Episode 2 - Salla Franzén, Chief Data Scientist at the bank SEB

03/02/20 • 81 min

Salla Franzén is the Chief Data Scientist at SEB, one of the leading banks in the Nordic countries with roughly 15 000 employees.
In this episode, Salla tells us about how her "special forces team" of 9 data scientists is trying to make the entire organization of 15 000 people become more data-driven. We also get to learn more about what SEB is doing when it comes to AI. In addition, Salla explains why SEB is not yet using AI for credit scoring and what needs to be in place before that will happen.
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#Data Science, #AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning, #ML

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Episode 1 - Antonina Danylenko, Head of Applied Machine Learning at Nordic Entertainment Group

Antonina Danylenko is the Head of Applied Machine Learning at Nordic Entertainment Group

She has a PhD in Computer Science and was the second Data Scientist at the furniture giant IKEA before she became the head of applied machine learning at Nordic Entertainment Group.

With more than 15 billion SEK in annual revenue, Nordic Entertainment Group is one of the leading entertainment providers in the Nordic countries, offering a broad range of services such as the streaming platforms Viaplay and Viafree, the TV channels Viasat, TV3, TV6, TV8 and TV10 and the radio channels Rix FM, Bandit Rock and Power Hit Radio.

In this episode, we will get to learn about what a day is like in the life of the head of applied machine learning at Nordic Entertainment Group, how AI is applied in the Viaplay platform and what the main challenges have been so far. Antonina also shares her top 3 advice for someone who wants to get started with AI in a company.

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#Data Science, #AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning, #ML

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Episode 3 - André Karpištšenko, Global Head of Data Science at Bolt

André Karpištšenko is the Global Head of Data Science at Bolt, a ride hailing company competing with giants such as Uber.
In this episode, André tells us about why he almost never uses the word AI in Bolt, how Bolt is able to compete with much bigger competitors such as Uber with a much smaller team and why it is important to have a centralized Data Science team in a hypergrowth company. André also explains how Bolt prioritizes between all the potential data science use-cases, given their backlog of projects.
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#Data Science, #AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning, #ML