The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Bibhrajit Halder, Founder and CEO at SafeAI in Santa Clara, CA. Founded in 2017, SafeAI are accelerating the World's Transition to Autonomous Mining and Construction. Safe AI's open and interoperable solution is giving off-highway equipment owners access to vehicle-agnostic autonomy that previously didn't exist. The significant value of this is demonstrated through gains in increased worksite productivity, safety and cost savings. Enabled by autonomy, each vehicle can add approximately 1,000 additional hours of productivity per year. It’s the difference between capital projects being completed in four years instead of five, and significantly under or over budget.  This is the beginning of a new era for heavy industry an era that is smarter, safer and more productive than ever. SafeAI is at the forefront of this movement to transition heavy industry to connected and autonomous worksites. In the episode, Bibhrajit will discuss: The interesting work they do at SafeAI, How he has seen the autonomous industry evolve over the past 20 years, Behind the scenes into how they are using AI, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, What excites him for the future of SafeAI & Exciting opportunities to join the team at SafeAI

Today's guest is Brett DiNatale, Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial Analytic Solutions at PRECISIONxtract. Founded in 2017, PRECISIONxtract accelerates value realization by enabling data science, leveraging analytics and innovating with technology to transform the way we connect with customers. The company's seasoned team of industry experts leverages best-in-class data mining, innovative analytic methodologies, deep customer knowledge and state-of-the-art strategic frameworks to create high-yield, actionable solutions. Brett leads a team of data scientists, solution architects and analytic consultants to design optimal analytic solutions to their clients' business needs. His role is to lead the vision for and execution of innovative analytical methods addressing strategic commercial needs for clients. Whether it's building analytic evidence for a point in time strategy, designing and building a BI platform or leveraging advanced methods to answer business questions, they can provide a right-sized solution. In the episode, Brett will discuss: The work they are doing in the pharmaceuticals sector, Typical projects his team work on in Commercial Analytic Solutions, Benefits their products bring to customers such as predicting patient behavior, Current structure and working culture of the team, What the future holds for PRECISIONxtract,and What they look for when growing the team

Today's guest is Semih Korkmaz, Co-Founder at Stoovo in San Francisco. Founded in 2018, Stoovo believe you should never be limited when it comes to opportunities. Everyone deserves to be in control of their finances and the way they work. That's why the Stoovo app empowers people to work and earn on their own terms. In the episode, Semih will discuss: The origins & current work they do at Stoovo, An insight into the problems they are solving for customers, The role of AI and it’s impact in the business, Current projects the team are working on, Plans for growth and what the future holds, and What he learned from building a startup

Today's guest is Ben Tengelsen,  VP of Data Science at IntelyCare in Greater Boston, MA. Founded in 2014, IntelyCare are the leading tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations in the U.S. Through their AI-based platform, they schedule and match nursing professionals with open assignments at 1,600+ organizations across the country. In doing so, they provide nurses and nursing assistants with unprecedented flexibility in their work lives, while at the same time empowering healthcare organizations to take control of how they manage nursing staff. Ben leads a team of data scientists and analysts in their mission to generate as much value as possible from IntelyCare's data. They are experts at statistical and predictive modeling, but are also fullstack engineers when it comes to scaling and deploying models. Projects include a state-of-the-art pricing algorithm (AI based, learns in real time), a powerful recommendation engine (used for both in-app recommendations and targeted messaging), and various forecasting algorithms to manage things like on-call pools, engagement campaigns and last-minute requests. In the episode, Ben will discuss: The work IntelyCare do helping nurses, How they use data at IntelyCare, The role of Machine Learning & Data Science within the platform, What it’s like to be part of the Data Science team, The impact of Covid-19 within the business, and Plans for growth & what the future holds for IntelyCare

Today's guest is Erik Duhaime, Co-Founder and CEO at Centaur Labs in Boston, MA. Founded in 2017, Centaur Labs offers medical data labeling (classification, segmentation etc.) from a network of medical experts. Instead of having to choose between the high cost of hiring physicians or the low quality of crowdsourced/blended teams, they offer an alternative that leverages collective intelligence and performance based incentives. Centaur Labs' technology - developed by researchers at MIT - collects multiple opinions per case with labelers competing against each other for cash rewards. This process ensures that quality assurance is baked into the process since the labelers are incentivized to perform at the highest level on every case analyzed. Centaur Labs offers industry leading accuracy, affordable pricing and very low management overhead on the part of the client since all engagements include a dedicated customer success manager. In the episode, Erik will discuss: Their mission to annotate the world’s medical data, Early challenges and the journey of building the company, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, Combining AI with the user experience, An insight into the team and working culture, and What the future holds for Centaur Labs.  To find out more, check out the website www.centaurlabs.com

Today's guest is Andrew Konya, CEO at Remesh in New York. Remesh was founded in 2014 with the mission to create a technology that could truly represent the will of the people and amplify their collective voice. As a company, they believe in the power of helping people understand one another, which requires engaging, exchanging ideas, and having a dialogue with groups of people at a massive scale. Remesh believe that conversations that bridge cultural, political, social, economic and geographic divides ultimately lead to a more unified and less divided world. Remesh's platform leverages AI to analyze the opinions and interactions of up to 1,000 participants in real-time and helps understand the responses that best represent the group, all in a matter of minutes. You can discover trends and themes that were most common with your audience, compare and contrast responses between audience segments, and export all of your data in just one click. Customers across many industries use Remesh to better understand their audience, enabling them to make better products, companies and governments. In the episode, Andrew will discuss: The origins and current work he does with Remesh, How the company has evolved over the past nine years, Use cases of the benefits they bring to customers, The role of AI & ML in their platform, Plans for growing the team, and  What excites him for the future at Remesh

Today's guest is Christopher Li, Co-Founder and CEO at BioBox Analytics in Toronto, Canada. As their understanding of life sciences grow, so does the scope of research. Legacy software was built to tackle challenges that now represents a small fraction of modern research needs. BioBox is revolutionizing the way they do research by creating the world’s most intelligent and intuitive data analytics platform for modern scientists. Scientific breakthroughs are often just around the corner, but when the tools are scattered all over the place, they can be missed. BioBox was designed to provide scientists with all the tools they need along their journey all in one place. BioBox is a platform that manages your data and your research computing infrastructure, which means you spend less time looking for data and setting things up, and more time for your research. In the episode, Christopher will discuss: The journey to founding BioBox Analytics, Their mission and challenges they are solving within scientific research, The role of Data & Machine Learning in the BioBox platform, The current make-up of the engineering team, Plans for further growth and upcoming projects, and The impact BioBox Analytics are making in the industry

Today's guest is Mehrshad Setayesh, CTO at NextHealth Technologies in Denver, Colorado. NextHealth Technologies is demystifying the most complicated industry in the land: the American healthcare system. They empower decision makers  to cut through the complexity and get to better decisions faster, and ultimately do what everybody needs: make healthcare more affordable. Health plan leadership - from the C-suite, to program managers, to critical initiatives champions - all stand to benefit from NextHealth Technologies. Together, they will identify which members to engage and how to reach them. Through personalized outreach and analytics, they can predict who’ll enroll, participate and stick with each program. In the episode, Mehrshad will discuss: The interesting work he does with NextHealth, How the tech & data team is structured for success, Use cases of the AI & ML projects they deliver for customers, The success they’ve enjoyed in the past couple of years, Plans for growing the team, and What excites him for the future at Nexthealth

Today's guest is Jay Nanduri, Chief Technical Officer at Truveta in Seattle. Founded in 2020, Truveta's aim is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Clinical data from their members is de-identified daily and brought together in an unprecedented data platform to enable research on all health conditions. Truveta believe their collective de-identified data can be used to accelerate research, advance health equity and save lives. Jay is a former Microsoft Technical Fellow with over twenty years of experience, 25+ patents and several publications that demonstrate exemplary technical and business leadership. He has a proven track record of managing and delivering mission critical projects from conception to delivery. Jay also has extensive hands-on experience in designing highly scalable distributed systems, big data, big graph, secure internet platforms, fraud prevention, BI analytics, Ecommerce, personalization, workflow systems and Machine Learning/AI platforms. In the episode, Jay will discuss: His background and previous experience with Microsoft, What motivated him to move to Truveta, The work they do at Truveta and defining their mission statement, Their focus on data coverage, data quality, data consumption and community, Using AI for the benefit of health systems, researchers and clinicians, Using Healthcare Data responsibly and Career opportunities within AI in Healthcare

Today's guest is Adam Gotlin, Head of Business Analytics at Kaia Health in New York. Founded in 2016, Kaia Health is a leading digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders including musculoskeletal conditions and COPD. Kaia Health uses innovative technology such as AI and Computer Vision, and works with medical experts to create an interdisciplinary digital approach. This empowers and motivates individuals to take control and self-manage their condition with effective, non-pharmacological, digital alternatives at low costs. In the episode, Adam will talk about: The work they do at Kaia Health in home rehabilitation care, The role of AI in their platform, Creating the best user experience for customers, The impact of Covid-19 on the business, How the tech team is set up for success, The culture and what it is like to work at Kaia Health & What the future holds for the company