Oleg Lazarov, 51, has been working at the intersection of technology and media for nearly 30 years now. Founder of EuropaWire, the first truly pan-European newswire service, EPR Network LLC, one of Internet’s oldest 2nd tier PR services online in North America, TravelPRNews.com, the web’s native travel pr news platform. On the technological side, inventor and founder of LinkedWords, a large-scale semantic platform launched in 2006 with the mission to contextually link/connect millions of websites and content areas across the Internet with the ambitious goal of becoming an alternative of Google by giving users the option of finding relevant / related information in the context of what they are currently reading / viewing on the Web without the need of searching at all. During its apogee times (~2009) the platform reached out to nearly 3% of the entire Internet population, according to comScore. Invented and co-founded NosyJoe.com, a hybrid between social search engine and an intelligent content tagging engine, which, by the time it was in closed beta (2007), was noticed and mentioned by media heavyweights like Newsweek and The New York Times in the context of which young companies may have the potential to take on Google. Profound interests in the paradigm shift the AI developments will prompt across societies and industries. On the technological side, all aspects of AI, ML, NLP, algorithms, Big Data, contextualization, semantics, data mining/analysis, taxonomies, intelligent content tagging, textual analysis, among others. On the media side, how AI will change the production, discovery and consumption of news content. All things public relations, newswire services, press release distribution, etc., and how AI assisted improvements can deliver better results across the sector. On the entrepreneurial side, how those technological advancements will impact giants, disrupt business models and address unmet market needs. Full bio at oleglazarov.com.