Where to start with AI for your business

Generative AI is a powerful tool with huge potential for your business. But how can you use it effectively?

Professor Shoeb Hosain is a lecturer at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University and the director of the DataSphere Lab. In the Lab, he and his students develop data solutions for businesses that come to them for help. And these days, that often means helping implement AI into their operations.

In this episode of the McGill Delve podcast, Professor Hosain and host Eric Dicaire, McGill Delve’s managing editor, talk about how AI can help your business. They start by discussing the DataSphere Lab and how they help businesses solve problems with data. Then they talk about how those businesses approach AI, what kinds of problems AI can solve, and why you can’t afford not to work AI into your organization.

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About the DataSphere Lab: Data Sphere Lab | Bensadoun School of Retail Management - McGill University

TODAY’S GUEST

Professor Shoeb Hosain is the director of the DataSphere Lab at the Besadoun School of Retail Management. He has a wealth of industry experience in both the Technology and Financial Services industries, and is helping to craft the Masters of Management in Analytics for the Desautels Faculty of Management, as Program Director of the MMA. His recent tenure at IBM Watson in the US allowed him to architect many AI solutions for Fortune 500 companies across North America and abroad. 

Having spent many years with TD Securities and Algorithmics, Shoeb worked in Simulation based Predictive Analytics in the Capital Markets space where he was based in London, UK and consulted with major Sovereign Wealth Funds and private Investment and Insurance institutions in the European and Asian markets.

Shoeb holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from McGill University, and a Bachelors of Commerce (B.COM) from the University of Toronto. He is also an alumnus of the University of Manchester (UK) and the University of Melbourne (Australia).

ABOUT THE HOST

Eric Dicaire is the managing editor for McGill Delve, the thought-leadership publication of the Desautels Faculty of Management. He oversees the production of the Delve podcast, from the generation of content ideas to the final mix of the audio. Eric specializes in making complex information accessible to all audiences – a skill he honed as a journalist, health science communicator, and consultant in marketing and government relations. He holds an MA in Communication from the University of Ottawa and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University.

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CREDITS

This episode of the podcast was produced, hosted, and edited by Eric Dicaire. Professor Saku Mantere is McGill Delve’s editor-in-chief and produced all the original music.

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