Ronald Schmelzer

Washington, D.C., United States

Co-Host at AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion

#AI #ML Expert - Principal Analyst, Cognilytica - AI Today Podcast Host - TechBreakfast Founder - SXSWi Judge - ex-ZapThink, Bizelo, Zoptopz, ChannelWave

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Mastering the 7 Patterns of AI for AI Project Success

1 month ago | projectmanagement.com | Caitlin Sullivan |Kathleen Walch |Ronald Schmelzer

Request to reuse this Add to my favorites The Seven Patterns of AI categorizes AI applications into distinct usage categories to help refine how AI is being applied to critical needs: Recognition, Conversational, Patterns and Anomalies, Predictive Analytics, Goal-Driven Systems, Hyperpersonalization, and Autonomous Systems.
Alaska Airlines’ New AI Tool Promises A Low Stress Travel Experience

1 month ago | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

Planning the perfect vacation or business trip often starts simply but quickly descends into endless scrolling, comparing destinations, juggling flight prices, and wading through traveler reviews. The airport experience further compounds this stress, with confusion and congestion adding layers of anxiety for travelers.
AI Locks Down The Future Of Security With Smarter Solutions

2 months ago | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

It’s becoming increasingly challenging keeping what’s most important to us safe in this increasingly unpredictable world. To help with these challenges, AI is finding an increasing role in the security and safety industry, enhancing threat detection, response capabilities, and overall safety measures. AI Augmented SurveillanceSecurity systems are getting an AI upgrade with computer vision and smarter abilities to keep an eye on video feeds and sensor data.
AI Takes The Wheel In Accelerating The Automotive Industry

2 months ago | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

When you think of AI in the automotive industry, self-driving cars might be the first thing that comes to mine. However, AI is taking much more of a front seat in changing the automotive industry as a whole, driving innovations in vehicle safety, manufacturing, and customer experience. Autonomous & AI-Enhanced VehiclesThe headline-grabbing news in the automotive industry focuses on self-driving, autonomous vehicles.
From Reducing Risk To Improving Operations, The Role Of AI In Insurance

Feb 13, 2025 | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

From determining risk and setting premium rates to determining claim payouts, and optimizing customer outreach, insurance is highly dependent on data. Anywhere there’s a lot of data, AI provides significant value, driving greater efficiency, providing more optimized and focused delivery, and improving human ability. This especially the case with AI in insurance. AI is significantly impacting the insurance industry, improving efficiency, accuracy, and customer experience across various processes.
Survey: 67% Of Execs Funnel $250M Into AI To Accelerate Transformation

Jan 25, 2025 | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

A majority of senior executives across multiple industries expect artificial intelligence (AI) to fundamentally reshape their businesses in the next 12 to 24 months, according to KPMG’s latest AI Quarterly Pulse Survey. The report found that 56% of leaders anticipate significant transformation within the next year alone, jumping to 67% within two years—underscoring the swift pace at which AI is evolving from a strategic discussion into an operational transformation imperative.
How AI Is Augmenting The Human In Human Resources

Jan 23, 2025 | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

Even though organizations are increasingly making use of machines and AI systems to power their processes, companies are still powered by people. When you have people delivering the most critical aspects of an organization’s services and products, you have the need to handle all the processes involved in managing those people. AI is significantly transforming the Human Resources (HR) industry by streamlining processes, improving decision-making, and enhancing employee experiences.
How AI Is Dialing Up Efficiency And Value In The Telecom Industry

Jan 9, 2025 | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

When you use your mobile phone, the Internet at your house or anywhere at your business, your work, or consume music, video, image, and text content,you're interacting with telecommunication systems. Telecommunication is core to driving value in today’s information economy. To further that value, the use of AI in telecom is driving significant advancements in the telecommunications industry, improving network management, customer service, and operational efficiency.
Watt’s Next? The AI Revolution Shaping The Future Of Energy

Nov 28, 2024 | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

The topic of energy is rapidly becoming central to the conversation around AI. In that conversation, we’re primarily talking about how energy-hungry AI is, whether we’re using that energy to train complicated AI models or responding to the huge amount of demand for generating results and inferences from those trained models. On the other hand, another conversation is focused on how AI is helping power suppliers.
From Production To Precision: How AI Is Reshaping Manufacturing

Nov 14, 2024 | forbes.com | Ron Schmelzer |Ronald Schmelzer

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past many decades, the impact of globalization is also felt in regions where manufacturing was previously a mainstay of the local economy.