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The Darius Gant Show


Feb 9, 2023

The use cases for AI are ever expanding, especially in sectors that typically wouldn’t have been known for using AI. For example, Canvass AI offers an Industrial AI platform that fast tracks operational efficiency, profitability, and sustainability goals for large scale oil and gas, chemical and manufacturing operations.

 

In this episode, I sit with Humera Malik the founder and CEO of Canvass AI to discuss the growth of AI in the industrial sector, how the application of big data analytics is critical for businesses and her company’s fundraising success. 

 

Canvass is leveraging artificial intelligence to serve large scale oil and gas, chemical in manufacturing, operations.  Their product is enabling complex troubleshooting, operational disruptions, early event detection and predictive maintenance. 

 

 

Founder Bio: 

 

Humera Malik is CEO of Canvass AI, a software provider that empowers industrial companies with AI to make faster data-driven operational decisions. Internationally, Ms. Malik is one of the leading voices in Artificial Intelligence and how it can help industries accelerate growth, augment human expertise, and achieve net-zero sustainability goals. 

 

Humera Malik is a recipient of the RBC Women of Influence Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Women of IoT/M2M award. She frequently speaks at industry conferences and has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg and Forbes.

 

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Show Notes:

 

2:01 - How did Humera Malik become interested in Artificial Intelligence?

 

5:00 - What is Canvass and how does it serve the industrial engineering sector?

 

12:00 The early days of Canvass and the major use cases to drive impact for companies using this technology 

 

16:55 - Where is Canvass today and how do customers interact with the software

 

21:22 - Building the team: the first employees, establishing a sound engineering organization 

 

28:09 - Having the right mindset about building while being remote

 

30:42 - Working with the World Economic Forum's, global Innovators Community

 

34:35 - The fundraising process for Humera and Canvass

 

39:02 - The best way to get in contact with Humera Malik and Canvass

 

 

Contact Humera Malik _ https://www.linkedin.com/in/humera-malik/

Learn more about Canvass _ www.canvass.io