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MaxQ AI’s Chris Schnee joins host Jake Smith to talk about how deep learning and machine vision is used in intelligent diagnostic decision solutions that enable quicker and more accurate assessment of stroke and head trauma. Chris discusses working with Intel on optimizations to cut run times and scale, the company’s Accipio lx software, and the ways physicians are benefiting from AI technology advancements. Follow MaxQ AI on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/maximumqai Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Hanan Youssef, Senior Product Leader at Google Cloud Platform (GCP), joins host Jake Smith to talk about how General Purpose N2 virtual machine (VM) customers will be able to automatically upgrade to the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable processors and immediately see the benefits for their workloads. Hanan talks about her experience with Google Compute Engine and how customers use N2 to build social media apps, run ecommerce, and to power the latest online games at great price-performance. Hanan also talks about the near decade of collaboration between Intel and Google Cloud and how the two companies have developed performance improvements and optimizations for various customer needs, such as SAP HANA and high performance computing (HPC). For more information about 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, visit: https://intel.com/xeonscalable Follow Hanan on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/hsyousef Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

InstaDeep’s Karim Beguir joins host Jake Smith to talk about using AI to drive autonomous decision making at the enterprise level. Karim discusses utilizing reinforcement learning (RL) made popular by DeepMind in industrial environments and why the company’s RL relies on Intel CPUs. Karim also talks about the complexity of applying RL to specific real-world use cases, such as scheduling trains in Germany, supply chain and logistics, and vaccine and biotechnology. Jake and Karim discuss the future of AI in Europe and the need to protect personal data through homomorphic encryption. Follow Karim on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/kbeguir Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Cisco’s Brian Everitt and Cale Hilts join host Jake Smith to talk about why Cisco partnered with Intel to certify Cisco HyperFlex All Flash and All NVMe models as Intel Select Solutions, which can power any application from the data center to the edge. Brian and Cale talk more about the high-performance, distributed file system that supports multiple hypervisors and they go into detail about the deep collaboration between the two companies. They explain the amount of technical benchmarking required for the Intel Selection Solutions program, the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with a unified fabric, storage optimizations with Intel Optane, and the many industry trends the team at Cisco is preparing to solve. Follow Cisco on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/cisco Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Dr. Kurt Rohloff, CTO and co-founder of Duality Technologies, joins host Jake Smith to talk about homomorphic encryption, which allows organizations to run analytics on sensitive data without having full access to the data itself. Kurt goes into detail about a project with the National Institute of Health that allowed cancer researchers to confidentially aggregate patient data for analysis, allowing researchers to develop new detection models while protecting patient privacy. Kurt also talks about the benefits of homomorphic encryption for financial organizations and the importance of regulatory compliance. The two discuss the value of the security features in the latest 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and the future of open standards and security. For more information, visit: https://homomorphicencryption.org/ Follow Duality Technologies on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/dualitytech Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Intel’s Matt Langman and Irma Esmer join host Jake Smith to talk about the launch of 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, codename: Ice Lake. Matt talks about gen over gen performance improvements, increased memory capabilities, and advanced security features. Irma talks about the new core upgrades for scalability across multiple workloads and the continued push for higher throughput and lower latency. The three discuss the investments made in software optimization, the wide number of needs within the data center, the rise of 5G, HPC deployment opportunities, and how a number of industries have drastically changed in the last year. For more information about 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, visit: https://intel.com/xeonscalable Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Intel’s Robert Blum joins host Jake Smith to talk about Intel’s broader connectivity group and how the company facilitates efficiently moving data between servers and across the data center with a wide range of products, including silicon photonics, Ethernet switches, accelerators and more. Robert discusses the advancements Intel has made in silicon photonics over the last four years since first launching 100GB transceivers and highlights the milestone of having shipped more than 5 million transceivers for hyperscale data centers to date. He goes into more detail about the industry’s explosive growth and the need for 800GB transceivers, which are now being sampled by customers in the field. Jake and Robert talk about the benefits of co-packaged optics with Barefoot switches, which are evolving from proof-of-concept to deployment in the coming years. Robert also touches on the future of silicon photonics, such as Mobileye’s application for LiDAR. Learn more at: https://intel.com/siliconphotonics Follow Jake

Lenovo’s Todd Myrick joins host Jake Smith to talk about the history of Lenovo’s evolution, the company’s PC and server business, and why working with the Intel Select Solutions program helps solve customer problems. Todd talks about the future of the Intel Select Solutions program, including AI inferencing and advancements in Intel Optane storage technology. Todd also discusses where he sees computing going in 2021. Follow Lenovo on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/lenovo Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Nikhil Deshpande, Director of HPC and AI Innovations at Intel, and Sid Kashyap, Deep Learning R&D Engineer at Intel, join host Jake Smith to talk about neural machine translation (NMT). The three talk about the role of machine translation in business, why certain sectors like health care and legal services require incredibly accurate results, and the challenges the global community faces around these issues. Nikhil and Sid also discuss why NMT inference is computationally expensive and how an Intel Xeon-based system in the cloud can meet the performance requirements to scale. Read more about cost-effective translation on CPUs: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/artificial-intelligence/posts/low-latency-machine-translation.html Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Sebastian Borchers, cofounder of Wahtari, joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI), specifically neural networks, for image recognition and inferencing with edge computing. The two talk about how Wahtari integrates the Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X Vision Processing Unit (VPU) into camera hardware, the competitive advantage of deploying at the edge, working with the AI Builders program, and optimizing Intel Xeon processors for training models. Follow Wahtari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wahtari_ai Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Jim Hassman, Group Vice President North America West Region at C3.ai, joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to find meaningful and actionable insights for digital transformation in the enterprise. The two talk about how C3.ai’s suite works to ingest large, raw data and normalize and clean it for use in machine learning algorithms that can then be transformed into useful applications that scale. Follow C3.ai on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/c3_ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Spence Green, co-founder and CEO of Lilt, joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for enterprise language translation. Spence talks about his background at Google Translate, giving human translators the tools they need to scale at the enterprise level, and why Lilt uses Intel Xeon Scalable processors to improve speed and lower cost. Follow Lilt on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/LiltHQ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Michal Lukac, co-founder and machine learning engineer at Ximilar, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how the artificial intelligence (AI) startup uses Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the Intel OpenVINO toolkit to increase performance and lower latency for the company’s computer vision platform. The two discuss the many applications for image recognition and visual search in a variety of industries and how Ximilar has benefited from being a part of the Intel AI Builders program. Follow Ximilar on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ximilar_com Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Ganesh Iyer, CTO of Knowledge Lens, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how Knowledge Lens improves inference time on Intel Xeon Scalable servers and uses Intel OpenVINO to reduce processor space consumption. Ganesh also goes into detail about the company’s iLens industrial IoT platform and explains how working with Intel’s AI Builders team helped the company meet critical benchmarks and reduce cost. Follow Knowledge Lens on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KnowledgeLens Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Ryan Champlin, Senior Director of Product Marketing at SAP, and Vishal Sanghvi, Global Director of SAP Marketing at Intel, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the future of Intel and SAP’s partnership that has lasted for over twenty-five years. The three talk about persistent memory technology, real-time analytics, and other areas enterprises should consider when planning out their digital transformation roadmap. Ryan and Vishal go into detail about a successful IT transformation program with Canadian Pacific. For more case studies, visit: https://intel.com/sap Follow Ryan on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Ryan_Champlin Follow Vishal on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/sanghviv Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Nir Shavit, co-founder of Neural Magic, joins host Jake Smith to talk about enabling convolutional neural networks to run on commodity CPUs. Nir speaks to how his background as a professor researching the connectivity maps of brain tissue and tracking neurons evolved into developing machine learning algorithms that run on multicore processors instead of GPUs. The two discuss the relationship between performance and CPU cache and memory, compression techniques like model pruning and quantization, and the future of sparsification. Nir also expands on the similarities and differences between the human brain and modern processors and why software optimization could be more important than specialized hardware. Follow Neural Magic on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/neuralmagic Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Vishal Rai, cofounder and CEO of Embold, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how AI software is changing the planet and why static code analysis is more important than ever before. The two talk about how quickly software development is evolving and what that means for the wider industry. Vishal also goes into detail about the company’s “Embold score,” a multi-dimensional analysis which utilizes machine learning to find specific code components that will have the biggest impact and need to be solved first, and outlines the areas where working with Intel helped the company optimize their training performance. Follow Vishal on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thevishalrai Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Anshuman Pandey, founder & CEO of NimbleBox, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company’s one-stop-shop platform for AI developers. With an easy-to-use web app, developers can quickly deploy models in a cloud-based system and focus on their code. The two also talk about the importance of open source libraries, working with Intel on performance enhancements, and why the global technology industry is going to need a wealth of new AI developers in the coming years. Follow Nimblebox on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NimbleBoxAI Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Thevi Sundaralingam, who leads the Intel Edge Software Hub Product Management and Strategy team, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how Intel works with a broad number of IoT developers on application use cases for edge deployment by providing pre-configured software packages and hardware recommendations. For more information, visit: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/edge-computing/edge-software-hub.html Follow Thevi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thevi_s Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel

Roland Mesters, founder of Nordigen, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how the fintech company provides transaction-based analytics for income verification and affordability checks by leveraging machine learning in open banking. The two talk about how open banking is changing the finance industry in Europe and around the world, the difficulties in managing unstructured data, and how Intel Xeon processors are driving big performance gains. Follow Nordigen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nordigen Follow Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel