Ep. 358: Shawn Edwards on Engineering Trust in AI, The Bloomberg Way, and the Terminal’s Future

Shawn Edwards is Bloomberg’s Chief Technology Officer. Based in New York, he oversees the development of Bloomberg’s global technology strategy. In 2017, Shawn was named in the top ten of the Institutional Investor Tech 40 – an annual ranking of financial industry technology leaders. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2003, Shawn worked for Bear Stearns & Co., where he was a managing director in the company’s fixed income trading group. He has also held positions at Mentor Graphics and IBM. In this podcast, we discuss: 

1. Engineering Trust through “Entailment”
2. Automating “The Bloomberg Way”
3. ASKB: Reimagining the Terminal
4. Workflow-Specific AI Expansion
5. Actionable Alternative Data
6. Empowering Non-Programmers
7. Accelerating Data Onboarding
8. Competition vs. Domain Knowledge
9. A Cautious View on AGI 

You can follow Shawn on LinkedIn.

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