The NLP Zone: Episode 6 - Bob van Luijt - CEO of SeMI Technologies The NLP Zone

First Podcast episode of the year and what an incredible guest to kick it off with!
Ladies and Gentlemen I'd like to introduce you to Bob van Luijt. Bob is the CEO & Co-Founder of SeMI Technologies, they create AI-based search engine technology and they are known for the open-source vector search engine Weaviate.

If you're familiar with Bob, you may have also seen him do a talk on TEDx where he talks about Digital technology through the lens of language.

For Episode 6 of The NLP Zone Podcast, me and Bob got to sit down just before Christmas, I got to learn all about SeMI Technologies and their long-term ambitions. In this episode, you really get to understand how passionate Bob is about his company and its product.

We will be breaking down 3 topics:

- Unstructured data, why is it a problem, why is difficult?

- Vector search engines - Weaviate. What is it? what problem does it solve, what is the role of NLP there?

- Trends in vectorizing Data outside of NLP

I thoroughly enjoyed my sit down with Bob, he is a funny, intelligent, driven individual that we can all learn from. So sit back, relax and enjoy the episode.

(To listen, click the link in the comments & find episode 6)