Ronald Schmelzer

Executive Director, GovFuture

Ronald Schmelzer, Executive Director, GovFuture

Ron is an Executive Director at GovFuture, a community of government innovators. He is also principal analyst, managing partner, and founder of the Artificial Intelligence-focused analyst and advisory firm Cognilytica, and is also the host of the AI Today podcast, SXSW Innovation Awards Judge, founder and operator of TechBreakfast demo format events, and an expert in AI, Machine Learning, Enterprise Architecture, venture capital, startup and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and more. Prior to founding Cognilytica, Ron founded and ran ZapThink, an industry analyst firm focused on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, & Enterprise Architecture, which was acquired by Dovel Technologies in August 2011.

Events Featuring Speaker

Accelerating Digital Transformation with AI Powered Content IQ

Find out how enterprises are combining AI-powered content intelligence solutions with automation technologies like robotic process automation (RPA) and business process automation (BPA) to power

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Accelerating Enterprise Data Engineering: Best Practices for Modern Data Pipelines

As data volumes and complexity grow, delivering quality datasets with security and governance compliance is essential to enterprise data and analytics success. Modern data engineering

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Avoiding Automation Failure: What, When, and Why Automate

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great

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CDO Roundtable Series: Data and Machine Learning Ops

Markets for Artificial intelligence (AI) are shifting from organizations and agencies that have the technical expertise required to build models from scratch to those looking

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Content Intelligence & Digitization 2021

Introduction Session

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Evolving MLOps Landscape: Addressing the Topics that Keep You Up at Night

What is ML Ops all about? Why should you care about ML Ops? Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer frame the subject as well

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How Automation is Supporting the Response to COVID-19 Webinar

This information-sharing event is focused on automation during the response to COVID-19 such as rapid deployment of critical care telemedicine infrastructure, critical services to businesses,

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Increasing Intelligent Automation Through Artificial Intelligence

Choosing the right vendor to help your organization navigate the journey of digital transformation is critical. In this quest for the next evolution of digital

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Intelligent Automation in the Government

Join DLT and Automation Anywhere, with special guest Cognilytica, as we discuss how Intelligent Automation is transforming our government and the important role that AI

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Intro to CPMAI Certification

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI

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Intro to CPMAI Methodology

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners and Principal Analysts at Cognilytica Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running

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Intro to CPMAI Methodology

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners and Principal Analysts at Cognilytica Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running

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Intro to CPMAI Methodology for Project and Product Managers

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI

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Intro to CPMAI Methodology for Project Managers

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI

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Intro to CPMAI Methodology for Project Managers

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI

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Keeping AI Models Relevant: Re-training and Governance

You’re invited to our webinar: “Keeping AI Models Relevant: Re-training and Governance” presented by Head of Product for Modzy, Seth Clark, with special guest speakers

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Lessons Learned from AI Project Failures

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners and Principal Analysts at Cognilytica Far too often, organizations are running data and AI projects without

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Lessons Learned from Automation Success: Identifying What and When to Automate

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great

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Predictive Analytics & Maintenance with AI: Solving the Navy’s Problems

The public sector, both civilian and defense agencies, have a lot to gain from AI, from predictive analytics to autonomous systems such as unmanned drones,

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The Seven Patterns of AI

In this session, you’ll learn all about the Seven Patterns of AI

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The State of Ethical AI Frameworks

What is the status of AI Ethics? Cognilytica analyzed ethical AI frameworks from over 60 governmental organizations, corporations, multinational groups, non-profits, and other groups. We

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The Top Reasons for AI Project Failure – and What you can Do about it

Featured Speakers: Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partners at Cognilytica Artificial intelligence and advanced data projects are gaining rapid traction. However, with all

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Want to Be Competitive with AI? Do AI Right or Get Out.

Featured Presenters: Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partners and Principal Analysts at Cognilytica Are you unable to deliver AI and big data projects

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We Know Why your AI Projects are Failing: You’re Not Following Best Practices for Data and AI

Featured Speakers: Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch, Managing Partners & Principal Analysts at Cognilytica Far too often, organizations are running data and AI projects

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Welcome to ML Lifecycle Conference and 'What is the Machine Learning Lifecycle'?

Welcome to the Machine Learning Lifecycle 2021 Online Conference! In this opening session we’ll share some insights into what will be presented throughout the conference,

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Welcome to the Data for AI Week Conference

Welcome to the Data for AI Week 2020 Virtual Conference. In this session we’ll go over how the event website works, highlights of the various

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