Intel Conversations in the Cloud

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Marcin Nicpon from TietoEVRY joins host Jake Smith to talk about the latest developments in edge computing, the cloudification of services in a variety of the industries (telco, automotive, smart cities or industrial) and the benefits of open source edge solutions such as the TietoEVRY scalable edge reference platform (based on Intel Smart Edge Open (OpenNESS) architecture) to support innovation and implementing exciting use cases. For more information, visit: builders.intel.com/ai/solutionscatalog/tietoevry-scalable-edge-reference-platform-748 Follow TietoEVRY on Twitter at: twitter.com/TietoEVRY Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Stephen Gold, CMO of SparkCognition, joins host Jake Smith to discuss SparkCognition’s vision of delivering the best AI solutions to address the critical challenges facing organizations across industries around predictive maintenance, assets management, cost efficiency, worker safety and cybersecurity. He discusses how SparkCognition is leveraging its robust IP portfolio to create practical AI applications to solve real world industry problems. Stephen highlights the compute power and resources that are enabled by Intel architecture accelerated AI evolution and made today’s AI solutions possible. Specifically, SparkCognition’s Model Studio algorithm was optimized on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and achieved up to 45x increase in performance. Jake and Stephen also discuss SparkCognition’s presence in the Intel Vision conference and how the partnership helps build connections with customers in the marketplace. Stephen also shares his perspective on future of AI where he believes that AI will permeates every aspect of the business operations and seamlessly integrates into company’s products and services so much so that AI simply becomes an integral part of business and life, rather than an additional category of technology. For more information, visit: sparkcognition.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

James Cho, VP of Business Development at ThunderSoft, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Cloud and IoT accelerate digital transformation everywhere – consumer, industrial, automotive, healthcare, government, education – with almost unlimited computing power and connecting every intelligent device to the network. James talks about ThunderSoft’s long-term partnership with Intel in engineering collaboration and joint venture to accelerate the digital transformation across a broad set of industry applications. He discusses how ThunderSoft’s intelligent medical solution is optimized with OpenVINO on Intel platform. James highlights the Intel compute architecture and developer ecosystem as the catalyst for the strong partnership between Intel and ThunderSoft. James also shares his perspectives on the future of AI where he believes AI technology will bring positive changes to people’s lives and enrich people’s experiences. And that’s where ThunderSoft is focused on innovating. For more information, visit: thundersoft.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Daniel Chang, CEO of ENERZAi, joins host Jake Smith to discuss ENERZAi’s vision of delivering the best AI experience on everything for everyone, and how they are doing this by overcoming the constraints that edge devices have through AI models. He highlights how ENERZAi’s Automated Model Compression Optimization Toolkit enables AI models to maintain high accuracy, while minimizing latency, size, power consumption for successful Edge deployment, as proven in their recent collaboration with Intel. Daniel further illuminates how their collaboration through the Intel AI Builders program optimized their state-of-the-art 3D hand pose estimation model for Intel Xeon processors achieved incredible performance results. Utilizing the Intel OpenVINO toolkit to improve the latency and inference times while not compromising the model’s accuracy. This optimization project also helped pave the way for customers aiming to use ENERZAi’s 3D hand pose estimation solution for their driver monitoring systems, AR/VR systems or other systems on Intel processors in an incredibly performant way. Jake and Daniel also chat about a customer use case where ENERZAi was able to help a SAAS customer migrate their solution from expensive GPU instances to more cost efficient Intel CPU instances while preserving the model accuracy. Lastly they both dive into discussing the future of AI and how it can solve the constraints that edge devices face to truly enable AI to be deployed everywhere in the world. For more information, visit: enerzai.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Jayachandran Ramachandran, Senior Vice President of AI Labs at Course 5 Intelligence, joins host Jake Smith to discuss the Course5 Intelligence Discovery AI augmented analytics platform. Jay highlights how Discovery allows enterprises to achieve real-time access to conversational insights and cognitive answers from their data. He talks about how Discovery uses composable and composite AI to enable enterprises to gain insights and receive AI-generated answers in seconds. Jay and Jake also discuss how Intel optimizations are driving even faster inference and higher throughput on their platform improving customer experience and time to insights for Course5’s enterprise customers. Jay especially highlights how Course5 utilized Cnvrg.io to help automate and accelerate their testing and ML model creation. Jake and Jay also dive into the importance of natural language understanding (NLU) and illustrate how it enables the Discovery platform to derive causal analysis when helping enterprise customers understand their data. For more information, visit: course5i.com/course5-discovery Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Mauro Bennici, Co-Founder and CTO of You Are My Guide joins host Jake Smith to discuss Ghostwriter AI customer analysis and forecasting. Mauro talks about the journey of You Are My Guide, starting out using natural language processing (NLP) to help provide tourism services and evolving into an NLP platform called Ghostwriter AI that provides a suite of services to call centers and enterprises of all kinds. He talks about how Ghostwriter AI uses artificial intelligence to analyze audience sentiment and create predictions for marketing, social media campaigns, and other campaigns. Through their collaboration with the Intel AI Builders program, You Are My Guide has optimized their solution for Intel processors enabling a broad range of customers to deploy their AI platform without changing their hardware stack. Jake and Mauro wrap the episode discussing the future of NLP giving companies the ability to truly address the needs of their customers and provide value in real time. For more information, visit: ghostwriter.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Nelson Lee, Head of Partnerships at Synergies joins host Jake Smith to discuss the importance of data science and AI in the manufacturing industry. Nelson talks about how Synergies works to close the gap for manufacturing organizations using outdated data and limited data science expertise in their decision-making processes. He highlights how their platform, JarviX, accomplishes this by visualizing a company’s data, analyzing it, and generating insight triggered by simple queries. Nelson also talks about the deep collaboration between Synergies and Intel resulting in incredible performance improvements for their platform. Jake and Nelson wrap the episode discussing the future of AI and how it will continue to be a differentiator for businesses moving forward. For more information, visit: synergies.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Mateus Dalponte from Axur joins host Jake Smith to talk about the importance of digital risk protection and how to mitigate the evolving world of digital fraud. Mateus discusses how Axur’s Fake Social Removal and Digital Risk Protection platforms can help protect a company’s reputation by constantly adapting to today’s evolving fraud landscape. He also illustrates how the work Axur has done with Intel utilizing OpenVINO with ONNX for OCR model creation enabled Axur to achieve GPU level performance on Intel processors. Mateus wraps the episode talking about how Axur will continue to analyze and adapt to the future of fraud using AI to combat it. For more information, visit: axur.com/en/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Markus Lippus from MindTitan joins host Jake Smith to talk about how AI is innovating many industries across the world including customer service. Markus discusses how his background in biology shaped his passion for machine learning (ML) and helped drive the creation of MindTitan. He highlights how MindTitan and Intel worked together to optimize their TitanCS solution on Intel Extension for PyTorch achieving improvements on inference performance running on Intel CPUs and driving better real-time call analysis. Markus also talks about how MindTitan’s solutions are driving disruption in the telecommunications industry citing an important customer case study with Elisa Estonia AS. Jake and Markus end the episode talking about the future of AI research and development. For more information, visit: mindtitan.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Atif Kureishy, founder and CEO of Vistry, joins host Jake Smith to talk about deploying restaurant automation technology improve quality of service. Atif goes into detail about Vistry’s Discrn platform, why the company extended Intel’s edge insight for industrial software architecture to optimize workloads, and how his team uses the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO for faster insights and increased performance. For more information visit: vistry.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Nico Holmberg from Silo AI joins host Jake Smith to talk about building tailored AI solutions for a variety of industries. Nico goes into detail about how Intel and Silo AI are working together on real-time computer vision for quality control in industrial manufacturing. Nico also talks about why Silo AI uses a broad number of Intel software and hardware components in order to achieve the performance and flexibility their AI lab needs to build a variety of solutions for their customers. Jake and Nico end the episode talking about the future of AI research and development. For more information, visit: silo.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Erik Landolsi, CTO of Irisity, joins host Jake Smith to talk about using AI for video analytics. Erik talks about the challenges of connecting and processing immense amounts of video data, why Irisity anonymizes certain details based on where cameras are installed, and what the recent acquisition of AgentVi means for the future of specialized video analytics. For more information, visit: irisity.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: S. Venkat from MindTree joins host Jake Smith to talk about digital customer service, specifically the company’s MindTree Cognitive Contact Center, which combines existing call center infrastructure with new technology. The two discuss how MindTree worked with the Intel Distribution of Python along with SigOpt (a recent Intel acquisition) for hyperparameter tuning to reach necessary accuracy and performance benchmarks. For more information, visit: mindtree.com Follow S. Venkat on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/venkateswaran-sundareswaran-69a6363 Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Nitin Somalaraju from Tech Mahindra joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s Speech Analytics platform named Sayint, which uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) to uncover meaningful insights from customer conversations. Nitin talks about why regional localization and privacy issues are still challenging to overcome when deploying voicebots and how Intel technology has helped the Tech Mahindra team. For more information, visit: sayint.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Arijit Sengupta, founder and CEO of Aible, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the difference between the promise of AI and actual results. Arijit talks about helping develop BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce, his book AI is a Waste of Money, the current unsustainable costs of creating complex models, and why Aible takes a “serverless-first” approach to AI. He also goes into detail about working with Intel on optimizations and benchmarking for necessary lower energy costs. Jake and Arijit close the episode discussing algorithm fairness, data privacy, and the personalized AI of the future. Follow Arijit on Twitter at: twitter.com/arijit_sg Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: James Carnall from ZeroFOX joins host Jake Smith to talk about AI-powered digital risk protection across the internet, including text, images and video, to identify threats ranging from deep fakes and fraud to potential cyberattacks. James explains why the ZeroFOX team worked directly with Intel for over a year to optimize their processes, such as improving inference performance with OpenVINO. James and Jake talk about how the rising volume of disinformation can have a negative financial impact on companies of all kinds and explain the limitations of relying on biometrics to thwart theft. For more information, visit: builders.intel.com/docs/aibuilders/zerofox-uses-intel-ai-technologies-to-protect-businesses-against-targeted-social-and-digital-attacks.pdf Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Jeff Boudier from Hugging Face joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s open source machine learning transformers (also known as “pytorch-pretrained-bert”) library. Jeff talks about how transformers have accelerated the proliferation of natural language process (NLP) models and their future use in objection detection and other machine learning tasks. He goes into detail about Optimum—an open source library to train and run models on specific hardware, like Intel Xeon CPUs, and the benefits of the Intel Neural Compressor, which is designed to help deploy low-precision inference solutions. Jeff also announces Hugging Face’s new Infinity solution that integrates the inference pipeline to achieve results in milliseconds wherever Docker containers can be deployed. For more information, visit: hf.co Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Helen Wang from Magic Data joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s work in automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and natural language processing (NLP). Helen discusses the scalable capabilities Magic Data offers customers worldwide and goes into detail about how Intel engineers worked with Magic Data developers to optimize OpenVINO (often associated with visual processing) for the company’s language processing solutions. She also talks about the benefits of MagicHub: an open-source community with over 40 datasets available in dozens of languages to assist AI developers in model training. For more information, visit: magichub.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Sanjay Prasad from Metaswitch (a Microsoft company) joins host Jake Smith to talk about why Metaswitch collaborates with Intel to improve network function virtualization, media transcoding, throughput and more. Sanjay talks about some of the performance gains his team has seen over the last ten years from gen-over-gen processor advancement and discusses the future communication service providers can expect, including the rise of microservices. Follow Metaswitch on Twitter at: twitter.com/metaswitch Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Soundar Rajan from Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services joins host Jake Smith to talk about software automation solutions for IT and business operations. Soundar goes into detail about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with the company’s Av3ar platform—a human-like AI+RPA platform of intelligent BoTs (or iBoTs) which can absorb, deconstruct, and use information as a human would to resolve problems. He also explains how OpenVINO is helping the company create new solutions and increase customer performance. More information available at: ptechnosoft.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel