Resources: Podcasts

Rob May, venture partner at PJC and serial AI entrepreneur, shares what’s holding back AI adoption in the enterprise

Rob May, serial AI entrepreneur and investor,  started as a hardware engineer but realized he could have more of an…

InsightFinder Concludes a Strong 2021 with 300% Sales Growth, Key Product Enhancements and Awards

Raleigh, NC – January 11, 2022 – InsightFinder, the leading AIOps platform for anomaly detection and incident prediction, today announced…

Elliot Shmukler, CEO of Anomalo, discusses why data quality monitoring is the future of personalization

Elliot Shmukler, CEO and founder of Anomalo, needed a better way to monitor data quality at scale. He previously led…

Cross Data Streams to Release the True Power of Your AIOps Tools

Regardless of where you are in your AIOps journey, chances are you’re already trying to take your AIOps tools to…

Luke Arrigoni, Data Scientist and CEO of Arricor, shares how to turn enterprise data into decisions with AI

Luke Arrigoni started Arricor in 2012 to help large companies make sense of their data. Since then, he and the…

InsightFinder Overview

How Leading Apps Use AI-First Incident Prediction to Eliminate Outages

Every CIO is expected to deliver innovative new features that are always available. Today, those expectations come with smaller teams,…

Future of AI for IT Ops Executive Round Table

We sat down with execs to discuss the future of AI in IT Operations. What they said may surprise you.…

Future of AI in IT Operations Panel Discussion

InsightFinder “Future of AI in IT Operations” panel discussion with Sean Barker from McDonald’s and Mike Sao Pedro, co-founder and…

Panel Discussion: Detect Anomalies, Predict Incidents and Automate Root Cause Analysis

If you missed the panel discussion with Justin Fitzhugh from Snowflake, Liz Holland from Dell, and Luca Blanzuoli from Credit…

Peter Fishman, co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, discusses data pipelines and why they’re defining the future of data analytics

Peter Fishman ("Fish"), co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, had a vision for making it easy for any business to…

An AIOps take on ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

An AIOps take on ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not…

Shawn Merani, Founder and Managing Director of Parade Ventures, discusses how to start a venture fund and find great entrepreneurs

Shawn Merani, entrepreneur and venture investor, has started two venture funds and been an operator at early stage companies including…

Mel Engle, CEO of Predictive Oncology, shares how AI is curing cancer

Mel Engle,  executive and cancer survivor, has spent more than 30 years in and around the intersection of healthcare and…

Supercharge your Sentry data with InsightFinder

  InsightFinder code developers love Sentry because it provides them with fast, real time reporting, control with code visibility, and…

Matt Cowell, CEO at QuantHub, shares why the future workforce needs to be data literate

Matt Cowell started QuantHub in 2018 to help upskill and reskill employees to prepare for careers in data and AI.…

Dan Grunfeld, Director at Lightspeed and author of “By the Grace of the Game”, discusses leadership, entrepreneurship, and basketball

Dan Grunfeld, former professional basketball player and operator at Lightspeed Venture Partners, discusses the parallels between sports and entrepreneurship. His…

Matt Compton, CEO and Co-founder of Filo.co, shares why Zoom isn’t what teams need to host virtual meetings

Matt Compton's a restless tinkerer from Indianapolis who started Filo.co to solve a problem he had. He needed something better…

Observability vs AIOps 

If you search for the answer to “What is AIOps,” you’ll find a fairly standard definition. However, reviewing the results…

Phil Heltewig, CEO of conversational AI platform Cognigy, on the future of customer service automation

Phil Heltewig, co-founder and CEO of Cognigy, the low-code conversational AI platform for managing customer service bots, discusses how new…

Dr. Panos Siozos, Founder and CEO of LearnWorlds, raised $32M to build a novel edtech company that’s helping creators monetize custom courses

Dr. Panos Siozos, LearnWorlds CEO, went from academic to high-tech CEO and raised $32M from Insight Partners to help creators…

Scott Zoldi, FICO Chief Analytics Officer, discusses how AI and your data are used to make decisions about fraud and credit risk

Scott Zoldi, FICO Chief Analytics Officer and PhD in Theoretical Physics, shares how to use AI responsibly. FICO uses consumer…

Bindu Reddy, CEO of Abacus AI, discusses the latest in AI research and what’s required to make developing AI apps as easy as building web pages

Bindu Reddy, CEO and co-founder of Abacus AI, was a product exec at Google and Amazon and an accomplished entrepreneur…

Improving software quality with InsightFinder and Sentry

Anomaly detection + error tracking = more bugs fixed faster the first time Sentry users can now use anomaly detection…

Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of honeycomb, discusses observability, how to build great software, and what she learned not to do from Facebook

Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder at honeycomb, grew up in rural Idaho and dropped out of college. This is her…

Kai Nunez, Vice President of Research & Insights at Salesforce, shares the secret to making tech teams own responsibility for AI ethics

Kai Nunez, VP Research & Insights at Salesforce, didn't always know she wanted to pursue a career in AI because…

InsightFinder now available on Google Cloud Marketplace!

We’re excited to announce that InsightFinder’s anomaly detection and prediction technology is now available via Google Cloud Marketplace. The offering…

Rene Morkos, CEO and Founder of ALICE Technologies, shares how algorithms are changing the construction industry

René Morkos, CEO and Founder of ALICE Technologies, grew up wanting to build things. That passion led him to degrees…

Gary Bolles, best-selling author of The Next Rules of Work, shares how to manage through disruption and find your passion

Gary Bolles, entrepreneur, venture advisor, and best-selling author, is a deep thinker who established roots in Silicon Valley in the…

Derek Steer, CEO and founder of Mode, discusses the future of work for data analysts and the biggest tragedy in BI today

Derek Steer cut his teeth as a data analyst at Facebook and Yammer more than a decade ago. He co-founded…

Jeff Meyerson, entrepreneur and author of “Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software”, shares important advice for Zuck

Jeff Meyerson, entrepreneur, musician, technologist, and author of the acclaimed "Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software", discusses the stranglehold Big…

Krishna Gade, CEO and Founder of Fiddler, discusses the importance of AI explainability

Krishna Gade was an engineering leader at Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook before realizing AI is eating software… and responsible AI…

Neelima Parasker, CEO of SnapIT Solutions, shares the recipe for making high-quality STEM education accessible to all

Neelima Parasker started coding at a young age.  Inspired by her entrepreneur mother, she studied Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering…

Rachel Chalmers, Partner at Alchemist Accelerator, discusses what’s required to eliminate bias in startup funding

Rachel Chalmers aspired to be an English professor before being inspired by a technology journal to relocate from Ireland to…

Dr. Zehra Cataltepe, CEO of Tazi.ai, discusses the meaning of responsible AI and how she’s saving the planet…one model at a time

Dr. Cataltepe is an accomplished scientist and entrepreneur… with a social conscience. She has published more than 100 academic papers…

InsightFinder – Challenges and opportunities for the future: AIOps Executive Roundtable

Execs from Fortune 1000 companies gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with AI in IT. Read as experts…

Ken Gonzalez, ITSM pundit, shares the one trend that will define IT strategy for the next decade

Ken Gonzalez has spent the better part of 35 years as an IT practitioner, CIO advisor, and industry analyst. He…

InsightFinder receives NSF Small business Innovation and Research Phase I Award

On August 5, 2021, InsightFinder was honored to receive the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation and Research Phase I…

Dan O’Connell, CSO/CRO at Dialpad and founder of TalkIQ, discusses NLP in cloud telephony and his entrepreneurial journey from Google to founder to a quick exit

Dan O'Connell, former founder and CEO of TalkIQ which was acquired by Dialpad, discusses the future of cloud communications. Dan's…

Fellows Fund Gathers Top Minds to Fund AI Breakthroughs

July 12, 2021 10:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time (article from BusinessWire) MIAMI & SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Motivated to help AI researchers…

Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and Principal Analyst @ Constellation Research, discusses CIO priorities and how to actually deliver on the promise of digital transformation

Dion Hinchcliffe has been reporting on and prognosticating about the future of work for more than 20 years. He speaks…

John Whaley, Founder and CEO of UnifyID, discusses the future of biometric authentication and how to prepare for a world beyond passwords

John Whaley has been programming since age five. He has been a lecturer at Stanford in Computer Science, a founding…

InsightFinder, the leading AI platform for IT operations, today announced new customers, leadership, and funding to meet growing demand for its AIOps technology

RALEIGH, N.C., July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Every organization now relies on technology to remain competitive. Downtime is more expensive than ever…

Filip Dousek, founder of Stories (acquired by Workday), discusses machine learning for people insights and the challenges of being an entrepreneur in Europe

Filip Dousek is a successful entrepreneur having sold his last company to Workday. He's also the author of Flock Without…

Jason Wojahn, CEO of ServiceNow partner Thirdera, shares what it means to make innovation a core component of company culture

Jason Wojahn has been building companies and helping enterprises use technology for nearly 30 years. He learned a few things…

How does a DevOps team scales its infrastructure so Kazzle’s new product can dazzle

  It was one week before Kazzle was launching its new product. The company had dominant market share in the…

Tiernan Ray, journalist in publications like The New York Times and Fortune, discusses the state of AI ethics and how to thrive in a world of automated decisions

Tiernan Ray is an accomplished journalist who has written extensively for publications like ZDNet, the New York Times, Barron’s, CNN…

Unified Intelligence Engine (UIE): A Technical Deep Dive Paper

InsightFinder developed industry-leading, unsupervised multivariate machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyze massive volumes of production system data (e.g., metrics, logs,…

Bryan Talebi, founder and CEO of Ahura AI, shares how AI is being used to up-skill and re-skill workers being displaced by automation

Bryan Talebi learned the value of education after fleeing Iran and living in a Turkish refugee camp. He worked for…

Milin Desai, CEO of unicorn APM vendor Sentry, discusses the future of software, what’s wrong with DevOps, and what 100 other monitoring vendors don’t know

Milin Desai was an executive at VMware before taking the CEO role at Sentry last year. Since then, he led…

Slater Victoroff, founder and CTO of intelligent process automation company Indico, discusses deep learning, AGI, and his entrepreneurial journey

Slater Victoroff is a machine learning expert and science fiction writer who is never shy when sharing opinions about AI…

Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, technologist, entrepreneur, and author, discusses AI ethics, future societies, blockchains, and digital labor

A first on the show this week… we meet a guest whose digital twin has its own YouTube channel. Dr.…

ITSM meets ITOM

ITSM meets ITOM TL; DR: MTTD is the new MTTR Part two in a multi-part series   How downstream incident…

Zi Wang, CEO and founder of Timeless, discusses the future of time management, responsible use of data for AI, and how he’s out to change the world

Zi Wang, Timeless founder and CEO, learned a lot at Google in eight and a half years. Enough that he…

Banjot Chanana, product leader from VMware, Docker, Google, and AWS, discusses the rise of containers and what’s ahead in DevOps

Most of us won't learn as much in a career about DevOps as Banjot Chanana forgets in an afternoon. Having…

Ciro Greco and Jacopo Tagliabue, founders of Tooso, discuss their entrepreneurial journey, acquisition by Coveo, and the future of machine intelligence

It's tough being entrepreneurs in Belgium and Italy. Our appetite for risk and access to capital in the U.S. is…

Kordel France, CEO of Seekar Technologies, discusses the importance of AI explainability and how Seekar’s AI helps radiologists detect COVID

Kordel France taught himself to code to automate his Calculus homework. He was inspired by seeing robot tractors on the…

How world-class AIOps from InsightFinder complements world-class service management from ServiceNow

Part one in a multi-part series Summary: ServiceNow automates business workflows. InsightFinder complements ServiceNow by automating infrastructure management to prevent…

Rishon Blumberg and Michael Solomon, authors of Game Changer, discuss AI, freelancers, and what it takes to be 10X better at everything

Two firsts this week on the podcast: first time we’ve had a two-guest interview and first time we’ve had guests…

New InsightFinder innovations to reduce MTTR: Knowledge Base and Active Learning

  TL; DR: InsightFinder Human Insight + Active Learning FTW Knowledge Base  InsightFinder makes it easy for users to access,…

Linda Rottenberg, Endeavor Co-founder and CEO, discusses entrepreneurship in emerging markets

This week's guest has been called “America’s Best Leader” by U.S. News and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” by ABC, Fox, and…

Denis Jacquet, founder of the Day One Movement, international entrepreneur, and author discusses how automation is transforming the labor market

Denis Jacquet is concerned that automation is causing traditional jobs to mutate… and governments around the world are mismanaging the…

Joe Rehmann, CEO and Founder of Victory Farms in Kenya, shares how technology-enabled fish farming is eradicating hunger

Joe Rehmann went from investment banking to fish farming. His passion for solving the protein problem in Eastern Africa led…

Philippe Cases, CEO of Topio Networks, serial entrepreneur, and investor discusses edge computing, IoT and AI plus the future of Silicon Valley

Philippe Cases has been an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. Most recently, he founded…

Tim Crawford, serial CIO and CIO advisor, discusses three phases of AI adoption in the enterprise

Tim Crawford, accomplished CIO, CIO advisor, and influencer, distinguishes transformational CIOs from the rest. For more than 20 years, he…

Rory O’Driscoll, Partner at Scale Venture Partners, discusses success modes for AI companies and three essential strategies for startups

Rory O’Driscoll, member of the Forbes Venture Capital Midas List, has been investing in startups since founding Scale Venture Partners…

Wendy Pfeiffer, Nutanix CIO, discusses the future of enterprise technology, girls in STEM careers, and leading remote teams

This week, Wendy Pfeiffer, Nutanix CIO and former CIO at GoPro, shares her journey to becoming a public company exec…

Requirements for the optimal AIOps solution

Capabilities Every vendor’s AI seems the same. What is the best approach for using AI to detect anomalies? Unsupervised machine…

InsightFinder awarded “Most Backable Startup” in Venture Capital Investment Competition

Mountain View, CA – February 24, 2021 InsightFinder received the “Most Backable Startup” award from a panel of student teams…

Rak Garg, investor at OpenView, discusses how enterprise software startups can disrupt incumbents like Splunk and Atlassian

Rak Garg recently shifted from Product Management at companies like Atlassian and Redfin to investing at OpenView Venture Partners, the…

Glenn Solomon, GGV Capital Managing Partner, discusses the people behind amazing companies like Airbnb, HashiCorp, and Opendoor

Glenn Solomon has discovered and invested in many iconic companies like Slack, Zendesk, and Square. In this episode, he shares…

Elaine Zelby, investor at SignalFire, discusses unsexy markets and the SaaS startup bundle

Elaine Zelby is an investor at SignalFire, a blogger, podcaster, and former Product Marketer at Capriza and Slack. She shares…

Evangelos Simoudis, best-selling author and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, discusses the present and future of autonomous vehicles

The future of cities, work, and transit all rely on technological advances in the field of autonomous vehicles. On this…

Raleigh’s InsightFinder uses Machine Learning to Improve IT Operations

Text below from Grepbeat by Suzanne Blake It’s no secret that artificial intelligence can improve many industries. InsightFinder, based in Raleigh,…

Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, discusses finding and investing in the future of AI

Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, one of the most iconic venture firms in Silicon Valley. Ashu…

Apprendis Scales Online Learning Program During Pandemic with InsightFinder

*preview below. For the full success story, fill out the form to the right.* Background As the global pandemic forced…

Haixun Wang, VP and AI Distinguished Scientist at Instacart, shares insights from 20 years of innovating at IBM, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon

Great episode to kick off 2021. Dr. Haixun Wang has been at the forefront of introducing AI-based innovation to the…

InsightFinder experiences significant growth in 2020 as market for IT Operations automation expands

December 30, 2020 – Company announces new customers, patents, product enhancements, and funding plus expands leadership team “Before InsightFinder, we…

Darius Goldman, CEO and Founder of Meratas, discusses the future of education and how income share agreements work

Darius Goldman, CEO and Founder of Meratas, discusses the future of education and how income share agreements (ISAs) are making…

Michael Shepherd, Dell Distinguished AI Engineer, discusses the future of AI, ethics, and what happens when machines are smarter than us

On this week’s podcast, Michael Shepherd, Dell Technologies Distinguished Engineer focused on AI, describes the present and future of intelligent…

The past, present, and future of AIOps with Dr. Helen Gu, CTO and Founder of InsightFinder

In this special episode with Dr. Helen Gu, author or co-author of 80+ academic papers on distributed computing and AI…

Chris Curtin, former C-level exec at Visa and Disney tech VP, discusses the future of brands and money

Chris Curtin has been on a journey over the past twenty plus years to modernize iconic brands like Disney, HP,…

Barr Moses, CEO and Founder of Monte Carlo, discusses data observability, raising VC as a female entrepreneur, and advice for creating an enduring company culture

This week, we had a fascinating discussion that unveiled the dirty secret of AI and machine learning: algorithm performance is…

We asked execs about the future of AI in IT operations. What they said may surprise you.

This week’s special episode of AI and the Future of Work features execs discussing how they use AI to reduce…

What happens when the founder of AIOps discusses DevOps and fried chicken. Well, listen…

On this week’s episode of AI and the Future of Work, Colin Fletcher shares insights including…  What he meant by…

Best of AI and the Future of Work with Dave Kellogg, serial CEO and board member… plus, we hit an exciting milestone!

Welcome to this week’s “best of” episode of AI and the Future Work. Today, we’re opening the vault and re-introducing…

Patty Hatter, tech exec/board member/advisor, shares the best advice ever for women in technology

Patty Hatter, former CIO, COO, and current SVP Customer Services at Palo Alto Networks, shares advice for women about how…

Software Spots and Fixes Hang Bugs in Seconds, Rather Than Weeks

Hang bugs – when software gets stuck, but doesn’t crash – can frustrate both users and programmers, taking weeks for…

Special episode: COVID, AI, and your mental health with Deryk Van Brunt, CEO of CredibleMind

This week’s discussion is about the pandemic, AI, and mental health. Deryk Van Brunt is a serial entrepreneur, trained epidemiologist,…

Panel discussion about AI and the future of IT Operations with leaders from Snowflake, Dell, and Credit Suisse

New format this week: a special panel discussion with Justin Fitzhugh from Snowflake, Liz Holland from Dell, and Luca Blanzuoli…

Cassie Divine, SVP QuickBooks Online at Intuit, shares what she’s doing to promote equal pay and workplace diversity plus her philosophy on leadership during a pandemic

This week’s guest deserves credit for helping transform Intuit into an iconic technology brand with a reputation for great company…

The Future Of AI-First IT Operations And How To Design Your Monitoring Strategy

Parenting toddlers is not for the faint of heart. If we intervened every time danger seemed imminent, we’d first insert…

Gareth Rushgrove, DevOps pioneer and DevOps Weekly editor, discusses the past, present, and future of IT operations

Special guest Gareth Rushgrove, editor of the popular DevOps Weekly newsletter (since its inception ten years ago!) and former product…

Host Dan Turchin interviewed by David Wright from the Service Desk Institute

Ever wonder what “knocker-uppers” did in Britain when alarm clocks were invented? Curious what scribes did after the printing press?…

What Does the Agile Service Desk Look Like Now?

Although Agile was originally conceived to apply solely to software development, it’s influence has been far-reaching. In 2020, it’s notably…

Greg Poirier, New Relic Architect and AIOps pioneer, discusses the future of IT operations

Greg Poirier understands what it’s like to carry the pager. He started as a systems engineer and has since spent…

Your System Uptime: Now More Important Than Ever

The world, as we know it, is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. This situation is…

The Research Powering InsightFinder

InsightFinder's CEO describes the research she's pioneering with Machine Learning.

Avoid Catastrophic Service Failure through Early Detection of Human Errors

A major customer-facing service from a cloud monitoring company was down for three days.

Fast Root Cause Zone Identification through Cluster Outlier Detection

A global query service from a web search company experienced a major service outage.

Reduce Service Downtime through Causal Analysis between KPI and Application Metrics

Software reliability engineers (SREs) from a major search engine company were paged at midnight.

Root Cause Analysis

A major credit card company’s mobile payment service experienced severe performance degradation on a Friday afternoon.

Early Anomaly Detection

We worked closely with a large financial firm to create an environment that can display the strength of the InsightFinder Unified Intelligence Engine.

Unified Intelligence Engine (UIE): A Technical Deep Dive Paper

InsightFinder utilizes the industry’s best unsupervised multivariate machine learning algorithms to analyze a large amount of production system data.

Automate Anomaly Detection with Real-Time Streaming AI-Based Log, Infrastructure and Application Analytics

InsightFinder is the only modern AI and ML based system that works across the entire stack, all your metrics and logs, and fully automates the process of finding anomalies and their root causes.

What is machine learning?

What is machine learning? Helen Gu, Founder and CEO of InsightFinder Inc., answers your questions.