Stephanie Lampkin has dedicated her career to addressing the important issue of bias and fairness and embedding the core values of fairness and equity in corporate America. Stephanie, Founder and CEO of Blendoor, recently joined Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, on the DataRobot More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast and explained the importance of removing an applicant’s identity during the…

Banks regularly create campaigns to offer new products to their customers. According to market research, it’s easier to sell a product to an existing customer than to sell a product to a new, qualified prospect. In today's marketplace, banks provide a variety of deposit, lending, and investment products to individuals and businesses, but a good proportion of current customers might…

As host of the DataRobot More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast, I’m constantly impressed and delighted by the fascinating people that I have a chance to talk to. Recently, I had a long conversation with Ashley Russell, who has the stately title of Strategic Performance Management Coordinator for the U.S. Army, where she reports to the Undersecretary of the Army on mission-critical…

For close to a year now, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken businesses to their core. Travel has plummeted; downtown office towers sit empty; retailers and restaurants are struggling. According to a headline in The Economist, “COVID-19 is up-ending capitalism.” [i] The banking industry is hardly immune to this disruption. Changes in customer patterns, novel areas of risk, and new workplace…

The recent increase in Zoom calls has generated a thousand disgruntled memes, sarcastic Facebook posts, and legions of weary workers suffering from “Zoom fatigue.” Steve Nouri sees things differently. Steve, an official member of the Forbes Technology Council, recently joined Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, on the DataRobot More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast and explained how the proliferation of…

Many people get their picture of robots from films, such as I, Robot or The Terminator franchise. Mike Wimmer, a robotics prodigy and CEO and founder at Reflect Social, recently joined Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, on the DataRobot DataRobot More Intelligent Tomorrow podcast and weighed in on robots from three perspectives: Getting people to interact with and…

“AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, more than the current output of China and India combined,” according to PwC. The same report estimates that in 2018 alone, AI contributed $2 trillion to the global GDP. Despite the enormous rewards of implementing AI solutions, becoming an AI-driven organization is still a challenge.  In our…

Actuaries have always been the jacks-of-all-trades. Mathematics and insurance knowledge form their professional foundation, but actuaries have also learned from other disciplines, such as law, accounting, marketing, and, of course, data science. But over the last decade or so, many actuaries have been finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the rapidly developing field of data science. The good…

For life insurance providers, AI offers the chance to increase revenue, improve efficiency, and reduce risk. Among the many benefits of AI are the ability to improve mortality and lapse predictions and optimize decision-making to help build and sustain profitable customer relationships.  Hand coding models cannot possibly meet the demand or realize the incredible opportunities that AI can provide. Even…