CVS Health AI Experts 'Welcome the Future' during Engineers Week 2024
Engineers Week is a celebration to help increase awareness and drive a diverse and well-educated pipeline of students into engineering and technology careers. With this year's theme of?"Welcome to the Future," organizations around the world will be participating in their own unique ways, including CVS Health .
CVS Health will host live, in-person and virtual events to celebrate, educate, and engage thousands of STEM colleagues including leader spotlights, panel discussions, tech talks, code demos, and technology deep dives from colleagues across the enterprise. Throughout the week, they will have the opportunity to be immersed in...
To kick off the week, colleagues will take part in an interactive discussion by a panel of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts, including Erik Widman. Family man and rocker, Erik is Lead Director for Machine Learning Engineering at CVS Health, where he works with machine learning and generative AI to improve the colleague experience. In addition to his corporate role, Erik is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, teaching Data & Data Intensive Systems for their MBAi program. Erik has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a MSEE from the University of Notre Dame, and a BSEE from Western Michigan University.
Erik shared what it means to be part of a company that welcomes the future of technology to reinvent what a health care company can be. Here is what he had to say...
What does the Engineers Week theme, "Welcome to the Future," mean to you as a tech colleague at CVS Health?
When I think of the word "future," my mind immediately associates it with the unknown. To some, the future may seem scary as it is uncertain, but I like to think of it as an opportunity where we have the chance to solve problems and shape the world we want to live in. "Welcome to the future" is a challenge that invites us all to solve complex problems and build amazing products by doing things that weren't possible just a few years ago using new tools and technologies.?
What inspired you to participate in Engineers Week? What learning & development sessions are you most looking forward to?
I'm thrilled that CVS Health celebrates engineering and innovation and understands this is the foundation for the company's success. In such a large organization, getting visibility into all the great work that teams do around the company can often be challenging. Engineers Week is an opportunity to discover what other groups are working on, learn new technologies, and get new inspiration to bring back to your team. I'm particularly excited about learning more about enterprise architecture engineering, an area I'm trying to grow in, and learning more about our enterprise data strategy.
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How does your role contribute to the mission to impact the future of health care through the power of technology?
I'm currently working on a couple of different AI applications aimed at improving the CVS Health employee experience. This indirectly makes my colleagues more productive and enables them to deliver better health solutions to our customers.?
How does collaboration with your peers and support from your leaders fuel your drive to advance technology at CVS Health?
Technology is a team sport, and within data and machine learning (ML) fields, nobody has all the required skills to create an end-to-end production-level ML experience. Building a successful ML product involves the collaboration of data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, security, product managers, and business owners, as well as receiving support and financial investment from leadership. I work on complex problems, and getting lost in your thoughts is easy. Collaborating with others and exchanging ideas creates better and more diverse solutions than one could have come up with by themselves. It's also one of the most enjoyable parts of my job, and I enjoy sharing ideas and learning from my peers.?
What advice would you give to another Technologist about the opportunities at CVS Health?
The colleagues at CVS Health are great! It's a relaxed and open culture where you can share ideas without fear of criticism. People here care about creating better healthcare experiences for our customers, and we are all motivated by the same common denominator. I enjoy working at a large company because there is always someone new to meet and learn from. This is extremely valuable early on in your career.?
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