Building Conversational Apps @Walmart, Creating UmmaHub & Driving Progress in AI

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Curiosity

44 episodes

5 days ago

Naila Moloo sits down with experts in various domains to discuss exponential technologies, frameworks, and mental models.

Self-Improvement

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Naila Moloo sits down with experts in various domains to discuss exponential technologies, frameworks, and mental models.

Self-Improvement

Education

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Building Conversational Apps @Walmart, Creating UmmaHub & Driving Progress in AI

Curiosity

37 minutes 45 seconds

2 years ago

Building Conversational Apps @Walmart, Creating UmmaHub & Driving Progress in AI

Obaid Ahmed is an expert in building technology, UX/product design, large-scale software design, and business models. He created UmmahHub as a project to bring crowd-funding to Muslim communities around the world. He was the recipient of the Youth Business Entrepreneur in 2012 and was involved in the YoungMaker project which introduces the concept of technology to young members of our community via a 3D printer. Obaid was recently working on building the future of conversational apps using Voice, text, and AI working @Walmart Global Tech as the director of engineering.

We discuss his day to day tasks working at Walmart Global Tech as the director of engineering as well as his thoughts on the future of conversational experiences and advances in natural language processing like Chat GPT.

Action items:

Network as much as you can.

Learn to communicate your ideas.

Be curious.