Bak Up Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ioannis Bakagiannis
The Bak Up Podcast channel is all about tech, Artificial Intelligence, innovation and entrepreneurship.Ioannis "Bak" Bakagiannis unveils how technologies change the entrepreneurial, financial and industrial ecosystem. With a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science in general, Bak is facilitating conversations with industry and academic leaders or sharing late night shower thoughts.
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast I had the pleasure to sit down with Krishna Gade, the CEO of fiddler.ai and talk about AI model monitoring and explainability but also about his professional progression. I hope you find this episode as eye opening as I did and motivate you towards your goals.
Krishna's links:
fiddler website: https://www.fiddler.ai/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/krishnagade
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnagade/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EjtpMaoAAAAJ&hl=en
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast I showcase my own research topic that I presented to an IEEE conference in April 2021. In my research I want to investigate the gap between the business goals of an organization and the machine learning products that they develop. We argue that without thoughtful design, products that leverage machine learning might not be optimizing for the business success and can be detrimental to the overall success of the enterprise.
In episode 13 of the Bak Up Podcast, Willem Pienaar joins us to talk about MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), feature stores and the project that he is leading: FEAST, the open source feature store.
You can find Willem here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willempienaar/
Twitter: @willpienaar
FEAST website: https://feast.dev/
FEAST github: https://github.com/feast-dev/feast
tecton: https://www.tecton.ai/
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast I had the pleasure to discuss about the challenges of companies and startups in investing in AI with Tomas Turek. Tomas is an applied scientist that lives in Australia and is helping companies achieve an AI first mindset and delivering AI products.
Tomas's links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-turek-54348aba/
Medium: https://medium.com/@tomtx
GitHub: https://github.com/tomtx
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hhxJmDgAAAAJ&hl=en
NLP patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190384812A1/en
In this episode I am joined by Sami Tannir who is a Blockchain Business Analyst at Conflux Network. Sami explained what Decentralized Finance really is and how it will impact the world.
Sami's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samitannir/?originalSubdomain=ca
Sami's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tannirsami
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast, Leeav Lipton introduces the space of Machin Learning Product Management along with the challenges of putting an innovative idea into a scalable machine learning solution in production.
Leeav's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeavlipton/
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast Fabiana Clemente, Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer of YDATA, discusses the impact of data quality in A.I. Data is the most crucial commodity of the internet era and the quality of the data matters more than people think. Data quality could have implications in model performance, data engineering and even in model fairness.
Fabiana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiana-clemente/
Fabiana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fab_clemente
YDATA website: https://ydata.ai/
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast, Konstantinos Vasios explains why advancements in robotics could change the automotive industry and why newcomers like Tesla have dominated the field.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinosvasios/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kvasios
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast I welcome machine learning researcher from Royal Bank of Canada to discuss about machine learning model validation and trustworthy A.I.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-fathi-9ba072a1/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali_Fathi5
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast, I welcome researcher of Sheffield University Cristian Gherhes to discuss about the challenges and the opportunities of professional services firms like law and accounting firms adopting new technologies and A.I. specifically.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgherhes/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WiqiQq0AAAAJ&hl=en
University website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/management/people/research-associates/cristian-gherhes
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cristiangherhes?lang=el
NextGenPSF project website and webinar info: http://nextgenpsf.co.uk
In this episode of the Bak Up Log series I take a moment to discuss about what is explainable A.I., the current approaches and how we should steer research.
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast Intel's Mohammad Fawaz joins the show to discuss high performance computing and how it is achieved through heterogeneous computing and Intel oneAPI.
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-fawaz-4a44311b/?originalSubdomain=ca
Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=drOhZAQAAAAJ&hl=en
oneAPI: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi.html
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast, I welcome professor of Yorkville University Pavlos Gkasis to discuss about the challenges of setting up A.I. business initiatives in Canada.
Pavlos's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavlos-gkasis-4827a59/?originalSubdomain=ca
Pavlos's webpage: https://gkasis.weebly.com/
Pavlos's publications: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2014712994_Pavlos_Gkasis
In this episode of the Bak Up Podcast I am discussing with Zissis Poulos, a distinguished researcher and dear friend, the state of A.I. and blockchain in finance.
Links:
Zissis's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zissis-poulos-52b4b08/?originalSubdomain=ca
Zissis's scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iAkaIugAAAAJ&hl=en
The first ever Bak Up Podcast is here! This is the first episode of the Bak Up Log series also!
In this episode I am sharing my thoughts about RegTech in the financial sector. Regulatory bodies like OSFI govern the financial institutions of Canada and in the recent years that interaction has been challenged by technology startups. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are set to disrupt a lot of industries and processes and regulatory procedures are not an exception.
Links:
Financial regulators of Canada: https://research.osc.gov.on.ca/globalreg/cdnreg
3 Lines of Defence IIA position paper: https://na.theiia.org/standards-guidance/Public%20Documents/PP%20The%20Three%20Lines%20of%20Defense%20in%20Effective%20Risk%20Management%20and%20Control.pdf
RegTech review from Deloitte: https://www2.deloitte.com/lu/en/pages/technology/articles/regtech-companies-compliance.html#tab2