Podcasts by The ConversAItion
A podcast airing viewpoints on the impact of AI on business and society.
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Fueling Federal Initiatives With AI from 2022-06-14T05:00
For more than 40 years, Maximus, the government IT service management company, has partnered with state, federal and local agencies to build technology solutions that allow them to better connec...
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Backstage With Spotify: How the Audio Giant Uses AI to Tune Business Processes and Employee Skillsets from 2022-05-10T03:00
Spotify is one of the world’s largest audio streaming platforms, with more than 400 million active monthly users worldwide. Behind the scenes, Global Head of Intelligent Automation Sidney Madiso...
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How Shopify’s Data-Informed Approach Empowers Entrepreneurs from 2022-04-26T04:00
Shopify is a multinational e-commerce platform that helps 1.7M+ merchants across 175 countries build and manage their businesses. As VP of Data Science, Ella Hilal is focused on leveraging Shopi...
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How UPS Leverages AI to Level Up Logistics from 2022-04-12T05:00
UPS delivers nearly 25 million packages and documents every day. While the process seems near-effortless, AI is hard at work behind the scenes to ensure the reliability consumers have come to ex...
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How Lyft Revolutionizes Ridesharing With Machine Learning from 2022-03-29T03:00
Lyft, the popular ridesharing company, has powered on-demand transportation for over a decade—and AI has been along for the ride from the start. This week, Craig Martell, Lyft’s Head of Machine ...
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How Moderna’s AI Infrastructure Is Revolutionizing Vaccine Development, Drug Discovery And More from 2021-12-14T03:00
Most are familiar with the name Moderna and its landmark role in developing one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, but few know how the company leveraged AI to accelerate its creation. Today, Moder...
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Unpacking The Technology Behind User-Centric Conversational Design from 2021-11-30T03:00
Susan Hura is a renowned speech technology expert and user experience designer with more than 35 years of experience in the linguistics field. She also happens to be the Director of Conversation...
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AI and Online Dating: Tinder’s Match Made in Heaven from 2021-11-16T03:00
Tinder, the popular dating app that brought the phrase “swipe right” into the mainstream, has been helping people connect online since 2012. This week, Director of Analytics Jennifer Flashman jo...
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How Redfin Uses AI to Help Buyers Find Their Dream Home from 2021-11-02T03:00
Redfin is a real estate brokerage that combines AI-powered insights and agent savvy to make the home buying and selling process easier, faster and less stressful. In her ten years at Redfin, CTO...
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Looking Beyond the Resume With pymetrics from 2021-10-19T03:00
pymetrics is a talent-matching platform that leverages AI and behavioral neuroscience to pair people with job openings that best fit both their professional skill set and their raw human potenti...
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How Duolingo Democratizes Language Learning With AI from 2021-10-05T03:00
Duolingo, the hallmark language-learning platform, is on a mission to make education accessible to all—and leverages AI to make that education as tailored and scalable as possible for its 500+ m...
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Using AI to Make Mental Health Care Radically Accessible from 2021-07-13T03:00
Woebot, an AI-powered chatbot that engages patients to provide real-time mental health support, exchanges 4.7 million messages with people every week in more than 130 countries around the world....
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How Credit Karma is Demystifying Personal Finance with AI from 2021-06-29T03:00
This week on The ConversAItion, Jim chats with Supriya Gupta, Senior Product Director and Head of Recommendations at Credit Karma, a personal finance company that provides resources, tools and p...
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How Hopper Optimizes Travel Booking With AI from 2021-06-15T03:00
Hopper is on a mission to make travel booking more seamless and flexible with personalized, data-driven recommendations. President of Fintech & Data at Hopper Ella Alkalay Schreiber joins The Co...
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Stitch Fix Unravels the AI Behind Personalized Styling from 2021-06-01T03:00
Stitch Fix, a popular online styling service that delivers curated clothing choices to 3.9 million customers, has pioneered AI-powered personalized experiences since its founding in 2011. This w...
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Zoox Pops the Hood on the AI Behind Self-Driving Cars from 2021-05-18T03:00
We hear a lot about autonomous vehicles these days, but they remain a black box for most. This week on the ConversAItion, Jim sits down with Janek Hudecek, Director of Planning and Control at Ca...
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How The Trevor Project Uses Intersectional AI For LGBTQ Suicide Prevention from 2021-05-04T03:00
Amidst the widespread uncertainty of the pandemic and political and social turmoil of 2020, The Trevor Project—the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for the...
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Leveraging big data for good with Susan Etlinger from 2021-04-20T03:00
Renowned AI and big data thought leader and analyst Susan Etlinger kicks off Season 4 of The ConversAItion with a discussion on creating human-centric, responsible AI. She’ll share insight into ...
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Unlocking the potential of intelligent automation with Pascal Bornet from 2020-12-22T05:00
Author and renowned thought leader Pascal Bornet joins The ConversAItion to discuss the growing role of intelligent automation in business. He breaks down what it is, how companies can successfu...
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Salesforce’s Brian Solis on Digital Darwinism and continuous innovation from 2020-12-08T10:33:47
Bestselling author, digital anthropologist and Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce Brian Solis has dedicated his career to helping businesses identify opportunities for growth and transfo...
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How Josh.ai Powers Truly Smart Homes from 2020-11-24T05:00
As we collectively spend more time around the house, demand for smart home products is surging—and Josh.ai, a voice-controlled home automation company, is right in the thick of it. Co-founder an...
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Pinterest Powers Content Personalization with AI from 2020-11-10T05:00
Pinterest is known for its image-centric discovery platform; but with billions of Pins, it takes a very powerful AI engine to create a relevant, personalized experience for each of Pinterest’s 4...
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How AI&Automation Power Remote Learning from 2020-10-27T05:00
With the rise of virtual and hybrid learning, educators are leaning on technology—including AI—more than ever to deliver exceptional classroom experiences. Paul Johansen, CTO at EdTech company E...
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1-800-Flowers.com Leverages AI as Business Blooms from 2020-10-13T05:00
With most in-person celebrations off the table, people nationwide are leaning on contactless gift-giving to stay connected to families and friends from afar. May Ng, Senior Director of Customer ...
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Adam Oliner: How AI Keeps Companies Connected At Home from 2020-09-29T05:00
Season 3, which will explore AI at home, kicks off with a conversation with Adam Oliner, Head of Machine Learning at Slack. In this episode, Jim and Adam discuss the new world of remote work and...
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Dave Touretzky: Teaching Kids AI in School from 2020-07-07T05:00
How should kids learn about AI? Jim is joined by Dave Touretzky, professor of computer science and researcher on AI in education, to explore the history of AI in education and the process of int...
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Elan Mosbacher: SpotHero Brings AI to Parking from 2020-06-23T05:00
Smarter parking, data-driven pricing, industry transformation—Jim speaks with Elan Mosbacher, SVP of Strategy and Operations at SpotHero, about how AI adoption is transforming the parking indust...
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Unlocking Employee Potential with AI from 2020-06-09T05:00
People analytics, personality profiling, overcoming biases—Jim discusses AI in hiring with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor and Chief Talent Scientist at staffing firm ManpowerGroup. They de...
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Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino: Smarter Homes with IoT from 2020-05-26T05:00
Smart homes, IoT education, sustainable living—Jim is joined by IoT expert and entrepreneur Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino to talk about all things “living with tech.” Specifically, they unpack the...
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Michael Littman: Humanity-Centered Robotics from 2020-05-12T05:00
How can robots can work best with humans? Jim and guest Dr. Michael Littman discuss everything from robotics design to how humans can play a role in teaching robots socially acceptable behavior,...
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Louis Rosenberg: Making Groups Smarter with AI from 2020-04-28T05:00
Jim is joined by Louis Rosenberg, prolific inventor and the founder and CEO of Unanimous AI, a company that uses AI to amplify the intelligence of human groups...
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Karen Hao: Reporting on AI Amid COVID-19 from 2020-04-14T05:00
Season two kicks off with Karen Hao, Senior AI Reporter at MIT Technology Review. In this episode, Karen and Jim explore the role of the media in educating the public on AI. They also discuss wh...
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Thomas Arnold: Ethical Human-Robot Interactions from 2019-12-10T05:00
Jim explores ethical robot design with Thomas Arnold of the Tufts University Human-Robot Interaction Lab. Recorded in front of a live audience, they discu...
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Tom Davenport: AI&the Future of Work from 2019-11-12T05:00
Jim speaks with a renowned expert on digital business, Tom Davenport, about everything from AI and the fear of job displacement to employability in an AI-driven world. A prolific author, senior ...
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Jim Kennelly: AI&Voice in Entertainment from 2019-10-29T06:00
In this episode, Jim explores the role of AI in voice casting with Jim Kennelly, owner of Lotas Productions, an audio recording studio that offers services in casting, directing and recording. T...
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Susse Jensen: Voice&Designing for Inclusivity from 2019-10-15T06:00
In this episode, Jim speaks with Susse Jensen, Senior Experience Designer at Adobe, about the growing importance of voice interface design. They discuss the ways in which businesses can design v...
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Gabriel Skantze: Social Robots&the Uncanny Valley from 2019-10-01T06:00
Jim and Gabriel talk social robots, AI-powered robots that look and communicate like humans. They discuss their development, applications and how people building them can navigate the creep fact...
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Rob Atkinson: AI Adoption&the Innovation Cycle from 2019-09-10T16:28:14
Tech enthusiast Jim Freeze kicks off his deep exploration of AI with innovation expert Rob Atkinson. They cover the history of innovation, apprehension around AI at work, and the importance of e...
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