Wizeline, a provider of enterprise Artificial Intelligence applications and services, today announced that Gagan Saksena has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Technology and Engineering. A veteran of companies like Google and Netscape, Saksena will apply his decades of experience in big data and analytics, core engineering and technology leadership to drive Wizeline's next phase of growth and innovation. Saksena has worked with Wizeline as a strategic advisor since 2015. The company currently has over 250 employees across three offices in San Francisco, California, Guadalajara, Mexico, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With 50 percent of Wizeline employees working in product and engineering, Gagan's experience as a seasoned executive with both technical and business experience will support Wizeline's growth as it hires some of the best engineering talent around the world and delivers innovative solutions to Fortune 2000 companies.

In this interview, we chat with Wizeline's head of growth, Matt Pasienski. As a PhD-educated data scientist and chatbot enthusiast, Matt has lots of interesting opinions on the emerging role of artificial intelligence in the worlds of business and social media. So if you're curious about any of these topics, don't be afraid to hit him up on Twitter. To learn more about Matt and our team's work on chatbots, visit Wizeline's solutions page. Adam: Everyone, welcome to the program, I'm Adam, and today we're being joined by Matt Pasienski who runs the services team at Wizeline.