Georgian Partners

Is there such a thing as a problem people wish they had? When it comes to challenges in scaling your business, the answer is yes. Allan Leinwand is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. He is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Slack, this is a person who knows all about scaling.


Allan Leinwand is responsible for engineering and operations at Slack.

Before joining Slack, Allan was Chief Technology Officer at ServiceNow, where he was responsible for overseeing all technical aspects and strategy. He has co-founded and held senior leadership positions at multiple companies and was a venture capital investor for seven years. 

Leinwand previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he taught on the subjects of computer networks, network management and network design. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.


Allan Leinwand 

SVP Engineering at Slack

The Challenges of Scaling Your Business With Slack’s Allan Leinwand

Conversations for entrepreneurs at the intersection of business and technology. Topics include applied artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, AI trust, ethics and privacy, conversational AI, the blockchain and more.

The Georgian Impact Podcast | AI, ML & More

It used to be you could trust what you saw. With the prevalence of deep fakes and other synthetic media, today it isn’t always so easy knowing what is real and what isn’t. Kathryn Harrison is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. She is the founder and CEO of the DeepTrust Alliance and FixFake, a company with the data and expertise to find fakes and fight fraud.

Kathryn Harrison is the founder and CEO of the DeepTrust Alliance, a non-profit building the solutions and ecosystem to tackle deep fakes and misinformation. Prior to founding the DeepTrust Alliance, Kathryn spent nearly a decade at IBM. Kathryn began her career in financial services at Gerson Lehrman Group in New York and Hong Kong. Kathryn has a Bachelor of Science the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from the Lauder Institute both at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Harrison

Tackling Digital Disinformation with Kathryn Harrison

Imagine a future where our technology interacts with us the same way we do with one another through conversation, perception and empathy. <a href="https://www.affectiva.com/who/leadership-team/">Dr. Rana el Kaliouby</a> is our guest on this episode of the <a href="https://georgian.io/resources/?t=3288">Georgian Impact Podcast</a>. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Affectiva, a pioneer in the field of Emotion AI and Human Perception AI and author of the book Girl Decoded.
You’ll Hear About:
● Her journey to humanize technology starting from The American University in Cairo, to Cambridge, and then MIT.
● How her life experiences helped to influence and inspire her vision for technology.
● Her transition from working with people with autism to commercial uses of her techniques.
● The challenge of turning down opportunities in order to stay true to established core values.
● The importance of diversity in not just your team, but also in the data.
● Work life balance and making mental health a priority.

Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva. Having defined the category of Emotion AI, Rana is now pioneering Human Perception AI: technology that can understand all things human.  A passionate advocate for innovation, ethics in AI and diversity, Rana has been recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and Forbes America’s Top 50 Women in Tech. Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.  She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT.

Rana

el Kaliouby

Understanding Emotion with AI, with Rana el Kaliouby

You might think that getting your customer base to adopt your AI product is a sales and marketing challenge. But it starts much earlier in the product lifecycle, with empathy for your customers’ problems, creating solutions that fit into their workflow and building trust that you’re treating their data with care. Three pillars of AI product management.
Frank Emery, our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast, takes us through how Fiix is accomplishing this. They’re connecting teams, tools, data and processes to get critical insights, scale maintenance programs and boost asset performance.

Frank Emery is the Sr. Product Manager - Applied A.I. at Fiix Software. He has close to a decade of experience in product management having worked at Bibliocommons, Points, and ecobee. Frank received his MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

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Emery

Episode 130: AI Adoption Starts with Product Management

With the growing pervasiveness of AI and machine learning, knowing how to effectively implement it in software development is key. But the idea of “just take X and add AI” isn’t a cure-all. So, when? How? Where?
Daniel Faggella is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. He is the CEO and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, a research and advisory company working with business leaders to help develop a winning strategy.

Daniel Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research. Daniel is a globally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in business.

Called upon by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, and global pharmaceutical and banking companies, Daniel helps business and government leaders navigate the competitive landscape of AI capabilities, and build strategies that win.

Daniel’s AI predictions and research has been featured in TechCrunch, Inc, Xconomy, Forbes, and more. His research is referenced in Harvard Business Review, the World Economic Forum, MIT Technology Review, and more.

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Faggella

Episode 129: AI in Business with Emerj’s Daniel Faggella 

Leading on privacy means more than compliance and technical solutions. To excel, companies should also foster a privacy culture. Vivian Byrwa, our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast<a href= "https://georgian.io/resources/?t=3288">, discusses how cultural guardrails can reinforce policy and technical guardrails. Vivian is the privacy counsel at Spotify and has close to a decade of experience focusing on privacy and its implications for companies.  You’ll Hear About: <ul> <li>Privacy culture and how internal attitudes can affect data protection and privacy.</li> <li>The importance of policy and technical guardrails but also the need for cultural guardrails.</li> <li>The difference between being compliant and doing the right thing, when privacy and ethics intersect.</li> </ul> Resources: <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2020/06/22/50-stats-showing-why-companies-need-to-prioritize-consumer-privacy/#3dfbf71e37f6"> 50 Stats Showing Why Companies Need to Prioritize Privacy</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/modern-privacy-program-needs-cultural-guardrails-vivian-byrwa/"> The Modern Privacy Program Needs Cultural Guardrails</a></li> </ul> Who is Vivian Byrwa? Vivian Byrwa has spent nearly a decade focused on privacy and how it affects companies. Her focus on privacy began while working at Herrick, Feinstein LLP and later at Davis & Gilbert LLP. She joined Spotify in 2019 as the first and only U.S. based privacy counsel and helps develop and maintain Spotify’s global privacy program with a focus on advertising and marketing, creator related issues and student data.

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Episode 128: Creating a Privacy Culture with Spotify's Vivian Byrwa

In real life we identify ourselves with a passport, driver’s license, or other government ID - and we use the same ID in multiple places. But digital identity isn’t so easy, and doing digital credentials badly can leave users and systems vulnerable. Drummond Reed is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. He is the Chief Trust Officer at Evernym - a company at the forefront of a rapidly growing movement to decentralize digital identity. Their approach is called Self Sovereign Identity or SSI, and it makes the process of proving your identity in a digital space much more straightforward. You’ll Hear About: <ul> <li>Self Sovereign Identity or SSI, and how a Digital Wallet and Digital Agent will streamline the process of sharing the necessary credentials within the digital realm.</li> <li>The role biometrics play as one piece of the “chain of trust” of authentication.</li> <li>How SSI differentiates itself from federated identity when it comes to privacy and security.</li> <li>The possibility to store not only your credentials in your digital wallet but also micro-credentials.</li> <li>The growth and adoption of verifiable credentials and SSI.</li> <li>The different roles of Evernym and Sovrin Foundation.</li> </ul> Who is Drummond Reed? Drummond has spent over two decades working on Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks. He joined Evernym as Chief Trust Officer after Evernym’s acquisition of Respect Network, where he was CEO, co-founder, and co-author of the Respect Trust Framework. Drummond has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, the new semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, the international not-for-profit clearinghouse for Internet trust frameworks. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons.

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