AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion

Successful MLOps not only requires strong collaboration between the AI data team, AI model team, and DevOps it’s the ability to effectively manage and mitigate risk across the deployment, integration, scale, monitoring, and compliance stages of an AI project. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Kfir Yeshayahu who is the Senior Vice President of Products at Veritone. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The transformation of ML Ops,...

As AI continues to move into the mainstream and more companies are looking to bring AI and ML into their organizations, the tools have also evolved to keep up with the changing demand. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer interview Sivan Metzger, Managing Director of MLOps and Governance at DataRobot. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Expanding MLOps Platform, Interview with Sivan Metzger, Managing Director of MLOps and Governance at DataRobot...

As companies move from building models to buying models the focus shifts from tooling and platforms focused solely on model development to tools and platforms focused on the overall usage, consumption, and management of models. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nir Bar-lev, CEO of ClearML to discuss the overlap between DevOps and MLOps, where ML Ops is fitting into the overall ML ecosystem, and how he thinks it will continue to evolve over the...

As companies move from AI and ML projects as just a concept to actual production they need to find value in these projects. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ahmer Inam and Mark Persaud at Pactera Edge. They discuss some of the challenges they have seen companies face with their data science projects and why they fail to deliver for their executive sponsors and how companies can overcome this. Continue reading AI Today Podcast:...

As companies continue to advance in their adoption of AI and ML, they need a trusted approach to machine learning operations (MLOps). In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Harish Doddi who is CEO of Datatron. He shares with us some of the challenges companies face as they use ML models in production. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: A Trusted Approach to ML Ops, Interview with Harish Doddi, CEO Datatron at Cognilytica.

In the face of the many of the challenges that 2020 represented, AI has continued at its unrelenting pace of adoption, investment and growth in both the private and public sectors. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share their AI market predictions and forecasts for where AI will make waves in 2021 including the continued worldwide adoption of AI and ML, hot markets including the ML Platforms space, ML Ops players, and data labeling. Continue reading AI Today Podcast:...

On the AI Today podcast we often discuss how AI is being applied at the federal level. However many states are also applying automation and AI technologies as well. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dorman Bazzell, Chief Data Officer for the state of North Dakota. He shares with us some of the unique challenges around data, data science and data privacy at the state level. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we wanted to highlight our upcoming Machine Learning Lifecycle 2021 Conference taking place Jan 26-28, 2021. The 5 main areas of focus for sessions and content during the conference include: ML Model Development, ML Model Management, ML Operations (MLOps), ML Model Governance, and General Sessions Related to the ML Lifecycle. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Machine Learning Lifecycle 2021 Conference Preview at Cognilytica.

With 2020 quickly (thankfully) fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to reflect on the year that was including looking at our predictions for 2020 and see how accurate they were, some of the big AI news, use cases and activity. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss some of the big newsmakers and insights from this year in the world of AI as well as some of the highlight episodes from 2020. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: A Look Back at AI in 2020 at...

Machine learning systems are core to enabling each of the seven patterns of AI. Machine learning platforms facilitate and accelerate the development of machine learning models by providing functionality that combines many necessary activities for model development and deployment. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share high level details for the recent ML Platforms Report 2020 report. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Machine Learning (ML) Platforms 2020 – A Market...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the pharmaceutical and health care industries. No doubt with the recent global pandemic AI and machine learning is being put to use in the fight against the pandemic. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Subroto Mukherjee, Head of Innovation and Emerging Technology, Americas at GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in Pharma, Interview with Subroto...

The energy sector has long used data methods and various technologies to make processes more efficient. However, in heavily regulated industries such as the energy industry there can be some unique challenges to technology adoption. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Ron Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch interivew Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, who is Technology Fellow and the Chief Data Scientist at Halliburton. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Energy Sector Adoption of AI, Interview with...

The pace of worldwide AI adoption continues to accelerate. AI is transforming just about every single industry and transforming the way humans work, live, and interact with each other. It’s no surprise then that countries see this technology as so important they are creating their own country level AI strategies. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Gergely Szertics who is leading the transformative programs in the AI strategy for...

The US Department of Defense (DoD) takes the topics of topics of Ethics, transparency, and Ethics Policy very seriously. A few years ago the DoD stood up the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, also referred to as the JAIC, to help figure out how to best move forward with this transformative technology. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Alka Patel, who is Head of AI Ethics Policy at Department of Defense, Joint AI Center. Continue...

You may have seen headlines in the news about GPT-3. But, what exactly is it, and, why is it important? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what GPT-3 is, how it came about, what we can do with it, and the future of GPT-3. Show Notes: Continue reading AI Today Podcast: What is GPT-3 and why is it important? at Cognilytica.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has been a very forward thinking agency in the US Federal Government. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Emily Murphy, Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA). She shares with us how is AI helping with GSA’s mission, what role the Center of Excellence is playing at the GSA, and some of the unique opportunities the public sector has around AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast:...

AI technologies have been positively impacting a number of industries, and medicine and healthcare is one of these such industries. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Gil Alterovitz, Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He shares how how AI is impacting the VA, details about recently created the National Artificial Intelligence Institute at the VA, and how AI will provide benefits to...

Over the last decade, data and analytics has grown to be more than just a quantitative support function. In this episode of the AI Today we interview Shiv Misra who is the Head of Medicare Retention Analytics at CVS Health. He has a very diverse background working at multiple large organizations. He shares with us how these various companies have approached data, some of the insights and challenges for dealing with data and AI from a healthcare and insurance perspectives, and more. Continue...

Data is increasingly playing an important role at organizations, and especially financial institutions. Data privacy is increasingly becoming an important topic and something that should be considered through all stages of the data lifecycle and ML model lifecycle. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Rajeev Sambyal who is Director, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at BNY Mellon. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How Data Privacy is Impacting AI – Interview with...

Retailers are turning to artificial intelligence and data science to help solve challenging E-commerce problems. From product recommendation systems to logistics and supply management, AI is helping in a variety of ways. In this AI Today podcast episode we interview Khalifeh Al Jadda, Director of Core Data Science at The Home Depot. He shares with us how The Home Depot is using data science, AI, and ML to help solve challenging e-commerce problems for HomeDepot, some opportunities retail...