The purpose of the ‘Inspired’ podcast is to share the wisdom of inspiring people with our community. I am thrilled to have insightful conversations with people who inspire and motivate us to keep growing and learning. I am building an ‘Inspired’ community where we help each other grow.
AI Research, Adoption and Future with Deval Pandya, Director - AI Engineering, Vector Institute
In this episode of Inspired, Rish sits down with Deval Pandya from Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence to talk about AI Research, adoption and the future of AI.
Vector is a non-profit research institute based in Toronto, Canada. Its mission is to accelerate the development and application of artificial intelligence for the benefit of society. It is one of the leading AI research institutes in the world.
Deval shares his experience and thoughts on the AI ecosystem in Canada and the role Vector Institute is playing in Advancing Canadian AI research and also application of AI to fuel economic growth. Deval also shares about his professional journey, the pivotal moments that led to him joining Vector Institute and also the roles that Vector Institute hires for.
Rish and Deval also discuss about Generative AI, risks associated with AI and how one can prepare for AI.
Episode Resources:
Vector Institute | Website (https://vectorinstitute.ai/)
Vector Institute | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/vector-institute/)
Deval Pandya | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpenergytransition/)
Books recommended by Deval:
Designing Machine Learning Systems (https://www.amazon.ca/Designing-Machine-Learning-Systems-Huyen-ebook/dp/B0B1LGL2SR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RYVGFLI6S61X&keywords=designing+machine+learning+systems+chip&qid=1682273649&s=digital-text&sprefix=desgining+machine+learning+systems+chip%2Cdigital-text%2C93&sr=1-1)
Power and Prediction : The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence (https://www.amazon.ca/Power-Prediction-Disruptive-Artificial-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B09Q6GT9JN/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1682273554&sr=1-1)
The Ministry for the Future (https://www.amazon.ca/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-ebook/dp/B084FY1NXB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ministry+for+the+future&qid=1682273710&s=digital-text&sprefix=Ministry+of+futur%2Cdigital-text%2C101&sr=1-1)
26 Oct 2022
Do more with data with Howard Morgenstern from DataCanuck
In this episode of Inspired, Rish interviews Howard Morgenstern, Managing Partner @ DataCanuck.
Rish and Howard discuss how the data landscape has changed over the past 2 decades and the challenges that organizations face in their data journey.
Howard shares how DataCanuck partners with organizations to better prepare for these challenges and overcome them
Howard also shares his favourite analytics/data tool and the technology he is most excited for in the future.
Fun Fact : Howard also shares the story behind the naming 'DataCanuck'
28 Sept 2022
Maximize business value using data-driven strategy with Samir Sharma
In this episode of Inspired, Rish interviews Samir Sharma, Founder and CEO of datazuum and the host of 'The Data Strategy Show' .
Samir and Rish discuss how organizations can maximize the business value through data strategy and datazuum's approach in building data strategy.
Samir also shares some of the tools used by him to help organizations start their data journey, measure effectiveness and also refining the data strategy.
Fun Fact : Samir also shares the story behind the birth of 'datazuum' , how it was named and how the tagline 'Love Your Data' came to be!
20 Sept 2022
Transforming organizations into data and model driven organizations with Nir Kaldero
In this episode of Inspired, Rish interviews Nir Kaldero, Chief Data Analytics, Data Science & AI Officer @ Neoris; Best-Selling Author; Forbes Technology
Rish and Nir discuss about transforming organizations into data and model driven organizations , framework to measure the ROI on AI roadmap implementation developed by Nir and the challenges that organizations face in implementing and operationalizing AI technology.
Nir also shares his thoughts on Future of AI and how Neoris is helping organizations being AI ready .
Nir shares the details of the success story and the impact the Neoris team had on one of the client's Data Analytics and AI journey and delivered business value.
16 Aug 2022
Building Data As A Product with Malcolm Hawker
In this episode of Inspired, Rish interviews Malcolm Hawker, Head of Data Strategy @ Profisee.
Rish and Malcolm discuss about Profisee, the importance of MDM and Data Governance and Building Data as a Product.
Malcolm shares the recipe to getting the mindset and strategy for Data as a Product right and also some exciting technologies he is excited for the future
9 Aug 2022
Data Science & Analytics in Sports & Entertainment Industry with Max Métral
In this episode of Inspired, Rish interviews Max Métral, Go-to-Market Analytics Director @ Activision Blizzard.
Max shares about his role at Activision Blizzard and the role of Analytics team at Activision Blizzard.
Max has spent close to 5 years at Formula 1 setting up the first data analytics team and first fan database at Formula 1. Max shares about the fan data that was collected at F1, how it was used, challenges in building the fan database for analytics and the learnings.
Max and Rish also discuss the future of analytics in Sports & Entertainment industry !
Fun Fact : Rish asked fun rapid fire questions to Max!
2 Aug 2022
BAM! Simplifying learning Stats, Data Science & ML with Josh Starmer
In this episode of Inspired, Rish interviews Dr. Josh Starmer, Founder and CEO of the most popular Stats and Machine Learning Youtube channel - Statquest and author of the book - The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning.
Josh and Rish discuss the Josh's unique approach to teaching, his favourite ML model and neural networks, and interesting stories leading to his immensely popular Youtube channel
Josh also shares about how he decided to write the StatQuest book, his role at Lightning AI and his life lesson.
Fun Fact : Josh kicks off the episode with his song !
12 Jul 2022
Delivering value early and often with David Pereira
In this episode of Inspired, Rish sits with David Pereira, Head Of Product Management @ Virtual Identity, to discuss about Delivering value early and often in building successful products.
David shares his journey into Product Management and shares the recipe for being a great Product Manager.
We also discussed about key topics in Product Management including:
How can product managers deliver value for the business early and often?
What separates great PMs from good PMs?
Difference between Product Owners and Product Managers?
How to effectively implement Scrum for product success?
Agile Product Manifesto
David also shares tips for interviews for Product Managers/Product Owners and the best resources to learn more about PO roles.
27 Jun 2022
Transitioning from Sales-led to Product-led with Partho Ghosh
In this episode of Inspired, Rish sits with Partho Ghosh, Sr. Director , Product, Growth @ Hootsuite, to discuss about Product-Led growth and transitioning from Sales-led to Product-led growth.
Partho shares his journey into PLG and simplifies what it means to be a PLG organization.
We also discussed about key topics in PLG including:
Importance and role of Sales and Marketing team in PLG
Driving Product vision in PLG set-up
Metrics to evaluate PLG maturity
Landing and Expanding Product
PLG Prism
Partho also shares his favorite PLG organization/product and the best resources to learn more about PLG.
8 Jun 2022
Building Personal Brand & Data Career with Kate Strachnyi
In this episode of Inspired, Rish sits with Kate Strachnyi, Founder & Community Manager, DATAcated to discuss Building Personal Brand and Data Career.
Kate shares her data journey and how networking and sharing helpful content
helped her in finding opportunities. Kate also shares about how to effectively manage time, find your strengths and build your personal brand by simplifying the process.
We also discussed Data visualization and Kate's upcoming LinkedIn Learning Course and a book with O'Reilly (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#) and what we can expect from this course and the book.
9 May 2022
Building Data Strategy & AI/ML Data Products with Vijay Yadav
In this episode of Inspired, Rish sits with Vijay Yadav, Director, Quantitative Sciences , Head of Data Science and Merck to discuss about :
Building Data and Analytics strategy
Defining data products and its roadmap
Role of AI/ML products in Life Science organizations
Building, Mentoring and Growing Data Science teams
Vijay simplifies the data and analytics strategy into a few key pillars that can be used as a playbook. Vijay also shares the details of an AI/ML driven data product that he led and that won a Manufacturing Leadership Award.
25 Apr 2022
Unlocking Business Opportunities through Analytics With Dustin Schimek
In this episode of Inspired, Rish sits with Dustin Schimek, Founder of Data Ideas to discuss about building impactful analytics strategy and how to unlock business opportunities through Analytics. Dustin also shares about his mission with Data Ideas and the analytics project ideas challenge. We also discussed about how organizations in different phases of analytics journey can maximize the potential of analytics.
11 Apr 2022
Building & Executing Digital & Data Strategy With Andrew Go
In this episode of Inspired, we speak with Andrew Go , SVP and Chief Digital and Data Officer at Staples Canada about building and executing digital and data strategy and the exciting work his teams are doing at Staples Canada in Digital Products and Data Science space. We also discuss the challenges in building a high performing data science team and the critical role they play in helping the business win.
17 Mar 2022
Creating a Data-Driven Culture with Kirk Munroe
In this episode of Inspired, we speak with Kirk Munroe , VP of Strategy and Principal Consultant , Paint with Data about successfully building and launching digital products and how to create a data-drive culture. We also discuss the importance of visual analytics in data and analytics transformation journey and many exciting insights and learnings from Kirk's experience in Product Management, Marketing and Sales Strategy and Analytics transformation.
11 Feb 2022
Community Building & Personal Branding with Ravit Jain
In this episode of Inspired, Rishabh sits with Ravit Jain , Head Community Evangelist at Atscale, Advisor at Love Open Source Community and Founder and Host of the popular technology talk show "The Ravit Show" to discuss about Community Building, Networking and Personal Branding.
1 Feb 2022
Data Science Leadership with Harish Bhaskar
In this first episode of Inspired, Rishabh sits with Harish Bhaskar , Analytics Director at The Home Depot Canada to discuss about his journey in Analytics and Data Science and his experience as a leader. Harish also shares about scaling Data Science practice, build high performance teams, learning as a leader and giving back to the community.
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