Lenovo Think AI Podcast

The Future of Retail – A conversation about AI, Ethics and the Metaverse

How are generative AI and Computer Vision changing Retail industry today? Can any retailer use large language models, or are they for a privileged few? How do we tackle ethical challenges around AI in retail?
In this episode, Dr. Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI together with the industry professional Riccardo Badalone, CEO at C2RO, and Anthony Sayers, Lenovo Edge Computing specialist will discuss the big topics in Retail AI and data privacy.
Tune in to this thought leadership conversation and learn more!

The Future of Manufacturing: Digital Twins and Metaverse

In this episode, Dr. Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI will dive into the future with Dr. Michael Grieves, a trailblazer in the world of Digital Twins, to explore the transformative potential of AI and Digital Twins, challenges and opportunities, and how NVIDIA's OVX system, GPU, and DPU technologies will fit into this context.
Tune in to discover how the intertwined nature of AI, Generative AI, and Digital Twin is reshaping many industries and paving the way for a new era of intelligent solutions. Don't miss this podcast to stay at the forefront of innovation!

The Safety Net: AI Protects Workers in the Manufacturing Industry

In this episode, Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI together with Abhijit Shanbhag, Founder & CEO of Graymatics, Inc. discuss how powerful AI-based multimedia solutions can forge a safety net in the manufacturing industry.
Interested to learn how AI-based Computer Vision solutions can impact the real world and what’s their potential for the Metaverse and a new era of Digital Twin? Join the conversation to stay ahead of the curve!

From Retail to E-tail: Computer Vision Reshaping the Retail Industry

The advent of online shopping has massively reshaped the retail industry. However, this doesn’t mean that traditional retail stores will go out-of-business. Many people still prefer in-store shopping, yet to stay competitive retailers need to work on providing great customer service and creating an engaging, very personalized experience. 
Thanks to the use of connected cameras, AI-powered solutions can help speed up and automate many business operations like shelf management, payments, and product returns leading to improved profitability. Computer Vision-based applications can also help retailers better understand their customers´ habits to provide a richer end-to-end shopping experience. This includes improved store and parking security or enhanced in-store assistance and i.e. recommendations of a meal menu with sets of ingredients to buy that mirrors easy-shopping provided by e-commerce.
In this episode, Tikiri Wanduragala, Senior Solutions Consultant, and Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI together with Philipp Müller, CEO at Signatrix will zoom in on where AI-powered solutions can really have an impact. Tune in to learn more!

AI for Smarter Cities and Urban Mobility

How can AI and Computer Vision enable next stage of Smart Cities development? 
From increased road safety to reduced traffic congestion and more efficient energy, waste and pollution management the groundbreaking Deep Learning applications open new ways to contribute to goals of smart city concepts. This includes a wide range of mobility solutions that enable new automation systems for secure ground and aerial traffic management as well as the crowd density modeling, vehicle identification, tracking and smart parking that results in intelligent public transportation services.  
In this episode, Tikiri Wanduragala, Senior Solutions Consultant, and Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI together with Fabio Masci, CEO of The Edge Company will take a closer look at how Computer Vision and Deep Learning applications demonstrate its possibilities in the complex city environments today and the new initiatives that aim to bring innovation and smart city living benefits to all of us. Tune in to learn more! 

Cognitive Vision Transforms Manufacturing

People are surprised to hear that AI is already transforming manufacturing in terms of efficiency and safety.
Computer Vision is known to have a multitude of applications in manufacturing at every stage of production and in a variety of business functions. These applications include but are not limited to predictive analytics of machinery, accurate assembly of components, and quality control for health, safety, and products. Businesses find it productive to adopt systems that use computer vision technology both for production and management of manufacturing processes.
In this episode, Tikiri Wanduragala, Senior Solutions Consultant and Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI together with industry professional Marcin Rojek, Co-Founder of byteLAKE will examine the challenges and opportunities behind some real-world deployments; from defining KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to estimating ROI of industrial AI applications. Tune in to learn more!

The ‘Four-eyes’ Principle Shift: A New Era in Computer Vision and Deep Learning

Computer Vision is a field of Artificial Intelligence aimed to develop a superhuman -like vision capabilities for a broad range of applications, and as the adoption of AI, ML and DL continues to grow across industries so does the need for high performance, secure, and reliable solutions that yield costs optimization, operations efficiency or simply accidental loss prevention thanks to the smart object detection based on image and video data.
In this episode, Tikiri Wanduragala, Senior Solutions Consultant and Valerio Rizzo, Lenovo EMEA Head of AI together with Alvin Clark, NVIDIA’s AI and Deep Learning Technical Product Marketing expert will delve into the astonishing real-life applications, the challenges and opportunities and the tremendous array of business advantages the technology enables for a variety of industries.
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Think AI. Be Inspired.

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are to some extent still shrouded in mystery as being indefinable and complex, and that can intimidate even the most fearless investors. Yet AI and DL are already transforming major industries like retail, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services – even cities!
But how can we get it right? Tune in as Lenovo, NVIDIA and industry practitioners are exploring how the advent of AI made Computer Vision feasible for business applications and cemented the technology as an essential investment for organizations looking to automate tasks.​
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