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Colin Toal

AI Wisdom for Insurance

Productive AI Podcast

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Brad Feld

Michele Romanow

Chris Paradiso

Joey Zwillinger

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Lex Sokolin

John Anderson

Daniel Faggella

Mike Carroll

Caribou Honig

Eric Joost

Andrew Robb

Stefan Kollenberg

Eva Wong

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This session of TechTOgether features Colin Toal, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Chisel AI, a company focused on AI solution for commercial insurance, discusses his career journey and contributions to the software servicing industry. Apart of starting initial projects that end up growing and influencing growth in already big companies to invoke change. He discusses building something from scratch in both Big corporate companies and start up companies and how similar, yet different those paths are to fill those gaps and how to forge ahead.

This session of TechTOgether features <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/colintoal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colin Toal</a>, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at <a href="https://www.chisel.ai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chisel AI,</a> a company focused on AI solution for commercial insurance, discusses his career journey and contributions to the software servicing industry. Apart of starting initial projects that end up growing and influencing growth in already big companies to invoke change. He discusses building something from scratch in both Big corporate companies and start up companies and how similar, yet different those paths are to fill those gaps and how to forge ahead.

Invoking Change in Both Large & Start-Up Companies | Colin Toal

In this discussion with Colin Toal, CTO of Chisel.ai, we uncover the challenges being faced by this 5000 year old industry. We walk through the structure and practices of the commercial insurance sector, discuss why it works the way it does, and how AI is now helping to transform it one step at a time. We unpack the differences between basic insurance which is standardized vs. commercial insurance where every policy is a unique snowflake and how that poses challenges for automation and interconnection. We dig into the historical value of automation, and then we touch on the never-ending debate of build vs. buy. Finally, we closed the conversation with some advice to aspiring AI and machine learning engineers looking to build a career.-- Timing –00:00 Introduction01:03 Disruption in the insurance industry06:22 How AI is modernizing a 5000 year old industry11:09 When non-standardization and flexibility are features and not bugs13:27 Automation is an effort-reduction mechanism16:55 Colin’s winding road to Chisel19:15 Colin’s time at Amazon learning how to do machine learning at scale22:11 Bringing it all together - using technology to crack a hard industry problem28:03 Reduce your customer’s effort now and you’ll get to learn more about their business and help them even more in the future29:30 Why hasn’t this particular industry problem been solved with EDI or web services?37:04 Machines trained by humans are basically as good as humans on their best day...but every single day and 24x739:35 Once you’ve reduce the effort, you’ve also built a channel and you have more data than anybody else and you can expand your business from there45:56 The tech stack: Build, buy, borrow, or open source?53:08 Colin’s advice to aspiring AI and machine learning engineers -- Links -- https://www.chisel.aihttps://www.chisel.ai/work-at-chiselhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/chiselai/https://twitter.com/chiselai

In this discussion with Colin Toal, CTO of <a href="http://Chisel.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chisel.ai</a>, we uncover the challenges being faced by this 5000 year old industry. We walk through the structure and practices of the commercial insurance sector, discuss why it works the way it does, and how AI is now helping to transform it one step at a time. We unpack the differences between basic insurance which is standardized vs. commercial insurance where every policy is a unique snowflake and how that poses challenges for automation and interconnection. We dig into the historical value of automation, and then we touch on the never-ending debate of build vs. buy. Finally, we closed the conversation with some advice to aspiring AI and machine learning engineers looking to build a career.-- Timing –00:00 Introduction01:03 Disruption in the insurance industry06:22 How AI is modernizing a 5000 year old industry11:09 When non-standardization and flexibility are features and not bugs13:27 Automation is an effort-reduction mechanism16:55 Colin’s winding road to Chisel19:15 Colin’s time at Amazon learning how to do machine learning at scale22:11 Bringing it all together - using technology to crack a hard industry problem28:03 Reduce your customer’s effort now and you’ll get to learn more about their business and help them even more in the future29:30 Why hasn’t this particular industry problem been solved with EDI or web services?37:04 Machines trained by humans are basically as good as humans on their best day...but every single day and 24x739:35 Once you’ve reduce the effort, you’ve also built a channel and you have more data than anybody else and you can expand your business from there45:56 The tech stack: Build, buy, borrow, or open source?53:08 Colin’s advice to aspiring AI and machine learning engineers -- Links -- <a href="https://www.chisel.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.chisel.ai</a><a href="https://www.chisel.ai/work-at-chisel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.chisel.ai/work-at-chisel</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/chiselai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/chiselai/</a><a href="https://twitter.com/chiselai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/chiselai</a>

Insurance AI: How Chisel.ai is transforming the commercial insurance market with Colin Toal, CTO

Ep 06: Ron Glozman, CEO, Chisel AI talks with Colin Toal, Chief Technology Officer, Chisel AI about how critical data is to launching a sustainable, scalable AI strategy. The discussion covers data access and modeling, techniques for machine learning, the benefits of buying an AI solution versus building internally and how to overcome obstacles quickly to embrace innovation.Follow Chisel AI:website: www.chisel.aiLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/ChiselAITwitter: twitter.com/chiselaiFacebook:www.facebook.com/ChiselAI

Ep 06: Ron Glozman, CEO, Chisel AI talks with Colin Toal, Chief Technology Officer, Chisel AI about how critical data is to launching a sustainable, scalable AI strategy. The discussion covers data access and modeling, techniques for machine learning, the benefits of buying an AI solution versus building internally and how to overcome obstacles quickly to embrace innovation. Follow Chisel AI: website: <a href="http://www.chisel.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.chisel.ai</a> LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ChiselAI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/ChiselAI</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/chiselai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/chiselai</a> Facebook:<a href="http://www.facebook.com/ChiselAI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/ChiselAI</a>

Ep 06 The Crucial Role of Data in Your AI Strategy - Colin Toal, Chief Technology Officer, Chisel AI