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Money Ball is back! Nancy Hensley, Chief Marketing Officer for Stats Perform, gives us the latest on data analytics in sports. If you like sports don't listen unless you have time to be entertained.

Show Notes

• 04:09 What does Money Ball look like now?
• 07:30 Mrs Chicago's personal update
• 08:40 Fan website: The Analyst
• 11:16 Stats Perform for the rest of us
• 17:25 Sports tech competitors
• 18:34 Monetizing data. $115M for NFL data! What?
• 27:44 Broadcaster and Pressbox

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyhensley/

Website: https://statsperform.com/

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Let's talk business leadership coaching with Kate Mayne, Director of Partner and

Digital Technical Sales, IBM. For Kate coaching is a practice. Mission and values.

How to map out your 2025 plan.

• 02:13 Meet Kate Mayne
• 08:16 Business Coaching
• 16:00 Mission and Values
• 22:41 Starting the New Year
• 26:41 Define the Characteristics you Desire
• 28:57 Mapping Out Your Plan
• 40:35 How Do You Stay Present
• 45:15 Coaching in Summary
• 47:43 Rapid Fire
• 50:53 The Self-help Book

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/katemayne
Website: https://www.ibm.com/partnerplus
Crucial Conversations book: https://cruciallearning.com/books/

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#LeadershipCoaching #BusinessLeadership #MissionAndValues #2025Planning #ExecutiveCoaching #LeadershipDevelopment #CoachingTips #StayPresent #SelfHelpBooks #MakingDataSimple #KateMayne #IBMLeadership #BusinessInnovation

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The AI Patent Attorney, Robert Plotkin is back! Founding partner of Blueshift IP and author of AI Armor and The Genie in the Machine. Robert outlines the new gold rush and how to take advantage of it.

• 02:59 Meet Robert Plotkin Again
• 06:56 Robert's Brand 09:21 Why do Another Book
• 11:33 What Can be Patented?
• 14:18 Patent Attorneys
• 19:10 Coca-Cola
• 23:19 Patent Litigation
• 26:23 Ignoring Copyrights
• 2847 Open Source vs Patents
• 30:32 4 Stages for IP Protection
• 37:45 The Best Tech Patent
• 40:38 The New Gold Rush 43:10 Is AI Liable
• 49:20 Who Should Read the Book?
• 50:52 Where to Reach Robert
• 51:25 Wrap Up

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/robertplotkin

Website: https://www.blueshiftip.com

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#MakingDataSimple #AIInnovation #PatentLaw #RobertPlotkin #BlueshiftIP #AIArmor #TheGenieInTheMachine #TechLeadership #IntellectualProperty #FutureOfAI #AITrends #InnovationStrategy

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The podcast welcomes Manav Gupta, VP and CTO of IBM Canada. As a frequent collaborator on client visits, we discuss various aspects of large language models. So all things AI models.

• 02:04 Jumping Right into AI!
• 02:59 Meet Manav Gupta
• 08:17 Let's Talk All Things Models
• 27:20 How to Choose the Right Models
• 31:48 Where are the Models Going???
• 46:01 How to Learn AI

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mgupta76
Website: https://www.ibm.com/granite
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#makingdatasimplepodcast #AI #LargeLanguageModels #TechLeadership #ArtificialIntelligence #IBMCanada #ManavGupta #AIInnovation #TechPodcast #AIModels #LearnAI

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This week, we’re talking to Jon Darbyshire, CEO of SmartSuite, who’s making waves in work management from Kansas to Newport Beach. Learn how he's reshaping business operations with an all-in-one platform that’s turning process management on its head.

#Entrepreneurship #WorkplaceAutomation #SmartSuite #TechInnovation #BusinessLeadership #MillennialFocus #GenZ #FamilyBusiness #MakingDataSimple #DataDriven #Startups #JonDarbyshire #ProcessManagement #BusinessSuccess

Show Notes

• 03:28 From Haysville to Newport Beach
• 07:18 Why start a business in a pandemic?
• 08:48 Who needs venture funding. Not Jon.
• 09:26 Workplace automation defined
• 14:12 SmartSuite capabilities
• 19:30 Targeting Millennials and Gen Z
• 20:45 Slack built in
• 21:54 SmartSuite differentiation
• 23:07 Sharing data
• 25:28 The sales pitch
• 28:56 All in. all the time
• 31:00 Passion with preparation is king
• 34:04 Running a family business
• 41:26 Target client profiles
• 44:15 Definition of success
• 46:25 Building a culture
• 49:00 Vision or Grinders?

Find Jon : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondarbyshire/
Find SmartSuite : https://www.smartsuite.com/

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"Ready to dive deep into the future of intelligent systems? Meet Peter Voss, Founder and CEO of Aigo.ai, who coined the term 'Artificial General Intelligence' and is pioneering hyper-personalized chatbots WITH a brain. Join us as we explore his revolutionary ideas and why Aigo.ai is leading the charge in AI innovation."

#AIInnovation #PeterVoss #FutureOfAI #HyperPersonalization #BeyondChatGPT #TechPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #PersonalizedTech

• 01:56 Meet Peter Voss
• 08:23 Passion for Intelligent Systems
• 12:54 Why only Aigo
• 16:31 ChatGPT? A Different View
• 22:03 A Use Case by Example
• 30:53 What is Included, What is Not
• 34:08 Who are your Clients
• 36:10 The Engagement
• 38:57 The Business Case
• 41:59 AI that Reasons
• 44:26 The Definition of AGI
• 46:51 For Fun

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vosspeter

Twitter: @peterevoss

Website: aigo.ai/

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Richmond Alake, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, is an AI/ML practitioner with an academic background in computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. If databases that scale for AI are your thing, this one is for you.

02:05 Meet Rich Alake
03:57 A Developer Advocate at MongoDB
05:57 Passions and Fate!
08:52 AI Hype
13:14 Oh No. AGI Again…
17:30 What Makes and AI Database?
20:42 Use Cases
25:41 RAG Best Practices
27:40 The Role of Database
30:05 Why is MongoDB Better At?
32:43 What's Next
36:13 Advice on Contious Learning
38:44 Where to Find Rich?

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/richmondalake
Website: https://www.mongodb.com/

Register For MongoDB: https://mdb.link/register_make_data_simple

AI Agents Article: https://mdb.link/ai_agents_making_data_simple
Best Repo for AI Developers: https://mdb.link/ai_developer_resource

Richmond's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richmondalake/

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ChatGPT might be a scrape of the internet, but Personal AI is something entirely different—AI that’s personally yours. Join us as we meet Suman Kanuganti, CEO of Personal AI, a visionary on a mission to empower individuals by creating AI extensions of their memory. Get ready to explore how this groundbreaking innovation can transform how we remember, connect, and thrive in a digital world. Let's get started!"

#ArtificialIntelligence #PersonalAI #AIInnovation #MemoryExtension #EmpowermentThroughAI #SumanKanuganti #TechTalk #FutureOfAI #PodcastingAI #AIForEveryone

• 01:35 Meet Suman Kanuganti
• 05:57 Starting Aira, addressing needs of the blind 11:41 Bigger dreams - what would Larry do?
• 16:27 ChatGPT… ok we've said it
• 17:57 Introducing Personal.ai
• 26:34 Using Personal.ai
• 31:23 Innovative use cases
• 33:57 Now it gets crazy
• 38:43 It's FREE… to start
• 42:02 Keeping your data safe
• 44:41 Predicting the future of AI
• 48:15 The scary part
• 51:12 For fun

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kanugantisuman Website: https://www.personal.ai/

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Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.