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Dr. Cory Kidd is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health. Dr. Kidd has been working in healthcare technology for nearly two decades. The focus of his work has been applying innovative technologies towards solving large-scale healthcare challenges. His previous company, Intuitive Automata, created interactive coaches for weight loss. Prior to this, Dr. Kidd received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in human-robot interaction. While there, he conducted studies that showed the psychological and clinical advantages of using a physical robot over screen-based interactions.
With over two decades of experience in healthcare technology focused on innovations and solutions to major healthcare challenges, Dr. Kidd is uniquely qualified to make an impact in the patient/user experience. He has successfully launched other health and tech oriented companies as a veteran of the industry. Dr. Kidd received a M.S. and Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in human-robot interaction.
His primary objective while there was to demonstrate how there were obvious clinical, as well as psychological, advantages to using physical robots instead of traditional screen-based methods. While the front end allows for easy patient interfacing, the back end flows to doctors and health professionals who are working to monitor the overall progress of these chronic care patients. From arthritis to kidney issues and more, Catalia Health’s robotic tech products deliver outstanding results for patient and doctor.
As the health technology CEO explains, the robot elicits a stronger long-term engagement with patients. The fact that the robot actually looks at you creates a much deeper psychological connection with patients, which drives them to be more involved with their own health and the management of their condition over long periods of time.
Catalia Health’s robots (know individually as Mabu) are built on a set of artificial intelligence algorithms that draw on psychology to form the conversations with patients. As it is not scripted, but interaction based, the experience feels interactive and real, and, ironically, more human.
Much like a physician tailors the needed medical information and delivers it in a way that is best suited for an individual, Catalia Health’s robots also interact and respond with patients in a manner that creates a comfortable experience.
Catalia Health’s platform‘s integrated technology learns about a patient’s overall personality, and their interests, as well as any particular treatment difficulties or challenges they have had over time. This enables the Mabu robot to engage in conversations that are unique to each patient, based on established behavioral models of psychology designed to promote significant behavioral change for improved well-being.
As Mabu communicates daily, patients are much more likely to manage their treatment better. Dr. Kidd gives a detailed analysis on the topics of symptoms, side effects, and psychosocial issues, which are three major components of the AI based care management. And as the old modified proverb says, the proof is in the pudding, and this is certainly evidenced by Catalia Health’s data from their experimentation and market testing. In multiple testing situations in which three groups of patients were told to use either the paper log system to record and manage their care, the Catalia Health software on a computer, or the system integrated into an actual robot, the robot was strongly preferred, by far. Some people even tried to negotiate to keep their test robot longer, which is about as glowing an endorsement as you could hope for. The robots clearly have won.
Sahil Sahni, co-founder of AllyO, a Silicon Valley based AI technology company, delivers an interesting overview of the many problems that exist in the human resources arena, and how his company’s tech is beating them, one by one.
Sahni and his company partner saw a major problem in business recruiting and launched AllyO in 2016 as a means to solve it for companies worldwide. The problem—recruiting is inefficient, applicants are lost in the process, conversions are poor, and the cost is high due to menial tasks placed upon the hiring teams. Essentially, there is a complete lack of visibility and the process offers little control for human resources leaders.
Sahni and partner realized they could build a better engine, and did. AllyO reinvented the system by bringing the recruiting process directly to the qualified applicants instead of the traditional route of bringing the applicants to the recruiting process. And AllyO’s system loops into human beings only when needed, thus allowing the mundane work to be circumvented, keeping human employees on more important job tasks. Sahni explains how his company uses deep workflow conversational AI to streamline and automate end-to-end recruiting. AllyO successfully enables a managed workflow, by using smart technology to engage via texting over web and mobile avenues.
Sahni states that their system not only greatly relieves the stress and drain on human resources departments, but also significantly improves the quality of incoming new hires.
As Sahni explains, the highest quality candidates are discouraged from applying due to the extensive, laborious process of first finding an appropriate position, and then being forced to fill out an online application for 45 minutes to an hour per opening.
For a company that is seeking the best employees, this is highly problematic as sometimes it is only the most desperate candidates who will go through this difficult process, a process that only offers a 15% chance or less that your submission will be seen or acted on.
AllyO utilizes conversational career matching across multiple talent acquisition channels, qualifies the candidates for the role that perfectly fits their skill and experience, then fully automates the scheduling of interviews and even post interview communications. Responsiveness, better communication, and a more human type interaction back and forth, all built into the AI drives engagement to higher levels. As the AI probes deeper into a candidate’s qualifications it makes granular decisions along the way, which allows for candidate ease and better options for the hiring manager.
The tech expert explains how AllyO uses each engaging interaction with a potential candidate as an opportunity to learn, thus enabling the system to answer candidates’ questions in an increasingly sophisticated manner. Additionally, their AI ensures that proper conduct is always a priority by discarding biases. And as AllyO is a multilingual, highly configurable technology it can integrate easily into any HR system. Ironically, it is AI that is putting the human touch back into hiring.
Andris Merkulovs – Founder and CEO at Monetizr joins Future Tech Podcast.
Blockchain-based universal game reward engine that enhances gamers’ experiences and benefits game developers via monetization, retention, and engagement.
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Priatek is breaking new ground by creating the world’s only performance-based digital signage. The company has created a revolutionary new platform for advertisers to interact, engage, and sell products in the marketplace. The Priatek team builds turn-key prize promotions which run on a network of patented digital kiosks and a custom mobile app.
Prize promotions, advertised on the digital signage, engage consumers in a unique and fun way.
Consumers select an advertised product, compete to win products, and always receive a coupon that can be used to purchase the product directly from the kiosk, mobile app, local retail stores, or online.
Industry changing innovations include the ONLY free-to-play prize kiosk and a platform that bridges the gap between the retail space and online.
By becoming the premier aggregator of prize promotions, Priatek will award more prizes than anyone else in history. We’ve created a free and fun new way for consumers to win and save every time they play.
UTRUST is a ground-breaking payment platform that empowers buyers to pay with their favorite cryptocurrencies while providing the best consumer protection in the market. For buyers: Payment protection – We are the only payment platform that provides a protection mechanism in crypto payments, allowing you to pay with confidence.
We minimize the risk of fraud, by acting as mediator, providing guaranteed buyer protection and payment coverage.
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Payments are made via blockchain.
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Skyllz is an open-source, public, blockchain-based and distributed skills validation platform that builds a universal and evolving Human Positive Skills Ecosystem changing the way we showcase and boost our talents.
Skyllz is a project led by workkola.
com and is based on the Skyllz Distributed Platform (SDP), a skill validation protocol that enables users to validate and empower skills acquisition, allocation, contextualization and boosting freely within and across Skills Touchpoints Applications (STapps) such as e-learning platforms, networking platforms, portfolio platforms, offline education platforms or any other platform that want to benefit from and add value to the Skyllz ecosystem.
Users can validate their skills across STapps with Proof-of-Skill (Skyllz reputation) and finance their self-development with Skyllz Tokens.
We all want to feel great, to have more energy, and enjoy life to the fullest, and while most of us know that our diets significantly contribute to this, many of us don’t heed the call our bodies are making for better quality nutrition. But what if eating a healthy diet that provided more energy and that ‘feel good’ feeling didn’t have to taste awful? What if we could eat delicious fats and still feel great?
Alex Cunningham, Head of Partnerships at Perfect Keto (perfectketo.com), is a graduate of Villanova University with a BS in chemical engineering. Mr. Cunningham is an expert in health and nutrition and has consulted for many years in the field. His business, Perfect Keto, is a ketogenic nutrition company. The ketogenic diet is based on a low-carb intake for those who function best on a higher fat diet, one that increases their mental performance when they use fat for fuel instead of carbohydrates.
Cunningham discusses how a large sector of the population never experiences scarcity such that the body needs to break down fat and run on ketones. Most people get their energy from carbohydrates, but as Cunningham explains, when the body runs on ketones, a higher level of energy is experienced.
Additionally, those who do tap into their ketones often find that their mental clarity is expanded beyond their expectations. The nutrition expert gives an overview of some of the ketone products that his company, Perfect Keto, develops and distributes.
Keto Base, for example, is a powder made from beta hydroxy-butyrate (BHB), and it contains zero carbs, gums, fillers, or sugars. Keto Base contains MCTs (medium-chain triglycerides), which is a vital source of energy for everyone.
Cunningham explains that in regard to ketosis, calories should be delivered 75% from a fat source, 20% from proteins, and 5% from carbohydrates. However, this will only put someone into a fat burning space, and is not necessarily going to be the supreme answer for good health.
As Cunningham notes, the end goal is not to be in ketosis, but is actually, simply, to feel great.
He provides an overview of some changes that anyone can make in order to get their body feeling and performing at optimum levels.
By cutting carbohydrates out, except for leafy greens, a body is able to thrive as you give it the stimulus to operate on its own fat. A ketogenic diet allows an individual to truly enjoy eating fats, but without those carbs that are dragging us down, and those who explore this lifestyle find that they are less hungry and more fulfilled.
For those who may have an established vegan or vegetarian diet and prefer to continue eating their normal diet, exogenous ketones can still enhance their overall well-being. Perfect Keto’s exogenous ketones are 100% vegan and vegetarian friendly with no dairy or animal products. Thus vegans and vegetarians can experience the same boost of energy and get that ‘feel great’ feeling that omnivores enjoy on a ketogenic diet.
Aaron Frank, principal faculty member at Singularity University, has an extensive background in life science and communication, with a specialization in augmented and virtual reality (VR). He researches and reports on trends affecting business. Singularity University is a global community that uses expanding technologies to take on some of the planet’s greatest challenges. Through its extensive platform comprised of learning and innovation resources, Singularity intends to empower people to meet problems head-on and find solutions via a network of experts in AI, robotics, and digital biology.
Frank recounts several stories of businesses that have seen incredible expansion due to virtual world technology, such as a billion-dollar real estate business that has completely adopted virtual activity, which allows for all their employees to gather online, from wherever they are in the world. But the environments are larger and more detailed than most would ever imagine, with interactive campuses that allow users to take on all sorts of activities in the virtual world. In business, and in play, Frank discusses how the technology has broken through to higher levels and provides users with vivid, intense experiences virtually.
He gives an insightful look at the virtual worlds being designed today that allow users to experience big events, such as concerts and festivals, and even political debates, as an avatar, which enables them to interact and communicate with other avatars. And Frank outlines some of the newest technology being introduced by global giants such as Facebook and others. He provides an overview of Facebook’s new Venues product, which utilizes 360 VR cameras to capture events.
Facebook’s entry into the VR space will allow users to enjoy live events such as major concerts, and sports, and attend premieres of big movies, all over the globe, and experience them with their friends from anywhere. And while VR technology is fifteen or more years old, the latest components that allow for real, multiple users shared experiences are only in their nascent stages.
The technology expert details some of the other opportunities for VR environments, such as security and protection. Frank explains how we can expect the future of location and perimeter security to be 100% virtual, in that security personnel will no longer be doing foot patrols in actual space but will be walking a virtual space instead. As virtual worlds merge with the real world, the stuff of science fiction novels and movies will become our actual reality.
Frank states that by design, Singularity University focuses only on the positive ways that technology can be utilized, but he acknowledges that negative applications of technology are certainly within the realm of possibility. Frank delves into some of the current concerns that many people have with technology advances such as privacy issues and a general fear of a surveillance state. And he points out that while VR is incredibly interesting and has many positive applications, VR environments offer little privacy in that everything that is done, looked at, etc. is entirely trackable. However, as Frank states, blockchain technology, which is essentially a list of records called blocks that are linked using cryptography, may deliver some additional privacy and anonymity that will allay users’ anxiety.
Ultimately, however, as networks expand and technology explodes, VR and augmented reality will become a regular part of our daily experience in business, and also for pleasure. And tech companies are racing to provide networks that have the processing power to keep up with innovative design as it advances at breathtaking rates.
Maritz Motivation Solutions believes that understanding people is at the heart of success in today’s new normal.
This people-centric approach is nothing new for us, but the way in which we’re approaching it today is. We’ve partnered with leading scientists and top thought leaders from universities and businesses, as well as industry experts and our own clients to challenge the status quo by infusing discoveries in human behavior into our business solutions.
The goal at Maritz is to create better human experiences by strengthening the connection between businesses, employees and customers.
We’re committed to drive value to our clients with proven ROI.
