuracy, improve productivity and boost revenue. Mike is a driven, talented and ambitious leader with a strong technical background and experience running product. He is a strong communicator who is comfortable working across multiple disciplines, along with possessing a deep technical understanding with years of hands-on experience as a software engineer. As a motivated, enthusiastic and fast-learning teammate, Mike is always looking to expand his responsibilities and take on new challenges to learn and make an impact. In today's episode, Mike chats about: His background and journey to now, How Gather AI are revolutionizing inventory management, His day-to-day role as Director of Product Management, An insight into the autonomy and ML engineering team, What the near future looks like for Gather AI, Career opportunities with Gather AI

Today's guest is Alex Beachy, Senior Director, ServiceNow platform at ICF in Reston, Virginia. Founded in 1969, ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider that combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change and shape the future. Through deep domain expertise and cutting-edge digital services, ICF are helping clients contribute to a healthier planet, create more resilient and equitable communities, support economic development and growth, and more. Alex has decades of professional leadership experience in a diverse realm of IT strategy, acquisitions, operations, contracts, maintenance, logistics and sales. He joined ICF in May 2023 where he is currently leading their ServiceNow practice of more than 500 ServiceNow practitioners. His responsibilities are to ensure that ICF’s ServiceNow delivery is of the highest quality, that customer value for their ServiceNow investments is maximized, and that the ICF-ServiceNow partnership is the one to be emulated. In this episode, Alex talks about: His journey from the marine to a leader in ServiceNow, A Mission-focused consultancy merging tech for impactful solutions, How success hinges on aligned partnerships with clients, partners and ServiceNow, Three pillars of the business: platform innovation, service delivery and governance, Plans for elevating talent, ServiceNow offerings and specialized content packs, What makes ICF a great place to work

Today's guest is Devanshi Vyas, Co-Founder at Censius. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Censius are an AI Observability Platform for Enterprise Machine Learning Teams. They offer end-to-end visibility of structured and unstructured production models and adopt a proactive approach toward model management to continuously deliver reliable ML. Censius believe in a future that is transparent, fair and trustworthy for all. This necessitates understanding how AI make decisions, installing safeguards to mitigate outliers and actively ensuring that human bias doesn't creep in. They believe the impact will be profound for decades to come. In today's episode, Devanshi talks about: Her background and journey to founding Censius, Empowering ML practitioners with accessible AI observability solutions, Offering enhanced NLP summarization with robust observability and actionable insights, An insight into the team and plans for growth, Valuing adaptability, learning and responsible AI practices

Today's guest is Jacques Clement, Business and Integration Architect – Associate Director at Accenture in Luxembourg. Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers, they serve clients in more than 40 industries across 120+ countries. Accenture embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for their clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Jacques is an experienced IT specialist with a unique combination of technical skills, business acumen and international exposure. He has held a wide variety of technical, operational and managerial positions which has shaped a work ethic made of high standards, leadership by example, client commitment and professional excellence. Jacques had the privilege of working on international projects for the past 30 years which has given him wide experience in dealing with multiple cultures and interacting with remote teams. In this episode, Jacques talks about: Positioning ServiceNow for maximum customer value at Accenture, Accenture's role to amplify ServiceNow’s potential globally, An insight of the CMA program with value-focused advisor training, How the CMA fills ServiceNow value gaps, Forming tight, collaborative bonds for success, The CMA exam assesses platform skills with a real-case presentation, Prepare to continuously build and craft a cohesive, relevant story, Accenture’s investment in Generative AI and ServiceNow

Today's guest is Mat Davis, VP of Data Science at Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2003, Jazz Pharmaceuticals' purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. The company are focused on developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases - often with limited or no options - so they can live their lives more fully. By transforming biopharmaceutical discoveries into novel medicines, they are working to give people around the world the opportunity to redefine what’s possible – to make the “small wins” big again. Mat leads Jazz Pharmaceuticals' data science organization in R&D partners to leverage innovative experimental design, novel data sources and modern analytics across bioinformatics, statistics, data analytics and statistical programming, epidemiology and real world evidence. Their goal is to improve decision making, support registration and reimbursement, and uncover knowledge for their medicines to transform the lives of patients and their families. In today's episode, Mat talks about: His journey from math teacher to data science leader, An insight into Jazz Pharma and their patient focused culture, Excelling in medicine for neuroscience and oncology, Six key areas of focus such as bioinformatics, epidemiology and biostatistics, Embedding data science in functions to enhance a value creation approach, His data science vision to foster quantitative drug developers for approvals, Why to consider a career with Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Today's guest is Farhad Fetrat, Chief Product and AI Officer at Live Earth. Founded in 2015, Live Earth is a real-time data visualization and data streaming platform. Originally developed for US Special Operations Forces with real-time visibility during classified operations, their common operational analytics platform is designed for enhanced situational awareness. They have continued to innovate the platform for commercial use with a global customer base that includes the world’s top 100 financial institutions, telcos and utilities, as well as government agencies. Farhad is a Data Science and Analytics leader with over then years of hands-on experience in building and deploying machine learning products in finance and digital marketing sectors. He prides himself on a unique combination of technical depth and business acumen and driving successful analytics initiatives by setting the right strategy and vision, building analytical teams and mentoring. He possesses a consistent history of successful outcomes that add business value at large scale analytics initiatives to accelerate margin growth. In today's episode, Farhad talks about: His background in the engineering and financial world, How Live Earth unifies data, offers insights and proactive alerts, Streamlining data insights with automated AI-driven modules, What excites him for the near future at Live Earth

In today's show, we're delighted to welcome back Jeffrey Tefertiller, Digital Transformation Leader, CIO Advisor at Service Management Leadership. Jeffrey is an experienced Chief Information Officer and transformation leader who is laser-focused on business outcomes. He is a Business Continuity leader with 30 years of experience leading initiatives and large global teams, including a broad span of control and P&L responsibilities across many industries such as Health Insurance, Financial Services and Federal Government to name a few. Jeffrey has the ability to take complex problems and create solutions for varied audiences, from the C-level down to all levels of the organization. He is a high performer who has a love for excellence and knows what “success” looks like in several global, geographically-diverse roles. Jeffrey is a believer in analytics and metrics to measure success and opportunities for improvement. With a passionate and positive personality, he brings proven success and experience to positions of leadership. In the episode, Jeffrey will talk about: The current landscape of Digital Transformation in the federal sector, The need for better customer experiences in government services, Understanding the business problems you’re trying to solve, Removing digital friction to enhance the user experience, The importance of communication and managing expectations, Why Regular check-ins and conversations are essential to meet objectives

Today's guest is Thomas Vladeck, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Recast. in New York. Driven by a mission to rid the world of wasted marketing spend, Recast are committed to using the world’s most advanced techniques and technologies to solve the most important problems in marketing measurement. By helping marketers better measure and optimize their marketing budgets, Recast is helping businesses grow more profitably and invest more money in improving products rather than wasting money on useless advertisements. Tom co-founded Recast with Michael Kaminsky in 2019, creating the most advanced platform for measuring marketing effectiveness. His focus is mainly on underlying model and applications such as forecasting, optimization and experiment planning. Prior to co-founding Recast, Tom built a quantitative market research firm consulting for clients such as Amazon, McKinsey and Nike. He also holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Wharton. In today's episode, Thomas talks about: His background and journey to co-founding Recast, How Recast optimizes spending, forecasts accurately and tracks performance, Automating modelling to excel in accurate forecasts, Their unconventional startup journey and milestones to date, AI's rapid change, small data challenges & GPTs for interface design, and What makes Recast a great place to work

Today's guest is Pinaki Pal, Director of Service Management at OUTFRONT Media in New York. As one of North America’s most innovative media companies, OUTFRONT Media leverage the power of creative excellence, unbeatable locations and smart audience data to change the game for advertisers. The company's media powers brands to break through, be relevant and connect with audiences like never before. They leverage the power of technology, location and creativity to deliver impactful and engaging interactions with audiences as they live their lives. Pinaki is a transformational leader with over 20 years of proven international experience leading IT service management and technology operations. He is skilled at optimizing ITSM processes and driving the adoption of industry best practices in ITIL functions to deliver cost-effective services, aligned with business vision, strategy and growth. Pinaki has demonstrated success in developing long term strategies, execution roadmaps, priorities and policies to deliver optimized services at scale. In this episode, Pinaki talks about: His current role and an overview of his 20+ year career in ITSM, ServiceNow migration, process enhancements & integrations planned for OUTRONT Media, Benefits such as risk tracking, incident management & live dashboards, How Engaging stakeholders pre-rollout eased usage and reduced service time, Building a winning ServiceNow team, Providing access across channels, automating processes & seamless integration

Today's guest is Chris Fernandez, Executive Chairman and Chief Research Officer at EnsoData in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 2015, EnsoData uses artificial intelligence to automate waveform analysis and spotlight disease processes as they manifest over different timescales - whether looking for heart rhythm irregularities over seconds, glycemic index dynamics over minutes, sleep disordered breathing patterns over hours or indicators to preempt heart decompensation over days. EnsoData's first solution focuses on sleep medicine and reducing the time to score sleep studies, but the applications are endless. Their software has the capability of informing health decisions from monitoring patient health in the ICU or through wearables, to detecting and capturing seizure data, to earlier detection of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s. It is their goal to make healthcare more accurate, efficient and affordable. In today's episode, Chris talks about: His background and journey to founding EnsoData, From FDA clearances to funding and diagnosing millions with AI, An insight into the current team behind their success, The future of sleep data such as wearables and personalized therapies, Seeking innovators to revolutionize AI in healthcare advancements