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Tech Optimist: An Alumni Ventures Podcast#5 - Net Zero Heroes: CarbonCapture InsightsIn this captivating episode of the Tech Optimist, host Mike Collins engages in insightful discussions with pioneers who are not just thinking about the future, but actively shaping it. The first segment features Adam Oliner, CEO of Graft, who shares how AI is transforming practical business solutions. The conversation continues with Adrian Corless, CEO of CarbonCapture, discussing the impactful work his company is doing to combat climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere. Finally, we explore diversity in AI and venture capital with Sophia Zhao, highlighting the strides women are making in these fields.To Learn...
2024-05-141h 08
The AI Report Live with Liam LawsonS1E12: Graft CEO—AI Infrastructure for the 99%All technology is deflationary. By building on previous generations, we find Moore's Law to be true for more than just computers. But most tools are only as good as the platforms upon which they are implemented. Adam Oliner, founder and CEO of Graft, shares his journey from tech to start-up and his vision of human/AI coexsistence.
2024-02-1339 min
Engineering FoundersClarity on product building, business strategy, and activating your network (if you’re anti-networking) w/ Adam OlinerIn this episode, we explore the story of Adam Oliner, CEO & Founder @ Graft and discuss his perspectives on building business models, considerations around early business strategy, best practices for activating your network (if you’re anti-networking), and lessons from their recent pre-seed round & product-building bias toward ease of use! Plus, we dive into what it's like to be a founder with young kids, the impact of family on day-to-day operations and company values!ABOUT ADAM OLINERAdam is the CEO & Founder at Graft, which aims to make the AI of the 1% accessible to the 99%. Before th...
2022-11-0450 min
Matt Brown Show - Conversations That Power The Business World.MBS492 - Democratizing access to AI - Adam Oliner, CEO Graft (Built in California #29)Send us a textGraft is democratizing access to AI and ML capability for small businesses by providing scalable AI infrastructure. Graft™ is a cloud-native platform that aims to make the AI of the 1% accessible to the 99%. With Graft businesses can wield the most advanced techniques for unlocking the value of data, including text, images, video, audio, and graphs and much, much more.Get interviewed on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.comSupport the show
2022-10-2048 minMatt Brown Show - Conversations That Power The Business World.MBS492 - Democratizing access to AI - Adam Oliner, CEO Graft (Built in California #29)Send us a textGraft is democratizing access to AI and ML capability for small businesses by providing scalable AI infrastructure. Graft™ is a cloud-native platform that aims to make the AI of the 1% accessible to the 99%. With Graft businesses can wield the most advanced techniques for unlocking the value of data, including text, images, video, audio, and graphs and much, much more.Get interviewed on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.comSupport the show
2022-10-2048 minMatt Brown Show - Conversations That Power The Business World.MBS492 - Democratizing access to AI - Adam Oliner, CEO Graft (Built in California #29)Send us a textGraft is democratizing access to AI and ML capability for small businesses by providing scalable AI infrastructure. Graft™ is a cloud-native platform that aims to make the AI of the 1% accessible to the 99%. With Graft businesses can wield the most advanced techniques for unlocking the value of data, including text, images, video, audio, and graphs and much, much more.Get interviewed on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.comSupport the show
2022-10-2048 min
ForwardGraft’s Adam Oliner on accelerating AI adoption by embracing the Modern AI paradigmOur guest today is Adam Oliner, the CEO and founder of Graft. Graft is a cloud-native platform that empowers organizations to leverage the most advanced AI techniques to unlock the value of text, images, video, audio, and graphs.
Before co-founding Graft, Adam was a Head of Machine Learning at Slack and Director of Engineering at Splunk. Before that Adam co-founded Kuro Labs, which commercialized battery analytics technology. He was a postdoctoral scholar in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, working in the AMP Lab, which specialized in cloud computing and Big Data. He earned a...
2022-10-121h 14
AI Engineering PodcastUsing AI To Transform Your Business Without The Headache Using GraftSummaryMachine learning is a transformative tool for the organizations that can take advantage of it. While the frameworks and platforms for building machine learning applications are becoming more powerful and broadly available, there is still a significant investment of time, money, and talent required to take full advantage of it. In order to reduce that barrier further Adam Oliner and Brian Calvert, along with their other co-founders, started Graft. In this episode Adam and Brian explain how they have built a platform designed to empower everyone in the business to take part in designing and building ML projects...
2022-08-161h 07
Data Brew by DatabricksData Brew Season 2 Episode 3: Infrastructure for MLFor our second season of Data Brew, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and industry to discuss topics such as data ethics, production-grade infrastructure for ML, hyperparameter tuning, AutoML, and many more. Adam Oliner discusses how to design your infrastructure to support ML, from integration tests to glue code, the importance of iteration, and centralized vs decentralized data science teams. He provides valuable advice for companies investing in ML and crucial lessons he’s learned from founding two companies.See more at databricks.com/dat...
2021-05-0630 min
The AI in Business PodcastBest-Practices for Discovering Valuable AI Opportunities - with Adam Oliner of SlackToday's guest is Adam Oliner, former Head of Machine Learning at Slack and current Founder and CEO of Stealth Mode Startup. Adam speaks to us today about how to find AI opportunities. What is a lens of thinking, the set of steps and phases to uncover the AI fit, and where can we unlock AI value in our business? How can we look through a pair of goggles that will show us where the business needs AI and the data assets can come together and deliver value in the business? Suppose you are interested in best practices for finding...
2021-05-0434 min
The Tech TrekMachine Learning, commoditization of tooling, how to structure ML at your org and getting traction with ML projects with Adam Oliner, the Head of Machine Learning at SlackMeet: Adam Oliner, Head of Machine Learning at Slack. Prior to Slack, Adam was leading the team at Splunk. He has his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and did his undergraduate degree at MIT.
What you’ll learn:
Commoditization of tooling - how it affects your career
Structuring your Machine Learning organization - best practices and approaches
Machine Learning Projects - how to get traction and how to think about your projects (failures and iterations)
If you have any questions for Adam, please feel free to...
2020-10-1933 min
The ConversAItionAdam Oliner: How AI Keeps Companies Connected At HomeSeason 3, which will explore AI at home, kicks off with a conversation with Adam Oliner, Head of Machine Learning at Slack. In this episode, Jim and Adam discuss the new world of remote work and Slack’s growing role in keeping companies connected. Together, they examine the many ways in which AI creates a more intuitive experience for Slack users around the globe.
2020-09-2911 min
The AI in Business PodcastBuild a Data Moat Around Your AI Initiative - With Adam Oliner of SlackWe've touched on a lot of different kinds of expertise in this month-long series on using AI for competitive advantage. We end things by speaking with someone from the startup world: Adam Oliner, Head of Machine Learning at Slack. He speaks with us about building a data moat around your business when it comes to building AI solutions in-house. He puts the overall theme for leveraging AI for competitive advantage very succinctly. If you're just getting started with AI in your business, be sure to download our succinct guide to adopting AI, Beginning With AI, at emerj.c...
2019-12-3123 min