Data Stand-Up with Bedrock! [Eng]: Recent Episodes
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Bedrock (www.bedrockdbd.com) is a boutique Data Science & AI practitioner and our podcast “Data Stand-up!” is aimed to spread scientific knowledge and technical expertise relating to our work with clients as well as to our own research and development. All guests contribute to this knowledge exchange by also sharing their own experiences, learnings, and achievements.
Welcome to "Making Different Happen," hosted by ReMotive. In this series, we delve into the reasons why individuals and businesses strive to create change, what innovative strategies they employ, and how they maintain a competitive edge in rapidly evolving environments. Our guest today is Ian Forrester, founder and CEO of David. Ian's company is renowned for its focus on understanding the emotional impact of creative advertising and content, utilizing advanced AI technology to predict outcomes based on emotional responses. Join us as we explore how David harnesses the power of emotions to drive business impact and create memorable brand experiences.
New podcast from Data Stand-Up! Jesus talks to Lisa Thee, CEO at AMP Solutions LLC.
Lisa Thee leads Launch Consulting’s Data for Good practice, helping the world’s most innovative healthcare, and global technology companies to improve digital safety, anti-toxicity, and apply AI/machine learning for innovation.
As an entrepreneur was the CEO and Co-Founder of Minor Guard, AI software company focused on making children safer online and in real life, and recently gave a TED Talk entitled “Bringing Light to Dark Places Online: Disrupting Human Trafficking using AI.” She is the Co-Author of Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise and host of the Navigating Forward podcast.
Lisa also currently serves as an advisory board member for Engineered Medical Solutions, Humaxa, Spectrum Labs, and Marketplace Risk. She is a Board of Director’s member for 3 Strands Global Foundation, a Human Trafficking prevention and reintegration focused organization. She has been named to the 2021 Top Health and Safety Thought Leaders and Women in Business you should follow lists by Thinkers 360, and as one of the Top 100 Human Trafficking & Slavery Influence Leaders Globally.
New podcast from Data Stand-Up! Jesus talks to Pablo Samuel Castro, Research Software Developer at Google.
Pablo currently works a Research Software Developer for Google Brain in Montreal. His focus is mostly in reinforcement learning and machine learning applied to music and creativity.
In previous teams (Ads and Chrome) he focused on developing and applying large-scale machine learning solutions to difficult problems, addressing both theory and practice.
Specialties: Computer programming, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Music, Fully and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Reinforcement Learning, Linear Programming.
New podcast from Data Stand-Up! Jesus talks to Jan W Veldsink, AI Architect and AI Coach to Rabobank.
In this episode, Jan W. , AI Coach and Architect at Rabobank, provides Jesus with insights on how he performs a coaching role at Rabobank. They discuss how critical it is to launch initiatives that foster an analytical culture and that promote data literacy across different layers and business units.
Jan shares his own experiences on how to develop and implement effective corporate data-driven strategies, taking us through various use cases that he has helped to design and develop for the banking industry.
They also comment on the implications of adopting autoML platforms across non-technical teams as well as the current limitations of these tools.
Jan W. Veldsink MSc is a creative energetic new thinker, with passion for technology and people. He is speaker, senior advisor, trainer and coach specialized in Artificial intelligence and Intuitive interventions in organizations. His mission is to contribute to a secure and endurable environment within teams and organizations. At his work with some of the large banks in the Netherlands he applies AI within different Compliance and Fraud related topics. His expertise areas are Artificial Intelligence, Cyber security, Systems thinking, Serious gaming and Innovation.
Jan Veldsink is working as consultant and teacher on the subjects of Cybercrime, Artificial Intelligence, digital transformation, organizational development and innovation at Rabobank and Nyenrode Business Universiteit.
At Rabobank Jan is Lead Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Technologies within Global Compliance Surveillance & Integrity Investigations. At Nyenrode he is Core Teacher of the module AI and Cyber, one of the Modular Executive MBA in Business & IT programs.
New podcast from Data Stand-Up! Jesus talks to Sadie St. Lawrence, Founder & CEO Women In Data, the #1 Community for Women in AI and Tech. Women in Data is a community of over 20,000 individuals and has representation in 17 countries and 50 cities.
Sadie has trained over 350,000 people in data science and is the course developer for the Machine Learning Certification for UC Davis. Sadie brings a unique combination of technical expertise, analytics management experience and an ability to lead organizational change through compassion and problem-solving.
Her work has been featured in USA Today, Dataversity, and she is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award, 10 Most Admired Business Women to Watch in 2021, and has been listed as a Top 21 Influencer in Data.
Sadie is a courageous, visionary, and compassionate leader who believes in putting people and outcomes first. In addition, she serves on multiple start-up boards, is the host of the Data Bytes podcast, is a highly requested speaker, and an artist.
In this new podcast in English from Data Stand-Up! Jesus talks to Peetak Mitra, Scientist at PARC and member of Core Team at Climate Change AI. Peetak is a Member of Research Staff/Scientist-II at the fabled Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC), located in the heart of Silicon Valley. At PARC, he works on developing novel AI/ML algorithms and impactful technologies across projects in distributed sensor systems (DARPA Ocean-of-Things), predictive maintenance using Internet-of-Things (Novity), climate modeling/policy, and geoengineering (MCB). In addition to his employment at PARC, he is passionate about using my knowledge for mitigating the negative effects of climate change and am associated with the Climate Change AI group as a Core Team member.
Climate Change AI is a global initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Climate Change AI (CCAI) is an organization composed of volunteers from academia and industry who believe that tackling climate change requires concerted societal action, in which machine learning can play an impactful role. Since it was founded in June 2019, CCAI has led the creation of a global movement in climate change and machine learning, encompassing researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, companies, and NGOs.
In this new podcast in English from Data Stand-Up! Jesus talks to Francesca Gabetti, CEO at Team EQ. Francesca is co-founder & CEO of TeamEQ, the first Human SaaS. A Predictive Team Analytic solution that drives Team Intelligence and real time decision-making . TeamEQ, powered by Machine Learning, increases team's alignment, engagement & performance at all levels of the organization. The use of analytics in HR is growing, with organizations aggressively building people analytics teams, buying analytics offerings, and developing analytics solutions. Companies are hiring people analytics staff, cleaning up their data, and developing models that help transform.
TeamEQ makes team management smart, data-driven & more effective, through real time management and continuous feedback, transforming companies into high-performance & intelligent living systems. It accelerate digital, agile & cultural transformation, developing new leadership needs with just few minutes of time investment per week.
We hope you like this episode.
In this episode, Jesús talks to Mihaela Rosca, Research Engineer at Deepmind. Previously she was a Software Engineer at Google Zurich, working on NLP using neural networks. She is a third year PhD student at UCL under the supervison of Prof. Marc Deisenroth and she finished her 4 year Computing MEng degree from Imperial College London in 2014, with first honours and a prize of excellence for an outstanding overall performance.
Her Professional Interests are: Generative models, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, scalable and safe machine learning. More broadly, she is interested in anything related to learning probability distributions.
Bedrock is a boutique Data Science & AI practitioner and our podcast "Data Stand-up" is aimed to spread scientific knowledge and technical expertise relating to our work with clients. All guests contribute to this knowledge exchange by also sharing their own experiences, learnings, and achievements.
Bedrock is an independent Data Science & AI practitioner and our podcast Data Stand-up! is aimed to spread scientific knowledge and technical expertise relating to our work with clients. All guests contribute to this knowledge exchange by also sharing their own experiences, learnings, and achievements.
In this new episode, Jesús talks to Ganes Kesari, Co-founder and Chief Decision Scientist at Gramener. He is an entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, and TEDx speaker. Ganes advises executives of large organizations on data-driven decision making. His expertise lies in the application of data science to solve business challenges, and in building teams to promote a culture of data.
“I advise executives of enterprises and the leadership of NGOs and Governments on organizational transformation using data science. I specialize in building data science teams and helping firms adopt a data culture. Starting my career in technology consulting, I spent a decade helping Fortune 50 clients use technology to enable and transform their business. My tryst with data happened about a decade back when I co founded Gramener.
It has been an enriching journey at Gramener so far. I experimented with the practical aspects of startup building and have been observing how our culture continues to evolve.
Advising businesses on the application of data science I’ve been deepening my skills in data analytics, machine learning and information design. I’m fascinated by the big-picture view and complement it by hands-on execution with attention to details.
So, I’ve spent a lot of time strategizing and laying out the direction for Gramener. And, I’ve been leading from the front by executing the strategy – building teams and delivering value to clients.
I take exceptional interest in discovering deeper patterns, simplifying things and presenting information visually. I challenge myself to explain AI and technology without math or jargons. I rejoice whenever I manage to design visual stories that distill complex insights into a single sheet of paper.”
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Ganes!
Bedrock is an independent Data Science & AI practitioner and our podcast "Data Stand-up!" is aimed to spread scientific knowledge and technical expertise relating to our work with clients. All guests contribute to this knowledge exchange by also sharing their own experiences, learnings, and achievements.
In this new episode of our Data Stand Up! Podcast, Jesús talks to Vince Petaccio, Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he develops machine learning tools to identify and mitigate fraud activity. Previously, he worked as a data scientist at Untapt, where he produced deep-learning natural language tools to help job candidates find fulfilling careers while avoiding systemic bias. Prior to this work, he developed real time neural data analysis in brain and spine surgery around New York City and Philadelphia. Vincen studied biomedical engineering - neural engineering at Drexel University and a computer science degree from Georgia Tech.
In this recording we focus on how Vince has become a passionate advocate for action on climate change: he has worked with Citizens' Climate Lobby since 2016 to advance politically neutral climate policy and to build the political will for climate action, and lends his data science skills to projects seeking to mitigate the climate crisis with novel solutions.
In his own words: “I am passionate about leveraging emerging technologies for the benefit of others. I believe that human ingenuity can, with a bit of imagination and a lot of cooperation, yield practical solutions to challenging problems. My time outside of work is spent passionately pursuing nonpartisan solutions to the global challenge of climate change, feeding my insatiable curiosity, and improving the depth of my knowledge.”
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Vince!
Bedrock is an international Data Science & AI services practice specialising in data-driven business change.
We design and manage tailor-made programs from ideation to execution and ongoing support.
Data Stand-up! is a podcast Produced by our team at our global HQ at LA PIPA Studios that strives to share the knowledge acquired through our extensive experience. Guests to this show join this knowledge transfer by sharing their own experience and knowledge.
Before founding MetaMeta, Scott was the Master Data Market Development and Innovation Lead at Dun & Bradstreet, where he reimagined, redefined and repositioned the company’s master data offering and took the service to a whole new level. He has also worked with some of the world’s most popular data brands including Nielsen, Microsoft, Kantar, NPD and also some start-ups such as Qoints and Spiceworks.
When he is not directly working with businesses to sort out their master data journey, he is busy spreading the word through conferences, speaking events, webinars, podcasts, blogs, and his own YouTube channel.
Here comes the storytelling aspect as you will also need to convince your business leaders and stakeholders on investing in data management. Thanks Scott!
Bedrock is an international Data Science & AI services practice specialising in data-driven business change.
We design and manage tailor-made programs from ideation to execution and ongoing support.
Data Stand-up! is a podcast Produced by our team at our global HQ at LA PIPA Studios that strives to share the knowledge acquired through our extensive experience. Guests to this show join this knowledge transfer by sharing their own experiences, learnings, and achievements with unbelievable generosity.
In this show, Jesús speaks with Alina Timofeeva about her career in consulting, technology and data.
Alina specialises in Cloud & Data and has a successful track record across digital, operational and regulatory projects within significant clients, including JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, HSBC, RBS, Aviva and Nationwide.
A graduate of top universities in the UK and Russia, Alina won the Moscow Mathematics Olympiad, which facilitated full sponsorship for her BSc and MSc in Mathematics.
TechWomen100 and Rising Start have recognised her, and she is on the Makers' Top 50 Software Powerlist and ComputerWeekly's Most Influential Women in UK Technology.
She also performs a notable role in inspiring others and giving visibility to women's work in technology.
In this episode Jesús talks to Muazma Zahid, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft Azure Global team, where she enables customers to deploy the most demanding Data workloads on Azure. She has been a Data Engineer/Architect and Speaker for over thirteen years working on several Big Data, Cloud Computing, and AI Technologies. She is an active researcher in biomedical engineering and her research software is used in EKG machines all around the world.
Muazma is an advocate of diversity and inclusion. She is President of non-profit organization Pakistani Women in Computing which is on a mission to build a strong global network of Pakistani women in technology and allies to foster the community’s growth through meaningful connections and learning opportunities. She has led several programs for AnitaB.org and currently leads the AnitaB.org Seattle community. She is also a leader at Women Who Code and Women at Microsoft.
Today Jesus chats with Brian, an inspiring professional who really understands the importance of Design when it comes to ideating, creating, and implementing data-fueled solutions and applications.
Brian T. O’Neill is the founder of Designing for Analytics and a true believer in the importance of designing human-tailored data solutions. For over 20 years, he has been successful in creating innovative Advanced Analytical and AI business solutions for global leaders such as DellEMC or Tripadvisor, JP Morgan Chase amongst many others.
Brian and Jesús explore how extraordinary value can be created when the outputs of data science and analytics are turned into engaging, valuable decision support applications and user experiences centered around the stakeholders, as humans, in the loop. The importance of generating adoption when building a data application or business solution is also discussed throughout the call.
Brian also hosts his own podcast: Experiencing Data, where he reveals the strategies and activities that Product, Data Science, and Analytics leaders are using to deliver human-centered data products.
Brian also authored the DFA Self-Assessment Guide, teaches a seminar called Designing Human-Centered Data Science Solutions, and publishes a weekly Insights mailing list. In 2020, Brian began advising students in MIT’s Sandbox Innovation Fund and was published in O’Reilly Media’s 97 Things About Ethics in Data Science Everyone Should Know.
Brian is a classical and jazz musician by training, a professional drummer and percussionist in Boston.
Listen to this episode to discover if Brian´s creative musical background has something to do with his "Design mindset" for Advanced Analytics and AI solutions.
Bedrock´s Jesus chats to Kirk Borne, Data and Artificial Intelligence pioneer, voted most influential personality in the industry, across the globe. Kirk has ranked Nº1 Digital, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence influencer globally.
He holds a degree in Physics and Ph.D. in Astronomy, and from 1985 through 1995 worked at NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
He has provided advice to NASA management in the design and development of HST systems and has extensively contributed to the international community promoting astrostatistics and astroinformatics as robust research disciplines.
In 2020, Kirk was elected Fellow of the American Astronomical Society for lifetime contributions to astronomy and the public's understanding of the Universe.
In this episode, Kirk explains how to find business solutions through data and shares his views with Jesus on the most efficient ways to accelerate value creation and innovation with data technologies.
Listen to this episode to learn about his experience across dozens of advanced analytics use cases and business areas including customer engagement and behavioural analytics, risk mitigation, fraud detection, anomaly detection, and many more using machine learning, data management, graph analytics, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and geospatial-temporal modelling.
Claire is an authority.
A pioneer who has contributed far beyond her "job"to the evolution of data & analytics, business intelligence and data science.
She has been recognised by DataIQ as one of the 100 most influential people in data and analytics within the UK in 2019. Last year was selected for "Twenty in Data & Technology" as an inspiring role model to others within the industry.
Claire holds an astonishing cross-industry track record of creating and implementing successful initiatives. Various use cases around data innovation, Machine Learning and predictive analytics are presented throughout the call. She has also led and built a diverse, high performing 3 digit data teams in very strict, regulated environments such as the fast-paced financial services industry.
Claire communicates complex technical information for a non-technical audience as very few other people can.
In this podcast, she talks with Jesus (Bedrock Managing Director) about how to create a “data mindset” and how to influence and advise C-level Executives and investors on starting building value rapidly using AI.
This episode we have with us Aash Viswanathan · Data Scientist · LinkedIn - Atlassian - Product Data Scientist working on SaaS/enterprise funnel optimisation problems in the areas of user activation, content curation/distribution, and third-party integrations.
Jesús and Aash talk about their professional career and their vision of the world of data.
The ways AI can be used to augment decision-making keep expanding. New applications will create fundamental and sometimes difficult changes in workflows, roles, and culture, which leaders will need to shepherd their organisations through carefully.
Aash explains in detail a complex workflow in which he works every day and helps us understand his effort and commitment to achieve a goal on a personal level from an organisation that has developed a platform of great value to society that uses the data deeply.
Artur Ortega is one of those professionals who inspires motivation and truly leads by example. He is currently the Head of Babylon Health´s platform architecture.
For those who don't know: Babylon Health is a health service provider that provides remote consultations with doctors and health care professionals via text and video messaging through its mobile application. Their subscription based business model for private healthcare services launched in the UK in 2013 and they have now expanded internationally to countries such as Canada, Saudi Arabia and the US. Their mission and value proposition is to put an affordable and accessible health service in the hands of every person on earth.
In this 4th episode of the 1st season we discuss with Artur the evolution of data analytics, from the traditional early data warehouses project where he took part in, to the machine learning models and advanced analytics projects that he worked on later on. Many powerful use cases from his past in Yahoo, in The Telegraph and in The Economist are discussed. Moreover, he briefly mentions how Babylon strives to embed AI as the main enabling technology in their digital health platform.
Artur truly is a remarkable individual and we could not be more happy to bring you this new episode with him in it. Honestly, we feel that 1 hour was not nearly enough, that we needed more time with him and that we will have to get him on board again for a 2nd recording.
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) being the 3rd oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919. The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league sports team based in the US.
Their Business Intelligence office is managed by Garrison Cummings, a professional whose passion is leveraging data insights into successful business outcomes. His knowledge of the digital marketing realm and expertise in data analysis has allowed him to gain a great understanding of their fanbase customer journey and he now excels in creating marketing analytics business plans to drive revenue at each stage of the customer journey.
In today's podcast we discuss with him the evolution of data analytics, from the traditional Business Intelligence point of view to how companies are commencing to embed Data Science capabilities transversally across all business units. Garrison describes this evolution within the Packers very vividly, also sharing key insights on the different initiatives that he has led in the past and the analytical vision and mission that the Packers now have set for themselves for the years to come.
Garrison has over 14 years of valuable experience in the e-commerce, catalog, and sports marketing categories, specialising in data practices that relate to web analytics, mobile analytics, SEO/SEM, and e-commerce merchandising.
This new English series of the Data Stand-up! podcast will be full of interesting guests and respected professional from the Data and AI Industry.
This weekend Jesús calls Bill Schmarzo, “Dean of Big Data”, a pragmatic hands-on influencer and innovator. Bill has been recognised as an industry leader in Big Data, Data Science, Design Thinking and Data Monetisation. In the past he was Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara and Chief Technology Officer at EMC.
He has written 4 books “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business,” “Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science” and the forthcoming “Economics of Data, Analytics and Digital Transformation;” and published over 350 industry-leading articles and educational videos on the application of Big Data, Data Science, AI / ML and IoT to drive data monetisation and digital transformation.
He is also a Professor an has developed and taught the “Big Data MBA”, a course for integrating data and analytics into the operations of the business, at the University of San Francisco School of Management and at the National University of Ireland-Galway School of Business & Economics. He also lectures to numerous universities and organisations worldwide.
The Value Engineering methodology, which he created, drives customer collaboration (co-creation) and organisational alignment in identifying, validating, valuing and prioritising the organisation’s most important business use cases where data and analytics can have tangible and measure impact. For this he integrates Design Thinking with Data Science while employing a “Rapid exploration, rapid testing, failure-empowering, continuously-learning” development methodology.
We briefly introduce with Bill the business-first approach mechanisms for establishing, nurturing, empowering and leveraging Advanced Analytics, Data Science and Value Engineering teams in order to uncover the customer, product and operational insights buried in each organisation’s data.
Click play if you are keen to learn how to drive data monetisation.
English Season 1 of the Data Stand-up! the podcast begins with 2 brilliant guests that currently lead a powerful movement: Women in Data UK.
In their own words, WiD UK is a movement and a force for change in the realm of data science and analytics. They provide a platform for female and gender diverse data professionals to share their technical knowledge and experiences, and to encourage more diverse representation in the industry.
Roisin McCarthy, co-founder of Women in Data, and Karen Jean-Francois, Host and Producer of their own podcast, share their vision of the data science and AI industry with Jesús Templado.
Roisin McCarthy, also leads Datatech Analytics, located in Basingtoke, a renowned firm that is considered by many to be the leading supplier of professionals in the Data Science and Analytics field.
On the other hand, Karen is an Analytics Manager at Cardlytics, a company listed in the NASDAQ that has developed a Purchase Intelligence and Advertising Platform that helps marketers identifying opportunities and reaching people with relevant ads.
Click play if you want to learn how WiD has helped our industry (and continue to), and how Karen and Roisin have lived the evolution of the data world over the past 2 decades.
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Trailer of the podcast Data Stand-Up! in its English version. A space in which we will speak with professionals from the world of data and in which we will address many topics of interest.