Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Matt Candler: CEO Of School 4.0

While we all recognize that entrepreneurs are disrupters (Amazon being a good example) but also risk takers. What if educational entrepreneurs had a way to test their ideas and were able to find a medium that could lend credibility to their work even before they introduce those ideas to managers, leaders and the public. Well, […]

Heather Maio-Smith: Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile

Heather Maio-Smith: Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile

Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile venture name Conversa is ‘conversational Video AI’: interactive 3d displays of real people which could robustly answer questions. The process is intensive: Interviewees are flow to California The are interviewed in ‘the bubble’: a dome with 6000 LED lights and more than 20 cameras. Interviewees had to […]

Derek Haoyang Li – Founder & CEO of Squirrel AI

Derek Haoyang Li – Founder & CEO of Squirrel AI

For the founder’s parade, (and doubling up as Pitch Pool material) I chose the CEO of a company I have been following closely for the last few years: Squirrel AI, based in China. The CEO and founder is Derek Haoyang Li. According to Analytics India magazine, “Squirrel AI Learning is the first pure-play AI-powered adaptive […]

Sebastian Thrun: founder and executive chairman of Udacity

Sebastian Thrun: founder and executive chairman of Udacity

Photo: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/steve-forbes-and-sebastian-thrun-b307c6c47e87 Udacity is an online learning platform which mainly aims at preparing users to excel in their career paths through digital upskilling. It partners up with companies and universities to offer nanodegrees (specialized education courses for computer science that come with hands-on projects, technical support from mentors, and valuable career development resources). Udacity follows […]