Our very special guest is Andrew Schwabecher, CEO of Japan Computer Vision Corp. Andrew shares his insights on the vast potential for facial recognition. He also explains how he is working with major companies in Japan to transform experiences using the technology.

Along with a prime selection of news on data science and artificial intelligence, this special episode takes a look at the Ignitus AI Interest Indicator Index. Ignitus AI Executive Director Ryo Katsuki walks and talks us through how his team built this tool, how they're using it and where it's heading in terms of use cases.

Beethoven was at work on his 10th symphony when illness overtook him. For almost two centuries, the piece remained unfinished and an object of curiosity and speculation among devotees of the maestro and scholars. Now, a team of top computer scientists, music scholars and composers have finally finished the work, using AI to predict what the maestro would have written based on the notes and sketches he left behind. It's an audacious experiment and one that drives at the very core of what creativity really is and how machines and humans can work together to make art.

Human-centric AI is keeping doctors at the center of the battle to improve skin-cancer diagnosis. It's also helping make life easier for dementia patients. In the building industry, a company called Reconstruct is using machine learning and computer vision to transform construction planning and monitoring. Find news, interviews and analysis of these and more here.

We lead with a profile of the show's namesake, IgnitusAI Executive Director Ryo Katsuki, who programmed his first video game at age 6. His life story closely tracks the development of transformative digital technologies from research at the University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to implementations at Cambridge Technology Partners, Novell, startups in mapping, social, analytics and AI, and now, IgnitusAI.