1027: Building an Always-On AI Agent for Busy Parents, with Dr. Dilani Kahawala

Podcast: Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · Jon Krohn

Opublikowano: 2026-09-15

In Episode #1027, Dr. Dilani Kahawala (Co-Founder and CEO of Anna) joins Jon Krohn to explain what it takes to build an always-on AI assistant that busy parents will trust with their inboxes. Anna watches the email, school apps, WhatsApp messages and calendars flowing into a family's life and surfaces what matters, over text and voice, with barely any app to speak of. Dilani came to it by way of a Harvard physics PhD, McKinsey, and a decade of product leadership at Etsy, Meta and Atlassian, and says she has had to throw away most of what that decade taught...