Erik Andrejko's guest appearances

Erik Andrejko

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Data Journeys

The CPG Guys

Chris Albon

Andrew Walker

Peter Norvig

Eric Anderson

Brian McFee

Kirk Borne

John Bohannon

Manuel Lima

Margaret Mitchell

Jessie Frazelle

Joanna Smith

Juliet Hougland

Michelle Casbon

Jesse Houston

Mark Chmarny

OwlTail

The CPG Guys speak with Kathy Slowinski &amp; Erik Andrejko from Helio, the first data platform of its kind to capture data from every consumer touchpoint and consolidate it into one universal solution to help anyone looking to invest, innovate, or grow in the consumer ecosystem identify emerging opportunities.Follow Kathy Slowinski on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kslowinski/ Follow Erik Andrejko on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/Follow Helio on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/circleup/Follow Helio online at: https://heliodata.com/ Kathy &amp; Erik answer these questions:1) Share a bit on your backgrounds and your respective journey's in the CPG industry. I’ll start with Erik and then pass to Kathy.2) Erik, I love a good origin story! Tell us about how Helio originated and the problems it was designed to solve for?3) Kathy, How have Helio's capabilities evolved and been applied as the software has been commercialized? 4) Kathy, Can you give a few examples of customers you've engaged with? What are some of the use cases for Helio?5) Erik, What makes Helio different than existing solutions? How is it that you are able to capture so much data on emerging brands, trends and products? How is it that you are able to harmonize all of that to those types of insights?6) Kathy, Going back to the customers you've engaged with, what are the results / outcomes Helio has been part of driving? 7) Kathy, What's in store for the future of Helio? 8) Erik then Kathy, What hot takes / contrarian opinions / thoughts do you have about this space and/or how it will evolve over the next 2+ years?CPG Guys Website: http://CPGguys.comFMCG Guys Website: http://FMCGguys.comCPG Scoop Website: http://CPGscoop.comRetailWit Website: http://retailwit.comDISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.  CPGGUYS LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual’s use of, reference to, or inability to use this podcast or the information we presented in this podcast. 

The CPG Guys speak with Kathy Slowinski &amp; Erik Andrejko from Helio, the first data platform of its kind to capture data from every consumer touchpoint and consolidate it into one universal solution to help anyone looking to invest, innovate, or grow in the consumer ecosystem identify emerging opportunities. Follow Kathy Slowinski on LinkedIn at: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kslowinski/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kslowinski/</a> Follow Erik Andrejko on LinkedIn at: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/</a> Follow Helio on LinkedIn at: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/circleup/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/circleup/</a> Follow Helio online at: <a href="https://heliodata.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://heliodata.com/</a> Kathy &amp; Erik answer these questions: 1) Share a bit on your backgrounds and your respective journey's in the CPG industry. I’ll start with Erik and then pass to Kathy. 2) Erik, I love a good origin story! Tell us about how Helio originated and the problems it was designed to solve for? 3) Kathy, How have Helio's capabilities evolved and been applied as the software has been commercialized? 4) Kathy, Can you give a few examples of customers you've engaged with? What are some of the use cases for Helio? 5) Erik, What makes Helio different than existing solutions? How is it that you are able to capture so much data on emerging brands, trends and products? How is it that you are able to harmonize all of that to those types of insights? 6) Kathy, Going back to the customers you've engaged with, what are the results / outcomes Helio has been part of driving? 7) Kathy, What's in store for the future of Helio? 8) Erik then Kathy, What hot takes / contrarian opinions / thoughts do you have about this space and/or how it will evolve over the next 2+ years? CPG Guys Website: <a href="http://cpgguys.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://CPGguys.com</a> FMCG Guys Website: <a href="http://fmcgguys.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://FMCGguys.com</a> CPG Scoop Website: <a href="http://cpgscoop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://CPGscoop.com</a> RetailWit Website: <a href="http://retailwit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://retailwit.com</a> DISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.  CPGGUYS LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual’s use of, reference to, or inability to use this podcast or the information we presented in this podcast.

Universal Data Consolidation with Helio's Kathy Slowinski & Erik Andrejko

In our last (but not least!) interview from NEXT, Mark and Melanie talked with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko about Wellio, an awesome new platform that combines AI and healthy eating. Wellio was developed as a way to not only educate users on the importance of proper nutrition for well-being but to give them their own personal nutritionist. The data scientists at Wellio started from scratch (pun intended) to create their own food-related database and then began training models so the data could be organized and personalized. Using a combination of human power and machine learning techniques, Wellio learns your preferences, allergies, diets, etc. and will make healthy decisions for you based on these key facts. It chooses recipes, populates a grocery list, and even has the ingredients delivered to your door in time for dinner! Sivan Aldor-Noiman Sivan heads Data Science for Wellio, an early stage startup in the FoodTech space that is helping people eat better. In Wellio, her team delivers models that help inspire, empower and adapt to people’s eating needs, cooking abilities and health constraints. She began her career in the Israeli military serving as an instructor for an anti-tank missile unit (please don’t think Rambo, think more like a classroom teacher). Sivan then transitioned to school and received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Statistics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She moved to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In her previous job, Sivan ended up leading several Data Science teams and learned that she really liked leading technical people since she got to learn a lot from them. Ultimately, she missed the smaller company mentality, so she is back in the startup world. Sivan was once asked to define herself so here goes: “I am an enthusiastic disagreeable giver and a constant empirical driven learner”. Erik Andrejko Erik has spent his career making a positive impact on the world through mathematics. He is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wellio - an early stage startup applying AI to the intersection of food and human health. Previously, Erik lead the data science and research organization at The Climate Corporation, which applies data science to solve challenging problems in numerous domains including climatology, agronomic modeling and geospatial applications. When not analyzing interesting datasets, Erik can often be found riding up some incline on a bicycle or cooking. Cool things of the week  Summary of Google Cloud Next Tokyo site Deep Learning Indaba GCP Credit Awards site Data Studio and Dataprep are now generally available  blog  DS: BI analyze more than 500 other data sources via more than 100 partner-built connectors and used by over a million people globally DP: new look, team collab and more analytics features  blog   Announcing general availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis  blog Coursera Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow with GCP  blog  Webinar on October 9th at 9AM PST to learn more   Simplifying ML predictions with Google Cloud Functions  blog 50 Best Cloud Security Podcasts  site  GCP Podcast Episode #100: Vint Cerf: past, present, and future of the internet podcast    Interview  Wellio site GKE site Cloud Storage site Pub/Sub site Cloud Composer site Cloud ML Engine site Stackdriver site Cloud Functions site TensorFlow site Keras site Scikit Learn site Cloud TPU site Cloud AutoML site Cloud Vision site DevOps201 for Application Developers  video Cloud Firestore site Day 3 Keynote: Made Here Together  video Spinnaker site Contact Wellio email  Questions of the week Is Inbox going away?  Inbox is signing off: find your favorite features in the new Gmail  blog 5 ways the new Gmail can help you get more done  blog  Where can you find us next? We’ll both be at Strangeloop. Mark will probably be at Unite L.A. in October. Melanie speaking at Monktoberfest Oct 4th in Portland, Maine.

In our last (but not least!) interview from NEXT, <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Melanie</a> talked with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko about <a href="https://twitter.com/getwellio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wellio</a>, an awesome new platform that combines AI and healthy eating. Wellio was developed as a way to not only educate users on the importance of proper nutrition for well-being but to give them their own personal nutritionist. The data scientists at Wellio started from scratch (pun intended) to create their own food-related database and then began training models so the data could be organized and personalized. Using a combination of human power and machine learning techniques, Wellio learns your preferences, allergies, diets, etc. and will make healthy decisions for you based on these key facts. It chooses recipes, populates a grocery list, and even has the ingredients delivered to your door in time for dinner! Sivan Aldor-Noiman Sivan heads Data Science for Wellio, an early stage startup in the FoodTech space that is helping people eat better. In Wellio, her team delivers models that help inspire, empower and adapt to people’s eating needs, cooking abilities and health constraints. She began her career in the Israeli military serving as an instructor for an anti-tank missile unit (please don’t think Rambo, think more like a classroom teacher). Sivan then transitioned to school and received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Statistics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She moved to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In her previous job, Sivan ended up leading several Data Science teams and learned that she really liked leading technical people since she got to learn a lot from them. Ultimately, she missed the smaller company mentality, so she is back in the startup world. Sivan was once asked to define herself so here goes: “I am an enthusiastic disagreeable giver and a constant empirical driven learner”. Erik Andrejko Erik has spent his career making a positive impact on the world through mathematics. He is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wellio - an early stage startup applying AI to the intersection of food and human health. Previously, Erik lead the data science and research organization at The Climate Corporation, which applies data science to solve challenging problems in numerous domains including climatology, agronomic modeling and geospatial applications. When not analyzing interesting datasets, Erik can often be found riding up some incline on a bicycle or cooking. Cool things of the week <ul> <li>Summary of Google Cloud Next Tokyo <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/tokyo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Deep Learning Indaba GCP Credit Awards <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepIndaba/status/1040561702910263297" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Data Studio and Dataprep are now generally available <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/unlock-insights-with-ease-data-studio-and-cloud-dataprep-are-now-generally-available" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a> <ul> <li>DS: BI analyze <a href="https://datastudio.google.com/data" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">more than 500 other data sources</a> via more than 100 partner-built connectors and used by over a million people globally</li> <li>DP: new look, team collab and more analytics features <a href="https://www.trifacta.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-google-cloud-dataprep-trifacta/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Announcing general availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-cloud-memorystore-for-redis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li>Coursera Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow with GCP <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/now-on-coursera-advanced-machine-learning-with-tensorflow-on-google-cloud-platform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/americas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Webinar</a> on October 9th at 9AM PST to learn more</li> </ul> </li> <li>Simplifying ML predictions with Google Cloud Functions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/simplifying-ml-predictions-with-google-cloud-functions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li>50 Best Cloud Security Podcasts <a href="https://securityboulevard.com/2018/09/50-best-cloud-security-podcasts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> site</a> <ul> <li>GCP Podcast Episode #100: Vint Cerf: past, present, and future of the internet <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-100-vint-cerf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> Interview <ul> <li>Wellio <a href="http://www.getwellio.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>GKE <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Storage <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Pub/Sub <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Composer <a href="https://cloud.google.com/composer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud ML Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Stackdriver <a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Functions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>TensorFlow <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Keras <a href="https://keras.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Scikit Learn <a href="http://scikit-learn.org/stable/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud TPU <a href="https://cloud.google.com/tpu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud AutoML <a href="https://cloud.google.com/automl/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Vision <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>DevOps201 for Application Developers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzE-zNX67w0&amp;list=PLBgogxgQVM9v0xG0QTFQ5PTbNrj8uGSS-&amp;index=221&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> video</a></li> <li>Cloud Firestore <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Day 3 Keynote: Made Here Together <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPOPV_VH5w&amp;index=337&amp;t=0s&amp;list=PLBgogxgQVM9v0xG0QTFQ5PTbNrj8uGSS-" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> video</a></li> <li>Spinnaker <a href="https://www.spinnaker.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Contact Wellio <a href="mailto:%20sivan@getwellio.com">email</a></li> </ul> Questions of the week Is Inbox going away? <ul> <li>Inbox is signing off: find your favorite features in the new Gmail <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/inbox-signing-find-your-favorite-features-new-gmail/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li>5 ways the new Gmail can help you get more done <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/5-ways-new-gmail-can-help-you-get-more-done/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> </ul> Where can you find us next? We’ll both be at <a href="https://www.thestrangeloop.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strangeloop</a>. Mark will probably be at <a href="https://unite.unity.com/2018/los-angeles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unite L.A.</a> in October. Melanie speaking at <a href="https://monktoberfest.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monktoberfest</a> Oct 4th in Portland, Maine.

Wellio with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko

In this episode of the Data Journeys podcast, we have not one, but two guests!    Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko join me from Wellio: an intelligent platform that uses machine learning and behavioral science to help people plan, shop, prepare and enjoy healthy meals at home.   Wellio is on a mission to decode how meals are prepared and enjoyed at home, both on an individual-level in terms of people’s preferences and on a global-level in terms of semantic &amp; nutritional understanding of food.   Quite interestingly, Sivan began her career in the Israeli army, serving as an instructor for an anti-tank missile unit. Afterwards, she transitioned to school and received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Statistics from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. At 26 years old she moved to the U.S. to complete a PhD degree in Statistics from The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Since then, she’s spent the majority of her career at The Climate Corporation, which -- despite what the name may suggest -- specializes in using data science to optimize farming practices.   Erik graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2001 from Arizona State University’s undergraduate Computer Science program before receiving his PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. He and Sivan first started working together at the Climate Corporation, where he was the VP of Science and Director of Data Science, leading the implementation of large scale statistical machine learning within numerous domains, including climatology, agronomic modeling and geo-spatial applications.   Today, Erik is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Wellio, while Sivan is the Head of Data Science and self-proclaimed Chief Fun Officer.   In this conversation, we dive deep into Wellio’s artificial intelligence for eating, covering topics like:    What it means to be a passionate disagreeable giver and how this fits into Sivan being Wellio’s Chief Fun Officer The problem that Wellio is solving and why’s is personally meaningful to Sivan and Erik The approach Wellio takes toward building recommendation systems to understand home chefs and using computer vision techniques to semantically learn food The most (and least) nutritious meals for your dollar, ranked by Wellio’s nutritional density model Why Erik sees trust as the necessary gateway when transitioning from descriptive recommendations to prescriptive recommendations How they learned at The Climate Corporation to help people who know nothing about data science (farmers) understand the power of it for their business    Enjoy the show!   Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep17/ Sivan’s LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivan-aldor-noiman-297aa421/ Erik’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/ AJ’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393/

In this episode of the Data Journeys podcast, we have not one, but two guests! <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivan-aldor-noiman-297aa421/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Sivan Aldor-Noiman</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Erik Andrejko</a> join me from <a href="http://www.getwellio.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wellio</a>: an intelligent platform that uses machine learning and behavioral science to help people plan, shop, prepare and enjoy healthy meals at home. Wellio is on a mission to decode how meals are prepared and enjoyed at home, both on an individual-level in terms of people’s preferences and on a global-level in terms of semantic &amp; nutritional understanding of food. Quite interestingly, Sivan began her career in the Israeli army, serving as an instructor for an anti-tank missile unit. Afterwards, she transitioned to school and received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Statistics from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. At 26 years old she moved to the U.S. to complete a PhD degree in Statistics from The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Since then, she’s spent the majority of her career at <a href="https://climate.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Climate Corporation</a>, which -- despite what the name may suggest -- specializes in using data science to optimize farming practices. Erik graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2001 from Arizona State University’s undergraduate Computer Science program before receiving his PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. He and Sivan first started working together at the Climate Corporation, where he was the VP of Science and Director of Data Science, leading the implementation of large scale statistical machine learning within numerous domains, including climatology, agronomic modeling and geo-spatial applications. Today, Erik is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Wellio, while Sivan is the Head of Data Science and self-proclaimed Chief Fun Officer. In this conversation, we dive deep into Wellio’s artificial intelligence for eating, covering topics like: <ul> <li>What it means to be a passionate disagreeable giver and how this fits into Sivan being Wellio’s Chief Fun Officer</li> <li>The problem that Wellio is solving and why’s is personally meaningful to Sivan and Erik</li> <li>The approach Wellio takes toward building recommendation systems to understand home chefs and using computer vision techniques to semantically learn food</li> <li>The most (and least) nutritious meals for your dollar, ranked by Wellio’s nutritional density model</li> <li>Why Erik sees trust as the necessary gateway when transitioning from descriptive recommendations to prescriptive recommendations</li> <li>How they learned at The Climate Corporation to help people who know nothing about data science (farmers) understand the power of it for their business</li> </ul> Enjoy the show! Show Notes: <a href="https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep17/</a> Sivan’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivan-aldor-noiman-297aa421/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivan-aldor-noiman-297aa421/</a> Erik’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/</a> AJ’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393/</a>

#17: Decoding Healthy Meals & Learning the World of Food with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko @ Wellio