or someone working in the transformative
and often speculative world of artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning
(ML), George Iskenderian is remarkably pragmatic.
But that doesn’t stop him from being ambitious and,
more to the point, successful. His data and AI/ML
team at Bell Canada has two patents pending and
one being filed after only five years, and has grown
from a single person team into more than 100
data scientists and engineers. Iskenderian is very
appreciative of his position, “A big factor to my suc-
cess is the support and empowerment I received
at Bell to establish this world class team especially
from Stephen Howe, Bell CTO, Petri Lyytikainen,
Network VP and of course every single person on
the team.”F
George Iskenderian, director
of Big Data and AI/ML at Bell
Canada, is putting data and
AI/ML at the heart of
telecoms. He explains why
it’s the right decision108
FEBRUARY 2021BELL INC (CANADA)