Finding Genius Podcast

Holt AI Fintech Accelerator. Created by modern day brokers, accelerating deals for fintech startups between corporate clients and investors. They help their partners navigate success through investors and associated network of financial institutions; powered by an AI lab. The Holt family has a history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations. With the rising need for AI throughout all aspects of daily life, Holt Fintech Accelerator focuses on boosting AI capabilities of Fintech businesses and expanding their international network.

Neville Boston is CEO of Reviver Auto, creator of the world's first digital license plate. Reviver Auto's mission is to bring new and far-reaching efficiencies, revolutionary marketing, and unprecedented connectivity to the auto industry through disruptive technology. With its RPlate™, the company has completely reinvented the 125-year-old stamped metal license plate into a connected car platform that digitizes and automates the costly, often frustrating and time-consuming DMV renewal process. Approved by multiple DVMs and DOTs, the RPlate also provides telematics functionality and brings a new level of personalization to existing license plates.

SportsCastr is an ultra-low latency live video platform for sports that brings studio-quality features to anyone with an iPhone, including real-time score-bugs, broadcast quality motion graphics and augmented reality. In addition to being a powerful second-screen experience that allows viewers to personalize the commentary for any game (or to jump in and share their own reactions), the Company is developing unique social OTT functionality that combines SportsCastr's technology with live sporting events (including esports) -- opening up a new paradigm for how fans watch the game. The first live events will be broadcast on SportsCastr beginning Summer 2018.

Susan Fahringer, a partner at Perkins Coie (perkinscoie.com), an international law firm specializing in corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice, gives an overview of the current and coming legal issues regarding AI. The legal issues surrounding AI (artificial intelligence) are poised to be some of the most critical and pertinent areas of concern facing many companies and persons involved in the rapidly growing technology arena. Fahringer informs that biometrics legislation; algorithmic discrimination, which pertains to employers' use of AI to discriminate in hiring practices; privacy issues; product liability issues; and anti-trust issues will be a few of the many legal areas of concern in the expanding AI space. Specifically, in regard to biometrics, questions arise regarding personal data and what those who collect it are actually allowed to do with it. While biometrics can be useful on many fronts, Fahringer states that there should certainly be some guardrails established regarding its collection and use. Fahringer discusses the problems that employers could face legally if their machine learning algorithms are biased. For example, if an employer creates an algorithm to search for potential candidates to interview and subsequently hire, the algorithm needs to be unbiased in every way such that it does not exclude or discriminate against people based on inherent flaws in the algorithm. Race is an obvious area where bias concerns could arise, and employers should take steps to ensure that their algorithms do no use race as a determinant in any way. But another area that may not be as obvious to employers is their use of zip codes, for an algorithm that discriminates due to a particular zip code, whether purposefully or inadvertently, may also be in violation of anti-discrimination laws. Fahringer discusses the many areas of potential legal impediments and problems that exist within the current GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). She outlines the importance of balance within the areas that concern privacy, balance that allows for expanded innovation but still protects the privacy of the individual. Fahringer expects that it will take five to ten years to refine the various laws that exist currently regarding AI, as the field and the laws that surround it are constantly evolving. Fahringer states that disclosures, privacy and data security, product liability, risk, and employment issues will all be areas of increasing concern for manufacturers, consumers, and private individuals alike.

Frederico Trajano is Chief Executive Officer of Magazine Luiza, the Brazilian retailer with more than 22,000 employees, 860 stores and a customer base of over 45 million across 16 states nationwide. A digital trailblazer, Frederico was named CEO in 2016. Since joining the company in 2000, Frederico has led the digital transformation of Magalu, driving e-commerce sales to be 30% of annual revenue. Magazine Luiza is committed to educating the community about technologies and improve the user experience. Creating new pathways of access.

Clay Braswell - Founder and CEO of Commit Good joins Future Tech Podcast. Commit Good is a transparent, charitable platform that rewards people for everyday transactions. Commit Good is dedicated to building a global charitable economy through the integration of marketplace features, fundraising and solving the last mile of delivery.

Superior security and cutting-edge technology. Igloohome is eliminating the need for keys. Unlock your door with a PIN code, or a bluetooth key on your smartphone, or a key card. Different modes of entry are offered for flexibility of access. The physical key is still available as a back-up. Grant access to your home even when you're away. With the igloohome mobile app, create PIN codes or bluetooth keys, and select how long you want them to be valid for. Send them to your visitors from the app. Igloohome lock works with innovative technology involving encryption and synchronisation. Internet not required for the lock hence increasing reliability against WiFi hacking.

Scott Brown - CEO and Founder of VODX joins Future Tech Podcast. VODX is a company who manufactures and distributes a patented faucet with an integrated LCD Screen world-wide would be in a position to disrupt the advertising industry through blockchain technologies.

Alicia Kavelaars, Founder, and CTO of OffWorld (offworld.ai) discuss her company's efforts to build robotic technology for extreme environments, with advanced machine learning and AI, to assist humans to be offworld. Offworld, roughly defined as 'away from earth' is the core point of Kavelaars' company's mission—to enable "smart robots working under human supervision on and offworld, turning the inner solar system into a better, gentler, greener place for life and civilization." While experimentation in space is costly, Kavelaars explains that much of their testing is done in more financially practical extreme environments such as underground mines and seabeds, etc. OffWorld's initial prototypes focus on mining in extreme environments and will be tested in underground mines first, but these robotic workforces will be extremely helpful in a space environment for colonization preparation efforts. Kavelaars' robot workforce is already designed for an end-to-end mining solution. From mining through processing, OffWorld's robotic workforce is capable of handling the job. OffWorld's robots can go deeper underground, to mine in ventilation and extreme temperature conditions that humans could not withstand, and of course robots can work 24 hours a day for continuous workflow. With thousands of robots in a workforce, Kavelaars expects to move humans to supervisory roles, out of harm's way, and allow advanced machine learning to continue to enhance the robots' effectiveness. OffWorld's robotic workforce is fully autonomous, end to end, but if a robot in the workforce experiences a contingency situation in which it cannot make the assessment on its own, human supervisors step in and handle it. Kavelaars explains how OffWorld's robots operate independently, in that they are not centrally programmed with a hive mentality, but perform as solo operators with a heightened awareness of the other robots working alongside them. This design helps to alleviate potential single-point failures as Kavelaars' robots will recognize failures and independently, but with a collective understanding, support any one-off failures. The robotics founder expounds upon her desire to take her robotic workforce to space and the preparation to make them fully autonomous in advance of their mission. Kavelaars' team employs machine learning to help robots evaluate precise techniques for proper mining, to allow the robots to vary their approach based upon arising conditions, as opposed to simply inputting algorithms that would not allow for adjustments. Additionally, the CTO and founder discuss her company's plans to introduce robotic workforces for other areas of industry as well, such as large construction projects. As robotic workforces can work independently and autonomously, but can also work in tandem with humans, robots can significantly increase efficiency in many industries with challenging environments. And as machine learning advances and sophistication of robotic technology is refined even further, robotic workforces will be able to master practically any industry-type tasks

Satisfi Labs creates A.I. powered chatbots that businesses use to communicate with their customers in real time. Co-Founder/CEO Don White discusses how their creations are being used in sports entertainment and retail environments. Brands such as the Houston Texans and the Oklahoma City Thunder are already using the work of Satisfi Labs to enhance the fan experience through real-time information and suggestions. We determine whether data is truly "the new oil". Don also discusses how the future of A.I. will look more like The Jetsons than Skynet.