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Bot Nirvana | AI & Automation Podcast

by Nandan Mullakara

Bot Nirvana is a podcast on all things Intelligent Automation. We cover RPA, AI, Process Intelligence, Process Mining, and a host of other tools and techniques for intelligent automation.

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Episodes

  1. Alex and Doug

    In this episode, we are joined by Intelligent Automation experts Doug Shannon and Alex Dixon to unravel the complex terminology dominating today's Agentic AI automation landscape. The conversation delves into how enterprises are integrating cognitive abilities into traditional automation…

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  2. Manish Ballal

    Manish Ballal is a GTM and Sales leader with over a decade of experience in the automation space. He is currently leading Generative AI initiatives at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He brings a wealth of experience from both large global technology companies and startups. Previously, he held…

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  3. Agentic Process Automation (APA)

    In this episode, we explore Agentic Process Automation (APA), a paradigm that could revolutionize digital automation by harnessing the power of AI agents. The discussion focuses on the ProAgent system as an example of APA. APA introduces a new paradigm where AI-driven agents can analyze, decide,...

  4. OCR 2.0

    In this podcast, we dive into the new concept of OCR 2.0 - the future of OCR with LLMs. We explore how this new approach addresses the limitations of traditional OCR by introducing a unified, versatile system capable of understanding various visual languages. We discuss the innovative GOT…

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  5. JP Morgenthal

    JP Morgenthal (JP) is a seasoned expert in applied AI and automation. With over 20 years of experience as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Solution Architect, JP has been a driving force behind digital transformation for Fortune 1000 companies. His expertise spans IT architecture, cloud...

  6. Decoding the Gen AI secrets

    Why is Generative AI the talk of the tech world? Today, we break down the basics and explore its vast applications beyond text generation, from drug discovery to logistics. Subscribe for premium content on mastering AI. Stay ahead in your AI journey with Bot Nirvana AI Mastermind.

  7. Shreekant Mandvikar

    Shreekant Mandvikar is an Intelligent Automation expert who has helped 20+ customers on their Intelligent Automation journey. He currently leads Intelligent Automation initiatives at Ally Financial. In this chat, we discuss his Intelligent Automation journey and learnings, interesting use cases,...

  8. Andy Thurai

    Andy is VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research. He is an accomplished IT executive having served in leadership roles at major companies like IBM, Intel, and Oracle. He is an expert in AI, AIOps, Observability, Cloud, and other enterprise software. I have read many of his articles in...

  9. Workfellow

    Workfellow is an AI-powered process intelligence solution designed for uninterrupted process analysis and operational excellence. In this chat with CEO Kustaa Kivelä, we talk about Kustaa’s journey and the frustrations that led to him founding Workfellow. We also talk about the options available…

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  10. Sarah Burnet (KYP ai)

    Sarah is a distinguished industry analyst advising enterprises on Intelligent automation technologies, sourcing, and market trends. She is a frequent speaker, an active blogger, and is named in Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in Technology Hall of Fame. In this chat, we talk about the...

  11. Gurdeep Singh (Tryg)

    Gurdeep Singh is the Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) and Tools innovation lead at Tryg which is Scandinavia's largest insurance company. He is Lean Six Sigma black belt certified and is passionate about improving and optimizing processes by engaging with businesses. In this podcast, we chat...

  12. Nanonets

    Nanonets is an AI-powered document processing platform with built-in automation features. Nanonets uses advanced machine learning, and deep learning techniques to extract relevant information from unstructured data. In this talk, with CEO Sarthak Jain, we discuss Nanonet’s doc processing &...

  13. SilkFlo

    SilkFlo helps you to capture, manage, engage, and continuously measure your Intelligent Automation opportunities. In this chat with CEO Alexander Leonida, we talk about the key challenges in Intelligent Automation - Poor visibility, Governance, and Culture. Alex shares his solutions and…

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  14. Max Ioffe (WESCO)

    Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with more than $21 billion in annual sales and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services, and supply chain solutions. The Company employs approximately 20,000 people. In this talk with Maxim Ioffe, the Director for the Global...

  15. Sidney Madison Prescott, MBA

    Sidney is a digital transformation leader with vast experience in intelligent automation. She was most recently the Global Head of Intelligent Automation for Spotify. She has built and scaled Automation Centers of excellence at Spotify and BNY Mellon, E-Trade, and Fiserv. She is the co-author of...

  16. Kalyana Bedhu

    Kalyana is currently the AI/ML Principal at Fannie Mae. He has extensive experience in AI and has been the head of AI at Ericsson and also the Engineering leader for AI at Microsoft. In this episode, we talk about the current excitement around AI, Generative AI, ChatGPT, and how it works. We also...

  17. Turbotic

    Turbotic's platform supports enterprises in monitoring, managing, and optimizing Intelligent Automation. In this episode, we talk to Alex Hubel, the Chief Strategy Officer and co-owner of Turbotic. Before Turbotic, Alex headed up Ericsson's global Automation & AI organizations. We explore how he...

  18. Deepak Karwal

    Deepak is the author of the book "The Automated Enterprise" - Digital Reinvention through Intelligent Automation. He is a veteran in the Automation space and has led multiple Intelligent automation initiatives across industries. In this chat, we talk about how you can bridge the gap between...

  19. Accelirate

    Accelirate provides end-to-end Intelligent Automation managed services from their US, Colombia, and India delivery centers. Their services include Robotic Process Automation (RPA), cognitive technologies such as AI and machine learning, natural language processing, and smart OCR. In this chat…

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  20. Shaun Dawson

    Shaun has been involved with RPA since the early days. He co-founded Virtual Operations one of the earliest companies in this space and has since been involved in various roles. He currently heads the consulting delivery for UiPath. In this chat, we talk about the challenges he sees in the space...

  21. Ricardo Henriques

    Ricardo is a Business Transformation Leader at EDP Portugal. He leads their Intelligent Automation program with more than 100 bots that are driven by Process mining, RPA, and AI. In this chat, we discuss how Ricardo and his team established a federated CoE model with a "Center of Enablement"…

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  22. Smart Layers

    Smart Layers is an Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution that enables you to intelligently process documents with AI that can learn from fewer data sets. The cloud-based platform takes documents (invoices, purchase orders, claims, etc.) and enables you to automate business processes. In...

  23. Kavita Ganesan

    Kavita has extensive experience working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) including multiple patents. The Founder of Opinosis Analytics, she has authored the book "The Business Case for AI" where she shows you how to prepare for AI, jumpstart a successful initiative, and track the results. So, in...

  24. RoboRana

    Robo Rana provides Intelligent Automation Services in Europe and is based out of Belgium. In this episode, RoboRana Managing partner Mathias Fransen talks about the practical aspects of implementing Intelligent Automation, and how organizations can evolve Digitally using end-to-end automation.…

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  25. EvoluteIQ

    EvoluteIQ has an end-to-end Enablement Platform for Hyperautomation. It brings together iBPMS, AI, ML, RPA, and data processing in a single integrated low-code platform. In this chat, with CEO Sameet Gupte, we discuss EvoluteIQ's history, how they are enabling holistic automation, Changing...

  26. Doug Shannon

    Doug Shannon is a leader in the Intelligent Automation space. He has over two decades of IT experience with companies like Chevron, CISCO, and more. He is a Bot Nirvana community member and has an interesting take on all things RPA & Intelligent Automation. So, In this chat, we talk about...

  27. Ian Barkin

    Ian Barkin was the co-founder of Symphony Ventures which was an early RPA consulting firm. It was sold to SYKES for $69M Dollars in 2018. He has since co-authored the book "Intelligent Automation", and is the author of many LinkedIn Learning courses on RPA, IA, and Process Mining. A well-known...

  28. Prashant (Hanover)

    Today we have Prashant Dinkar Hinge. He is the Vice President of Automation and Employee Experience at The Hanover Insurance Group. Hanover is a leading provider of property and casualty insurance in the United States. Prashant and the team have built an Intelligent Automation Practice at Hanover...

  29. Brian (Dentsu)

    Brian Klochkoff is the EVP and Global Head of Automation at Dentsu international, a large advertising services company. At Dentsu, Brian has been defining and implementing Dentsu's global automation program alongside a team that includes a team of Data Scientists, Solution Architects, Engineers,...

  30. AWS Intelligent Automation

    Intelligent Automation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) includes Process assessment, Low-code/ No-Code, RPA, and AI-ML. These workloads can be deployed on the AWS cloud along with other core AWS services like storage, compute, notification, and more for your process automation. In this episode, we…

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  31. Amol (DuPont)

    Amol Rajamane leads the Digital Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) at DuPont, a large specialty manufacturing company based out of Wilmington, USA. Amol and the team have built a truly remarkable Automation program with processes and technologies worth emulating. So, let us listen in as Amol...

  32. Zeitworks

    Zeitworks is an Automated Process Discovery platform that leverages machine learning to discover, analyze, and improve your processes. In this chat with CEO Jay Bartot, we discuss how Zeitworks Process discovery enables holistic process improvement and augmented automation. More information and...

  33. Robocorp (Part 2)

    In this episode, we are happy to welcome back Antti, the CEO of Robocorp. Here is the prior chat with Antii. Robocorp as you all know is an open-source automation stack. The team has been adding some impressive features and we chat about that. We also talk about the general trends in the…

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  34. AutomationEdge

    AutomationEdge is a Hyperautomation platform with RPA-as-a-Service, API Connectors, Chatbots, ETL, and more. They are a truly cloud-based RPA service that offers transparent consumption-based pricing including a free plan. In this chat with Siva Juturi, head of sales and operations for...

  35. KYP AI

    KYP (Know Your Potential) helps you understand your processes and how these balance with people and technology dimensions. It gives you an end-to-end view of your organization's effectiveness and harnesses AI to help you prioritize data-driven automation opportunities. In this chat, we discuss...

  36. TagUI

    Tag UI is a free and open-source RPA from AI Singapore. It is a command-line automation software that uses a simple human language like syntax to build your workflows. Over a period of time, thanks to an ever increasing community, it has multiple plugins and extensions to run TagUI from Python…

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  37. Blueprint

    Blueprint provides digital process design solutions that can help you identify, design and manage your automations. In this chat with CRO Charles Sword, we explore how you can go beyond the usual documentation like PDDs to a more data centric approach with what they call as Digital Blue prints....

  38. AI & RPA with Tom Taulli

    Tom Taulli is the author two books on RPA and AI - The Robotic Process Automation Handbook and Artificial Intelligence Basics. He is also a contributor on Bloomberg, Forbes and BusinessWeek. He has been in technology space for long and is also as investor in the space. His books and articles are...

  39. Skan AI

    Skan.ai is an AI-powered Process Intelligence platform. They are building a platform that can help you understand what they are calling the "telemetry of work". Using AI, they observe day-to-day tasks being performed across your organization to build a data-driven meta-model of work that can…

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  40. FortressIQ

    FortressIQ is a process intelligence company. They are building a platform that can continuously monitor your processes and provide insights for optimization, automation, security, governance, and more so that you can digitally transform at scale! In this chat, we discuss with Founder and CEO...

  41. OpenBots

    OpenBots is an Open source RPA and AI company. OpenBots provides a free and open-source RPA Tool kit. There are NO Bot Licenses, you can download their tools and get started. They also have an academy where you can learn and get certified on OpenBots. In this chat, we discuss about the OpenBots...

  42. NICE RPA

    NICE is a 1.6-Billion-dollar company with a portfolio of software solutions that includes RPA. Within the RPA space, NICE is known for their Contact center automation especially with their attended automation bot - NEVA. In this podcast, NICE RPA CEO Oded Karev shares with us the 18-year history…

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  43. Pascal Bornet

    A conversation on the book "Intelligent Automation" with Pascal Bornet. Pascal is a key influencer in the Intelligent Automation space. He is passionate about Intelligent automation and has over 250 thousand followers on Linkedin. A senior executive with more than 20 years of experience, he has…

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  44. Catalytic

    Catalytic is a no-code/low-code, cloud-based platform that connects people, data, and systems. It is one of the easy-to-use DPA software automation tools in the market. We talk with co-founder Sean Chou about the platform, how it is different from RPA, their community version, customizing the...

  45. Jiffy AI

    This is an interesting conversation with Babu Sivadasan (CEO at Jiff.ai), where we discuss about Jiffy's unique socially responsible innovation combined with Hyperapps. Jiffy.ai is an app-based automation platform. These apps or hyper apps as Jiffy calls them, uses a low-code approach to unleash...

  46. Robocorp

    Robocorp is an Open Source RPA built on top of the popular open-source automated testing framework - Robot Framework project. The tool has three components:- Robocode Lab - environment for software robot development.- Robocloud - Cloud-based Orchestrator.- Robohub- learning materials and...

  47. Open RPA

    Open RPA is an easy to use RPA tool with drag-drop interface like mainstream RPA tool vendors. In this show, we talk to Allan about the History of Open RPA, How Open RPA compares with other RPA, Security, and other aspects of the tool. More information and Links: Open RPA Website: openrpa.dk Bot...

  48. Automation Hero

    Automation Hero is an AI-centric Automation tool. The Intelligent automation platform aims to provide you with all key automation capabilities: - AI/ML - RPA - ICR - Process Mining - Human in the loop More information and Links: Automation Hero Website: automationhero.ai Bot Nirvana website:...

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Bot Nirvana is a podcast on all things Intelligent Automation. We cover RPA, AI, Process Intelligence, Process Mining, and a host of other tools and techniques for intelligent automation.

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