Come be a part of creating a community focused on leveraging AI for business applications, with a panel session sponsored by CSU. This is the first in a series of events for our AI working group. The session will be followed by a reception hosted by the CSULB Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Schedule:

4:00 - 5:30pm Panel discussion

5:30 - 7:00pm Reception hosted by CSULB IIE

Speaker Bios:

Moderator: Ganesh Raman

Kunal Chandiramani

Kunal Chandiramani is a serial entrepreneur, has delivered three TED Talks, and hosts the globally renowned 100+ episode mental health podcast DeTox Show, interviewing CEOs, billionaires, and Olympians on how they deal with stress. He also serves as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CSULB.

He founded and sold KStar e-commerce SaaS, and has been on multiple tech boards around the world, as well as guest spoken at universities across the world.

Since 2017, he has been a member of the Google Developer Community, working on AI models with Dialogflow and launching them on Google Assistant. He has leveraged AI for business optimization within companies and his personal life. He has also built and trained AI models.

Simon Leefatt

Simon Leefatt is a Senior Counsel at Stubbs Alderton & Markiles.

Simon’s practice is focused on corporate transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions (buy-side and sell-side), equity and debt fundraising, joint ventures, commercial lending, intellectual property, technology transactions and venture capital investments. In addition to counseling his clients on a wide range of transaction types, Simon acts as external general counsel to emerging companies, providing guidance to C-suite executives and senior leadership on a broad range of legal matters such as regulatory compliance, corporate governance, risk mitigation and commercial contract negotiations.

Simon advises public and private company clients across various industries, including consumer goods, retail, information security, healthcare, media, entertainment, education services and technology. His broad background also includes advising artificial intelligence, distributed ledger and blockchain technology companies.

Brenda Diane Wunsch

Experienced professional with a strong background in working with companies that have successfully integrated AI-driven technologies. Skilled at navigating organizational changes, adapting to evolving tech landscapes, and leveraging AI-powered tools to enhance business operations. I am a daily student of AI learning.

I recently had fun publishing self-help books on Amazon using AI. This project helped me understand AI in different subjects, from Freedom from Your Clutter: How to Declutter under Harper Evergreen to 7 Days to Author Success: Write, Publish, and Profit from Your Book Now by B.D. Wunsch.

As the Co-CEO of Sapphire RCMS, LLC, a role she has held since March 2020 to current B. D. Wunsch brings her seasoned entrepreneurial and executive skills to the forefront. Her proven track record in growing startups and driving business success across various industries is leveraged in this role, where she guides the company's growth and operations through strategic thinking, campaign development, and executive management.

Sapphire has added AI to improve its AI-driven revenue cycle management platform. The platform provides hospitals with real-time contract performance monitoring, claims auditing, and bulk revenue recapture services. Its AI and big data analytics help providers counteract payer denials, reduce financial losses, and optimize reimbursement processes.

 Real-time, predictive analytics, and payer performance monitoring.

 Advance real-time claims analysis and contract auditing.

Wunsch served as the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Scoutbee, a global cloud-based B2B procurement platform.

We used AI to develop large databases for diverse industries in our supply chain. Also, it has conversational AI; procurement professionals can pose intelligent and strategic questions such as "Where do I have single-source suppliers for a product?" or "Is there an alternative supplier for this product?" to unveil and address vulnerabilities within their base. A company aiming to provide more business opportunities to its top-performing suppliers can ask, "What capabilities do my preferred suppliers offer that I am not utilizing?" and receive immediate responses.

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