Can AI mentor people? | Rahul Kulkarni | TEDxPune

Can everyone in this world have a mentor? Artificial intelligence can be the answer, says product innovator Rahul Kulkarni as he describes the journey of two ex-Googlers who set out to mentor at scale. With real stories, Rahul describes how they turned a people problem into a data problem, turning mentor-mentee psychology into quantitative signals, and offers an approach of applying AI to mentoring people. Rahul Kulkarni is the Co-Founder and Partner at DoNew, an early-stage social enterprise startup focussed on disrupting the product and people innovation landscape in India.

Rahul previously served as Chief Product Officer at Sokrati, an ad technology startup that combined consumer psychology with big data analytics. Earlier, he spent 6 years at Google - starting out as Product Manager in India and helping build several products and businesses like Google Finance, Orkut, OpenSocial Apps platform, Google Apps and Cloud, Google India Maps and Local, amongst others.

Prior to Google, Rahul was the Product Manager for LabVIEW at National Instruments Corp in Austin (TX), leading cutting-edge product development in the areas of hardware-in-loop simulation and FPGA-based high-speed control with customers such as NASA and CERN. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx