[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Professional” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:30px|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text single_style=””]I have archived some of the talks, webinars, and interviews that I have given as well as articles that I have written over the years. Not surprisingly, many of the talks from earlier in my career weren’t recorded or are not available in a digital format. In which case, where possible, I have saved the corresponding presentation as a pdf file below.

Talks & Interviews

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Webinars

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Presentations

  • How MLOps helped AI Rise, Predict 2022 [pdf] [video 1] [video 2]
  • Human + Machine = Operational Excellence, 2022 [pdf] [video]

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Articles

  • A Custom Belt In Under 60 Minutes: Are Manufacturers Capable Of Keeping Promises?, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2023 [article][pdf]
  • CNNs and GenAI aren’t the only AI games in town for supply chain planning, Forbes, 31 Jul. 2023 [article] [pdf]
  • How do you build a product that has 10 billion variations?, Forbes, 26 Jun. 2023 [article] [pdf]
  • Besser als lean (Better than lean), SPS Magazine, Nbr. 13, pp. 86-87, 1 Dec. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Manufacturing’s labor challenge: How technology can train, attract and retain workers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • New Math For New Technologies In Manufacturing, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • AI has arrived, so what next?, TechBullion, 24 May 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Drishti combines AI and video to improve manufacturing operations, Power & Motion, 5 May 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Why labor-based ROI models can stymie innovation and how to fix it, Forbes, 3 May 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • In manufacturing, adaptability is the only way forward, Design World, 29 Apr. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Automation won’t fix a false sense of lean maturity, IndustryWeek, 8 Mar. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • The rising TIDE: New capabilities quotients are required when you’re swimming in data, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • How video analytics is transforming manufacturing, DataQuest, 22 Feb. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • AI will mature to solve real operational problems in 2022, Embedded Computed Design, 11 Feb. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Artificial intelligence-powered video analytics, Aerospace Manufacturing and Design, 3 Feb. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Can AI help manufacturers maintain high quality amid uncertainty?, QualityDigest, 24 Jan. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • Three questions you need to answer to make the best use of data in Industry 4.0, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022 [article] [pdf]
  • How MLOps helped AI rise (aka, a from-the-trenches view of MLOps), Predict 2022, 20 Jan, 2022 [abstract] [slides] [video][mp4]
  • Adaptability – Not Efficiency – May Be Critical Factor for Manufacturing, Spiegel, 21 Dec. 2021, Design News [article] [pdf]
  • You can’t have Industry 4.0 without training 4.0, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021 [article] [pdf]
  • When man meets machine: Using AI to improve productivity of factory worker, Forbes India, 3 Nov. 2021 [article] [pdf]
  • Lean and data: Two journeys on the path to lean leadership, Drishti, 19 Oct. 2021 [article] [pdf]
  • Interview with Dr. Prasad Akella, CEO of Drishti, Innovating with Scott Amyx, 20 Sep. 2021 [interview] 
  • Vision AI in manufacturing, MIT EmTech Next 2021, 10 Jun. 2021 [conference] [slides]
  • Using AI to bring out the best in people, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Smart Manufacturing, 31 May 2021 [article] [pdf]
  • The relationship between machines and humans with Prasad Akella, Periera, The Gemba Academy Podcast, GA 355, 21 Jan. 2021. [podcast]
  • Akella on the intersection of AI and manual assembly ops, Vasilash, on Automotive, 12 Dec. 2020, [interview] [pdf]
  • The butterfly defect: Do you know the true cost of your defects?, QualityDigest, Day. 20 Dec. 2020, [interview] [mp4]
  • Industry executive explains why the future of manufacturing will be human-machine collaboration, not robots replacing human workers, Gilder, Thomas Insights, 11 Aug. 2020. [interview] [pdf]
  • Craftmanship transcends space and time, IndustryWeek, 3 Mar. 2020. [article] [pdf]
  • Scaling brilliance on the shop floor, IndustryWeek, 23 Dec. 2019. [article] [pdf]
  • OK computer: why the machine age still needs humans, World Economic Forum, weforum.org, 19 Aug. 2019. [article] [pdf]
  • Drishti Technologies’ computer vision algorithm makes humans efficient, YourStory, Krishna, Chaudhury, 24 Jun. 2019. [interview] [mp4]
  • Data lake or data swamp?, IndustryWeek, 03 May 2019. [article] [pdf]
  • Automation + Work, Human + Machine, Akella, Daugherty, Chen, a16z podcast, 5 Nov. 2018. [podcast] [mp3]
  • GM cobot pioneer: Lessons to learn from Rethink, The Robot Report, 5 Oct. 2018. [article] [pdf]
  • Interview: Prasad Akella, Gutierrez, insideBIGDATA, 6 Sep. 2018. [interview] [pdf]
  • Intelligent poka yoke: When lean manufacturing meets deep learning, IndustryWeek, 14 Jun. 2018. [article] [pdf]
  • Should manufacturers video plant floor worker performance?, Manufacturing Leadership Council, 21 May 2018 [article] [pdf]
  • Why Robots won’t inherit the plant, IndustryWeek, 15 May 2018. [article] [pdf]
  • Why stopwatches are threatening manufacturing’s resurgence, Reliable Plant, May 2018. [article] [pdf]
  • Robot nirvana? Not in my lifetime, Industry Today, 20 Mar. 2018. [article] [pdf]
  • 7 steps to monetize your shares in a company, Akella, Smith, Forbes, 19 Jun. 2014. [article] [pdf]
  • What to do when your subsidiaries need to integrate with headquarters, Akella, Zelinger, SAPInsider, pp. 104-105, Dec. 2011. [article] [pdf]
  • How SMEs are democratizing access to their data, Akella, SAPInsider, pp.58-59, Sep. 2011 [article] [pdf]
  • SAP’s best kept secret, Akella, SAPInsider, pp. 54-55, Jun. 2011. [article] [pdf]
  • Cobots—A new generation of assembly tools for the line worker, Akella, Peshkin, SPIE Newsletter, Apr. 1997 [article] [pdf]

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