Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: John Price, CEO of Vast (Part 1)

John is an AI industry veteran, and has both exciting new trends to share, as well as cautionary guidance to offer. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Vast and yourself. John Price: I’m the CEO of Vast. We’re headquartered in Austin, Texas. We’ve been around for over 10 years. The company was

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An Animal Lover’s Beautiful Journey: Elephant Pants CEO Nathan Coleman (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Nathan is a true animal lover, and has built a wonderful niche e-commerce company with the mission of helping elephants. Beautiful story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where are you born, raised, and in what

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Paul Nelson, Chief Architect at Search Technologies (Part 3)

Paul Nelson: GDPR is a privacy and data protection regulation by the European Union. Companies are really scrambling to pull this off. If I were going to start a new company, that’s exactly where I would start. Search Technologies has a bunch of components that help. You have to actually run your fingers through the

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Shan Haq, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Transcepta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the problem? What can you not do today in that scenario that you would like to do? What is the fantasy there? Shan Haq: We’ve got some baby steps in this direction, but I think there’s a better way to go. We have a solution around dynamic discounting. This is the

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Paul Nelson, Chief Architect at Search Technologies (Part 2)

Paul Nelson: Right now, we’re seeing an explosion of chatbots. We’re getting a lot of customers who are coming to us asking for semantic search. They want to do semantic search so that I can type in something like “red shirts” and I will find actual shirts in the color red or in colors similar

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Shan Haq, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Transcepta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is an example of what you’re trying to do with images? What specifically are you trying to achieve with these images? Shan Haq: One of the things that is important to our customers is the ability to bring a supplier onto our network very quickly. The most common scenario there is being

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Paul Nelson, Chief Architect at Search Technologies (Part 1)

This discussion highlights a set of open problems in Big Data. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Search Technologies. Paul Nelson: I’m the Chief Architect for Search Technologies. Search Technologies is a global search engine and Big Data firm. We specialize in search engines, search engine installation,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Shan Haq, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Transcepta (Part 1)

The procure-to-pay space is going through huge technology adoption, and AI is making its mark on it as well. This interview explores the nuances of the sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Transcepta to our audience. Shan Haq: I run Corporate Strategy and Development for Transcepta. My background

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