How Brain Signals Could Control Just About Any Technology - with BrainGate's Dr. Beata Jarosiewicz
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
Release Date: 08/31/2014
How to Identify Critical AI Decision-Points in Business - with Babak Hodjat of Cognizant
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
This week on AI in Industry we continue our theme of focusing on "The Competitive Advantage of AI." Babak Hodjat shares his insights about critical decision-points within a business, and how to leverage them to find high-ROI AI opportunities. Download our free PDF report titled "3 Ways to Discovery AI Trends in Any Sector": emerj.com/t3
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Starting with AI the Right Way - With Monika Wilczak of EY
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
This month's theme is on using AI for a competitive advantage. We speak first with Monika Wilczak, Managing Director of AI at EY. Monika speaks to us about how large companies can start to get an edge over the competition by leveraging AI, emphasizing how companies can get started with gaining that advantage. If you're looking for areas of AI opportunity, be sure to download our "3 Ways to Discover AI Trends in Any Sector" report by going to emerj.com/t3.
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The Phases of Building an AI Strategy - With Shane Zabel of Raytheon
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
It's the final week of our month-long series on planning your corporate AI strategy. This week we speak with Shane Zabel, Head of AI at Raytheon. Shane talks to us about the phases of building an AI strategy. What are the steps? He discusses the importance of finding an AI pioneer at a company who can build some initial ideas of what AI use-cases could be viable at the company. If you're in the process of analyzing AI use-cases for your company or clients, we created a guide for this exact topic. Learn more about it at emerj.com/t3.
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Bonus Episode: The Critical AI Capabilities for Nontechnical Professionals - With Scott Nowson of PWC
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
This week, we speak with Scott Nowson, AI Lead at PWC Middle East, about the critical capabilities nontechnical business people need to understand to be able to advance their career and apply AI in their industry even if their company hasn't started with AI yet. Scott has an uncanny ability to convey business lessons on AI, and he's one of the few people who got our full Getting Started with AI report before today's formal launch. The report is finally open, and in it, listeners can find the must-know knowledge that will allow you to take your AI interest and turn it into real career...
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Assess Your Data to Find AI ROI Opportunity - With Adam Bonnifield of Airbus
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
In this episode, we speak with Adam Bonnifield, VP of AI at Airbus, one of the youngest executives at the firm. He talks about how to think about starting a corporate AI strategy, which for him entails beginning with the data assets. Adam thinks through how to take account of those assets and what kinds of people need to be part of the conversation to unlock the most fruitful AI applications in an established company.
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Bonus Episode: How to Level Up Your AI Skill Set Without Learning to Code
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
This is a special bonus episode of AI in Industry about advancing your career in the era of AI, specifically for non-technical professionals. If you don't want to learn to code but still make yourself tremendously valuable in the era of AI, this episode is for you. We put together a report on this topic that will be coming out this month, all about getting started with AI in business for nontechnical professionals. Interested listeners can go to emerj.com/c1 to learn more. This week, we have Germán Sanchis-Trilles on the podcast. He's one of our technical advisors, well-schooled in natural...
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A Pragmatists Approach to Finding AI Opportunities - With Carlos Escapa of Amazon Web Services
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
This week, we speak with Carlos Escapa, Global AI and ML Practice Leader for Amazon Web Services. Carlos speaks with us this week about starting an AI strategy with a more practical approach. Instead of thinking about how to radically reshape a key part of your business with AI or use AI for AI's sake, Carlos talks about instead thinking about where AI fits in with what your business is already doing. He provides some thought experiments to run through for thinking through this and how to get started with AI.
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How to Begin Planning an AI Strategy - With Ian Wilson
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
Last month, we focused on advancing your career in the age of AI, and this month we have a new theme: building your corporate AI strategy. At Emerj, much of our work in the public and private sector is in building an AI strategy and giving organizations data on where the ROI is in the AI world. This week, we speak with Ian Wilson, former Head of AI at HSBC and a research advisor for our banking work. He has rare experience applying AI strategically at one of the largest banks in the world, and I think he is just the person to start off this month's theme. Ian talks about beginning to plan your...
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Three AI-Related Career Roles That Involve No Coding - With Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
This is our final episode in our series on advancing your career in the era of AI this month. We had more Linkedin messages on this theme than any we've done before, and it got me excited to think about what we could do with this kind of series in the future. In this episode, we distill the insights from this month's series with insights from our broad catalog of interviews with AI-minded executives throughout the many years doing this podcast. We also cover three AI-related career roles that do not involve coding.
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How to Think About and Lead AI Projects in Business - With Bret Greenstein of Cognizant
Artificial Intelligence in Industry with Daniel Faggella
We continue our theme on advancing your career in the era of AI. This week, we speak with another AI lead from a gigantic IT services firm: Cognizant. Bret Greenstein is Head of AI at Cognizant, and he talks about what folks who think about AI in terms of strategic direction, project management, etc., have in common. Brett also discusses how non-technical folks can think about AI in order to take on leadership roles in AI projects, including having a firm understanding of what is possible with AI in their industry.
info_outlineBrown's BrainGate project is hailed as one of the premier research projects in the entire field of brain-machine interface. Researchers here have given paralyzed patients the ability to move robotic arms and check emails with their thoughts alone - thanks to experimental neural implants in their motor cortex. Dr. Beata Jarosiewicz has been with BrainGate project for years, with a specific focus on interpreting neurological signals and turning them into actionable outputs.
In this interview, she talks about the science of making sense of the brain's inner electrical activity, and how it might be used to control nearly any device if calibrated correctly. The ramifications here are increadible.
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