AI to Impact

In this episode, Akshay Datt talks to Prithvijit about his early childhood days growing up in Calcutta and then later studying at ISI Delhi as a student of quantitative economics. Prithivijit also shares about his corporate work life – working in big large corporations such as GE & HP where he incubated and built two of the largest business analytics services organizations.The episode captures his journey thus far and learn some great insights about maintaining successful co-founder relationships.

In this podcast, the CEO and Co-Founder of BRIDGEi2i, Prithvijit Roy, engages in a conversation with Senior Editor, Analytics Insight, Priya Dialani, on how the ecosystem of data and analytics have evolved over the years with the advent of artificial intelligence. He emphasizes how AI can be made real for enterprises by empowering organizations with data-driven decision making by using advanced analytics algorithms. Prithvijit Roy also talks about how intelligent automation in operations makes processes more efficient and streamlined, especially with revenue enhancement, augmented data management, or driving personalization. He goes on to illustrate how BRIDGEi2i's AI-powered solutions present a whole new gamut of opportunities for enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.

Listen to Arun Krishnamoorthy speak on how BRIDGEi2i is using AI and Analytics to help Enterprises in supply chain transformation. The talk also focusses on BRIDGEi2i's proprietary  AI Accelerators and how they can help businesses accelerate the transformational journey. 

 In this episode of the AI to Impact podcast, Divyansh Mishra and Anil Prasad from AI Labs, BRIDGEi2i discuss the myriad misconceptions of artificial intelligence and decode the real deal with AI. They talk about the buzzword that used to be AI and elaborate on the science behind Deep Neural Networks. Tune in to the podcast to know the differences between General AI and Applied AI, the science behind the black box that is AI, and whether AI is a function of datasets or a programmer's intelligence. 

In this episode of the AI to Impact Podcast, host Pavan Kumar speaks to Prinkan Pal about the evolution of data engineering and ML-operations from a closed team into a tech consulting unit. They discuss how the data engineering team is instrumental in easing collaboration between analysts, data scientists and ML engineers to build enterprise AI solutions. While some companies prefer plug and play solutions, others prefer to customize their platforms by integrating with open-source tech stacks. The experts also remark upon the rise in the demand for tech platforms that can scale seamlessly to handle volumes of data and generate actionable insights in no-time across industries. Tune in to the podcast to know more about the evolving industry and how new technologies are transforming the enterprise AI landscape.

In our latest episode of the AI to Impact podcast, host Monica Gupta – Manager of AI Actions, meets with Sunil Mudgal – Advisor, Talent Analytics, BRIDGEi2i, to discuss the benefits of adopting AI-powered surveillance systems in HR organizations. While it’s necessary to realign the talent matrix of organizations with dynamic macroeconomic factors and business requirements, other parameters such as headcount, attrition hires, promotions cost, retirement rate, and variable pay often impact business outcomes. BRIDGEi2i’s AI-powered solution, Watchtower works like a virtual analyst that can integrate with existing data structures to provide a comparative analysis of various cost elements. Tasks can also be allocated and mapped to specific requirements enabling faster and better decision-making at your fingertips!Curious? Listen to the podcast!

Today the Chief Risk Officers(CROs) struggle with the critical task of monitoring and assessing key risks in real time and firefight to mitigate any critical issues that arise. An Automated Risk Surveillance system to adequately alert them to credit risks and respond quickly to dynamic market scenarios is the need of the hour to help them navigate through the complex ecosystem.BRIDGEi2i‘s AI-accelerator Watchtower, is fundamentally designed fit into multiple use-cases of Financial Services, such as, tracking response and customer conversions for marketing and cross-sell, delinquency, NPAs and losses for credit risk, and so on. It helps companies identify opportunities for proactive risk intervention.Meet the speakers: Ashwini Agrawal & Monica Gupta are two senior leaders in FS Domain and Data Engineering and AI Accelerators at BRIDGEi2i, respectively. Ashwini Agrawal leads the Financial Services practice at BRIDGEi2i. He has extensive experience in designing solutions for clients using advanced ML techniques to harness information from different forms of data to power AI actions across customer acquisition and growth, risk management, and customer service. Ashwini has previously worked with HSBC, Capital One, and [24]7 Inc in different roles. He holds a Masters from IIT Kharagpur in Physics (5 yr. Integrated). Ashwini was named among AIM’s 40Under40: Leading Data Scientists in India 2019.Monica Gupta is Manager, Data Engineering and AI Accelerators at BRIDGEi2i, and leads the Design and Deployment of contextualized AI solutions for clients at BRIDGEi2i. Bringing in the techno-functional perspective, she handles roadmap, solutions and delivery of AI accelerators as part of her current responsibilities. She has led some sizeable Digital Transformation programs in the areas of Customer Experience, Supply Chain, Sales and Digital Marketing across CPG, Enterprise Tech and Consumer Tech companies. Monica holds a Master's degree in Finance from Delhi University.

One of the crucial asks in enterprises today is the need for agile business surveillance. Executives want real-time business performance monitoring with the ability to get contextual alerts and deep-dive analysis. And this need extends to functions pan-enterprise, be it credit risk, supply chain, marketing or talent. For CPG companies, the landscape keeps evolving very fast, and players need to be agile and flexible to keep themselves one step ahead of the competition. BRIDGEi2i’s AI-led Accelerator like Watchtower can help a lot and, in fact, already transforming Supply Chains—be it keeping an eye over a particular SKU’s sales decline or pricing advantages by a competitor—with its exceptional ability to detect anomalies and point out root-causes that need immediate attention and enable cross-functional collaboration.

Through the crisis and after, companies that bank on sales to bring in the desired revenue that will drive growth, also need to focus on making sure that their salespeople are doing things right. It is crucial that the salespeople reach out to customers and try to find out what’s keeping the latter awake through nights, their pain points; secondly, they need to take that feedback and see that if something could be done to help the customers out, and lastly to care for their salespeople by providing them with the right solutions and training. There is a fine line between being a motivator and a leg-breaker in sales, and in post-pandemic days, salespeople will be expected to demonstrate that extraordinary leadership.

In order to bring more value to the table in post COVID times, B2B sales organisations today continuously looking out for the right insights to pursue the right opportunities. And that’s why digital sales enablement powered by AI becomes all the more important. To start with, AI can eliminate bias, rule out wrong choices to identify the right ones and make those ones better. The enterprises which are adapting to this change will emerge leaders, predicts Jim.

Dispelling unwanted fears like the future of work will be taken over by AI, Ria Persad, a leading climate scientist and industry thought leader points out that there can’t be a world that is perpetually run by AI forever, but there will be need for personnel with special skills to run those systems. So those skillsets need to be focussed on. Persad says Automated Planning, Prediction Making and Using Reason to Accomplish tasks—these AI-based processes will radically transform in the way we live and work, especially in the post-pandemic world.

In this episode of the AI to Impact podcast, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) expert and industry veteran, Mukesh Saharan, discusses the aftereffects of COVID-19 on the industry. He explains the major challenges faced by the suppliers and retailers and the need for digital transformation. The rise in e-commerce, omnichannel integration of supply chains, and the growing role of AI and analytics underscore the importance of integrated business planning, which can be a game-changer for the CPG industry.

In this episode of the AI to Impact Podcast, Anand Ganesh and Vignesh CV delve into the various facets of digital transformation in the aftermath of COVID-19. They discuss the impact of the pandemic on enterprises and how managerial decisions have to undergo intense scrutiny. They also touch upon the fundamental behavioral changes and the irony that we witnessed a demand, resource, and supply uncertainty at the same time. They also talk about managing the situation in parallel windows, a short term window to get an enterprise's operational systems up and running as effectively as possible, and a medium-term outlook to mitigate the supply chain shocks and risks. Despite tough times, this situation presents fascinating learning outcomes. Tune in, and don't forget to subscribe!  

In episode 9 of the AI to Impact Podcast, Suvodip Chatterjee – Director of Consumer Tech & Durables, BRIDGEi2i talks at large about how COVID-19 has brought unprecedented changes to the consumer durables industry. He explains the global supply chain disruption and the altered buying behavior of people, which set the groundwork for an increase in digital engagements between consumers and brands. While expounding that this crisis is an opportunity waiting to be leveraged, Suvodip talks about how AI and contextual analytics solutions can help the supply side with simulation-based demand and inventory planning methods to ride through the downturn. Tune in to the podcast to know the extent of changes in the consumer tech and durables industry. Don't forget to subscribe! 

In this episode of AI to Impact,  Jitendra Jethanandani, Head of Enterprise Business practice at BRIDGEi2i, discusses how the current COVID-19 pandemics spread waves of uncertainty across businesses and their customer base requiring a renewed focus required on customer engagement. It's important for B2B enterprises to stay engaged with their customer as they go through the scenario planning exercise. They will need to drive an integrated effort to prioritize and stay relevant across the customer life cycle. Capturing data about the customer and making these insights available for the customer-facing business functions will become invaluable in the B2B enterprise's integrated customer engagement drive.

In this episode of AI to Impact Podcast, Ashwini Agrawal delves into the implications of COVID-19 on financial services industry. With reduced disposable incomes, customer defaults are at an all-time high, and several banks are reeling under productivity and efficiency challenges. Additionally, institutions are finding it difficult to forecast trends as past data isn't relevant anymore. Despite these pressing concerns, COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation and services need to be fluent in omnichannel cross integration to provide consumers with a seamless digital experience while maintaining a competitive advantage. Tune in to know how AI can help financial services adapt to the post COVID-19 world. Don’t forget to subscribe!

In this episode of AI to Impact podcast, Arun Krishnamoorthy, VP, Supply Chain Practice at BRIDGEi2i, discusses how the pandemic has affected the Supply Chain ecosystems throwing their sourcing network, lead times and data pipelines off balance. In the post-COVID era, they can be empowered with a high standard of data and analytics sophistication to cope and thrive. By allowing that, they could have a steady demand forecast based on sensing algorithms and react faster to such events.

In this episode of AI to Impact, Muthu Kumar, Senior VP and Region Head, APAC at BRIDGEi2i, discusses how the pandemic has affected various sectors in Australia. This island nation is heavily reliant on China for exports of its minerals, natural gas, and coal, and hence its exports suffer. Tourism and Hospitality are also largely affected, but in FS, insurance, and CPG, the impact is moderate. But because of COVID-19, digital transformation is helping B2B models trying to replicate successful B2C models. And since they involve making better decisions using data-driven insights, AI & Analytics led applications are leading the way forward.You can also listen to our podcast on below channels-Spotify link: https://spoti.fi/2TiJLRfApple link: https://apple.co/3cI0pkUGoogle link: https://bit.ly/3bL0vXJ

In this episode, Monideepa Bhattacharya discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the business landscape in Europe. She feels while the short-term focus will be on crisis-management and survival, businesses will increasingly turn to intelligent automation across sectors once they start recovering. This can only accelerate digital transformation journeys businesses have already charted out.

In this episode, Anirban Chaudhury talks about how insurers the world over are grappling with new and unprecedented challenges to balance high financial losses, increasing new premiums, and rising claims. Anirban believes that insurers can make the best of the situation by adopting digital practices with AI-tools to stay resilient in the face of uncertainty.Tune in for more details and subscribe now!