How To “Future Proof” Your Business | Gartner’s Top Data & Analytics Predictions for 2021 | Do your neighbors want to get vaccinated? | Why AI fails. 2021 Edition | Entrepreneurship Lessons…and “Busy Is The New Stupid”
[Webinar] Intelligent Policing. Leveraging Data to more effectively Serve Com...Lucidworks
Policing in the next decade is anticipated to be very different from historical methods. More data driven, more focused on the intricacies of communities they serve and more open and collaborative to make informed recommendations a reality. Whether its social populations, NIBRS or organization improvement that’s the driver, the IT requirement is largely the same. Provide 360 access to large volumes of siloed data to gain a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns for improved insight and recommendation.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Data innovation improves officers' engagement with existing data and streamlines investigation workflows by enhancing collaboration. This improved visibility into existing police data allows for a more intelligent and responsive police force.
In this webinar, we'll cover:
The technology needs of an intelligent police force.
How a Global Search improves an officer's interaction with existing data.
Featuring
-Simon Taylor, VP, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Lucidworks
-Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, MC+A
-Ian Williams, Manager of Analytics & Innovation, Toronto Police Service
Policing organizations face the same data access challenges as other organizations. Large volumes of siloed data make getting a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns difficult.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Connected Experiences Are Personalized ExperiencesLucidworks
Many companies claim personalization and omnichannel capabilities are top priorities. Few are able to deliver on those experiences.
For a recent Lucidworks-commissioned study, Forrester Consulting surveyed 350+ global business decision-makers to see what gets in the way of achieving these goals. They discovered that inefficient technology, lack of behavioral insights, and failure to tie initiatives to enterprise-wide goals are some of the most frequent blockers to personalization success.
Join guest speaker, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst, Brendan Witcher, and Lucidworks CEO, Will Hayes, to hear the results of the Forrester Consulting study, how to avoid “digital blindness,” and how to apply VoC data in real-time to delight customers with personalized experiences connected across every touchpoint.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Why companies who utilize real-time customer signals report more effective personalization
- How to connect employees and customers in a shared experience through search and browse
- How Lucidworks clients Lenovo, Morgan Stanley and Red Hat fast-tracked improvements in conversion, engagement and customer satisfaction
Featuring
- Will Hayes, CEO, Lucidworks
- Brendan Witcher, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Don’t Waste a Good Transformation: Forrester says that “20% of Fortune 500 will NOT survive it in their current form by end of 2021”. The ones that survive will know how to transform well digitally, physically & emotionally.
According to Gartner, Data Stories (NOT dashboards) will become the most widespread way of consuming Analytics by 2025, and 75% of these stories will be automatically generated using augmented analytics techniques….
Moving From Insight Creation to Decision Support: How to Break the Insights O...Steve Remington
A presentation made by Minerra's founder and principal consultant, Steve Remington, at Big Data World Asia 2019 in Singapore
Title:
Moving From Insight Creation to Decision Support: How to Break the Insights Obsession
Summary:
The analytics profession has a problem: It is obsessed with insight creation. In the past, the obsession was not a major problem because manually finding and communicating insights was a core task for analytics professionals. The analytics technology landscape is, however, rapidly changing with new technologies like Auto ML, Augmented Analytics and Signal Detection automating ever-increasing parts of the insight creation process.
In this presentation, I will explain why the obsession with insight creation as an objective is a problem and show you how organisations can realign their analytics and data science functions to focus on the true, value-creating purpose of analytics: supporting decision-makers.
How To “Future Proof” Your Business | Gartner’s Top Data & Analytics Predictions for 2021 | Do your neighbors want to get vaccinated? | Why AI fails. 2021 Edition | Entrepreneurship Lessons…and “Busy Is The New Stupid”
[Webinar] Intelligent Policing. Leveraging Data to more effectively Serve Com...Lucidworks
Policing in the next decade is anticipated to be very different from historical methods. More data driven, more focused on the intricacies of communities they serve and more open and collaborative to make informed recommendations a reality. Whether its social populations, NIBRS or organization improvement that’s the driver, the IT requirement is largely the same. Provide 360 access to large volumes of siloed data to gain a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns for improved insight and recommendation.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Data innovation improves officers' engagement with existing data and streamlines investigation workflows by enhancing collaboration. This improved visibility into existing police data allows for a more intelligent and responsive police force.
In this webinar, we'll cover:
The technology needs of an intelligent police force.
How a Global Search improves an officer's interaction with existing data.
Featuring
-Simon Taylor, VP, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Lucidworks
-Michael Cizmar, Managing Director, MC+A
-Ian Williams, Manager of Analytics & Innovation, Toronto Police Service
Policing organizations face the same data access challenges as other organizations. Large volumes of siloed data make getting a full 360 understanding of existing connections and patterns difficult.
Join us for a round table discussion of how the Toronto Police Service is better serving their community through deploying a unified intelligent data platform.
Connected Experiences Are Personalized ExperiencesLucidworks
Many companies claim personalization and omnichannel capabilities are top priorities. Few are able to deliver on those experiences.
For a recent Lucidworks-commissioned study, Forrester Consulting surveyed 350+ global business decision-makers to see what gets in the way of achieving these goals. They discovered that inefficient technology, lack of behavioral insights, and failure to tie initiatives to enterprise-wide goals are some of the most frequent blockers to personalization success.
Join guest speaker, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst, Brendan Witcher, and Lucidworks CEO, Will Hayes, to hear the results of the Forrester Consulting study, how to avoid “digital blindness,” and how to apply VoC data in real-time to delight customers with personalized experiences connected across every touchpoint.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Why companies who utilize real-time customer signals report more effective personalization
- How to connect employees and customers in a shared experience through search and browse
- How Lucidworks clients Lenovo, Morgan Stanley and Red Hat fast-tracked improvements in conversion, engagement and customer satisfaction
Featuring
- Will Hayes, CEO, Lucidworks
- Brendan Witcher, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Don’t Waste a Good Transformation: Forrester says that “20% of Fortune 500 will NOT survive it in their current form by end of 2021”. The ones that survive will know how to transform well digitally, physically & emotionally.
According to Gartner, Data Stories (NOT dashboards) will become the most widespread way of consuming Analytics by 2025, and 75% of these stories will be automatically generated using augmented analytics techniques….
Moving From Insight Creation to Decision Support: How to Break the Insights O...Steve Remington
A presentation made by Minerra's founder and principal consultant, Steve Remington, at Big Data World Asia 2019 in Singapore
Title:
Moving From Insight Creation to Decision Support: How to Break the Insights Obsession
Summary:
The analytics profession has a problem: It is obsessed with insight creation. In the past, the obsession was not a major problem because manually finding and communicating insights was a core task for analytics professionals. The analytics technology landscape is, however, rapidly changing with new technologies like Auto ML, Augmented Analytics and Signal Detection automating ever-increasing parts of the insight creation process.
In this presentation, I will explain why the obsession with insight creation as an objective is a problem and show you how organisations can realign their analytics and data science functions to focus on the true, value-creating purpose of analytics: supporting decision-makers.
Cómo las Redes Sociales y Tecnologías Derivadas Impactan en los Procesos In...Antoine GRILLON
¿Qué hacer cuando dejamos de hablar de Likes / Seguidores, Vistas / etc…? ¿Son realmente nuevas las redes sociales y el concepto de Economía Colaborativa? Cuándo hablamos de redes sociales ¿nos referimos a relaciones públicas, branding, servicio al cliente, etc. o a algo más profundo que tiene que analizarse desde un punto de vista estratégico? ¿Cómo aplicar metodologías para impactar lo que realmente importa en una empresa, los resultados financieros?
Social data contains information about customer experience, preferences, and trends that are unavailable through traditional market research. The opportunities for brands to use this data to enhance customer experience are both endless and overwhelming.
In this webinar our panelists will share examples of brands that use social data to engage with their customers. They will also discuss how to make sense of noisy social data to receive the input of your “external constituencies”.
Specifically you will learn:
Which metrics you should follow and how to distinguish bad data from good
How to turn raw data into actionable social intelligence
Tips to create the proper internal channels to harness the power of this data
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Site analytics. The quantified self. Big data. Human activity is creating more and more measurable data. But is more data really helping designers make better decisions? Human problems often require illogical approaches. In order to meet real human needs, we need to approach the data we collect with empathy and find the story in the facts.
Getting Insights through Conversational Chatbots for AnalyticsData Con LA
Data Con LA 2020
Description
It often takes a long time for business users in enterprises to get the right data and insights, even if the data is well organized and structured. This is because they may not know where the data is located, how it is modeled, and how to frame the right queries for their needs. As a result, traditionally, access to data and analytics has mostly been limited to power users and specialist data scientists with varying degrees of analytical and technical skills. This is where conversational analytics comes in. This paradigm allows any user to ask text and voice questions, in natural language, of their data to a bot and receive back a natural language and visual result. In this talk, I shall present our efforts and experiences in building a conversational analytics platform on a chat-based interface. Our approach combines natural-language understanding, dialog management, natural-language generation/narration, data understanding and modeling, augmented analytics and automated visualization generation. I shall describe how we handle complex natural language questions against rich datasets like "How many cases of Covid were there in the last 2 months in states that had no social distancing mandates by type of transmission", and further, enable users to dig deeper into the results in a conversational manner to uncover hidden insights.
Speaker
Anand Ranganathan, Unscrambl, Chief AI Officer
7 Data Analytics Dashboards for Small BusinessTrent Meyer
Need an easy and accessible data solution? Check out these straightforward and aesthetic dashboards for staying on top of your business's digital data.
Data to Insights to Action: How Data Drives Social Media at IntelJennifer Lashua
Intel is a data-driven company. Big data is not just a catch phrase; it’s a way of working across the entire marketing organization – particularly in media and social. As social networks, content distribution channels, and advertising have rapidly evolved in the past 5 years, Intel has continued to define and re-define how they use this data to inform strategies and decisions across the organization. Learn some of these strategies and how they are turning data into decisions from Intel’s Global Social Media Manager, Jennifer Lashua (@runningjen).
(Presentation was delivered at Engage 2013 NYC)
9 Digital Trends Improving Business Processes Matthew Smith
From banking to insurance and retail, digital processes are improving businesses across industries. Learn more from the top 9 digital trends business leaders are using.
Webinar: 5 Must-Have Items You Need for Your 2020 Ecommerce StrategyLucidworks
In this webinar with 451 Research, you'll understand how retailers are using AI to predict customer intent and learn which key performance metrics are used by more than 120 online retailers in Lucidworks’ 2019 Retail Benchmark Survey.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
● What trends and opportunities are facing the ecommerce industry in 2020
● Why search is the universal path to understanding customer intent
● How large online retailers apply AI to maximize the effectiveness of their personalization efforts
In this presentation, Paul Ballew, D&B's Chief Data and Analytics Officer, explains the three levels of insight needed to gain an informed perspective for smarter decisions involving big data.
The D&B U.S. Economic Health Tracker exhibited resilience in May 2014. Readings on the small business community continued to stabilize although the anticipated bounce back has so far failed to materialize. In the meantime, some 297,000 new non-farm jobs were created, driven by strong gains in the business services and trade/transportation/utilities segments. Finally, the U.S. Business Health Index strengthened once again in May, registering a 54-percent index value, the highest recorded level since the index began in December 2010. U.S. businesses show sustained balance sheet and financial health, based on the weighted average of D&B's Viability Rating, Delinquency Predictor, and Total Loss Predictor. In spite of accelerating business expansion, lackluster economic growth and uncertainty remain significant restraints and should be monitored closely heading into the third quarter.
Cómo las Redes Sociales y Tecnologías Derivadas Impactan en los Procesos In...Antoine GRILLON
¿Qué hacer cuando dejamos de hablar de Likes / Seguidores, Vistas / etc…? ¿Son realmente nuevas las redes sociales y el concepto de Economía Colaborativa? Cuándo hablamos de redes sociales ¿nos referimos a relaciones públicas, branding, servicio al cliente, etc. o a algo más profundo que tiene que analizarse desde un punto de vista estratégico? ¿Cómo aplicar metodologías para impactar lo que realmente importa en una empresa, los resultados financieros?
Social data contains information about customer experience, preferences, and trends that are unavailable through traditional market research. The opportunities for brands to use this data to enhance customer experience are both endless and overwhelming.
In this webinar our panelists will share examples of brands that use social data to engage with their customers. They will also discuss how to make sense of noisy social data to receive the input of your “external constituencies”.
Specifically you will learn:
Which metrics you should follow and how to distinguish bad data from good
How to turn raw data into actionable social intelligence
Tips to create the proper internal channels to harness the power of this data
Taken from the Future of Web Design, San Francisco 2015 Conference. https://futureofwebdesign.com/san-francisco-2015/
Site analytics. The quantified self. Big data. Human activity is creating more and more measurable data. But is more data really helping designers make better decisions? Human problems often require illogical approaches. In order to meet real human needs, we need to approach the data we collect with empathy and find the story in the facts.
Getting Insights through Conversational Chatbots for AnalyticsData Con LA
Data Con LA 2020
Description
It often takes a long time for business users in enterprises to get the right data and insights, even if the data is well organized and structured. This is because they may not know where the data is located, how it is modeled, and how to frame the right queries for their needs. As a result, traditionally, access to data and analytics has mostly been limited to power users and specialist data scientists with varying degrees of analytical and technical skills. This is where conversational analytics comes in. This paradigm allows any user to ask text and voice questions, in natural language, of their data to a bot and receive back a natural language and visual result. In this talk, I shall present our efforts and experiences in building a conversational analytics platform on a chat-based interface. Our approach combines natural-language understanding, dialog management, natural-language generation/narration, data understanding and modeling, augmented analytics and automated visualization generation. I shall describe how we handle complex natural language questions against rich datasets like "How many cases of Covid were there in the last 2 months in states that had no social distancing mandates by type of transmission", and further, enable users to dig deeper into the results in a conversational manner to uncover hidden insights.
Speaker
Anand Ranganathan, Unscrambl, Chief AI Officer
7 Data Analytics Dashboards for Small BusinessTrent Meyer
Need an easy and accessible data solution? Check out these straightforward and aesthetic dashboards for staying on top of your business's digital data.
Data to Insights to Action: How Data Drives Social Media at IntelJennifer Lashua
Intel is a data-driven company. Big data is not just a catch phrase; it’s a way of working across the entire marketing organization – particularly in media and social. As social networks, content distribution channels, and advertising have rapidly evolved in the past 5 years, Intel has continued to define and re-define how they use this data to inform strategies and decisions across the organization. Learn some of these strategies and how they are turning data into decisions from Intel’s Global Social Media Manager, Jennifer Lashua (@runningjen).
(Presentation was delivered at Engage 2013 NYC)
9 Digital Trends Improving Business Processes Matthew Smith
From banking to insurance and retail, digital processes are improving businesses across industries. Learn more from the top 9 digital trends business leaders are using.
Webinar: 5 Must-Have Items You Need for Your 2020 Ecommerce StrategyLucidworks
In this webinar with 451 Research, you'll understand how retailers are using AI to predict customer intent and learn which key performance metrics are used by more than 120 online retailers in Lucidworks’ 2019 Retail Benchmark Survey.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
● What trends and opportunities are facing the ecommerce industry in 2020
● Why search is the universal path to understanding customer intent
● How large online retailers apply AI to maximize the effectiveness of their personalization efforts
In this presentation, Paul Ballew, D&B's Chief Data and Analytics Officer, explains the three levels of insight needed to gain an informed perspective for smarter decisions involving big data.
The D&B U.S. Economic Health Tracker exhibited resilience in May 2014. Readings on the small business community continued to stabilize although the anticipated bounce back has so far failed to materialize. In the meantime, some 297,000 new non-farm jobs were created, driven by strong gains in the business services and trade/transportation/utilities segments. Finally, the U.S. Business Health Index strengthened once again in May, registering a 54-percent index value, the highest recorded level since the index began in December 2010. U.S. businesses show sustained balance sheet and financial health, based on the weighted average of D&B's Viability Rating, Delinquency Predictor, and Total Loss Predictor. In spite of accelerating business expansion, lackluster economic growth and uncertainty remain significant restraints and should be monitored closely heading into the third quarter.
What is Machine Learning?!
AI that makes whisky | The "Chief Nose" Officer | Are You A Citizen Developer?! | The 5 S of Data | 92% use more than one cloud…and other data trends!
Thanks all for your feedback on my LinkedIN Live with Bernard Marr. Next week, on Tuesday, I'll be talking with Eric from Bloor. Be sure to register for free at https://bit.ly/3aTCcJt
1 - The Tyranny of the “OR”
2 - Data Fabric or Data Mesh?!
3 - How We Decide
4 - Poor Data Quality Could Cost You...
5 - The five core IT shifts of scaled agile organizations
Predictions: Worldwide IT Spending to Reach $4 Trillion in 2021
CIOs are the future?!
NFTs...not so much
Poor Data Quality Could Cost You...$12.8M a year
7 Lessons on how tech transformations can deliver value
92% of VCs consider themselves to be value add investors. MOST venture-backed #entrepreneurs disagree
Centralize OR Decentralize?! Eliminate Decision Failure & See The Future…
From Data to Analytics and Decision Making, new practices to help you succeed today and tomorrow.
How To 2.6X Your Business Value
The Rise of the "Augmenter Consumer", The 8 'Ates of Data Value, Is Pre-Covid Data Useless?! and Why It's So Hard To Be Data Driven?!
Happy National Croissant Day!
The Tales of the "Faux Croissant" & "Data Nostalgia", Artificial Intelligence that thinks like YOU thanks to GTP-3…and Dave Kellogg's biggest HITs and MISSES.
This week is a little special: it's the last post of the year and my 71th since I started this series. We covered a lot this year and there is a lot to look forward to in the next updates in the next years.
As many of you already know, I'm a big fan of the Economist and have been for many many years. So, as you take some time off between Xmas and New Years, I suggest you pick up a copy of the Economist's "The World In 2021".
Do You Have What It Takes?!
Do You Have The Right Stack? Does Your Team have the 7 Characteristics of Successful Digital Leaders?! These resources will tell you?
This week, we look at Deloitte's "State of AI" report 2020, the results of Gartner's Data Management Survey, and we look at 3 actions CEOs must take today in order to cure their Cloud FOMO.
State of AI 2020 by Deloitte: Turns out early adopters buy MORE than they build and "HR reduction" is NOT AI's top benefit. More here.
"Data Volume ain't your problem", says Gartner. What is then?! More here.
Cloud FOMO?! See what McKinsey thinks every CEO needs to do here.
M&A or IPO? Just when you thought the point was "neither", Reid Hoffman explains.
Latest Trends in Data with Bernard Marr. A reverse interview here.
Comments & Suggestions?! Ping me @ linkedin.com/in/brunoaziza
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.