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Employment and Social Development CanadaEpisode 8: Adopting new technologies and business models for our society’s well-being / Épisode 8 : Adopter de nouvelles technologies et de nouveaux modèles d’affaires pour le bien être de notre société (audio disponible en anglais seulement)Melissa Sariffodeen, Future Skills Council member and CEO at Canada Learning Code, Tara Khazaei, National AI Lead at Microsoft Canada and, Vik Pant, Chief Scientist and Chief Science Advisor at Natural Resources Canada discuss adopting new technologies and business models such as artificial intelligence and automation while ensuring the well-being of communities and society.Recommended links:Future Skills: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/future-skills.htmlFuture Skills Council Report: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/future-skills/report-learning-nation.htmlFuture Skills Centre: https://fsc-ccf.ca/ESDC Programs: http...2021-08-0932 min
Employment and Social Development CanadaEpisode 8: Adopting new technologies and business models for our society’s well-being / Épisode 8 : Adopter de nouvelles technologies et de nouveaux modèles d’affaires pour le bien être de notre société (audio disponible en anglais seulement)Melissa Sariffodeen, Future Skills Council member and CEO at Canada Learning Code, Tara Khazaei, National AI Lead at Microsoft Canada and, Vik Pant, Chief Scientist and Chief Science Advisor at Natural Resources Canada discuss adopting new technologies and business models such as artificial intelligence and automation while ensuring the well-being of communities and society.Recommended links:Future Skills: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/future-skills.htmlFuture Skills Council Report: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/future-skills/report-learning-nation.htmlFuture Skills Centre: https://fsc-ccf.ca/ESDC Programs: http...2021-08-0932 min
Tales from the CloudMachine Learning/AI Chat with Taraneh Khazaei - National AI LeadTaraneh (Tara) Khazaei leads the National AI team for Microsoft Canada. She previously worked as an AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and held Data Science positions at Financial Services Companies in Canada.
Tara talks to us about challenges she has seen in the industry around starting Data Science projects in the cloud and how the responsibility needs to be shared between different teams within a company. She also talks about what a day-to-day of a Data Science looks like and how to start on the profession.2021-04-2433 min
The Georgian Impact Podcast | AI, ML & MoreEpisode 114: What Makes a Successful AI Project?“If you want to be a good data scientist, you should spend ~49% of your time developing your statistical intuition (i.e. how to ask good questions of the data), and ~49% of your time on domain knowledge (improving overall understanding of your field). Only ~2% on methods per se.” Nate Silver, a statistician and writer who analyzes sports, elections and more. In this week’s podcast Jon Prial is joined by Tara Khazaei, Chief Data Scientist, National AI Team, Customer Success Unit at Microsoft. Jon and Tara talk about how domain knowledge, as well as statistical intuition, make for more su...2020-01-1021 min