Finding Genius Podcast

Reekita Gala founder of VRARE and Virtual Marketing Revolution joins Future Tech Podcast for the second time. Upcoming event in February 2019. http://www.virtualrevolutionmarketing.com. VR/AR Marketing Event hosted with Oculus Go in Virtual Reality.

MovoCash, Innovating mobile payment solutions for the Underserved market. Movo's product innovation leverages existing and emerging payment standards and banking infrastructure, resulting in a significant decrease in costs and latency found in traditional solutions while increasing consumers' ability to control, manage and interact with their money in real-time. MovoChain - Conver Bitcoin or Bitcoin cash to spendable cash in minutes.

CertifID instills trust in the funding process through real-time identity and account credential verification. CertifID was founded by Lawrence Duthler and Thomas Cronkright, experienced attorneys and award-winning business leaders of Sun Title, one of Michigan's largest title agencies which have been ranked as an Inc. 5000 company for the past four consecutive years. In 2015, Sun Title fell victim to a social engineering fraud that cost the company nearly $200,000. The fraud, which stemmed from an elaborate transaction scheme that took place over two months exposed Tom and Lawrence to the level of industry knowledge fraudsters acquired. Immediately following the fraud, Tom and Lawrence spent two years collecting a portion of the money that was stolen and discovered even more elaborate and complex schemes being perpetrated on the industry. Through that experience, they identified a need in the marketplace to create a real-time solution to verify identities and documents in financial transactions – CertifID was born. Having lived through a significant fraud event and having to continually combat the threat on a monthly basis the founders of CertifID know how critical the need is for this solution in the title, real estate, and lending industries. Their experience, partnerships, and leadership team positions CertifID to become a leader in the fight to eliminate fraud in real estate and financial transactions.

Ecanvasser is digital infrastructure for political parties, candidates and issue groups. It connects grassroots membership both to head office and to voters. In this way it allows parties to understand what voters are thinking and act upon that. It works like Salesforce for politics, allowing users to target voters for outreach and have access to great analytics tools. Our motto is "Making democracy work" and through every conversation, our clients have with voters (12 million and counting) we are rebuilding trust between voters and politicians.

Oddup is the leading company in startup ratings and analysis, with ICO and cryptocurrency rankings, helping investors and startups navigate the ICO, crypto and venture capital landscape. We analyse 20,000+ startups, 10,000+ investors, 2,000+ ICOs, 2,000+ Cryptocurrencies, 200+ sectors and 34 locations across North America, Europe, the UK and Asia Pacific.

Sparkki is a Salt Lake City-based lightweight and fast Online Learning Management System created specifically to teach to a variety of learning styles, combining traditional education research with emerging technology to empower schools and businesses to effectively deliver results without a physical campus and to make sure that students and employees have the necessary skills to be globally competitive in the workforce. Sparkki is built by educators, for educators. Whether the goal is to teach college students or factory employees, Sparkki utilizes proven educational theories, techniques, and practices, differentiating material for a variety of learning styles. Safe, secure, and supported by Amazon web services and blockchain technology, Sparkki is raising the standard of online education platforms. Sparkki is also the only LMS system that is designed not just for use in the United States and Canada, but also for companies in emerging markets as well- specifically those in central and South America.

Work overload, lack of time, changing schedules, high pressure and stress. To alleviate such burdens and to return time and control to people, PlannerScape brings an all-in-one platform powered by cutting-edge technologies including blockchain and AI, which makes management of time and tasks as effortless as navigating directions through GPS. By leveraging and integrating the benefits of collaborative consumption where everybody can share their time, skills and resources anytime without paying overheads or commissions, its solutions learn each users' habits and lifestyle so as to optimize productivity and help people achieve a healthy work-life balance. PlannerScape is founded by a like-minded international team based in Hong Kong with strong backgrounds and expertise in the blockchain, IT, business, law, and finance.

Dr. Cory Kidd, founder and CEO of Catalia Health, delivers an informative discussion on chronic disease healthcare management and the benefits of using robots that are tailored to a particular patient's needs to help them manage their conditions. With over two decades of experience in healthcare technology focused on innovations and solutions to major healthcare challenges, Dr. Kidd is uniquely qualified to make an impact in the patient/user experience. He has successfully launched other health and tech oriented companies as a veteran of the industry. Dr. Kidd received a M.S. and Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in human-robot interaction. His primary objective while there was to demonstrate how there were obvious clinical, as well as psychological, advantages to using physical robots instead of traditional screen-based methods. While the front end allows for easy patient interfacing, the back end flows to doctors and health professionals who are working to monitor the overall progress of these chronic care patients. From arthritis to kidney issues and more, Catalia Health's robotic tech products deliver outstanding results for patient and doctor. As the health technology CEO explains, the robot elicits a stronger long-term engagement with patients. The fact that the robot actually looks at you creates a much deeper psychological connection with patients, which drives them to be more involved with their own health and the management of their condition over long periods of time. Catalia Health's robots (know individually as Mabu) are built on a set of artificial intelligence algorithms that draw on psychology to form the conversations with patients. As it is not scripted, but interaction based, the experience feels interactive and real, and, ironically, more human. Much like a physician tailors the needed medical information and delivers it in a way that is best suited for an individual, Catalia Health's robots also interact and respond with patients in a manner that creates a comfortable experience. Catalia Health's platform's integrated technology learns about a patient's overall personality, and their interests, as well as any particular treatment difficulties or challenges they have had over time. This enables the Mabu robot to engage in conversations that are unique to each patient, based on established behavioral models of psychology designed to promote significant behavioral change for improved well-being. As Mabu communicates daily, patients are much more likely to manage their treatment better. Dr. Kidd gives a detailed analysis on the topics of symptoms, side effects, and psychosocial issues, which are three major components of the AI based care management. And as the old modified proverb says, the proof is in the pudding, and this is certainly evidenced by Catalia Health's data from their experimentation and market testing. In multiple testing situations in which three groups of patients were told to use either the paper log system to record and manage their care, the Catalia Health software on a computer, or the system integrated into an actual robot, the robot was strongly preferred, by far. Some people even tried to negotiate to keep their test robot longer, which is about as glowing an endorsement as you could hope for. The robots clearly have won.

Sahil Sanhi, co-founder of AllyO, a Silicon Valley based AI technology company, delivers an interesting overview of the many problems that exist in the human resources arena, and how his company's tech is beating them, one by one. Sanhi and his company partner saw a major problem in business recruiting and launched AllyO in 2016 as a means to solve it for companies worldwide. The problem—recruiting is inefficient, applicants are lost in the process, conversions are poor, and the cost is high due to menial tasks placed upon the hiring teams. Essentially, there is a complete lack of visibility and the process offers little control for human resources leaders. Sanhi and partner realized they could build a better engine, and did. AllyO reinvented the system by bringing the recruiting process directly to the qualified applicants instead of the traditional route of bringing the applicants to the recruiting process. And AllyO's system loops into human beings only when needed, thus allowing the mundane work to be circumvented, keeping human employees on more important job tasks. Sanhi explains how his company uses deep workflow conversational AI to streamline and automate end-to-end recruiting. AllyO successfully enables a managed workflow, by using smart technology to engage via texting over web and mobile avenues. Sanhi states that their system not only greatly relieves the stress and drain on human resources departments, but also significantly improves the quality of incoming new hires. As Sanhi explains, the highest quality candidates are discouraged from applying due to the extensive, laborious process of first finding an appropriate position, and then being forced to fill out an online application for 45 minutes to an hour per opening. For a company that is seeking the best employees, this is highly problematic as sometimes it is only the most desperate candidates who will go through this difficult process, a process that only offers a 15% chance or less that your submission will be seen or acted on. AllyO utilizes conversational career matching across multiple talent acquisition channels, qualifies the candidates for the role that perfectly fits their skill and experience, then fully automates the scheduling of interviews and even post interview communications. Responsiveness, better communication, and a more human type interaction back and forth, all built into the AI drives engagement to higher levels. As the AI probes deeper into a candidate's qualifications it makes granular decisions along the way, which allows for candidate ease and better options for the hiring manager. The tech expert explains how AllyO uses each engaging interaction with a potential candidate as an opportunity to learn, thus enabling the system to answer candidates' questions in an increasingly sophisticated manner. Additionally, their AI ensures that proper conduct is always a priority by discarding biases. And as AllyO is a multilingual, highly configurable technology it can integrate easily into any HR system. Ironically, it is AI that is putting the human touch back into hiring.

Andris Merkulovs - Founder and CEO at Monetizr joins Future Tech Podcast. Blockchain-based universal game reward engine that enhances gamers' experiences and benefits game developers via monetization, retention, and engagement. For more info, check out www.monetizr.io or join us on Slack (monetizr.slack.com). We also help game developers and studios turn engagement and loyalty into increased revenue with high-quality branded merchandise right inside your games. With our Monetizr platform, we take care of the shop, product manufacturing, shipping and customer service - so you can focus on creating the best game experience.