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    Interview with Uday Akkaraju

    Jun 01, 2021 9 minutes

    About Uday Akkaraju

    Uday Akkaraju is the CEO of BOND.AI, an award-winning human-centered artificial intelligence platform for banks. Uday Akkaraju has a background in interaction design and cognitive science and focuses on making machine intelligence empathetic and created the world’s first Empathy EngineTM for finance. Uday was recognized as an ‘International Innovator’ by the New York City Economic Development Corporation and as ‘Titians of tech’ by Arkansas Money & Politics.

    Prior to BOND.AI, Uday founded and successfully ran an artificial intelligence research lab that helped early stage companies design the product and take it to market. He regularly speaks at international tech conferences such as the Mobile World Congress, Paris Fintech Forum, Money 2020, IBM Tech Talks, Signal, Finovate, Voice and more. Outside of the office, Uday advises a number of AI startups & entrepreneurs to help create fair and equitable machine learning systems.

    About BOND.AI

    BOND.AI is an award winning human-centered AI platform for banks, powered by the world’s first Empathy Engine. It helps banks intimately understand user behavior and nudge them towards improving financial health. BOND.AI significantly increases user engagement, lifetime customer value and most importantly helps monetize data for financial institutions.

    BOND.AI was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Little Rock, USA. It has operating offices in New York(USA), Pune(India) & Geneva(Switzerland).

    Q. Tell us a little bit about your past before you started bond.ai and what inspired you to start this amazing platform?

    I was a complete outsider to the financial services domain & bringing this concept to market was not even an idea. But before

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