Artificial intelligence video series

Paul Baier is the founder and CEO of GAI Insights, a platform dedicated to exploring the applications of AI. Paul has a three-decade career as a software entrepreneur – usually focusing on implementing new technology to create breakthrough business value.  Before founding GAI Insights, Paul was VP of Products at Aliaswire, an AI enabled, fin tech aimed at facilitating credit card use for small business that successfully exited to strategic buyer.  Before that, Paul was SVP of product at First Fuel, an analytics firm that performed sophisticated energy management for commercial properties – also successfully exited to a Private Equity buyer.  He was a senior executive at Authoria, an HR software company that also successfully sold to a strategic buyer.  

In addition, during the COVID Pandemic, Paul was the Director of Path Check, an MIT spin out that created COVID passports for millions of citizens in 12 states and two countries.  Paul is currently an entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School with a focus on helping AI startups and HBS’s AI strategy. He has also served as a judge in the HBS business plan competition for the past two decades. Paul holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA degree from Kenyon College.

Dr. Jules White is Director of Vanderbilt’s Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI, Associate Dean of Strategic Learning Programs in the School of Engineering, and Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Dept. of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient. His research has won multiple Best Paper Awards. He has also published over 160 papers. Dr. White’s research focuses on large language models, such as ChatGPT, cyber-security, and software engineering in domains ranging from healthcare to manufacturing. His research has been licensed and transitioned to industry, where it won an Innovation Award at CES 2013, attended by over 150,000 people, was a finalist for the Technical Achievement at Award at SXSW Interactive, and was a top 3 for mobile in the Accelerator Awards at SXSW 2013. He has raised over $12 million in venture backing for his startup companies. As Dean of Strategic Learning Programs, he led the online MS in Computer Science at Vanderbilt to the #1 ranking by Fortune for online MS in Computer Science degrees. His research is conducted through the Mobile Application computinG, optimizatoN, and secUrity Methods (MAGNUM) Group at Vanderbilt University, which he directs (http://www.magnum.io/people/jules.html).

Leading the Center for Teaching and Learning, Bruce supports all instructors at Penn in making their teaching as effective as possible. In that capacity, he has worked with faculty and administrators to consider the implications of generative AI on our educational aims and teaching practices.

Lenthall holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and a B.A. from Carleton College. In addition to Penn, he has taught in the history departments at Bryn Mawr College and Barnard College, exploring 20th-century U.S. history and the history of media. He is the author of a book on radio in the United States in the 1930s, Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Jeremie is a Partner and Director of Research at ROBO Global, a research and investment firm focused on the growth and return opportunities presented by Robotics, AI and Healthcare Technologies, in public equities and venture capital. 

Jeremie and his team manage the ROBO Global Indices, which are research-driven portfolios of global equities tracked by over $3bn in assets, primarily in Exchange Traded Funds. Jeremie is also a Partner of ROBO Global Ventures, which invests in cutting-edge startups.

Prior to ROBO Global, Jeremie spent over a decade as an equity research analyst in Asia and Europe before moving to New York to lead CLSA Americas' industrial technology research. Jeremie is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds a Master’s Degree in Science and Executive Engineering from the École des Mines de Paris and is fluent in French, English and Japanese.

Jay Jacobs is U.S. Head of Thematics and Active Equity ETFs at BlackRock. In this role, Jay is responsible for the research and development of the Megatrends suite, driving commercialization of these products, as well as managing product sales and marketing for the Megatrend franchise. Jay is also responsible for BlackRock's active equity and international ETF suites.

Previously, Jay joined Global X ETFs in 2013 and founded the firm's Research and Strategy team, which originates the firm's insights on markets and ETFs.

He also guided the planning and development of the firm's strategic direction. Prior to joining Global X, Jay was a business analyst at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the ETF and Indexing Group, where he helped to launch hundreds of ETFs on the NYSE Arca trading platform.

Jay is a frequently cited expert in print and online publications as well as broadcast media including CNBC, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He holds a BA from Emory University in International Studies and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a CFA charterholder.

Jay is a member of the executive advisory board of Columbia Business School's Program for Financial Studies. He resides in the New York area and is an avid explorer, spending his spare time in the outdoors hiking, skiing, kayaking, and mountain biking.

Sam Charrington is a noted ML/AI industry analyst, advisor and commentator, and host of the TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning and AI). The show is one of the most popular Tech podcasts with nearly 15 million downloads. Sam has interviewed over 600 of the industry’s leading machine learning and AI experts and has conducted extensive research into enterprise AI adoption, MLOps, and other ML/AI enabling technologies.