Business today is starting to understand the value of data, and some organisations are outperforming their competition by putting data at the heart of their thinking. Leveraging data to change business models, understand their customers and employees better and deliver new revenue streams is the driving force in this new data centric era.

1. The Future is Data driven…
13th June 2015
Edinburgh
Jon Woodward

2. UK Business Lead for BI & Advanced
Analytics
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@JLWoodward
www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanwoodward
#DataCulture
SQL Server
PowerBI
AzureML
Hadoop
DataFactory
DocumentDB
Search
EventHub
Stream Analytics
Revolution R
Azure DW
Azure Data Lake

3. ?Who is using Data to drive the future of their business?

4. ?Who is using Machine Intelligence to affect a key business
process ?

5. Entering a New World Order
www.slideshare.net/jonathanwoodward1
Age of the Algorithm
Age of Things
Age of Intelligence

6. Industry transformation accelerating

7. Core to MSFT Vision
Start Justin
Digital
Work & Life
Experiences

8. Data…Driving the Experience

9. Humanity Accelerating
………Bio-Hacking………

10. Potato Head Humanity

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Path to Super-Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)

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Intelligence Explosion

13. 2010- Supercomputer to emulate human
intelligence
2020 – Human intelligence computing
available for $1000
2029 – Pass Turing Test
2030 – non-biological computation will surpass
capacity of all living human intelligence
2045 – Singularity
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Predictions for Super Intelligence
Predictions – Ray Kurzweil

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Visual Recognition

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Visual Recognition

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Self Learning

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http://how-old.net/#

18. What does the future look like
Humanity 2.0

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https://youtu.be/lK_cdkpazj

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Today - how does all this relate to business
EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS

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Examples
GiveGraph
www.justgiving.com
81 Million nodes
361 Million Relationships
Personalised Customer Experience
RecommendationAlgorithm

22. Tune your business to
Embrace Machine Intelligence
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What Should we do Today
Build a Data Culture
Move beyond Big Data

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Data Culture link

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Future Decoded https://futuredecoded.microsoft.com/

25. THANK YOU
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26. Panel
 Chris Webb (Technitrain)
 Ian Macdonald (Pyramid)
 Murali Naqraj (Cachebox, representing Micron)
 Niall MacLeon (SanDisk)
 Dave Lawrence (Profisee)
 Ric Howe (Microsoft)

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