AI in the Wild
How Agtech Has Embraced AI (feat. Damir Wallener, CEO of EIO Diagnostics)
Episode Summary
On this episode, I am joined by Damir Wallener, CEO of EIO Diagnostics, a company building a new class of agriculture tech tools to diagnose udder diseases in dairy animals. Damir is an experienced executive and serial entrepreneur, successfully operating in various sectors including AgTech, FinTech, and Consumer Electronics. With a Bachelor's focused in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, he has brought his engineering process to the future of Agtech. EIO is funded by SOSV and part of Food-X 2017.
Episode Notes
We discuss,
- The state of Agriculture Technology (Agtech)
- The birth of EIO Diagnostics
- How EIO is leveraging AI to help farmers in the global dairy industry save $10B
- How to train machine learning models for a unique problem set
- How is the industry evolving and what new technologies are farmers and agriculture stakeholders using to optimize processes.
- How are great food/bev products created? What differentiates brands from one another?
- Whether AI makes startups more or less competitive?
- Benefits of startup programs like Food-X
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