VP of Projects (Consulting)

Updates

• Few meetings over break
• Updated the client call, pitchbook, sourcing guidelines
• Arcus, process of scheduling an infosession: Amazing partner for a long time, want to show up and show out

Sourcing

• Reached out to over 100 companies
• Split up each industry with individuals
• News — Anagha, Food–Akshay, Fashion/makeup–Subin
• New initiative: Research projects
• Past: Nicholas Carlini, published a paper
• Reach out to AI Labs at MIT, IBM, CMU
• maybe Berkeley labs too
• Created a research pitchbook (Aaditya and Chris are working on tonight)
• Have first initial draft, working on another draft tonight
• Created a research sourcing email

Companies that have reached back:

SOW

• ARM — followed up early today. Sent them SOW a while ago, followed up a few days ago, followed up again today.
• BD Medicine (Becton, Dickinson and Company) — client call, eager for project this semester, in the process of drafting SOW
• BioML!
• Visa — had client call meeting (Sr. Director, Chief Architect AI at Visa)
• Next semester
• Scheduled client calls:
• The Guardian (Head of data science) this Friday
• Samsung Research America client call (AI / Senior Principal Research Scientist) next Thursday
• Lucid Motors
• Apple (head of their legal operations ML/AI team)
• Microsoft (Director of Azure Machine Learning)
• Next semester