In this podcast, Pascal Marmier sat with Vishal Kumar to discuss challenges, opportunities, and nuances in running an innovation hub within regulated corporate culture settings and shared some best practices in promoting data driven innovation.

Timeline: 0:29 Pascal's journey. 6:12 Quitting law and getting into digital analytics. 10:44 Defining Head Analytics Catalyst. 13:46 Putting up an Analytics Catalyst team. 18:43 Steps to create a data lab. 22:02 Securing executive sponsorship. 25:45 Differences in creating lab in Europe in comparison to the USA. 29:43 Challenges in setting up a digital analytics catalyst. 32:27 Ideal team members to have in a digital analytics catalyst team. 35:14 Company culture interfering with lab innovation. 38:00 Lab innovation determining the company's future. 42:19 Important KPIs for setting up a lab. 46:55 Prophesy on the insurance company. 51:15 What can insurance do to secure themselves? 54:48 Insurance dealing with changing risk profiles. 59:26 Pascal's favorite read. 1:00:56 Closing remarks.

Podcast link: https://futureofdata.org/pascal-marmier-pmarmier-swissre-discuss-running-data-driven-innovation-catalyst/

About Pascal Marmier: After many years helping to build the swissnex network in Boston and in China, I recently joined Swiss Re in Boston to help the Digital Analytics Catalyst team identify and develop novel ideas/tech into a sustainable business. As part of the digital transformation of the insurance industry, our team in Boston and London is engaging with startups and academia in various fields of technology such as digital health, IoT, AI. We are working with the teams at Swiss Re to provide business solutions based on the transformative power of data innovation.

Pascal's Favorite Read: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind http://amzn.to/2yHvYGV About #Podcast:

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In this session, Beena Ammanath, Data Science Products at General Electric, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared her journey as an analytics executive, life @ GE, future of analytics in the industrial sector, how Predix is helping other industrial companies cope up with growing data, and some challenges/Opportunities she's observing as an analytics executive.

Timeline: 0:29 Beena's journey. 5:19 Data science in the manufacturing sector. 7:03 Driving data science in the manufacturing sector. 9:39 Bringing in the data culture into the manufacturing sector. 11:35 Upskilling and being relevant as a data scientist. 13:27 Hacks to managing data teams well. 16:08 What's Predix? 19:06 Investment opportunities for data science in manufacturing. 21:07 Challenges manufacturing businesses in data. 24:46 IoT and manufacturing. 25:18 Dealing with IoT vendors at Predix. 26:24 Ontology of data at Predix. 29:43 Dealing with the new rules and laws in the IoT sector. 31:30 Interesting use cases in the manufacturing industry. 34:37 Open source vs. enterprise. 35:35 Getting recruited as a data scientist in manufacturing. 40:07 Pitching your product for a manufacturing company.

Podcast link: https://futureofdata.org/leadership-playbook-with-beena-ammanath-ge/

Here's Beena's Bio: Beena Ammanath is Board Director at ChickTech and Head of Data Science Products at General Electric. She is a seasoned technology leader with over 24 years of a proven track record of building, and leading high-performance teams from the ground-up focused on strategy and successful execution of industrial scale technology products and services. She has an impressive track record, having worked at recognized international organizations British Telecom, E*trade, Thomson Reuters, Bank of America, and Silicon Valley startups in engineering and management positions.

She is also helping build the next-gen of computer scientists through her role on the Industry Advisory Board for Cal Poly. She holds a Masters in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance. She has been a featured speaker on the topics of data science, big data, technology transformation, and women in leadership at numerous industry conferences.

Throughout her career in technology, Beena has been a strong advocate for women in positions of technology leadership and has established herself as a voice for resolving gender disparities.

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The podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach

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In this session, David Rose, CEO, Ditto Labs, sat with Vishal Kumar, CEO AnalyticsWeek and shared his journey as a data driven executive, best practices, shared some thought leadership in visualizations and usability. Some challenges/opportunities he's observing as an analytics-driven startup.

Timeline: 0:29 David's journey. 4:50 Bringing technology to everyday objects. 9:37 Sensor and photosensor. 13:02 Choosing the right use cases. 16:54 On deep learning. 21:49 Working on new use cases in image processing. 26:05 Ditto Labs's allure classifiers. 28:15 Challenges as an entrepreneur in an image processing company. 32:50 Technical challenges for Ditto faces. 36:58 Privacy and IoT. 40:17 Different countries, different legal norms on privacy. 42:55 Data culture and image processing company. 44:46 Opportunities in the image processing stacks.

Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/analyticsweek-leadership-podcast-with-david-rose-ditto-labs/

If interested in vision catalog (as discussed in the video): http://www.slideshare.net/davidloring...

David's website: enchantedobjects.com

Here's David's Bio: David is the CEO at Ditto Labs, an image-recognition software platform that scours social media photos to find brands and products.

His new book, Enchanted Objects, focuses on the future of the internet of things and how these technologies will impact how we live and work.

Prior to Ditto, David founded and was CEO at Vitality, a company that reinvented medication packaging now distributed by CVS, Walgreens, and Express Scripts.

He founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered glanceable technology: embedding internet information in everyday objects like lamps, mirrors, and umbrellas.

David holds patents for photo sharing, interactive TV, ambient information displays, and medical devices. His work has been featured at the MoMA, covered in the New York Times, WIRED, and The Economist, and parodied on the Colbert Report.

David co-teaches a popular course in tangible user interfaces at the MIT Media Lab with Hiroshi Ishii. He is a frequent speaker to corporations and design and technology conferences.

He received his BA in Physics from St. Olaf College, studied Interactive Cinema at the MIT Media Lab, and earned a Masters at Harvard.

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The podcast is sponsored by: TAO.ai(https://tao.ai), Artificial Intelligence Driven Career Coach

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FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers, and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future.

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