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Nov 2021
41m 29s

Turning Data Strategy into AI ROI - with...

Daniel Faggella
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Today's guest is TJ Shembekar, Director of IT for IBM Global Financing. TJ has been with IBM for over 15 years and has gone through the entire journey of bringing AI to life in the Financing wing of IBM, from aggregating data sources to collaborating with his peers to find the best capabilities for AI. In this episode, TJ discusses some of the exact use-cases that IBM Financing is putting in place today and the process of setting up a data strategy. This episode is sponsored by IBM and is the first part of a three-part series that we'll be rolling out in the next two months. If you're interested in reaching Emerj's global audience of AI-focused leaders, be sure to visit emerj.com/ad1 for more information.

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