The Prepare.ai Podcast
The Prepare.ai Podcast explores the fast-paced world of emerging tech from the landscape of the Midwest, with a distinctly non-coastal vibe. Hosted by technologists Fully Teasdale and Dave Costenaro, the Prepare.ai Podcast highlights great work across artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science at scale, virtual reality and augmented reality, and robotics and robotic process automation, and features folks from boots-on-the-ground implementers to vision-creating founders. The Podcast is produced by Prepare.ai, a 501c3 whose mission is to increase collaboration around 4th-industrial revolution technologies in order to advance the human experience. We’re doing it from the heart of the Midwest, where the 1st- and 2nd-industrial revolutions brought growth and innovation, and where the 3rd eroded jobs and urban landscapes. This time, we will not be left behind. We will lead, not follow. Help us Prepare.
Episodes
34 episodes
Jason Keune on How to Champion AI Ethics in Medicine
Dr. Jason Keune is the executive director of St. Louis University’s Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics, established in 2007 to promote ethical business practices in medicine and healthcare. Dr. Keune is also an assistant professor ...
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49:00
Sanmay Das on Algorithms Making Societal Decisions
Sanmay Das is a professor of Computer Science at George Mason University. From 2013-2020, he was on the faculty of the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also founded and served as the firs...
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51:14
George Holmes on Founding a Robotic Lawn-Mowing Startup
George Leno Holmes Jr is the co-founder and CEO of Hire Henry, a robotic lawn-mowing startup that is growing and evolving rapidly in the heartland of the United States. George received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Missouri University of...
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44:18
Physna Founder Paul Powers on the Digital 3D Revolution
Serial entrepreneur Paul Powers co-founded Physna in 2015 to bridge the gap between software and the physical world by normalizing 3D data and applying machine learning to it. Physna's proprietary technology is patent-pending in over 120 countr...
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Episode 31
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46:59
WashU's William Yeoh on Fairness in Ride-Sharing Apps
William Yeoh is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a co-director of the Division of Computational and Data Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are in optimization,...
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Episode 30
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56:05
Centene's Amanda Clifton on Moving Faster in Healthcare Tech
Amanda Clifton is Staff Vice President, Technical Product Ownership at Centene Corporation, a publicly traded managed care company based in St. Louis, MO that serves as an intermediary for government-sponsored and privately insured healthcare p...
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Episode 29
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40:54
Dheeraj Patri on Label Insight's 2021 Exit & His CTO Role at Inclusively
Serial entrepreneur Dheeraj Patri is the former CTO of Label Insight, a product metadata platform Dheeraj and his partners cofounded in 2008 which became a market-leading database of more than 200k product nutrients, 400k product ingredients an...
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Episode 28
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58:32
UNCOMN's Jason Carter on Working With Big Gov & Celebrating Uncommon Genius
Jason Carter is the founder and President of UNCOMN, an industry-leading B2B management and technology consulting provider he founded after serving 20 years in the US Navy after retiring as a commander in 2009. Jason’s Navy highlights include b...
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Episode 27
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Teaching Teachers to Teach Coding with Create a Loop's Sherea Dunlap
Sherea Dunlop is Executive Director of Create a Loop, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing computer science instruction to students in the Saint Louis Metropolitan area, including students from low income backgrounds, who have little...
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Episode 26
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38:20
Xeo Air Founder Bronwyn Morgan on The Drone Revolution
Bronwyn Morgan is a FAA certified drone pilot, FAA Safety Representative and FAA Drone Pro, and is the Founder of Xeo Air, an AI based drones on demand, data analytics and autonomy platform for mission management that connects B2B clients in te...
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Episode 25
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51:48
Maryville's Brian Gant on Training the Next Generation of Ethical Hackers
Dr. Brian Gant is assistant professor of cybersecurity at Maryville University, where he oversees the university’s undergraduate cyber program. Brian has been in cyber security for nearly two decades, including working as a cybersecurity threat...
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48:51
Yes, An AI Just Took Your Drive-Thru Order
Fully and Dave interview Rob Carpenter, a serial entrepreneur and passionate technologist. Rob is the CEO and Founder of Valyant AI, the first Artificially Intelligent “Digital Employee” that works directly alongside employees in customer facin...
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42:10
Geneoscopy's Erica Barnell on AI in Gastrointestinal Health Diagnostics
Erica Barnell is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Geneoscopy Inc., a clinical-stage diagnostic company working on early detection of colorectal cancer. Its technology analyzes RNA in stool samples to look for early warning signs of c...
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Episode 22
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37:11
Benson Hill CTO Jason Bull on Machine Learning Changing Food From Plant to Plate
Jason Bull is Chief Technology Officer of Benson Hill, a St. Louis-based food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants thru its cutting-edge food innovation engine. Jason leads the company’s combined R&D and Data...
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Episode 21
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34:35
Balto's Marc Bernstein on Real-time AI Help for Call Center Agents
Marc Bernstein is Founder & CEO of Balto, a real-time guidance tool for contact centers. Powered by AI, Balto listens to both sides of a conversation and visually prompts agents with the best things to say, live on every call. Marc also hos...
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Episode 20
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41:04
Tableau's Vidya Setlur on How Visual Data Helps Human Understanding
Vidya Setlur is Principal Research Scientist and Research Manager at Tableau Software, a leading data visualization company acquired by Salesforce in 2019, where she focuses on natural language processing and computer graphics. Vidya earned her...
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Episode 19
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53:46
Pfizer's Head of Bioprocess R&D on the Fastest Vaccine Creation in History
Paul Mensah, PhD leads the Bioprocess R＆D and Drug Substance Supply group in Pfizer’s BioTherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences organization, with sites in Andover MA, Chapel Hill, NC, and St. Louis, MO. The group is responsible for developing in...
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Episode 18
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42:15
Intel's Chief Data Scientist Melvin Greer on EQ in AI
Dr. Melvin Greer is Chief Data Scientist for the Americas at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for building Intel’s data science platform through graph analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing to accelerate transformation of data ...
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Episode 17
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46:23
PagerDuty's Mitra Goswami on Storytelling through Data
Mitra Goswami is Senior Director of Data Science & Machine Learning at PagerDuty, an incident management platform that provides notifications, automated escalations and other functionality to help teams detect and fix infrastructure problem...
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43:45
Impossible Sensing's Kristin Dennis on Searching for Life on Mars
Kristin Dennis is Chief Operating Officer of Impossible Sensing, a St. Louis-based company that develops next-generation sensing applications for deployment in extreme terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments. They developed two laser spec...
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Episode 15
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52:38
GeoFutures' Andy Dearing Talks Satellites & STL as a Geospatial Hub
Andy Dearing is the president of Spatial STL Advisors, which provides strategic consulting for organizations to enable and grow location-based technology and services to support and promote the emergence of the geospatial industry in St. Louis....
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Episode 14
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48:07
WashU's Chief Data Scientist Philip Payne on Covid One Year Later
Fully and Dave talk national synthetic data repositories and what we've learned after collecting and analyzing a year's worth of Covid-19 data. Dr. Payne is the Janet and Bernard Becker Professor and Founding Director of the In...
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Episode 13
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59:20
Prepare Answers: Who's Andrew Ng and What's the One Second Rule?
Today Fully and Dave chat about the influence and work of Andrew Ng. Dr. Ng is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. As a pioneer both in ma...
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Episode 12
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33:05
Strange Loop Founder Alex Miller on Distributed Systems & Community
Alex Miller is the creator of the annual Strange Loop Conference, an interdisciplinary software conference in St. Louis, MO that brings together developers doing leading-edge applied computer science in areas such as emerging languages, nosql d...
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Episode 11
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49:17
Danforth Plant Science Center Keith Duncan on Standing Inside a Virtual Bell Pepper
Keith Duncan is a research scientist in Dr. Chris Topp's lab at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO. He is also the Director of their X-ray imaging facility, one of only a handful in the world dedicated exclusively to stud...
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Episode 10
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