Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Deren Baker, CEO of Jumpshot (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How do you get your data? What part of that data is private and how can you manage to get to that data? Deren Baker: We license the data from third-party partners. All the data they acquire is exclusively opted-into from their end consumers. We’ve got a patent on an algorithm that looks into

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: FusionOps CEO Shariq Mansoor (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: We’ve been covering the AI trend quite extensively for a while now. There are so many interesting use cases in all segments. I’ve always been really excited about AI as a technology, but it took a long time to find its stride. Shariq Mansoor: Yes, that’s because people are now focusing on solving problems.

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Thursday, February 2 – 338th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 338th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 2, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Deren Baker, CEO of Jumpshot (Part 1)

Digital data is driving e-commerce in a huge way, and this will get more intense as we go along. This conversation explores trends, sources, and use cases of digital data. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Jumpshot. Deren Baker: I’m the CEO of Jumpshot. Jumpshot is a

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: FusionOps CEO Shariq Mansoor (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Other than demand forecasting, what are some other use cases? Shariq Mansoor: We are focused on things that many providers can’t even do right now. They do demand forecasting, but we do it better. Today, they are using machine learning and AI, but we can still do it much better. We have scenarios that we’ve created in our

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: FusionOps CEO Shariq Mansoor (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What information are you extracting? Shariq Mansoor: All the supply chain intelligence. Our definition of supply chain is not just sending packages to your customers. Our supply chain is your entire company from the moment you have a demand, to manufacturing, purchasing, and to everything that happens in between. What this means is, we go

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