I recently caught up with Daniel Mintz, Chief Data Evangelist at Looker to discuss his company’s latest major product release – Looker 6, a unified and extensible data platform that flexes and scales to the ever-changing needs of business.
Interview: Vinod Bakthavachalam, Data Scientist at Coursera
October 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I recently caught up with Vinod Bakthavachalam, Data Scientist at Coursera, to discuss how to build in-demand skills in data science such as machine learning, statistics, and data management across your organization to drive competitive advantage. Coursera for Business provides companies with the world’s best learning experience and best content to transform their talent.
Interview: Thomas Been, Chief Marketing Officer at TIBCO
September 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I caught up with Thomas Been, CMO of TIBCO, at the recent TIBCO NOW 2018 conference in Las Vegas on September 4-6. Please read my Field Report for a detailed review of the event. We chatted about a whole gamut of topics including the company’s top level message and theme of the show, “Innovation at the Edge: Aligning Innovation Strategy with Business Strategy.”
Interview: Prasad Akella, Founder and CEO of Drishti
September 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I recently caught up with Prasad Akella, Founder and CEO of Drishti to discuss how factory use of AI technology is gaining a lot of traction, and how his company uses the commercial application of action recognition and AI innovations to automatically digitize human actions inside the factory.
Interview: Dan Zitting, Chief Product Officer, ACL
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I recently spoke with Dan Zitting, Chief Product Officer at ACL about how companies can get in front of risk and increase the value of their data with the use of analytics, robotics and machine learning. He stressed that companies need to integrate data analytics and automation throughout the entire organization, rather than focusing on individual departments.
TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Interviews
July 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Over the years, insideBIGDATA has caught up with some amazing industry luminaries to get their valuable perspectives on everything data. We put together the list below of our top 10 interview articles of all time in terms of page views and social shares. Enjoy!
Interview: Bill Waid, VP and General Manager, FICO Decision Management Suite
July 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I recently caught up with Bill Waid, VP and General Manager of FICO Decision Management Suite to discuss FICO’s long and deep history with AI and machine learning in the solution of business problems, most notably fraud detection. Bill also outlines the evolution of the company’s use of this technology with its cloud enabled platform that combines analytics, decisions, and optimization into a Decision Management Suite (DMS).
Interview: Jamie Engesser, VP Product Mangement at Hortonworks
July 11, 2018 by 1 Comment
I recently caught up with Jamie Engesser, VP Product Mangement at Hortonworks during the company’s DataWorks Summit 2018 conference in San Jose, California, to get an update on his company’s direction and his sense for the pulse of the big data industry.
Interview: Dr. Bhushan Desam, Director, Global AI Business at Lenovo
June 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I recently caught up with Dr. Bhushan Desam, AI global business leader for Lenovo’s Data Center Group to discuss how the digital transformation of business isn’t truly possible without incorporating machine learning. Digital transformation is underway. As the C-suite demands better insights from data, enterprises will be tasked to make data-driven decisions based on those insights.
Interview: Ashley Kramer, VP Product Management at Alteryx
June 14, 2018 by 1 Comment
I recently caught up with Ashley Kramer, VP Product Management for Alteryx during the company’s Inspire 2018 conference in Anaheim, California, to get an update on her company’s direction. Alteryx is a leader in self-service data analytics, one of the fastest growing software markets.
