Founded in 2019, by then 17-year-old Oliver Edholm (CEO) and Anton Osika (CTO), Depict.ai is the leading solution in Scandinavia, and increases sales by 4-6%. The giants within e-commerce have been able to build huge in-house teams that leverage AI to deliver clear bottom-line impact. For instance, Amazon is reported to earn 35% of its revenue from their recommendation engine (McKinsey report). However, most e-commerce stores don't have the technical capabilities, nor the large amount of sales data to make existing recommendation systems work. To counteract this imbalance, Depict.ai

James Kaplan, is the CEO & Co-Founder of MeetKai an Artificial Intelligence, VR, and Conversational Search Company based in Los Angeles, California, currently leading the AI speech race with never-before-seen features. Its conversational AI can understand more complex speech and give personalized results in a natural conversation about many subjects, in different realities. MeetKai's technology is deployed globally through iOS, Google Play, and AppGallery. You had a passion for AI at the early age of 6, how did you first get introduced to this technology? My introduction to AI came from video games.

Haitham Al-Beik is the CEO and Founder of Wings, an emerging startup producing autonomous foodservice businesses designed with proprietary, purpose-built "HiveRobotics" and intuitive end-to-end experiences without human intervention. Could you share the genesis story behind Wings? Wings began as a fundamental research and development lab to address the complexities and frictions of the services industry. The industry has grown more labor intensive, surrounded by non-cohesive, vendor-driven components on non-standard logistics and operations, diminishing the industry's creative potential and resulting in no innovation or increase in entrepreneurship. The barrier to entry has only become higher and more complex for any individual to enter the space regardless of their experience or intended sector.

Purple Dye received its first funding round in March 2021 from local business angels that believe in our product. Now we are a team of 7 members, most of us mathematicians and developers. We have been building the Purple Dye platform since then, and we will release the MVP of the platform during Q2 2021. Our objective is to be the link between AI researchers, developers, and the companies that want to include AI in their processes.

Children's author Dr Seuss describes reading as a gateway to learning. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go," he wrote in 1978. Even as adults today, Indian entrepreneurs and investors couldn't agree more. Quartz asked a bunch of Indian startup folks about the books they read in 2019.

Steve Desjarlais is the CEO and Co-Founder of Heyday AI, a company that focuses on developing an AI capable of engaging and understanding customers in every stage of their journey: from pre-purchase to product browsing and answering FAQs. In this interview, Mr. Desjarlais shares insights on how enterprises can leverage conversational AI to empower their marketing, support and sales teams with the ultimate goal of improving customer experience. This interview has been featured in the Conversational AI Initiative 2019. I'm former Head of Product of Ubisoft, the video game powerhouse behind blockbuster titled such as Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, FarCry and Splinter Cell. Heyday was launched by former Ubisoft (video game), Lightspeed (retail), Genband (cloud, telco) and Dentsu Aegis (advertising) executives who saw a pivotal moment in the history of computing and user interaction.

The Eluvio Content Fabric is an open, high performance software network enabling the management and distribution of video in ways never before possible. In this talk, Eluvio founder and CEO Michelle Munson will introduce the design principles and key technology of the platform, and demonstrate its first use cases for over the top video -- on demand, live, and linear -- and new opportunities for content monetization enabled by this novel environment. Why DNA is a useful molecule for storing digital information. What is the emerging set of technologies in biotech and synthetic biology that allow for the storage of digital information in synthetic DNA molecules. And how can data in DNA form can be computed on directly using biomolecular computing techniques, and what advantages this approach will offer over traditional forms of computation.

Dr. Nick Taylor -- Co-Founder & CEO -- UnmindLauren Kunze -- CEO -- PandorabotsKhaliya -- Mental Health Futurist, Neuro-technologist, Co-founder Falkora & Tell Your Story -Rich Pierson -- CEO & Co-Founder -- HeadspaceDr.

Ravi N. Raj is the CEO & Co-founder of Passage AI, a company that develops a natural language understanding and processing (NLU/NLP) platform that can be used to create a deep conversational interface for any website or business to interact with their customers. In this interview Mr. Raj shares insights on conversational AI, the opportunities it brings to enterprises and the future of human interaction with voice-enabled interfaces. This interview has been featured in the Conversational AI Initiative 2019. Prior to co-founding Passage AI, I was VP of @WalmartLabs, Walmart's hub for innovation around social, mobile and retail. I came to Walmart through the acquisition of a startup called Kosmix where I was their VP & GM.

Successful patient engagement is a hallmark of success in the world of digital health. Thinking beyond the mobile app or wearable technology itself, Neura, a Silicon Valley-based company that was founded in 2013, has created a software platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to improve patient engagement for better health outcomes. By integrating with Neura's SDK, digital health technologies can dynamically key off of activity and lifestyle factors from the physical world around the user to contextualize the user experience for each individual. Today, Neura's platform is already being used to impact the $300B challenge of medication adherence. Medgadget had a chance to sit down with CEO and Co-Founder Gilad Meiri to learn more about Neura's platform and the company's vision for improving patient engagement.