Interview

At 31, Mariam Khayretdinova , CEO of Brainify AI , is already on her second startup on a quest to help female depression through technology . This one is an artificial intelligence, deep machine learning biomarker with a focus on female depression. “This major depressive disorder is majorly under-studied, despite the fact that females are twice as likely to develop depression at some point in their lives when compared to men,” she explained. Marium Khayretdinova wants to sol

Disruptive Technologists Lauren Keyson sat down with Greg King, the Chief Development Officer of the startup nonprofit organization called Changing Our Perspective to talk about it and their new app, "Creator". “Our app is a centralized incubator of curated information and resources. It’s about getting information to communities that don’t have ready access. We live in a day where there is a lot of information and technology out there, but a lot of times in the communities

Join us as we talk with entrepreneur Evangelos Kornaros , the CEO and Co-Founder at IOSEA Inc. He is currently responsible for IOSEA's platform system architecture and developing and commercializing IOSEA's technology solutions. In this interview with Lauren Keyson, Evan answers questions around the stress of being an entrepreneur, how to stay driven, the best location to work from, the need for learning and the differences between formal and experiential education, and the

Lauren Keyson gives us a glimpse into John Son, Strategic Planning Manager at DeepBrain AI, with this short 13-minute Quick Byte interview. That's what's fascinating about startup environments because there's no guidelines, no boundaries... John Son, Strategic Planning Manager at DeepBrain AI John talks a bit about how he first fell in love with AI, what he does at Deepbrain AI, and what he thinks is a good way for others to join in on this exciting industry. He speaks a bit

Meet Veronika Kolesnikova, Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Massachusetts in this Quick Byte interview with Disruptive Technologists' own Lauren Keyson. Veronika has also been awarded a Microsoft MVP (AI) and is passionate about backend web development and Microsoft technologies like C#, .NET, and Azure. She is a speaker and hackathon volunteer who loves mobile, ML, and AR technologies. She also holds a master's degree in Information Technology. In this

Tom Lev is an entrepreneur with an appetite for accelerating human progress by augmenting human intelligence who founded TomBot AI, a next-gen AI platform . How did he start his entrepreneurial journey into AI? By first learning the fundamentals like math and information systems at Pace University in NYC. There he became inspired by AI – he thought it was going to be one of the most impactful technologies. He had found his niche. “You could have a job or a career or a call

“The new world of finance requires leveling the playing field between regular traders and hedge funds. Until that point is reached, we will continue to innovate and increase accessibility of the Coinrule platform to all. Long term, we intend to expand into traditional assets such as stocks as well as the new field of Decentralised Finance. Adding decentralised apps to Coinrule strategies would open endless opportunities like staking coins, smart routing, and trading synthetic

Join Lauren Keyson of Disruptive Technologists' conversation with Yedid Herskovitz , the Founder and CEO of Rapidream , a design-to-code tool for developers. As a full-stack senior software engineer, Yedid’s has worked on a wide array of exciting development projects. He lead the complete accounting system rewrite for the world’s largest business telephony company, Avaya CPAAS. He was also the core developer for some of the App Store’s biggest business apps including TapeACal

Ryan Burkett is a Cyber Security Professional with Noblis-ESI. His experience ranges from operations centers all the way to think tanks. His specialty is tackling “tough problems” and some that are not tough, just no one else wants to do them. These types of issues suit him well as he joined cyber security after spending his first career working with various youth organizations. Ryan’s undergraduate degree was in the youth ministry. He actually started working with kids when

Minerva Tantoco is currently the Chief Operating Officer of The Common's Project Foundation and was the first-ever Chief Technology Officer of New York City . She has been paving a path of innovation since the beginning of her career working on artificial intelligence in the '80s. As CTO of NYC, Minerva played a pivotal role in bringing technological innovation to the City. She discusses some of her favorite innovations such as the LinkNYC kiosks. Additionally, she talks ab

Richard Hill created his organization VoteOurVoice to help solve his own problem as a voter. He thinks it’s hard for voters to really know anything about the people who are running for office by reading a ballot. In this interview, Hill shares his research on which U.S. Senators' voting histories align best with their constituents — and which ones don't. “You need to innovate, to figure out how much money is necessary, to spend the least amount of money as possible, and then

Scott Moss discusses his experiences starting his first company with a $5,000 bank loan and the key lessons he's learned along the way. From taking the company to $1 billion in revenue to his latest venture called Sidewalk College, he shares traits he finds indispensable for entrepreneurship such as using Excel, having the hunger to succeed, and communication. In this interview, we go into many topics including his early education experiences, hiring staff, and why he doesn't

Traditional Law Firms and the Entrepreneur David Sorin the Managing Partner, Chair of Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies at McCarter & English talks about how traditional law firms are incompatible with entrepreneur needs. David Sorin discusses his journey from an accountant to becoming a partner in a law firm where he works with entrepreneurs and start-ups at all phases of their endeavors. He discusses how traditional law firms are incompatible with the needs of e

Rebecca Costa discusses her journey out of college leading to establishing her marketing firm and later, becoming a futurist. She generously shares her experiences and advice on creating innovative cultures while touching on some challenges emerging around COVID-19 . "What you find in fast adaptation in critical situations, two things occur: Complexity goes up and the amount of real data you have that's relevant to making a decision goes down... when COVID hit, complexity we

Watch our Quick Byte 6-minute Interview with Jordan Gitterman, CEO of Item banc on Blockchain on Dec 18, 2019. Watch Jordan Gitterman discuss why blockchain is the future of currency. "Blockchain softwares are superior to what we're using, So banks are already starting to institute blockchains to their everyday use," he said.

Esports Goes Mainstream Esports – those multiplayer video games played competitively on jumbotron screens, in arenas as big as stadiums, by competitive gamers. “We’re talking absolutely insane money – with payoffs upwards of $5M. At one point a payoff came to $20M!” according to Mike Wiston, the founder of SlashShout . He loves esports so much that he created a daily newsletter-type email that covers competitive gaming from around the world including the tournaments, players,

The Virtual Agent: A Mouse Problem & Other Support Queries Today we interview Wai Wong, the CEO of Serviceaide , whose company is reinventing enterprise service management through the implementation of artificial intelligence and a virtual agent solution called “Luma” . He works 80-hour weeks changing the face of enterprise service management, driven by AI applications . And somehow, he still manages to play table tennis 20 hours per week on top of that. Probably one of the

Watch the Viziotagged version of the Podcast with Jason Saltzman. Jason Saltzman is the CEO & Co-Founder of Alley . He talks with Dania Hammad about building a post-business incubator and shared workspace for entrepreneurs. Alley deals with early-stage companies and with several of the largest companies in the world by bridging the resource gap. Smaller companies have little to no resources and no way to grow. Larger companies have tons of resources but don’t know how to de

Watch the Quick Byte 14 min. Disruptive Technologists' interview with Knightscope’s William Santana Li and his Crime-Fighting Robots . “Please don’t take our Robot away” Viziotag Podcast and navigate directly to the part of the video that interests you, and share with friends and colleagues. William Santana Li is the Chairman & CEO of an innovative company called Knightscope , a developer of Autonomous Data Machines (Robots). He is developing technology to one day be able t

We met Aaron Baughman at IBM’s Code NY meetup : “Changing the Game with US Open & Fantasy Football.” He is an AI Architect as well as a Master Inventor at IBM . He spoke to Disruptive Technologists about his latest passion. Aaron Baughman : We’re certainly changing the game with tennis data, which is transportable to other types of industries. But in particular, we’re working on Big Data with ESPN Fantasy Football ; we’re looking at deep learning. We’re using score projecti