Intel® Conversations in the Cloud is a podcast with IT leaders who are driving the future of a software-defined infrastructure based data center. Featuring members of the Intel® Builders programs, Intel experts, and industry analysts, this recurring podcast series provides information on delivering, deploying, and managing cloud computing, technology, and services in the data center and enterprise.
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Safehouse Initiative Podcast - CitC 294 Part 3
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The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity t…
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Safehouse Initiative Podcast - CitC 294 Part 2
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The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity t…
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Safehouse Initiative Podcast - CitC Episode 294
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The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity t…
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Next Generation Data Center: The Future of Sustainability and the Cloud - CitC Episode 293
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Learn why our customers are moving to immersion cooling, and how it and sustainability are changing data centers in this conversation with Intel Fellows Mohan Kumar, Nishi Ahuja and Senior PE Sandeep Ahuja and host Jake Smith.For more information, visit: Data Center Sustainability- Intel and Submer Partner on Immersion Cooling | Intel Business - Yo…
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Computer Vision and NLP in Practice with ExamRoom.AI - Episode 292
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Deepak MK, Vice President of Data Science at ExamRoom.AI sits in with Jake to discuss the company’s primary mission: to provide a highly secure, unified assessment system and fair environment to the candidates who take online remote proctored exams.ExamRoom.AI’s research and advancements in AI technology have unleashed leap-forward technological ac…
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BasicAI Leads Multisensory Training Data Effort with Xtreme1 - Episode 291
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On today’s episode of Conversations in the Cloud Alex Liu, Chief Technology Officer of BasicAI stops by to talk about the company’s efforts at evolving the training data platform. Xtreme1 is the world's first open-source platform for multisensory training data and can rapidly accelerate the processing and management of training data. AI engineers s…
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Boltzbit Generative AI Tackles Enterprise AI Challenges - Episode 290
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Dr. Yichuan Zhang, CEO of Boltzbit, joins host Jake Smith to discuss what is generative AI, why it matters to developers, and how the Boltzbit Generative AutoML platform helps tackle enterprise AI challenges. Dr. Yichuan started by sharing his journey of transitioning from academia to industry and entrepreneurship while developing a strong passion …
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Building a Data Lake for Deep Learning with Activeloop - Episode 289
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Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop CEO, joins host Jake Smith on the latest episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss optimizing data lakes for creating deep learning-based products. Deep Lake allows storing complex data in AI-native format and streaming it over the network to Tensor Query Language, in-browser visualization engine, and deep learnin…
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Going Deep with Brainpool AI and Intel OpenVINO - CitC Episode 288
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Joining Jake on the podcast today is Kasia Borowska, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Brainpool AI. The duo discuss the most popular applications of AI in business, how they benefit, and the best ways to start implementing solutions.Brainpool AI is an Artificial Intelligence services company that connects a global network of over 600 AI and Mach…
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How SingleStore Powers Real-Time Analytics – CitC Episode 287
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Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, VP of Technology Ecosystem at SingleStore, joins host Jake Smith in a conversation about how SingleStore's database technology (SingleStoreDB) unifies transactions and analytics to power real-time business decision-making. Karl-Heinz talks about modern business applications where companies take advantage of SingleStoreDB to bri…
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Optimizing Model Performance with Deci - CitC Episode 286
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Yonatan Geifman, Co-Founder & CEO at Deci, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how Deci’s AutoNAC (Automated Neural Architecture Construction) engine enables developers to redesign their deep learning models to significantly improve latency performance while preserving the model's accuracy. Yonatan further explained that improving latency and accur…
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Cloud Native AI Development with Zeblok - CitC Episode 285
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Mouli Narayanan, Founder and CEO at Zeblok, join Jake Smith to discuss Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud platform and how it streamlines AI delivery by providing a single, cohesive, turnkey, cloud-native AI environment. Mouli shares Zeblok’s mission and describes how the Ai-MicroCloud enables enterprises to quickly deliver AI at the edge and integrate AI solu…
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Generating Real-Time Shelf Insights with ParallelDots Computer Vision Platform - CitC Episode 284
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Ankit Narayan Singh, Co-Founder & CTO at ParallelDots, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how artificial intelligence and image recognition are transforming the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industry operations in brick-and-mortar stores. He describes how it's a challenge for retailers to identify and replenish out-of-stock products on she…
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HooBox Using AI to Improve Patient Experience - CitC Episode 283
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Renata Morato, PO & PMO at HooBox, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how HooBox is utilizing AI and Machine Learning to better patient experiences in healthcare settings. She highlights how HooBox’s SADIA platform uses AI to improve many different aspects of hospital patient care including fall risk detection, pain levels, and pressure injuries. SAD…
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Predera Democratizing AI Model Production - CitC Episode 282
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Vamshi Ambati, Founder & CEO at Predera, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Predera is working to democratize AI by making it truly accessible to everyone with companies able to manage AI and not just build it. He highlights how Predera’s AIQ platform enables enterprises to drastically cut down the challenges they face today in building, deployin…
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Empower Data Analytics Business Users with AI - CitC Episode 281
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Lorenzo Fornaciari, Vice President of Strategy iGenius joins host Jake Smith to discuss how iGenius is reimagining data analytics and bringing it to the next level with their platform named Crystal. Lorenzo describes how Crystal, auto-classifying business requests in multiple languages, enables businesses to derive real-time insights and access key…
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Optimizing Computer Vision with GLAIR - CitC Episode 280
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Novan Parmonangan Simanjuntak, Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at GLAIR joins host Jake Smith to discuss how GLAIR worked with Intel to optimize deep learning and inference for their computer vision solution. Novan talks about how the GLAIR crowd detection system is optimized for the Intel OpenVINO toolkit and ONNX Run…
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Data-driven surgery with Caresyntax - CitC Episode 279
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Vik Anantha, Chief Product and Strategic Marketing Officer at Caresyntax joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Caresyntax’s data-driven surgery platform is helping make surgeries smarter and safer. Through applying AI and analytics automation, he describes how the Caresyntax platform enables clinicians to focus only on necessary variations for a sur…
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No-code Deep Learning Development with DeepEdge - CitC Episode 278
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Anup Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO of DeepEdge, joins host Jake Smith to discuss DeepEdge’s vision to enable new edge applications, bringing the power of deep learning and computer vision to the hands of the users. He chats about how DeepEdge's deep learning operations platform supports the entire machine learning lifecycle from on boarding data to dep…
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Leveraging AI to Tackle Business Challenges across Industries - CitC Episode 277
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Stephen Gold, CMO of SparkCognition, joins host Jake Smith to discuss SparkCognition’s vision of delivering the best AI solutions to address the critical challenges facing organizations across industries around predictive maintenance, assets management, cost efficiency, worker safety and cyber security. He discusses how SparkCognition is leveraging…
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Simplifying AIoT and Driving Digital Transformation with Intel - CitC Episode 276
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James Cho, VP of Business Development at ThunderSoft, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Cloud and IoT accelerate digital transformation everywhere – consumer, industrial, automotive, healthcare, government, education - with almost unlimited computing power and connecting every intelligent device to the network. James talks about ThunderSoft’s lo…
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Breaking Barriers Deploying AI at the Edge - CitC Episode 275
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Daniel Chang, CEO of ENERZAi, joins host Jake Smith to discuss ENERZAi’s vision of delivering the best AI experience on everything for everyone, and how they are doing this by overcoming the constraints that edge devices have through AI models. He highlights how ENERZAi’s Automated Model Compression Optimization Toolkit enables AI models to maintai…
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Discovering AI Augmented Intelligence Platforms - CitC Episode 274
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Jayachandran Ramachandran, Senior Vice President of AI Labs at Course 5 Intelligence, joins host Jake Smith to discuss the Course5 Intelligence Discovery AI augmented analytics platform. Jay highlights how Discovery allows enterprises to achieve real-time access to conversational insights and cognitive answers from their data. He talks about how Di…
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AI Customer Conversation Analysis - CitC Episode 273
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Mauro Bennici, Co-Founder and CTO of You Are My Guide joins host Jake Smith to discuss Ghostwriter AI customer analysis and forecasting. Mauro talks about the journey of You Are My Guide, starting out using natural language processing (NLP) to help provide tourism services and evolving into an NLP platform called Ghostwriter AI that provides a suit…
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Future of AnalyticsOps in Manufacturing - CitC Episode 272
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Nelson Lee, Head of Partnerships at Synergies joins host Jake Smith to discuss the importance of data science and AI in the manufacturing industry. Nelson talks about how Synergies works to close the gap for manufacturing organizations using outdated data and limited data science expertise in their decision-making processes. He highlights how their…
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AI Digital Fraud Protection - CitC Episode 271
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Mateus Dalponte from Axur joins host Jake Smith to talk about the importance of digital risk protection and how to mitigate the evolving world of digital fraud. Mateus discusses how Axur’s Fake Social Removal and Digital Risk Protection platforms can help protect a company’s reputation by constantly adapting to today’s evolving fraud landscape. He …
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AI-Based Customer Service Automation - CitC Episode 270
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Markus Lippus from MindTitan joins host Jake Smith to talk about how AI is innovating many industries across the world including customer service. Markus discusses how his background in biology shaped his passion for machine learning (ML) and helped drive the creation of Mind Titan. He highlights how MindTitan and Intel worked together to optimize …
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AI Automation in the Restaurant Industry - CitC Episode 269
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Atif Kureishy, founder and CEO of Vistry, joins host Jake Smith to talk about deploying restaurant automation technology improve quality of service. Atif goes into detail about Vistry’s Discrn platform, why the company extended Intel’s edge insight for industrial software architecture to optimize workloads, and how his team uses the Intel Distribut…
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Building Tailored AI Solutions - CitC Episode 268
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Nico Holmberg from Silo AI joins host Jake Smith to talk about building tailored AI solutions for a variety of industries. Nico goes into detail about how Intel and Silo AI are working together on real-time computer vision for quality control in industrial manufacturing. Nico also talks about why Silo AI uses a broad number of Intel software and ha…
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Using AI for Specialized Video Analytics - CitC Episode 267
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Erik Landolsi, CTO of Irisity, joins host Jake Smith to talk about using AI for video analytics. Erik talks about the challenges of connecting and processing immense amounts of video data, why Irisity anonymizes certain details based on where cameras are installed, and what the recent acquisition of AgentVi means for the future of specialized video…
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Reducing Compute Resources in Neural Networks - CitC Episode 266
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Helen Kim from MaxLinear (previously NanoSemi, Inc.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about reducing compute resources to achieve target accuracies in deep neural networks. Helen goes into detail about MaxLinear’s Augmented Neuron technology, which mathematically augments neural networks to reduce memory usage and latency. Jake and Helen discuss how I…
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Customer Service in the Era of Digital Transformation - CitC Episode 265
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S. Venkat from Mindtree joins host Jake Smith to talk about digital customer service, specifically the company’s Mindtree Cognitive Contact Center, which combines existing call center infrastructure with new technology. The two discuss how Mindtree worked with the Intel Distribution of Python along with SigOpt (a recent Intel acquisition) for hyper…
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The Future of Serverless AI - CitC Episode 264
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Arijit Sengupta, founder and CEO of Aible, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the difference between the promise of AI and actual results. Arijit talks about helping develop BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce, his book AI is a Waste of Money, the current unsustainable costs of creating complex models, and why Aible takes a “serverless-fi…
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Leveraging Conversational AI to Improve Customer Experience - CitC Episode 263
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Nitin Somalaraju from Tech Mahindra joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s Speech Analytics platform named Sayint, which uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) to uncover meaningful insights from customer conversations. Nitin talks about why regional localization and p…
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Using AI for Digital Risk Protection - CitC Episode 262
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James Carnall from ZeroFOX joins host Jake Smith to talk about AI-powered digital risk protection across the internet, including text, images and video, to identify threats ranging from deep fakes and fraud to potential cyberattacks. James explains why the ZeroFOX team worked directly with Intel for over a year to optimize their processes, such as …
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How Open Source Transformers Are Accelerating AI - CitC Episode 261
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Jeff Boudier from Hugging Face joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s open source machine learning transformers (also known as “pytorch-pretrained-bert”) library. Jeff talks about how transformers have accelerated the proliferation of natural language process (NLP) models and their future use in objection detection and other machine lear…
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AI-Assisted Annotation - CitC Episode 260
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Helen Wang from Magic Data joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s work in automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and natural language processing (NLP). Helen discusses the scalable capabilities Magic Data offers customers worldwide and goes into detail about how Intel engineers worked with Magic Data developers to opti…
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The Future of Cloud Native Communications - CitC Episode 259
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Sanjay Prasad from Metaswitch (a Microsoft company) joins host Jake Smith to talk about why Metaswitch collaborates with Intel to improve network function virtualization, media transcoding, throughput and more. Sanjay talks about some of the performance gains his team has seen over the last ten years from gen-over-gen processor advancement and disc…
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TietoEVRY Scalable Edge Reference Platform - CitC Episode 258
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Marcin Nicpon from TietoEVRY joins host Jake Smith to talk about the latest developments in edge computing, the cloudification of services in a variety of the industries (telco, automotive, smart cities or industrial) and the benefits of open source edge solutions such as the TietoEVRY scalable edge reference platform (based on Intel Smart Edge Ope…
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Soundar Rajan from Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services joins host Jake Smith to talk about software automation solutions for IT and business operations. Soundar goes into detail about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with the company’s Av3ar platform—a human-like AI+RPA platform of intelligent BoTs (or iBoTs) which can absorb, deconstruct, and use info…
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Challenges and Opportunities in Open RAN - CitC Episode 256
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Neil Coleman from Amdocs joins host Jake Smith to talk about why it’s critical for communication service providers to move to Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). Neil addresses some of the adoption concerns and why companies are looking to prioritize products over projects. He goes on to describe how Amdocs SmartRAN is targeted at minimizing the…
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Eliminating Downtime and Data Loss - CitC Episode 255
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ZeroDown Software’s Alan Gin and Keith Fukuhara join host Jake Smith to talk about the evolution of recovery time over the last twenty years. The three discuss how several advancements culminated in the creation of the Ultra High Availability solution, eliminating downtime and data loss. Alan talks about why he sees Intel more as a software company…
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The Rise of Volumetric Data - CitC Episode 254
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Paul Magdalena, Didier Marcon, and Pascale Martinez from Atos along with Goutam Debnath from Numascale join host Jake Smith to talk about their recently published white paper “Rise of Volumetric Data and Scale-Up Enterprise Computing.” The guests and Jake discuss the rise of volumetric data and the benefit of in-memory computing with scaled-up serv…
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The Future of VR and Sports - CitC Episode 253
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BT Sport’s Jamie Hindhaugh and Tiledmedia’s Rob Koenen join host Jake Smith to talk about delivering 8K virtual reality (VR) with 360° views to sports fans on mobile devices. Jamie and Rob go into detail about the bit rates, hardware decoders, software, compute power and other components necessary to bring such high-resolution video, including cust…
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Behind the Massive Scale Required for Content Recommendation - CitC Episode 252
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Taboola’s Ariel Pisetzky joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized content recommendations at massive scale, reaching up to 4 billion web pages a day. Ariel discusses why Taboola runs their services on their own on-prem infrastructure of over 10,000 servers with Intel processors, many of which are dedic…
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Nia DocAI Unlocks Business Value by Optimizing Document Processing Pipelines - CitC Episode 251
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Nakul Arora from EdgeVerve (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys Ltd.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about the role AI is playing in transforming the way enterprises unlock business insights from their corpus of documents. Nakul discusses the critical role that a symphony between the software and hardware layers plays in order to deliver an improve…
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Experimenting with AI Optimizations - CitC Episode 250
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SigOpt cofounder and CEO Scott Clark joins host Jake Smith to discuss his company’s recent acquisition by Intel, how this acquisition accelerates their ability to meet their mission to empower AI engineers, and the latest innovation in the SigOpt intelligent experimentation platform that enables faster design, exploration, and optimization of model…
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How Natural Language Processing is Used in Health Care - CitC Episode 249
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David Talby, CTO of John Snow Labs, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how natural language processing (NLP) is used in health care. David discusses how NLP is used for clinical decision support and trial acceleration. David goes into detail about how the company was able to increase performance using Intel processors and speaks about some of the …
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SHI’s Tim Henning joins host Jake Smith to talk about how IT leaders were able quickly deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) via public cloud offerings to preserve business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim explains why Stratascale introduced the Intel Select Solution for VDI to address enterprise needs for scalability and security…
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Intel’s Approach to Security - CitC Episode 247
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Intel’s Tom Garrison and Camille Morhardt join host Jake Smith in a special episode to talk about today’s security landscape. The three discuss Intel’s approach to security from hardware to software, finding vulnerabilities, and engineering mitigations. They also talk about emerging areas, such as AI, blockchain, IoT and edge devices, and more. Tom…
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