Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 1)

This is a terrific conversation on cutting-edge Natural language processing (NLP) with an entrepreneur in Vienna. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cortical.io. Francisco Webber: I am the CEO and one of the founders of Cortical.io. It is a startup originating from Vienna, Austria. We are working in the domain of natural language understanding. We have developed our own technology for rendering text information. Based on that technology, we are offering a certain number of technologies and technical platforms to the market. We started early as a startup. It might sound like a long time but we started in 2011. Believe me, setting up a company that creates the technology beneath the product takes time. Sramana Mitra: Do a historical overview of the NLP trajectory. What is the prior arc and where are you innovating? What is the approach that you bring to the table that is unique and differentiated? Francisco