1121: Using AI to Better Understand Your Child’s Digital Footprint
Release Date: 02/23/2020
Building a New Operating Model for Ecommerce Scale With ZyG
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Why is launching a consumer product easier than ever while turning it into a profitable global brand remains so difficult? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Omer Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of ZyG, about the operational gap between creating a product and building a durable ecommerce business around it. Omer previously helped build ironSource into an $11 billion public company before its acquisition by Unity. He explains how recognizing the move from desktop to mobile helped shape that company's growth and why the ability to adapt quickly matters even more when AI capabilities...
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Rebuilding Trust in Pet Insurance With AI and Lassie
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Why do pet owners so often learn the limits of their insurance when an animal is already ill and the veterinary bill is growing? That trust problem sits at the center of my conversation with Hedda Båverud Olsson, co-founder and CEO of Lassie, a pet insurer that combines coverage with preventative health guidance, rewards, activity tracking, and AI-assisted claims. Hedda’s reason for starting Lassie is personal. Her mother is a veterinarian, and Hedda grew up around healthy pets without fully appreciating how much fear and financial pressure many owners experience. After working at McKinsey...
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Proving AI Value in Architecture and Construction With Nemetschek
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How much of construction’s cost, delay, and waste begins with information that fails to survive the journey from design to delivery? That question runs through my conversation with Julian Geiger, Chief AI Officer at Nemetschek Group, as we look at the practical role of AI across architecture, engineering, construction, and operations. Julian describes what he calls the industry’s 90, 40, 20 problem. According to the figures he shares, 90 percent of projects are over budget or over time, the built world accounts for roughly 40 percent of global carbon emissions, and around 20 percent of...
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Why Enterprise AI Agents Fail Beyond the Model With Databricks
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Why do businesses replace the AI model when the failure may have started somewhere else entirely? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Richard Shaw, Technology General Manager for Databricks in the UK and Ireland. Richard leads the field engineering organization that works closely with customers on data and AI problems, giving him a practical view of what happens when promising agentic AI projects meet production workloads. Richard argues that the model often receives the blame because it is the most visible part of the system. The actual fault may come from stale data, missing...
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Turning AI Investment Into Measurable Business Value With HP
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How can businesses turn growing investment in AI infrastructure, cloud capacity and devices into outcomes that employees, customers and finance teams can actually measure? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Neil Sawyer, who manages HP’s business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Neil works with companies across one of HP’s largest global regions as they move from AI experimentation into wider deployment, making him well placed to discuss what happens when early enthusiasm encounters cost, security, governance and the realities of the workforce. We begin with the gap...
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Turning Two Hours of Document Work Into Eight Minutes With Templafy
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What could your team achieve if a document that previously took two hours could be created in eight minutes? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Oskar Konstantyner, Chief Product Officer at Templafy, about the rapid adoption of AI agents across enterprise document workflows and what those productivity gains mean for knowledge workers. According to Templafy’s proprietary usage data, AI agent adoption among its enterprise users grew from virtually zero in October 2025 to 53% by June 2026. Its analysis found that documents created without agents had a median completion time of two...
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When AI Gets Your Brand Wrong With Bluefish AI
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What happens when an AI system gives a customer the wrong price, misrepresents a product, or recommends a competitor using outdated information? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Alex Sherman, co-founder and CEO of Bluefish AI, about the growing influence of AI-generated answers on brand reputation, product discovery, and purchasing decisions. Search once gave companies a reasonably visible path between a customer’s question and the websites informing the answer. AI changes that relationship. Systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Rufus, and other assistants combine information...
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What Does AI Say About Your Brand With DOM
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What happens when an AI assistant becomes the first place a potential customer learns about your company, but the answer it provides is inaccurate, outdated, or influenced by a competitor? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Justin Seibert, founder and president of DOM, also known as Direct Online Marketing, about generative engine optimization, AI search visibility, and the brand narratives being assembled by ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI, and other answer engines. Justin has worked in digital marketing since 2001 and founded DOM in 2006. He has watched search marketing develop...
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Modernizing the Power Grid for AI and Rising Demand With SAP
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Can electricity grids built for an earlier era support AI data centers, expanding manufacturing, electric vehicles, severe weather, and rising customer expectations at the same time? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Mark Hollis, utility executive advisor at SAP, about the pressures reshaping the utility industry and the practical choices available to leaders today. Mark spent over 15 years at Duke Energy before moving to SAP, where his work gives him visibility into utility organizations across North America. Mark describes a combination of load growth, disruption, long...
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Turning AI Agents Into Revenue Workflows With Outreach
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What happens when an AI system moves beyond recommending the next sales action and begins running a connected revenue workflow? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Abhijit Mitra, CEO of Outreach, about the operational work required to turn agentic AI into measurable revenue outcomes. Abhijit argues that adding another AI tool can create extra complexity when customer data remains fragmented and applications cannot share context. The starting point is the business process: what problem is being solved, which data supports it, what agents may do, and where human judgment remains...
info_outlineIn today’s digital age, AI is being used in all sorts of different capacities to help humans better understand the world we live in. So, why aren’t more tech companies deploying AI to help us better understand our children in the age of technology?
The use case for AI in parenting is simple. AI can provide a watchful eye over children online and give parents insights into their activities. Tal Guttman, CEO and Co-Founder of Jiminy, the AI-powered parental awareness app, shares his insights as to how this kind of software works, and what exactly parents & children can gain from its use.
Guttman is the former head of strategic innovation at 8200, where he built a social intelligence network with 10,000 users, and director of core platform at Windward, where he was in charge of turning maritime big data into risk indicators.
We talk about the story behind the company and how they wanted to give their Kids a phone without putting a screen between them and to sleep well at night without wondering what’s hiding in their text messages. I learn how they created a solution that would spot things like loneliness, cyberbullying or toxic phone usage.
However, they also wanted it to tell them what game they’ve been having fun with lately, or who their favorite YouTuber was last week. The team at Jiminy believes that each problem is actually an opportunity, for parents and kids, to talk and learn.
Jiminy is an app that helps parents learn more about their children’s lives, with alerts, fun facts, a weekly report, so you can be aware of the good and the bad. They do this by combining expertise in clinical psychology, education, and advanced machine learning and big data.