Stories in AI by Ganesh Padmanabhan

Personalizing Healthcare with Digital Transformation | Stories in AI | Milind Shah

I spent some time with my friend Milind Shah, who leads Strategy and Digital Solutions at Elevance Health, and he drops wisdom and insights on the state of transformation in healthcare and the role of digital and AI. Take a listen, Milind blends business insights with technology applications and goes really deep in some areas! About Milind: Milind has been in the healthcare industry for over 15 years now and truly enjoys having the opportunity to be a part of having an impact on the industry and truly leaving a legacy. He currently leading up Strategy & Solutions for Carelon Digital Platforms, supporting the overall vision of transforming the company, with a focus on Digital products & solutions focusing on both the Member and Provider. He is responsible for partnering across the enterprise to define the overall Digital focus aligned to the Enterprise strategic priorities, driving Carelon growth/commercialization, and identifying acceleration opportunities through strategic partnerships, while also partnering with Corp Dev on M&A opportunities. A lot of his focus currently is partnering across the Enterprise on areas like transformation through AI and looking at opportunities to leverage the robust “ecosystem” that is being invested in to help accelerate impact at scale for Elevance Health. Throughout his career, Milind has built and led teams that focus on Transformation, Innovation, and Strategy with an emphasis on Growth Strategy, M&A, Post Merger Integration, and Disruptive/Exponential Product and he’s had some great opportunities to do things like running Innovation Studios at Salesforce to being a part of the Senior Leadership team at Humana to help with several of their transformation initiatives as the company moved to focusing on their Growth Strategy.   Find him at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milinds/

How to use AI to transform Healthcare | Akshay Sharma | Stories in AI

In this episode, I chat with my good friend, Akshay Sharma, Chief AI Officer at Lyric. In this episode, we tackle the topics of AI healthcare solutions and just how the landscape is set to be disrupted by AI. Akshay is a wealth of knowledge and experience in disrupting traditional industries like healthcare and financial services with AI and crypto and he really brought an amazing perspective to this topic. I hope you enjoy this episode, and please like and subscribe!

Changing the Way We View AI | Walter De Brouwer | Stories in AI

In this episode, I am joined by the amazing Walter De Brouwer. We dive deep into understanding AI as it co-inhabits our lives alongside humans! It raises new questions, new interaction patterns and new experiences and Walter discussed how to think about AI, treat AI and what AGI will do.    Walter's Bio: Walter De Brouwer (WDB) has established several AI and deep tech companies (1990-now), 2 of which have undergone public offerings in Europe (LSE, Euronext) and 2 in the USA (NYSE, NASDAQ). His latest AI company merged with Atlanta-based ShareCare [NASDAQ: SHCR] and went IPO at a valuation of $3.9B (July 2, 2021). At Sharecare he serves as the Chief Scientific Officer. WDB holds a PhD in computational semiotics and has been a professor at Stanford University since 2018 where he is the course director of MED-205. He is an active contributor and beta tester of Generative AI projects, LLMs and Agent architectures. His research interests are in Multimodal Transformers, AGI, GPT agents and 6G. He is the author of 53 patents. WDB is a General Partner at Claritas Capital (Nashville, since January 2022), a $1B PE fund where he runs the Media and Entertainment (Claritas M&E) sector.  Walter De Brouwer is a member of the Recording Academy (Grammy’s), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Army and Navy Officers Club of Washington, D.C. He resides with his family in Malibu, CA. Find Walter here: Walter's Ted AI talk: https://www.ai-event.ted.com/speakers-1/walter-de-brouwer-/computational-linguist-- [https://www.ai-event.ted.com/speakers-1/walter-de-brouwer-/computational-linguist--] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdebrouwer/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdebrouwer/] X: https://twitter.com/walterdebrouwer

Can We Trust AI? Think like a Red Teamer | Yoav Schlesinger | Stories in AI

In this new episode of the Stories in AI podcast, I sit down with the Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce, Yoav Schlesinger. Yoav gives us a great look at how large industry players like Salesforce are implementing AI, looking ahead at future AI developments, and managing all the risks that come with managing large swaths of data. About Yoav: Yoav Schlesinger is an Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce, helping the company embed and instantiate ethical product practices to maximize the societal benefits of AI. Prior to coming to Salesforce, Yoav was a founding member of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, where he launched the Responsible Computer Science Challenge and helped develop EthicalOS, a risk mitigation toolkit for product managers. Find him at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yschlesinger/

Enterprise Focused AI Applications | Sanjay Srivastava | Stories in AI

I am joined, once again, by my good friend Sanjay Srivastava, SVP & CDO of Genpact. In this episode, Sanjay and I chat about AI from the perspective of enterprises. We dive deep into how AI hit a turning point, developing unique AI solutions for businesses, and how to get started in the field. Hope you enjoy the discussion as much as we did.    About Sanjay: Sanjay Srivastava is senior vice president and chief digital officer at Genpact, a global digital transformation services provider. He runs the company’s Data, AI, Analytics, Automation Software, and Technology Services businesses and oversees Genpact’s AI-enabled digital business platform, Cora. Sanjay is deeply rooted in the innovation ecosystem and is an advisor to Silicon Valley incubators and several startups, and a limited partner in digital-focused venture funds. Sanjay serves on the MMA CDO Board, is a member of the Digital 50, BCG’s Digital Transformation Network, and CNBC’s Technology Executive Council was named IDG “Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow”, and blogs frequently on LinkedIn. Prior to Genpact, Sanjay was a serial entrepreneur, and built four startups - in edge networks, data center automation, predictive algorithms, and enterprise SaaS that were acquired by Akamai, BMC, SunGard (now FIS), and Genpact, respectively. He also held operating leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Akamai, and SunGard, where he oversaw product management, global sales, and various product and services P&Ls. Sanjay earned an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is based in Seattle, WA. Find him here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysrivastava/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysrivastava/] Twitter: https://twitter.com/SanjayAndAI [https://twitter.com/SanjayAndAI]