Impact AI Guest Info
Scheduling: I’ll send a Calendly link that you can use to grab whatever time is convenient for you.
Format: We’ll conduct the call via Zoom. The call will be audio only. You can connect via computer audio or via traditional phone call. The recording will be about 30 minutes.
Show Premise: Learn how to build a mission-driven machine learning company from the innovators and entrepreneurs who are leading the way. A weekly show about the intersection of ML and business – particularly startups.
Audience: ML executives, managers, and engineers.
Past Episodes: See Impact AI.
Preparation: Ideally, you’ll have headphones, a decent microphone, and a reasonably quiet room. Whatever you’d normally do for a conference call.
Topics: I’ll email a short list of topics and questions about a week before our scheduled recording. This will help guide us, but it’s perfectly fine if the conversation goes elsewhere.
Some example questions:
- Could you share a bit about your background and how that led you to create [company]?
- What does [company] do? Why is this important for [outcome]?
- What role does ML play in your technology?
- How does your team plan and develop a new ML product?
- How do your ML developers collaborate with domain experts?
- How do you gather and annotate data?
- How do you handle disagreements in annotations?
- What kinds of challenges do you encounter in working with [type of data]?
- How do you validate your ML models?
- How do you think about the balance between model accuracy and explainability?
- How might bias manifest with models trained on [type of data]? What are some things your team is doing to mitigate it?
- How does the regulatory process affect the way you develop ML models?
- How do you ensure that the technology your team develops will fit in with the [clinical] workflow and provide the right kind of assistance to [users]?
- What approaches to recruiting and onboarding have been most successful for your team?
- How do you collaborate with academic partners?
- What benefits have you seen from publishing your work?
- How do you measure the impact of your technology?
- Are there any specific technological advancements that made it possible to do this now when it wouldn’t have been feasible a few years ago?
- Any advice you could offer to other leaders of AI-powered startups?
- Where do you see the impact of [company] in 3 to 5 years?
Episode Release: I typically record 1-2 months ahead of releasing each episode. I’ll send you a preview the week prior to launch. Please plan to share it on your social media channels. I will also be putting it out on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.
Questions? Please let me know if there is anything else I can share with you before the interview.