Mark Shmulevich, TAIGER

“[In the private sector] in many cases you try to fail fast then try something else and after this sequence of failures finally find something that works. In the government, you cannot afford that, so the whole approach to how you structure the work is completely different - it’s more like a significant consulting job.”
— Mark Shmulevich

This week on CUTalks we are speaking to Mark Shmulevich, the Senior VP at TAIGER - an AI software company in Singapore. He is also the founding director of the Zimin Institutes in Israel which helps commercialise promising research with the potential to generate solutions to pressing problems in the world. Additionally, he has been the Deputy Minister of IT in Russia. We spoke about his experiences in the government and the private sector, his work to help the commercialisation of high-impact research and briefly about how AI and deep tech applications may develop in the future.


This podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.

Jump to the following topics:

  1. Background - 00:56

  2. Career highlights - 1:45

  3. Working in the government vs the private sector - 4:52

  4. Roles of both in tech innovation - 6:59

  5. Use of technology in the government - 9:28

  6. Beginning your career in the public vs private sector - 13:14

  7. Translating research into commercial products - 16:12

  8. Juggling research with running a company - 21:02

  9. Biggest barriers to commercialising research - 23:06

  10. Research commercialisation ‘success stories’ - 28:19

  11. Potential advances in the applications of AI and deep tech - 32:19

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