Interview with Ron Blatman, the Executive Producer/Producer at Saving the City: Remaking the American Metropolis TV series https://savingthecity.org Ron is also Executive Producer/Producer for Zoo Story: Reinventing the American Zoo, a documentary about the past, present and future of zoos. Zoo Story traces the fascinating and little known story of how zoos have evolved from places largely devoted to recreation with a secondary focus on science to centers for wildlife and habitat conservation as well as environmental education. Visit www.zoostory.org for more about the program including a preview video.   Ron’s first film was as Creator and Executive Producer/Producer for Saving the Bay: The Story of San Francisco Bay, a national prime time PBS TV series narrated by Robert Redford. Saving the Bay’s four episodes cover San Francisco Bay from its origins to the present and highlight three pioneering women who saved the Bay from becoming little more than a river in the 1960s.    Go to www.savingthebay.org for video pieces and an extensive education section. The series won four regional Emmy awards including for Best Documentary. Screenings were held for members of Congress at the US Capitol and in conjunction with the state legislature in Sacramento.   Ron previously worked in real estate development and finance in his native San Francisco and on Wall Street in New York, as well as serving as Director of Business Development in the San Francisco mayor's office in the early 1990s. He was the mayor’s point man for keeping the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the city as well as catalyst for a major new Federal office complex.

Dr Ben Evans is an Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering and sits on the design team for the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project with responsibilities for aerodynamic modelling. Dr Evans's research interests range from computational shape optimisation and high speed aerodynamic modelling to molecular gas dynamics simulation and has worked with companies including Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Reaction Engines. He has interests in engineering public engagement and engineering education.   Bloodhound information   https://www.swansea.ac.uk/bloodhoundssc/  Bloodhound videos  First test run - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mylca_onT_I 0 to 628mph / 1010kmh in 50 seconds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GXtwR71huE The wheel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nvX_qYxsY

Recurrent Patterns host Vaclav Vincalek speaks with Eric Siegel, PhD. about machine learning and predictive analytics.    Machine learning is rapidly expanding across the business world -- but in special industries like self-driving and medical imaging, it is especially making leaps and bounds via "deep learning". How do these two arenas compare and relate? And how do we bring the human element into the field of machine learning -- which is itself the ultimate endeavor in automation?    Eric Siegel brings that human element into his teachings more than most any other machine learning courses I've seen, and also brought it into this 35-minute discussion. Eric is the founder of Predictive Analytics World (http://www.pawcon.com), the instructor of the free-to-access "Machine Learning for Everyone" on Coursera (http://www.machinelearning.courses), and the author of "Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die" (http://www.thepredictionbook.com).

Recurrent Patterns host Vaclav Vincalek speaks with Jose Murillo, an expert about how large bank is using data effectively to connect more with customers. By understanding their clients better, they are creating win-win opportunities for customer satisfaction and improved revenue. These are lessons that can apply to the biggest organizations as well as more nimble startups.   Jose Murillo is Chief Analytics Officer at Mexico's largest financial group, Grupo Financiero Banorte. He established the Analytics Business Unit - a team which is consistently finding opportunities to increase profits. He assures end to end implementation of the projects which his team undertakes.    These projects have had a very significant impact on Banorte's bottom line and have produced ample acceptance of analytics within the firm. The impact of analytics in Banorte has been recognised with the Lafferty Global Award 2016 on "Credit Card Excellence".   You can connect with Jose Murillo at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-murillo-b676261a/