Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Spence Green, CEO of Lilt (Part 1)

This is a terrific conversation about a SaaS-enabled BPO company, Lilt, in the domain of language translation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start introducing our audience to yourself as well as Lilt. Spence Green: I am the CEO of Lilt. We have two parts of our business. The private sector of our business focuses on creating global

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Edge Impulse CEO Zach Shelby (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You have 12,000 developers currently building ML applications, what is the constitution of these developers? Are these 12,000 developers sitting inside larger companies or entrepreneurs building new apps for new ISVs? Zach Shelby: We have the whole spectrum. That is something that we have strived for. When you bring in new technology in

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Edge Impulse CEO Zach Shelby (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click on how you managed to get 12,000 developers working and building on your platform. Zach Shelby: What I found to work best with developers is radical transparency, focusing on what they care about, and how they work with their product. In our case, we provide machine learning tools in the cloud

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