Ken Morimoto

Director, BD & Channel

Perplexity

Business Fellow

Innodata Inc.

Leading community for AI leaders and builders in Seattle, Bay, and NYC.

Innodata helps  GenAI innovators to build smarter, safer, and more effective models through multimodal, multilingual fine-tuning and red teaming services

Director, AI Builders Collective & Growth

AI Circle

The expert network you need to build an exceptional career in AI. Join us at ai-circle.org

Founding Member

AI Builders Collective

Hosting AI leaders and builder's events since 2018 with worldclass founders, operators, scientists, and investors. Please DM for invites.

Co-Founder

LEV (Leading Edge Ventures) & MVP

LEV & MVP is an advisory and seed fund supporting founders.

Invested in 200+ early-stage ventures.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained！

Partner

Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry helps generate  high quality AI data and models. Our Data Studio, RAG Studio, Product Catalogue, AI Workbench and Safe AI Studio are used by “Magnificent 7” - Amazon Rufus, Microsoft Co-Pilot, Tesla, Uber, Apple to produce their models. 

Valued clients & partners include Amazon/AWS, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Databricks, Snowflake, Autodesk, PayPal, Expedia, VMware, Lowes, Home Depot, FedEx, Adobe, and > 100+ Fortune 500. 

I always enjoy learning from others. Please reach out via LinkedIn DM, 415-948-9098 or book a meeting.

Director, AI Data Foundry (Safe, Multi-Modal & Agentic AI)

Cobalt Robotics

Cobalt Robotics is the largest and only security robotics provider in the world that improves monitoring and judgment while delivering DAY1 ROI (30-50% savings).  Cobalt has raised $75M in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Bloomberg Beta, Promus Ventures, Founders Fund, and others.

GTM & BD Executive

Scale AI

Led BD for strategic accounts.  

Companies like Toyota, GM, NVIDIA, Samsung, Lyft, and OpenAI leverage Scale to
turn raw data into high-quality training data that powers their AI applications.

In addition to providing Labeling & Annotation for training data, Scale is developing solutions to meet the broader mission supporting the entire AI development lifecycle. This includes Scale Rapid (Self-Serve platform), Nucleus Data Curation, GIS/mapping solutions, and Models as a Service.

Global BD - Strategic Accounts

Appen

Led strategic accounts.  

Appen together with Figure Eight (CrowdFlower) is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human and ML annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Client Executive

Algorithmia

Built BD strategy on growth marketing team.  

Enterprises depend on Algorithmia's (acq Datarobot) AI Layer to run their Machine Learning models efficiently and reliably in production, bringing elasticity and GPU acceleration to any framework, cutting deployment time from weeks to minutes.

Global BD

Mission/Purpose: Transformation & wisdom acquisition.

Passion/Interests:  Infinite learner with a passion for AI/ML, spacetech, robotics, data, science, history, biographies, documentaries, philosophy (Stoicism), TOE, quantum mechanics (Schrodinger eq), neuroscience (consciousness/freewill), investing, biohacking, fitness (xfit, krav, boxing), transformation and always looking to learn from others. 

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After all, knowledge sharing and collaboration are our species' superpowers!

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read." Charles "Tremendous" Jones

Director & Client Executive - Safe AI, ML & Digital Transformation 

Centific is an “applied” AI & Data engineering services company, employee-owned, global (23 offices in 11 countries) with an extended reach of over 1M + contributors in >130 countries. 

Valued clients & partners include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, Autodesk, PayPal, Expedia, VMware, Lowes, Home Depot, FedEx, Adobe, and > 100+ Fortune 500. 

Our Solutions: 
- SAFE AI: Red Teaming, RLHF, Prompt Authoring & Response
- Data Collection & labeling (CV, AR/VR, etc)
- Relevance Labeling (e.g. search, ads)
- AI-enabled Localization (up to 50% lower costs/efficiency with Honeybee)
- AI/ML (LLM) model training, fine-tuning, and Deployment
- Pitaya.AI (Retail AI & Analytics)
- Digital Safety (E2E Fraud Protection) 
- Digital Transformation (Custom Software and Engineering)
 
I always enjoy learning from others. Please reach out via ken.morimoto@centific.com, 415-948-9098 or book a meeting below.

✨ Imagine if one thought leader could clarify all these hot AI topics in a single, actionable video... it’s here:

Key insights worth replaying:
- [2:30] We’re not just building ‘agents’—it’s all about agentic systems, since true autonomy isn’t here (yet).
- [3:30] Major business wins are still hiding in simple, linear workflows.
- [6:00] Evals aren’t optional—quality matters!
- [10:15] Why are evals top of mind, but rarely done right now?
- [14:50] Voice input = untapped business opportunities.
- [18:10] MCP is fantastic but early stage—a wild west for solving data integration.
- [23:00] Will AI automate all coding someday? Not a chance. Telling people “don’t learn to code” could be the worst career advice ever. :p

Watch the full breakdown here: https://lnkd.in/geJcigVq

Thanks to David Nadeau, VP of DS for Innodata for these insights! 

Excited to announce that I’m co-hosting another Agentic AI in Production event on 09/25 with my partner Pablo Casilimas, in collaboration with OneSixOne Ventures and Otonoma. Join us as we dig into “Agentic AI: Challenges in Production and Achieving ROI.” RSVP in comments.

Improving AI | Fine-tuning, Context Eng. & Safety | ex-Scale, Amazon | Community Builder | Infinite Learner & Investor⚡️

Open video: Andrew Ng: State of AI Agents | LangChain Interrupt on youtube.com

Andrew Ng: State of AI Agents | LangChain Interrupt

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