About Olivier

With a career spanning nearly 3 decades and having worked in Telecom, Advertising Tech, HR Tech and even a Weather platform – Olivier has always been curious about technology and it’s intersection with society & culture. He believes in ‘giving back’ and over time has been a Mentor / Advisor for 6 different initiatives – ‘Art for Humans’ being the most recent. A trained classical pianist - in Spliqs, Olivier has managed to ‘marry’ his two loves; music & Ai.

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ovincent/

Show Notes

[01:37 ] – Episode Intro

[01:56 ] – About Olivier Vincent

[03:29 ] – Working with different technologies and disruption over time

[07:02 ] – Ai’s role at Weatherbug

[08:24 ] – What constraints should we think about with new tech?

[10:42 ] – Book: Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature

[13:18 ] – Music & Ai + What is Spliqs?

[16:29 ] – What was the original problem the Spliqs team was trying to solve?

[17:55 ] – The UX and tech behind Spliqs

[21:47 ] – The opportunities of democratizing music

[24:36 ] – Tik Tok and original music creation

[25:26 ] – The meditative power of music creation

[26:50 ] – Reducing the barriers of entry 

[30:55 ] – Technology cycles getting shorter & upskilling/reskilling

[36:43 ] – What resources would you recommend to a young person today?

[41:31 ] – The political dimension of Ai & having PM Justin Trudeau’s ear

[43:57 ] – OpenAi & Ai Collaboration

[45:28 ] – ‘Bias’ in Ai

[48:07 ] – Contact Olivier

[48:30 ] – Episode Outro

Links

-       Weatherbug

-       Book: Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature

-       OpenAi