A few years ago, I was interviewing for a new position as VP of CRM at an accounting and professional services provider with member firms globally. They were looking to begin an IT…
In our Trailblazer Voices blog series, we’re sharing stories of real people facing real challenges, and finding innovative ways to succeed. These stories are as diverse as our world, ranging from one Trailblazer’s…
In the past year, there's been a lot of conversation about immigrants. All this talk made me think about my parents, who emigrated from the Basque region of France and Spain and started small businesses here in the U.S. Growing up in Northern California, I was often embarrassed. I'm ashamed to
There are some amazing things happening with the technology we use to run our business. Intelligence is becoming a reality for companies of all sizes, many of our laborious tasks can be automated, and we’re better able to focus on the best use of our time. In all this though, there is a truth that
Tanya Lushchuk has never been afraid of the unknown. After a successful early career in public relations and digital advertising, she left agency life for an in-house position in a completely different industry: pharmaceutical technology. Working in the Ukrainian tech industry was a big change for
Like many 17-year-olds, Cristina Bran got a job as a waitress. But for her, it wasn’t only about earning extra spending money. She had recently moved to London from Romania and needed to make a new life for herself. Being a waitress wasn’t exactly part of her life plan, though. She had dreamed of
This year’s Dreamforce was jam-packed with sessions covering the latest health and life sciences marketing trends and technologies. Truth be told, it was impossible to take it all in. But no worries, we have you covered. Virtually every session is available on our Salesforce LIVE page. To get you
Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) is a popular and successful family of methods for teaching computers tasks ranging from playing Go and Atari games to controlling industrial robots.
Speech recognition has been successfully depolyed on various smart devices, and is changing the way we interact with them. Traditional phonetic-based recognition approaches require training of separate components such as pronouciation, acoustic and language model.