Podcasts by How AI Built This

#82 Ben McLoughlin - Head of Data Science at Webuyanycar from 2023-07-30T09:00

Ben McLoughlin is the Head of Data Science at Webuyanycar in Manchester.

Armed with a PhD in Robotics & Computer Vision, Ben has quickly risen through the ranks to lead the considerabl...

#81 Liam Fulton&Hannah Bratley - Computer Vision from 2023-05-09T07:30

Liam & Hannah are the Co-Founders (CEO & CTO respectively) of Frame, a data science consultancy and computer vision organisation based in West Yorkshire.

Not only are the Co-Found...

#80 Rachel Purchase - a data transformation journey at Admiral from 2023-04-18T08:30

Rachel is the Head of Data Product, Insights & Data Science at Admiral Group and is our first guest who has spent their entire career at one employer - which is pretty awesome!

A real...

#79 - Megan Stamper - Head of Data Science BBC Product Group from 2023-03-21T08:00

Megan is the Head of Data Science at the BBC in their Product Group.

With a PhD in Maths from the University of Cambridge and an impressive data career in the world of media, I loved chat...

#78 - Ross Turner, CPO Arria - Natural Language Generation from 2023-02-28T08:00

Welcome back to How AI Built This, the show dedicated to data and entrepreneurial story telling.

This episode I spoke to Ross Turner, The Chief Product Officer at Natural Language Generat...

#77 Jacopo Tagliabue - MLOps at Reasonable Scale from 2022-08-30T17:30

Jacopo is a prominent face in the world of MLOps, speaking at various events around the world and giving access to some amazing open source content - as he puts it, gaining karma points!

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#76 Josh Muncke - Machine Learning in retail from 2022-08-08T14:15

Josh is the Director of Retail & Consumer at Faculty, a Machine Learning consultancy who were born out of academia and have a really unique fellowship programme.

With a varied backgro...

#75 Massimo Belloni - MLOps at scale from 2022-07-26T09:00

Massimo is a Data Science Manager at Bumble, where he and his team are responsible for getting machine learning into production and adding value to the business.

With previous experience ...

#74 Simon Stiebellehner - establishing an MLOps practice from 2022-06-28T10:00

Simon is an experienced MLOps practitioner who has worked for the Amazon of the Netherlands, a large consultancy group and now Transactie Monitoring Nederland (TMNL).

With a wealth of expe...

#73 Ed Shee - building an open source MLOps community from 2022-06-14T12:00

Ed is the Head of Developer Relations at Seldon and an open source enthusiast.

Seldon are at the forefront of MLOps with several industry leading products, both in the open source communi...

#72 Hamza Tahir from 2022-03-15T10:45

Hamza is the Co-Creator of ZenML the open-source MLOps framework for reproducible ML pipelines and production-ready Machine Learning. He& the team have created something pretty special and his ...

#71 Regina Berengolts from 2022-03-07T12:15

Regina is the Director of Research, Analytics& Data at TvSquared, an Edinburgh headquartered analytics who are the world’s largest measurement and attribution platform for converged TV. We had ...

#70 Sarah Rudd from 2022-02-17T09:30

Sarah is one of the pioneers of using data in football and spent 10 years working for StatDNA/Arsenal as their Head of Analytics. Recently she moved on to join Blue Crow Analytics as a VP, Sarah w...

#69 Abigail Giles-Haigh from 2022-02-02T11:00

Abigail is the Chief Data Science Officer at Vertice Cloud, an Oracle Solutions Provider specialising in Oracle Cloud. Abigail works across their customer base helping them get value from Data Sci...

#68 Leanne Fitzpatrick from 2022-01-18T09:45

Leanne Fitzpatrick is back! If you haven't had a chance to listen to Leanne's data story before - go check out episode 15. Since that show, Leanne has moved on to be the Director of Data Science a...

#67 Teodora Lang from 2022-01-12T10:00

Teodora is the Head of Data Science& Analytics at Saint Gobain UK and Ireland, where she leads a team of Data Scientists, Analysts and BI professionals. We had a great chat about studying in B...

#66 Catherine Wilks from 2022-01-05T10:15

Catherine Wilks is a Director of Slalom, helping set up their Manchester Data Analytics Practice. An experienced Consultant, Catherine has a great insight into the world of customer facing data so...

#65 Heather Walker from 2021-12-14T14:30

Heather is the Global Head of Data Science, Analytics& Visualisation at Specsavers managing a team of data scientists and analysts, and advising on best practise as well as Specsavers’ global d...

#64 Wojtek Kuberski from 2021-12-07T10:45

Wojtek is the Co-Founder of NannyML, a start-up whose product bridges the gap between business and AI in production, monitoring decisions made by ML systems, and ensuring they are stable and reliab...

#63 Oguzhan Gencoglu from 2021-11-30T09:30

Oguzhan is the Co-Founder and Head of AI at Top Data Science, a data science consultancy HQ'd in Finland. We had a great chat about his PhD experience, setting up a data science consultancy, the w...

#62 Eero Laaksonen from 2021-11-09T11:30

Eero is the CEO of Valohai - the last MLOps Platform you'll ever need to try! They provide Machine Learning Infrastructure as a Service - helping companies solve the challenge of MLOps in one easy...

#61 Niels Thoné from 2021-11-01T10:30

Niels is the CEO and Founder of Sprout.ai an insurance technology company using AI to help automate the claims process as well as identifying potentially fraudulent claims for some of the biggest i...

#60 Sanjay Rakshit from 2021-10-19T10:00

Sanjay is the Head of Products and R&D at Transwap a fintech who have recently set up shop in Edinburgh with a brand new R&D hub. We had a great chat about how he has turned his passion fo...

#59 Chris Billingham from 2021-10-11T10:15

Chris is the Lead Product Manager at Manchester AI phenomenon Peak. A Data Scientist by trade and someone with a super interesting background and journey into data, it was great to chat to Chris.W...

#58 John Brodie from 2021-09-28T09:00

John is the newly appointed CEO of Edinburgh headquartered Data Analytics start-up Forth Point, focusing on helping organisations realise the potential of industry 4.0 Using his experience of setti...

#57 Rich Wilson from 2021-09-14T10:00

Rich is the CEO of Gigged.AI, a new platform using Artificial Intelligence to help people take advantage of the'Gig Economy'. After a varied career in Sales, including a hugely successful stint at...

#56 Matt Jackson from 2021-09-07T12:00

Matt is the Head of Data Science at Manchester based scale-up Netacea! I've known Matt for a long time so was buzzing to get him on the show. He's experienced both sides of being recruited into da...

#55 Brian Mullins from 2021-08-26T09:30

Brian is the CEO of Mind Foundry, an AI start-up which spun out of Oxford University and was founded by two pioneers of the AI and Machine Learning world. Brian was brought in as CEO following a s...

#54 Andre Franca from 2021-08-10T10:00

Andre Franca is the Director of Applied Data Science at causaLens who are on a mission to develop Causal AI. Causality is a major step towards developing true AI. We had a great chat about his...

#53 Tony Lucas from 2021-07-27T09:45

Tony Lucas is a serial entrepreneur and recently appointed Head of CWM Tools at Supermetrics, a Scandinavian scale-up who are potentially one of the best kept secrets in tech. Tony has founded and...

#52 Erik Arne Mathiesen-Dreyfus from 2021-04-29T09:45

Erik is back! Go have a listen to episode three if you missed it to find out all about Erik's career and background in data. This episode we dive into a few different topics, namely MLOps, Data V...

#51 Hannah Varley-Fodden from 2021-03-31T09:30

Hannah is the Head of Operations at The Oakland Group, a Consultancy HQ'd in Leeds specialising in delivering large scale data solutions for clients across the country. Coming from a technical bac...

#50 Heather Dawe from 2021-03-18T09:45

Heather is the Head of Data at UST, a global provider of digital technology, transformation and IT services. With a long career in Data, Heather has been involved in building data teams for the NHS...

#49 Adam Sroka - How to stand out as a Data Scientist from 2021-03-11T09:00

Adam Sroka is back! Adam joined me in the second ever episode of How AI Built This so to head more about his journey into data go check that out.This episode is more focused on a recent blog post ...

#48 Ben Hookway from 2021-03-04T09:15

Ben is the CEO of Lancaster based Relative Insight, an analytics company working with some of the world's biggest companies to help them better understand anything to do with language. A tricky fi...

#47 Greig Cowan from 2021-02-18T09:45

Greig is the Head of Data Science for Data Innovation at NatWest Group. With a strong academic background and real appreciation for collaboration, Greig has built a solid team within the bank and ...

#46 Rob Boville from 2021-02-04T11:15

Rob is the Head of Engineering at ADLINK in Newcastle, a really interesting organisation building some great software and hardware products around IoT devices. They have some super innovative proj...

#45 Andrew Jones - How you get a job in data? from 2021-01-21T09:00

Andrew is the Founder of Analytics-Link a Consultancy focused on Data Science Education and Coaching. A Data Scientist with an impressive career including work for Amazon and recently on Sony and ...

#44 Steven Faull from 2020-12-22T10:15

Steven Faull is part of the Technology Leadership team at William Grant& Sons and a bit of a veteran of the Scottish data& tech world. He's a huge proponent for the value data and analytic...

#43 Tadas Labudis from 2020-12-16T12:30

Tadas is the CEO and Founder or Prodsight, a customer insight product helping you understand customer feedback across all channels, from support tickets to reviews. Using NLP techniques and sentime...

#42 Gil Ninveh from 2020-12-09T09:00

Gil is the VP of Product at Israeli AI start-up Edgify. They are doing something pretty novel, developing an approach to training models directly onto the edge devices, which is super exciting.The...

#41 Phil Bates from 2020-12-02T10:00

Phil is the Head of Data at Street Group, a Manchester based tech start-up looking to change the way the property market works. They have recently launched a brand new product, which is underpinned...

#40 Zandra Moore from 2020-11-25T10:15

Zandra is the CEO of Panintelligence, a Leeds based SaaS company helping companies embed BI, Reporting and Predictive Analytics in one. Coming from a Sales background, Zandra has had a really int...

#39 Kaylea Haynes from 2020-11-18T10:00

Kaylea is a talented, Manchester based (but importantly, Scottish) Data Scientist. Having spent time working with Peak in Manchester as one of their early Data Scientists and recently moving to Re...

#38 Paul van Loon from 2020-11-04T10:15

Paul is the Head of Analytics at Edinburgh based Forecast, a data analytics company working to help clients make the most of their data. Paul has a great story and was a lot of fun to talk to!The ...

#37 Highlight Show - Building successful teams from 2020-10-29T12:30

Our first ever highlight show! Have a listen to some of the best bits of the show so far about building teams and how to go about it, from some of the most informed people in the UK.Featuring: Rich...

#36 Vicky Byrom from 2020-10-14T10:00

Vicky is the VP of Analytics at Merkle Aquila in Edinburgh and has been with the company since they were a small start-up to now being a real analytics powerhouse in the UK. Having worked for a bi...

#35 Anna Sutton from 2020-10-07T14:00

Anna Sutton is the CEO of Leeds based Data Analytics company The Data Shed, which she runs with her husband Ed. The Data Shed was born through shared frustrations of data not being readily availab...

#34 Rachael Ainsworth from 2020-09-30T10:45

Rachael is the Research Software Community Manager at The University of Manchester and Software Sustainability Institute and Founder of the Manchester chapter of Her + Data MCR. A real champion fo...

#33 Tom Castle from 2020-09-23T10:30

Tom is the Strategy Principle at Futurice, an international digital engineering and innovation company. They provide Consultancy work across technology and strategy, with Tom looking specifically ...

#32 Katy Guthrie from 2020-09-16T10:00

Katy is the Head of Data at ScotlandIS and a key member of the team helping to deliver Scotland's AI Strategy. ScotlandIS is the trade body for all things technology in Scotland and have been at th...

#31 Tom Hind from 2020-09-09T10:00

Tom Hind is the CTO of Akari Soultions, a Glasgow based tech for good company and Microsoft Partner. A super interesting guy who has grabbed every opportunity thrown at him and made a success of it...

#30 Andrew Veitch from 2020-09-02T10:15

Andrew is the CEO of Machine Labs, an Edinburgh based SaaS solution for marketeers using data analytics to drive better decision making. Andrew describes the platform as the marketing product he w...

#29 Brian Hills from 2020-08-26T10:15

Brian Hills is the Deputy CEO& Head of Service Design at The Data Lab in Edinburgh. The Data Lab's mission is to unite world class researchers with and data scientists with industry and public...

#28 Stephanie Boyle from 2020-08-19T09:15

Stephanie is the Senior Data Analysis Instructor for CodeClan's Data skills academy. Stephanie has a Doctorate in Neuroscience and Psychology and has worked in industry as a Programmer and academi...

#27 Harsha Tharkabhushanam from 2020-08-12T12:00

Harsha is the Head of Data Science at Leeds HQ'd Consultancy BJSS. BJSS started as a Software Consultancy, admired for their approach to Agile and have expanded their offering to include Data Scie...

#26 Dominic Jordan from 2020-08-05T15:00

Dominic Jordan is the Director of Data Science and Analytics at N Brown Group in Manchester. N Brown Group are a Manchester institution when it comes to fashion retail and e-commerce.Dominic has ha...

#25 Matthew Baker from 2020-07-29T10:00

Matthew is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer at ClinSpec Diagnostics, a Glasgow based start-up making it quicker to detect brain cancer and other diseases by using a new blood serum test. Wh...

#24 Daniel Winterstein from 2020-07-22T09:15

Daniel Winterstein is the Founder and CTO of Good-Loop a tech for good organisation based in Edinburgh and London. They serve adverts for brands whilst raising money for charity, working with some ...

#23 Pete Denby and Thomas Hill from 2020-07-15T09:15

Pete and Thomas are both Co-Founders and Directors of Hyper Group, a Data Science company headquartered in Leeds, focusing on the data science behind hyper personalisation.Both great guys with real...

#22 Jimmy Hosang from 2020-07-08T09:15

Jimmy is the CEO and Founder of The Modular Analytics Company in Manchester. Jimmy and his team's aim is to simplify the world of data and analytics for everyone, providing them real results and no...

#21 John Gordon from 2020-07-01T09:15

John Gordon is one of the Founders and CEO of Incentive Games, a software business headquartered in Edinburgh, focusing on, you guessed it, the games industry. John and the founding team were all ...

#20 Fuzzy Labs from 2020-06-24T09:30

Fuzzy Labs is an AI Consultancy based in Manchester run by Tom Stockton and Matt Squire. Tom and Matt have worked together for years and decided last year, it was time to do their own thing.They a...

#19 Andy McMahon from 2020-06-17T09:30

Andy McMahon is the Analytics Team Leader of Glasgow headquartered Aggreko. Aggreko provide temporary power solutions to a whole host of industries and events - like the Football and Rugby World C...

#18 Katie Gibbs from 2020-06-10T09:30

Katie Gibbs is one of the Founding Partners and Head of Consulting at Emergence Partners in London. Emergence Partners are a brand new company focused on delivering profound transformations to ens...

#17 Tamanna Haque from 2020-06-03T09:45

Tamanna Haque is the Lead Data Scientist at Jaguar Land Rover in Manchester. An incredibly ambitious and determined Data Scientist, Tamanna has quite literally landed her dream role and probably h...

#16 Mirko Bernardoni and Michael Seddon from 2020-05-27T09:30

Mirko and Michael are the co-founders of Fiume, a Data Science Consultancy based in London. After successful careers working in Data, setting up research labs and building teams, the guys decided ...

#15 Leanne Fitzpatrick from 2020-05-13T10:00

Leanne is the Head of Data at Hello Soda in Manchester but last year made the move to Austin, Texas. In this episode we chat about Leanne's career, what she has learned managing remotely and how t...

#14 Tom Liptrot from 2020-05-06T10:15

Tom is the Owner of Manchester based Data Science Consultancy Ortom - helping companies across the UK to understand data science and set them up for success. Having worked at a variety of large or...

#13 Andrew Hathaway from 2020-04-29T10:00

Andrew is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hark, a Leeds based IoT company who help their customers increase efficiency whilst reducing waste. Andrew's journey is really interesting and I really enjoyed s...

#12 Alastair Andrew from 2020-04-22T10:30

Alastair is the Co-Founder of Airts, an Edinburgh based software company using the power of AI to help professional service organisations with their scheduling.In this episode we talk through Alast...

#11 Sorcha Lorimer from 2020-04-15T09:00

Sorcha is the Founder& CEO of Trace, a SaaS start-up HQ'd in Edinburgh with the aim to simplify data compliance, GDPR and data governance. A really interesting background, including a"hippy up...

#10 Craig Mackay from 2020-04-02T14:45

Craig Mackay is the CEO& Co-Founder of Sharktower. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Craig and the team have developed a product which helps organisations spot problems in their project deliveries b...

#9 Luke Grimes from 2020-03-27T09:00

Luke Grimes is the Head of Digital Services at ANS Group in Manchester. He is responsible for working with customers across the UK to help them understand what is possible with AI and technology i...

#8 Jennifer Stark from 2020-03-18T17:30

Jennifer Stark is the Lead Data Engineer at LADbible group in Manchester and a pillar of the North West Data Community. Outside of her day job, Jennifer organises PyDataMCR with a great team of pe...

#7 Euan Wielewski from 2020-03-11T09:00

Euan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anomalous Technologies, an AI start-up based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Euan and his Co-Founder Matt have developed a product which can literally stop planes falling...

#6 Samantha Rhynas from 2020-03-04T15:00

Samantha Rhynas is the Head of Data at Edinburgh based data start-up Effini (Jo Watts, founder of Effini was on episode 4). As well as working at a busy start-up, Sam is an absolute legend of the...

#5 Craig Lynn from 2020-02-26T14:15

Craig Lynn is the Co-Founder& Director of Filament, a Product Design company in Glasgow. He's also the organiser of Silicon Swalley, a tech meet-up in Scotland focusing and various key themes. ...

#4 Jo Watts from 2020-02-18T09:30

Jo Watts is the Founder& CEO of Effini, a growing Data Consultancy headquartered in Edinburgh. As well as running a business, Jo is also on the Board of The Data Lab, has written the Data Anal...

#3 Erik Arne Mathiesen-Dreyfus from 2020-01-22T16:30

Erik Arne Mathiesen-Dreyfus is the Head of Data Science at Attest, a rapidly growing scale-up in London. He's also the Founder& Co-organiser of MancML - the North of England's biggest and best ...

#2 Adam Sroka from 2019-12-13T11:30

Adam Sroka is the Data& AI Director at Incremental Group - a Glasgow based Microsoft partner. In this episode we chat about his background, education and his career from start-ups to where he ...

#1 Richard Potter from 2019-11-20T09:55

Richard Potter is the CEO of Manchester based SaaS company Peak who have built their own AI system which is helping companies across the UK leverage their data and give them access to Peak's incred...

Trailer from 2019-11-07T09:00

A very quick intro into what this show is about, why I decided to do it and who I'll be speaking to in the very first episode.Music by<a href="https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter%22%3ENo...