The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action

Today's guest is Don Wright, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Clarigent Health in Ohio. Founded in 2018, Clarigent Health's patented AI identifies vocal biomarkers that signal potential suicidal risk, supporting clinical decisions and workflow efficiency. Clairgent's software unites vocal biomarkers with self-assessment scales and clinical judgment to generate individual progress trends risk alerts and population insights to mental healthcare providers. Prior to Clarigent, Don spent the previous decade growing Assurex Health from technology invented at Mayo Clinic and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to a company of nearly 500 employees serving almost two million people with mental health conditions. Don is also President at The Suicide Prevention Initiative and Depression Research Foundation, which provides research funding and opportunities, educates, fights causes and changes minds about mental health and suicide prevention. In the episode, Don will tell you about: What motivated him to set up Clarigent Health, The impact they make in the Healthcare sector, Interesting projects the Data Science team are working on, Building a successful Data Science team and What’s in store for the future at Clarigent Health

Today's guest is Kelvin Wursten, Senior Director of Data Science at PointClickCare. Founded in 2000, PointClickCare is the market leader driving the transformation of healthcare vulnerable and complex populations through a broad, connected care network powered by deep insights with a commitment to value, outcomes and innovation. They connect post-acute and acute care settings, people and systems like no other company. Their steadfast commitment to our culture and to providing growth opportunities to our employees is evidenced by the recent recognition of PointClickCare as one of Canada’s best-managed companies and most admired corporate cultures. In the episode, Kelvin will tell you about: The impact PointClickCare are making in the Healthcare sector, How they are using data to transform the patient experience, Overcoming the challenges of working with medical data, Advice to Data Scientists on moving into a role within Healthcare, Why he loves his job &  What’s in store for the future at PointClickCare

Today's guest is Scott Zailer, Vice President of Product at Bravium Consulting. Established in 2010, Bravium have quickly expanded their footprint in the Private and Public sectors by providing exceptional consulting services to clients in the areas of IT Project Management, Technology Consulting, Systems Life Cycle Development, IT Operations, Business Process Improvement and Performance Management. They deliver their services using a hands-on, personalized approach and offer our clients unparalleled support and solutions to complex issues. Bravium believe in working closely with our clients to help them realize their business objectives by leveraging our management and technology expertise. The company is built on innovation, drive and passion, and they use these core values to inspire new and creative solutions for clients. In the episode, Scott will tell you about: The interesting work he does with Bravium, Highlights and key learns during his career to date, What attracted him to join Bravium & The benefits that their product brings to customers

Today's guest is Oliver Mickler, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Tillhub in Berlin. Founded in 2015, Tillhub is an all-in-one iPad Point-of-Sale system for service providers and retailers. The system enables employees and customers to be organized to analyze sales in real-time and to generate reports for the tax office. The scalable cloud solution combines the classic cash register function with digital accounting, intelligent merchandise management and an eCommerce connection. In the episode, Oliver will discuss: The interesting work they do at Tillhub The benefits that their product brings to customers Interesting projects they are working on Applying Machine Learning to transform the customer experience Why do Data Science projects fail Future trends to keep an eye on in the payments industry

Today's guest is Dmitriy Starson, CEO and Founder at Passio in California. Founded in 2017, Passio is a machine learning company specializing in on-the-edge machine learning and real-time user interaction & engagement. Their first products are designed to help companies to add a real-time food recognition system to their applications. This empowers their users with tools for seamless food tracking and nutrition insights. In the episode, Dmitriy will tell you about: The motivation for setting up Passio, Use cases of applying AI within nutrition and healthcare, Their goal to help more companies embrace AI, The success they have enjoyed to date & What the future looks like for Passio

Today's guest is Sanjay Manandhar, CTO and co-founder at Wicket. Formerly ISM Connect, Wicket is a software company specializing in integrating computer vision solutions to enable facial authentication for touchless, fast, secure access management and presence detection. The Wicket Platform is designed to work together for facial ticketing, facial payments, visitor and staff access management, enabling a touchless, speedy and more convenient experience for fans, customers, visitors and staff. Sanjay is a Senior Executive with over 20 years of professional experience and key leadership positions in engineering, management, technology finance, business development and sales. As an experienced entrepreneur, he has built from the ground up two successful businesses. He also mentors and has invested in multiple startups within the FinTech, Healthcare, Media and SaaS software industries. His personal objective is to build innovative, sustainable, long-term and value-adding companies. In the episode, Sanjay will tell you about: The interesting work they do at Wicket, How they are applying AI and Machine Learning, Exciting projects they are working on, Use cases of the impact they bring to the sector, The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic within Crowd Management and Plans for further growth at Wicket

Today's guest is Nicholas Yancer, Chief Architect at Evergreen Systems in Virginia. An Elite ServiceNow partner, Evergreen Systems is an IT Service Management consulting firm focused on helping clients elevate the relevance of IT. Working in both the commercial and government markets, they bring innovative, elegant and practical solutions to our clients through a combination of market-leading technologies, industry best practices and value-driven services. In the episode, Nick will tell you about: How he got into the world of ServiceNow, What makes a great ServiceNow Architect, How ServiceNow adds value to customers, Where he sees the platform evolving in the future, Interesting use case of successful ServiceNow implementations &  Top tips from what he’s learned during his career to date

Today's guest is Felix Faber, Founder and CEO at MindPeak GmbH in Hamburg. Founded in 2018, MindPeak's mission is to make microscopical analysis accessible for everyone in the world. They automate visual processes in the clinical laboratory with Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. The demand for medical image analysis is growing rapidly but the number of cancer experts remains the same - this results in growing workloads per specialist. MindPeak help cancer experts meet this challenge. They build automation tools for visual diagnosis using state-of-the-art AI and deep learning. Their tools assist cancer experts in providing reliable and reproducible diagnoses. This frees specialists from tedious, repetitive tasks such as quantification of cells or biomarkers and allows them to focus on tasks where their human expertise is indispensable. In the episode, Felix will discuss: The exciting work he is doing with Mindpeak, Applying AI within pathology, How AI and automation is making people’s lives easier in the industry, Challenges they are solving using data science, How Covid-19 has transformed digitalisation in Healthcare & What’s in store for the future at MindPeak

Today's guest is Robert Parviainen, Senior VP of Data Science at Seriously Digital Entertainment in Los Angeles. Founded in 2013, Seriously combines a world-class creative team with a mobile-first experience to develop brands that can make a difference. Seriously build global entertainment franchises that come to life first as best-in-class mobile games and they are passionate about great storytelling and epic world-building, desperate conflict and hilarious comedy, unique characters and unlikely heroes. Seriously build brands that not only succeed commercially but also can give back to the world. They are driven to make great games, to tell great stories and to build the next generation of entertainment experiences. They want to make games that keep you playing in the blue glow of your phone until the small hours or to fire up quickly for just one more round during your lunch break. They create experiences that can inspire you and maybe, just maybe, make the world a better place. In the episode, Robert will tell you about: The interesting work they do at Seriously Digital Entertainment, The journey of building a data team from scratch, What he would do differently if tasked to start again, How they are applying data science & analytics to impact the gaming industry, How new technology has impacted the sector, The Data Science’s team input into game design & Exciting opportunities & what’s in store for the future

Today's guest is Victor Hanson-Smith, Head of Computational Biology at Verge Genomics in San Francisco. Founded in 2015, Verge Genomics is a next-generation biopharmaceutical start-up using systems biology to accelerate the development of life-saving treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. Verge's approach offers a breakthrough opportunity to identify drugs that dramatically improve patient outcomes and fundamentally lower the cost curve of pharmaceutical development. Victor leads a world-class team to discover new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. His team develops algorithms and software that integrates multiple types of genomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic data in order to reveal molecular mechanisms that cause disease pathology. They computationally predict small molecules and gene perturbations that can therapeutically reverse these mechanisms and test their predictions in living models, including human cell cultures and rodent models. In the episode, Victor will tell you about: What makes a good Computational Biologist, What attracted him to the field, The interesting work they do at Verge Genomics, How they are applying AI within the business, Overcoming challenges within AI ethics & Exciting opportunities and plans for growth within the team