Low-Code Data Science Solutions and Business ROI - Ganes Kesari

This week I'll sit down with Ganes Kesari, Chief Decision Scientist at Gramener, the company behind Gramex and an innovative rising star. Ganes is a contributor in leading magazines such as Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and The Enterprisers Project.  He won the 2020 CSuite Award for best blog by a business leader. He has taught at Princeton University and Indian Business School and has been invited to speak at TED, O'Reilly Strata, Microsoft, and Intel events. Timestamps 00:00 intro 03:04 Gaining Business Value from AI Initiative,  Establishing Baselines   08:41 Human vs AI performance baseline, Long Term Benefits of AI 10:30  Netflix’s Recommendation Engine Competition, Failed ROI and Model Accuracy 15:40  GCP losses, Data and Model Drifts,  Bulls Eye in a Moving Target 19:40 Data Maturity Assessment Tool,  5 Stage Roadmap  23:20  Logging in Personal Journal, 4 years, 120,000 data points. 25:40  From Siloed Modules to End to End Flow, Gramex Unified Architecture 29:30 Gramener Game Plan, Services vs Platform 34:28 Using ModelHandler to Furnish Realtime Business Visualizations 36:51 WorldBank Data Visualisation of Technology and Entrepreneurship Report, Data Story Component 42:33 Data Journalism at Guardian,  Character and Plot Visualisation of Hindu Epic Saga Mahabharata, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Hans Rosling and GapMinder 47:18 Airtel Contract Deals 49:51 IITs, IIMs, Geeks and Humor 54:22 Education in India, SAT scores and Path Ahead 58:50  Industry-Academic Partnerships and Practical Experience 01:03:00 AI Adoption Pain Points, Cybersecurity, Regulation, Fairness and Explainability  01:07:00  CNA Financial $40M ransom payment and AI Adoption Correlation 01:13:00 Increasing Bain & Company’s Net Promote Score for a Computer Manufacturer 01:20:19 Backing in Himalayas and Monastery in Bhutan 01:25:25 AI in Biodiversity, Rhinoceros, Penguins and Whale Shark as Endangered Species 01:30:01  Google Vertex AI, Alteryx, Knime vs Gramex, Future Strategy 01:35:30 Slidesense, Business Reports and Powerpoint Integration 01:39:26 Explaining DeepLearning to your Daughter, Whitehat Jr Scam 01:45:00 How Technology is changing Social Landscape 01:47:26 Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov and DeepBlue Game 01:51:30  Chess and IQ, Narrow Intelligence and Transferability   01:53:01  Tesla Killing Jaywalker and AI’s Mindless Application 01:55:00  G7 Summit 2020 and AI war between US & China 01:58:33 Smart Twins, Enterprise Mass Production & Gramex