Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Martin Neale, CEO of ICS (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You’re offering a free data model to your first client. That’s how you get access to the training data. Martin Neale: That’s right. Sramana Mitra: Give me a little bit of color on the kind of data you were able to access on which you’ve trained the model. What kind of heuristics does

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Martin Neale, CEO of ICS (Part 1)

Martin has built his AI startup within the Microsoft ecosystem. He shares interesting perspectives on how to leverage Microsoft. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well ICS. Martin Neale: I’m the CEO of ICS AI. 

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: C3.ai is exactly like yours. They have a core platform. They’ve gone after the energy market first. They have relationships with the system integrators. Now they’re broadening. It’s a very similar strategy. There’s another company that I’m tracking that has a similar strategy. They come from an open source route which is H20

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We are doing an accelerator with Datastax. They manage the whole Cassandra stack. Their value proposition is the same – real-time, scalable, high availability, and high velocity processing of information from IoT. Does that make you competitors of Cassandra? Prashant Kumar: Suppose AT&T wants to use Cassandra, we can push data into Cassandra.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Your use case is quite broad-based. You’re focused on the telecom vertical, but the use cases are broad. It’s not productized. You’re providing professional services style of use cases on top of a common data handling platform. Prashant Kumar: Yes. We are like SAP for telcos. The platform is agnostic to any vertical.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Do you operate as a product or a services company? Prashant Kumar: We are primarily an ISV but we have a consulting part as well. We deliver use cases for the customers.  Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the Telefonica use case. It sounds like that is what you broke into the market with.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 1)

This is a deeply technical discussion about a specific layer of the technology stack where Data Engineering and other data related disciplines are handled. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cardinality. 

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jeff Feng, CEO of CloudPick (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. Where is the technology from? What is your background? Jeff Feng: It has been introduced and built for a thousand years. The 3D computer vision is not a new domain. I do have a research background in Computer Vision. It’s one of the domains in artificial intelligence. Initially, it was not

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