Chris Walton, a top expert in omnichannel retailing, has nearly 20 years of experience in retail and retail technology. As Co-CEO and Founder of Omni Talk, one of the fastest-growing retail blogs, he's a leading voice in the Retail Technology industry. Chris brings deep insights with a background at Target as VP of Store of the Future and Merchandising for Home Furnishings. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA from Stanford.

Chris Walton Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswaltonretail/
OmniTalk Retail:https://www.linkedin.com/company/omnitalk/posts/?feedView=all
Twitter: https://mobile.x.com/OmniTalk

Mark Moyou, PhD Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmoyou/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkMoyou


Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:58 Gen AI in Retail
04:53 E-Commerce
06:10 When E-Commerce boomed
09:15 Advancement of Retail with accelerated compute
11:03 Fast Commerce is eating business of large ecommerce players
12:43 Labour Dynamics in Retail (Indian vs US market)
14:40 Real Business Value of Gen AI
17:03 Electronic Dynamic Tags
19:35 Computer Vision and Personalization
22:10 The art of merchandising
24:02 Importance of Merchant
29:30 MerchantGPT
35:07 Customer loyalty
37:39 Segmentation of Retail market
39:45 Impact of Gen AI in Retail Market
42:00 Shift in Retail Market
48:28 Marketing with Gen AI
52:07 Why AI can't replicate sale associates and customer service
55:44 Challenges of data in Retail Market
59:54 Doing my own way mindset in retail
01:01:07 Executive Big Bets
01:03:13 Search in Product Discovery
01:06:13 Retail Media Networks
01:08:20 Retail Ads, YouTube and Brand Recognition
01:11:47 AI Generated Content
01:14:40 Are Malls dead?
01:15:20 AI Agents in Retail
01:16:40 Career Optimization Function
01:19:23 Three Book Recommendations
01:20:04 Career Advice
01:22:15 Rapid Round

Ramsri, an AI expert with 12+ years of experience in AI and product development, specializing in computer vision and NLP. Ramsri is the founder of Questgen.ai and Supermeme.ai, innovative NLP SaaS apps. He also teaches NLP and AI SaaS courses at LearnNLP Academy and shares insights on Medium, Twitter, and YouTube.

📲 Ramsri Goutham Golla Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramsrig/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ramsri_goutham

📲 Mark Moyou, PhD Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmoyou/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkMoyou

📗 Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:43 Bootstrapping Two Companies
05:09 PhD and Entrepreneurship
08:11 Overview of Companies
09:53 Memes
12:23 Bootstrapping Startups
22:27 Minimalistic Philosophy for Startups
25:47 Building Distribution through Personal Brand
34:39 Saas vs Micro Saas
40:15 Happy Place
47:51 Major Components of AI saas apps
54:04 Open Source Models vs API
58:26 Getting Featured in Google
01:08:17 Coming back to India
01:17:36 Takeaways from Silicon Valley
01:32:48 Company of one
01:35:39 Number One on Product Hunt
01:45:25 Generalize High Cognition Barrier
01:53:15 Mistakes in building Saas
01:59:17 Unfair Advantage
02:01:53 Advice for launching micro saas apps
02:05:09 If you have to start over
02:08:36 Advice for high schooler, college student and professionals
02:22:17 Rapid Round

Serg Masís, a renowned Data Scientist in the agriculture sector, with a multifaceted background in entrepreneurship and web/app development. Serg is also the author of the acclaimed book "Interpretable Machine Learning with Python."

📲 Serg Masís Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smasis/

📲 Mark Moyou, PhD Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmoyou/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkMoyou

📗 Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:02 Interpretable Machine Learning System
11:06 post-hoc interpretability
12:57 Quality of Interpretability bounded by the breadth of inputs
18:52 EDA is more than just exploring the data
21:12 Interpretable Models
27:19 Upper Limit
28:59 Causal reasoning
35:02 Domain Knowledge in Causality
37:42 Causality on existing and generative data
40:42 AGI and Simulation
47:33 LLMs to Interpret Data
52:25 Interaction with Machine Learning Systems
54:53 Modeling in EDA
57:34 Training Data Mixtures
01:02:26 Impact of Generative AI
01:06:05 Mixture of Experts
01:12:46 Serg's upcoming book
01:18:54 Building Product Mindset
01:23:59 Barrier of Entry for Data Scientists
01:28:01 Advice for Book Writers
01:33:43 Career Optimization Function
01:37:45 Web Development Background
01:42:24 Advice for High Schooler, College Student and Professionals
01:47:57 Book Recommendations
01:49:26 Rapid Round