Executive Interviews
Executive Interviews

Executive Interview: Navid Alipour, co-founder Analytics Ventures

From a beachhead in healthcare, firm aims to apply its venture studio model and own pool of data scientists to more industries Navid Alipour is co-founder and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, a global venture studio providing end to end infrastructure and to plan, form, launch, fund, and validate brand new ventures in Artificial Intelligence. […]

Executive Interview: Yoshua Bengio of MILA, University of Montreal

Combining AI Research, Business Collaboration, Thoughts on Impact of AI on Society Yoshua Bengio is among the most cited Canadian computer scientists. He is the author of two books and more than 200 publications, the most cited being in the areas of deep learning, recurrent neural networks, probabilistic learning algorithms, natural language processing and manifold […]

Executive Interview: Dr. William Mark, SRI International

R&D Mission Spawned Siri, Now Pursuing AI Innovations to Address Challenges from an Aging Population to Picking Apples   Dr. William Mark is president of SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which conducts leading-edge research with a strong focus on intellectual property creation and commercialization. He formerly worked with National Semiconductor, and Lockheed Martin’s […]

Executive Interview: Richard Soley, CEO of OMG

Industrial Internet Consortium Members “Invent the Future” by Anticipating Disruptions from AI, Pursue Standard Testbeds to Accelerate Adoption Dr. Richard Soley is Chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG) and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In a career in the computer industry approaching 40 years, he has overseen a range […]

Executive Interview: Atul Arya, Blackstraw.ai

Blackstraw.ai Seeks to Fast-Track AI Adoption with Smart Building Blocks AI Trends recently caught up with Atul Arya, CEO and Founder of Blackstraw. The veteran machine learning leader most recently at Nielsen is transforming the AI space using his real-world experience of implementing AI with speed in enterprises. Story by Jeff Orr of AI World. […]

Executive Interview: Paul Blase, CEO, Speciate AI: Using AI to Reinvent the Connection Between Customers & Product Developers

Paul Blase is a co-founder of Speciate AI, a spin-out from tronc, a newspaper and online media company based in Chicago. Blase was formerly the managing partner of tronc’s AI and data solutions division responsible for building a portfolio of businesses and products that monetize data. Prior to that he led PwC’s Global & US […]

Executive Interview: Amir Banifatemim, Prize Lead, IBM Watson AI XPRIZE

“The question that everyone needs to ask themselves is, while we are building new innovative approaches with AI, how could we also think about bringing value to society?” – Amir Banifatemi Amir Banifatemi is the Prize Lead of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. Amir has more than 25 years of experience in development and growth […]

Executive Interview: Driving AI Innovation: New Services, Investment and Societal Good are Goals of XPRIZE Competition

“The question that everyone needs to ask themselves is, while we are building new innovative approaches with AI, how could we also think about bringing value to society?” – Amir Banifatemi Amir Banifatemi is the Prize Lead of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. Amir has more than 25 years of experience in development and growth […]

AI Trends Interviews Martin Mrugal, Chief Innovation Officer, NA, SAP

Eliot Weinman, AI Trends Executive Editor and John Desmond, AI Trends Editor, recently had an opportunity to interview Martin Mrugal. As chief innovation officer at SAP North America, Marty Mrugal is responsible for SAP’s innovation agenda in he U.S. including the Chief Customer Office, Solution Engineering, Industry and Value Engineering, and the Customer Center of […]