Western AI Podcast

Western AI Podcast - Shawn Peng

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Western AI Podcast - Roberto Iriondo

Roberto Iriondo is an AI advisor and consultant specializing in end-to-end marketing support for AI startups and established companies. He provides strategic guidance on web strategy, content, SEO, and growth. Roberto co-founded Towards AI in 2019, which was acquired in 2022, and continues to support it as an advisor to the CEO. Previously, he advised the president of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) on projects like LLM360 and AI@MBZUAI. He also led technical content strategies at Cohere (2022–2023) and Snorkel AI (2021–2022). From 2018 to 2021, he worked at Carnegie Mellon University, developing platforms like ML@CMU. Earlier, he founded a marketing agency focused on SEO for emerging businesses. Roberto has supported organizations like Amazon Science, Lambda, Gather AI, Determined AI, and Udacity, helping them improve ROI through tailored marketing strategies.

Western AI Podcast - Peter Fedichev

Peter Fedichev is a scientist and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in academic research and the biotech industry. He is the CEO of Gero.ai [http://Gero.ai], a biotechnology company using AI to understand and combat aging and chronic diseases. Gero.ai [http://Gero.ai] has developed proprietary physics-based machine learning models, called Large Health Models (LHMs), to analyze health data, distinguish aging from disease effects, and improve drug discovery and development. Peter holds an M.S. in theoretical physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He has conducted research at institutions including the Kurchatov Institute, University of Amsterdam, FOM Institute AMOLF, and University of Innsbruck. With over 80 publications and 6,000+ citations (h-index of 37), his work has advanced the understanding of aging and lifespan limits. He is driven by the challenge of aging research and dreams of extending human lifespan and experiencing life in space.

Western AI Podcast - Safa

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Western AI Podcast - Geordie Rose

Dr. Geordie Rose co-founded D-Wave in 1999, serving as CEO from 1999 to 2003 and CTO from 2004 to 2014, helping establish it as the world’s first quantum computing company and leading it to a $1.6B IPO. He later co-founded and served as CEO of Kindred from 2014 to 2018, which was acquired by Ocado for $262M, and led Sanctuary from 2018 to 2024. Currently, he is working at the intersection of games, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing at Snowdrop.