Episode: 42 - Adam Marko on AI-Ready Life Sciences Data

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Adam Marko discusses the challenges of unstructured data in life sciences and the importance of data orchestration for AI readiness.

Your AI plan can’t outrun your data. Adam Marko, life science field CTO at Hammerspace, joins the podcast to unpack the problem almost every biotech, pharma, and biomedical research group runs into: unstructured data that are siloed, fragmented, and scattered across storage systems, sites, and clouds. With host Jessica StLouis, they talk through what “data orchestration” means when building an AI-ready data foundation, infrastructure constraints and the tiered storage patterns that help teams...

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Host: Jessica StLouis

Guest: Adam Marko

Topics covered

• AI
• life sciences
• data orchestration
• unstructured data
• biotech challenges
• storage systems

Keywords

• AI
• life sciences
• data orchestration
• unstructured data
• biotech
• pharma
• storage systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hammerspace, Bio-IT World, biotech, pharma, biomedical research

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