"AI has emerged as a way for restaurants to mitigate labor shortages while improving employee and customer experiences." In this Tech Talk, Olivier Thierry, chief revenue officer, HungerRush, shares how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of restaurants. As the Chief Revenue Officer at HungerRush, Olivier Thierry is influencing customer expectations with AI as the restaurant industry has begun experimenting with it, he tells Spiceworks News & Insights' Technology Editor, Neha Kulkarni. Restaurants have realized taking on new technology will help them not only survive the challenges but achieve results, he notes. From labor shortages to improving customer experience, in this edition of Tech Talk, Olivier discusses how AI can overcome these challenges and allow restaurants to reduce human error.

As the Chief Revenue Officer at HungerRush, Olivier Thierry is influencing customer expectations with AI as the restaurant industry has begun experimenting with it, he tells Spiceworks News & Insights' Technology Editor, Neha Kulkarni. Restaurants have realized taking on new technology will help them not only survive the challenges but achieve results, he notes. From labor shortages to improving customer experience, in this edition of Tech Talk, Olivier discusses how AI can overcome these challenges and allow restaurants to reduce human error. He also shares how natural language processing can interpret customer attitudes in phone orders and have a real place in understanding customer experience. Olivier: The pandemic turned the restaurant industry upside down, and many of its setbacks are still being felt today.

Lynx Software Technologies, a developer of open architecture software solutions for mission critical embedded systems, announced the appointment of Al Maillet as Chief Revenue Officer. Maillet was previously with Mercury Systems, a global commercial technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry, where he served as the Vice President of Product Line Sales. In this new role, Maillet will oversee the Company's go-to-market function, strategic account management, and sales operations, reporting to CEO Tim Reed. Ian Ferguson, who in addition to serving as Lynx's Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships has served as the Interim Vice President of Sales, will return to a full-time focus on driving the Company's top-of-the-funnel marketing efforts and establishing industry partnerships with leading technology providers to extend Lynx's reach and strengthen its value proposition. "Our customers are looking toward the implementation of flexible, open architecture software solutions to enable their mission critical systems. Al's longstanding experience in the aerospace and defense end markets, with Mercury Systems and Wind River, will help Lynx as we accelerate our organic growth initiatives, and I'm excited to welcome a sales leader such as Al who has a track record of establishing scalable processes, building high-performance teams, and exceeding sales targets to our executive leadership team," Reed stated.

Pandion, the e-commerce delivery network powered by machine learning and led by Amazon Air Founder Scott Ruffin, has hired Lori Tenan as the company's first chief revenue officer (CRO). Tenan is a recognized leader in enterprise sales, having most recently led the post-purchase platform Narvar from its infancy to eight years of hyper-growth. "Since emerging from stealth a year ago, Pandion has used machine learning technologies to help Fortune 500 companies deliver millions of packages and provide an unmatched experience for their customers. Having Lori Tenan join as CRO will help identify new opportunities to augment our growth while ensuring our customer experience is best in class," said Scott Ruffin, Founder and CEO at Pandion. "Lori's experience and success in this space speaks for itself and with our ambitious plans for the year, this was the perfect time to bring Lori onto the Pandion team."

In this segment of TLAI, we discuss use cases in life sciences, healthcare, and retail. Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Exponential Machines. Florian Quarre: I operate primarily in the field of healthcare technology. I have quite recently joined Exponential AI. Exponential AI is an AI platform focused on accompanying our clients through their digital transformation journey. What we see is, there're three prongs that we believe help our clients. Large companies can then go through the discovery of what AI is about and how they can use it within their environment. The first one that is core to our business is our platform. The purpose of our platform is to bring together development and production of AI models so that we can evolve from a problem that you are tinkering on and have the ability to bring it all the way to production with the scale and strength of a business that runs millions of analysis. The second part that

Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Deloitte AI Institute, joined the board of trustees at AnitaB.org, the global nonprofit company focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in tech. Ammanath has held leadership positions at HPE, GE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom and Bank of America and is the founder of the nonprofit organization Humans For AI. "I'm honored to join the distinguished executives and leaders on the AnitaB.org Board of Trustees," said Ammanath. "Throughout my career, I have been passionate about supporting the development of women leaders in the field of technology and I look forward to working with my fellow board members to advance the important work of AnitaB.org." StorMagic, a storage and security products provider, appointed Danial Beer as its chief executive officer. Beer brings more than 25 years of senior management experience in the global software industry. Beer previously held positions as CEO of GFI Software, COO of YOUI Labs Inc., and executive director of both the performance management and M&A divisions of IBM.

To be successful and cut through the noise, you must keep up with the latest trends and consistently improve your strategies. Influencer marketing, social media marketing, brand awareness, and marketing automation have transformed the landscape. And if we want to succeed as business owners in 2021, we must stay up to date. Without a good marketing guru, a brand is simply that: A brand. But, if you come across a top marketer like some of the folks mentioned below, you don't have to be concerned about your brand being overlooked.

Artificial Intelligence Specialist - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have both become synonymous with innovation, and LinkedIn data shows that's more than just buzz. Hiring growth for this role has grown 74% annually in the past 4 years and encompasses a few different titles within the space that all have a very specific set of skills despite being spread across industries, including artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer. According to Indeed, Machine Learning Engineer job openings grew 344% between 2015 to 2018 and have an average base salary of $146,085 according their Best Jobs In The U.S. Study. Robotics Engineer – LinkedIn is seeing a 40% annual increase in demand for technical professionals with robotics expertise today. Robotics is an industry on fire according to LinkedIn's study.

OKRA are on a mission to save and improve human lives, by creating the world's most trustworthy AI analytics engine for healthcare. We discuss the challenges in realising that mission, and how best to work with much larger partners. Whilst you're here, head over to www.audible.co.uk/techtalks for your free month-trial and start your year with a great listening experience!

We are thrilled Wolf is joining our leadership team to head up Unbabel's growth and expansion strategy,