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Topic

Challenges of Building an AI Startup

Abstract

We started Workfit to help people become more efficient, effective, and creative at work. Our first product is an enterprise voice AI called Eva: an intelligent, interactive meeting facilitator that makes meetings searchable, actionable, and more productive. You can ask Eva to follow up on action items, take note of important decisions, and highlight key moments of a call. How does one go about building an AI solution like Eva? We strive to solve AI problems such as voice search, keyword spotting, and transcription; we will discuss that and more in this talk.

Profile

Mohamed is passionate about empowering people around the world to communicate securely and effectively using online services that provide great experiences. Before joining Workfit, Mohamed was an engineering manager at LinkedIn working on feed personalization and relevance, home for the fastest growing monetized products at LinkedIn, in addition to building a human-in-the-loop platform, and incubating venture bets by leading “moonshot” projects. Earlier at Microsoft, Mohamed led a team of engineers working on email delivery for Outlook.com; before that, he worked on a PaaS system that powered up online services with 400M+ users; and earlier, he worked on Visual Studio. Mohamed finds "ikigai" in machine learning, ultra-scale systems, debugging, and software craftsmanship.