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JF Gagné

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Michael Hyatt

Chris Messina

Yancey Strickler

Cal Fussman

Cathy O'Neil

Brad Katsuyama

Brian Garcia

Hilary Coles

Chris Moore

Danny Lange

Rana El Kaliouby

Clare Corthell

Hilary Mason

Mike Potter

Ouriel Ohayon

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Welcome back to What’s NEXT, the podcast exploring the technology of the future. This week, we’re sharing another conversation from our series of interviews at the Web Summit conference earlier this year.  In this episode, Samsung NEXT's Scott Armanini speaks with Element AI founder JF Gagné. They discuss JF's journey from programming novice to raising more than $100 million in funding for Element AI. They also talked about how AI can help businesses take a new approach to old problems, and how “AI for good" can potentially address some of the biggest social challenges of the 21st Century. 

Welcome back to What’s NEXT, the podcast exploring the technology of the future. This week, we’re sharing another conversation from our series of interviews at the Web Summit conference earlier this year. In this episode, Samsung NEXT's Scott Armanini speaks with Element AI founder JF Gagné. They discuss JF's journey from programming novice to raising more than $100 million in funding for Element AI. They also talked about how AI can help businesses take a new approach to old problems, and how “AI for good" can potentially address some of the biggest social challenges of the 21st Century.

How Element AI founder JF Gagné is using AI to solve enterprise business problems

Nicolas Chapados

Montréal isn't just a beautiful city, it's also a hotbed of activity for deep learning. Fueled by ambitious entrepreneurs and some ground-breaking research coming out of the University of Montréal, the city is at the forefront of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. In this episode, Jon Prial is joined by Georgian Partners' Ben Wilde for a fascinating discussion with two machine learning practitioners: Nicolas Chapados, Chief Science Officer at Imagia, and Jean-François Gagné, Entrepreneur in Residence at Real Ventures. Learn from these experts about what it takes to successfully leverage this technology in your own business. You'll hear about:  Why Montréal is one of the world’s most dynamic cities for machine learning (0:50) The types and stage of companies that Real Ventures typically invests in (7:51) What it takes to incorporate machine learning into an early stage company (8:53) Data acquisition and the transferability of deep learning models to other domains (12:04) The University of Montréal’s use of models for and research around image analysis (15:40) How the University’s research is coming to market and the opportunities that creates (19:17) The availability of data and its implications and opportunities are for early-stage companies (22:10) How deep learning can facilitate smarter decision-making (24:57) What the open sourcing of Google’s TensorFlow means for deep learning (27:40) Typical applications for Theano (29:45) 

Montréal isn't just a beautiful city, it's also a hotbed of activity for deep learning. Fueled by ambitious entrepreneurs and some ground-breaking research coming out of the University of Montréal, the city is at the forefront of machine learning, deep learning, and <a href="https://georgianpartners.com/investment-thesis-areas/applied-artificial-intelligence/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">artificial intelligence</a>. In this episode, Jon Prial is joined by Georgian Partners' Ben Wilde for a fascinating discussion with two machine learning practitioners: Nicolas Chapados, Chief Science Officer at Imagia, and Jean-François Gagné, Entrepreneur in Residence at Real Ventures. Learn from these experts about what it takes to successfully leverage this technology in your own business. You'll hear about: <ul> <li>Why Montréal is one of the world’s most dynamic cities for machine learning (0:50)</li> <li>The types and stage of companies that <a href="https://realventures.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Real Ventures</a> typically invests in (7:51)</li> <li>What it takes to incorporate machine learning into an early stage company (8:53)</li> <li>Data acquisition and the transferability of deep learning models to other domains (12:04)</li> <li>The University of Montréal’s use of models for and research around image analysis (15:40)</li> <li>How the University’s research is coming to market and the opportunities that creates (19:17)</li> <li>The availability of data and its implications and opportunities are for early-stage companies (22:10)</li> <li>How deep learning can facilitate smarter decision-making (24:57)</li> <li>What the open sourcing of Google’s TensorFlow means for deep learning (27:40)</li> <li>Typical applications for Theano (29:45)</li> </ul>

Episode 7: Deep Learning, Startups, and Academia à la Montréal with Nicolas Chapados and JF Gagné