Dustin Lucien is the Chief Operating Officer of Betterment and has been with the company since 2013. Prior to becoming COO, Dustin served as Betterment's Chief Technology Officer, as well as the VP of Engineering. Dustin received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as well as his Master’s degree in Biomedical Imaging & Computing.
We may yet be a long way from having a general-purpose artificial intelligence platform, but many businesses large and small are already benefiting from platforms that are built around specific use-cases for AI. In fact, there are now a growing number of out-of-the-box AI platforms that can easily be adapted to suit a particular need for a business of any size. At this event, we will hear from industry leaders on how these platforms are transforming business processes and operations today, and how they will continue to evolve and change how this kind of work is performed in the future.
Ruth Yakubu is a Sr. Cloud Advocate at Microsoft; and also a tech startup founder. Ruth specializes in Java, Cloud, Advanced Analytics, Data Platforms and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
In addition she's been a tech speaker at several conferences like Microsoft Ignite, O'reilly velocity, Devoxx UK, Grace Hopper Dublin, TechSummit, Websummit, DeveloperWeek, JavaWithBest, DevNexus and several developer conferences. Prior to Microsoft, She has also worked for great companies like UNISYS, ACCENTURE and DIRECTV over the years where she gained a lot of experience with software architectural design and programming. She’s awarded Dzone.com’s Most Valued Blogger.
Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who’s successfully exited several companies on that theme.
His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings. He speaks frequently to anyone who’ll listen, from the crowds of Web Summit to his building’s doorman, about an optimistic future for AI, productivity, and the future of work.
Dennis was also an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia and the author of Data Driven Insights, on collecting and analyzing digital data.
Originally from Denmark (and keeping his accent), Dennis is now a New Yorker for life.
Henry is founder and CEO of Simple Fractal, a software solutions provider focused on bringing RPA to the forefront, especially in the healthcare space. With bot suites for patient intake, client services, collecting patient responsibility, claim scrubbing and submissions, authorizations, claim status and EOB retrieval, payment posting, and more, Simple Fractal saves national healthcare providers many millions of dollars each year.
With healthcare administration costs amounting to a trillion dollars a year, Simple Fractal is determined to mitigate the administrative burden by automating the most mundane tasks, making healthcare more affordable and human work more humane. Enhancing these automation technologies with AI is a natural growth path for the company.
Henry studied Applied Mathematics, Economics and Computer Science and graduated with honors from Harvard. Henry has lived on three continents and is fluent in three languages. Outside of growing the company and caring for his two-year-old, he enjoys boxing, rock climbing, playing music, and any game ranging from chess to poker
Prior to joining Innodata, Mr. Singhal was Chief Product Officer at Equals 3, an AI marketing platform which won several accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor, CES Top 5, and IBM Watson ISV award. Before Equals 3, Mr. Singhal spent 12 years at IBM, the last three of which he spent leading the product portfolio for the Watson Platform which included a collection of APIs for vision, speech, data and language. During his tenure at Watson, he grew usage of the services by over 100X and launched over 15 new services.
Prior to Watson, Mr. Singhal was a member of IBM’s Strategy and Transformation Practice. Mr. Singhal is also an Adjunct professor at New York University (NYU) where he teaches Competitive Strategy and Advanced Experimental Design and Machine Learning. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children and enjoys swimming, playing tennis and reading.
Secil is an investor at Axa Venture Partners, a tech venture capital fund, and primarily focuses on early stage opportunities in artificial intelligence within financial, consumer, and enterprise technologies. Prior to joining AVP, Secil was a senior product manager at Darwin AI, an AI platform that optimizes and explains deep neural networks. At Darwin AI, Secil created the product vision, strategy, and positioning of their proprietary technology that helped develop the first AI explainability platform in Canada. Before Darwin, Secil was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where she advised clients on growth opportunities and digital transformation. Secil is also the Artificial Lead for the Harvard in Tech group.
Secil graduated from Harvard University with a major in Economics. In her free time, Secil enjoys discovering new restaurants and sailing.
The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City has for forty years supported entrepreneurs in their efforts to start and run technology-driven business ventures.
We do this by delivering world-class business learning events along with opportunities to build relationships with business people who share an interest in innovation and entrepreneurship related to technology, with focus on digital media, information technology, cleantech and bioscience/healthcare.
Topics for these events included monetizing digital offerings, raising capital, cleantech, success stories of founders whose companies now generate $100 million or more, biotech, web advertising, business plan writing and pitching, wireless broadband, intellectual property and hyperlocal news.