Breakout presentation in Machine Learning Track at Bio IT World West 2019 / Molecular Med Tri-Conference. Presented by Lucidworks VP Global Partners and Alliances, Simon Taylor.

1. To AI or Not to AI,
That Is the Question
Simon Taylor, VP Global Partners & Alliances,
Lucidworks

2. 72% of life science
professionals believe
their industry is behind
in the development of
AI.
PISTORIA ALLIANCE
SURVERY OF 229 LIFE SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS
JUNE 2018

3. Why Use AI?
• Bio Validation
• Molecular Toxicology Prediction
• Early Stage Drug Development
• Drug Repurposing
• Treatment / Therapy Insight
• Ontology Base Search
• Competitive Drug Go-to-market

4. Top Need Areas
• Big Data Insight on Everything Bio Related
• Patent Time to Value Analytics
• Clinical Trial Workbench
• Patent Insight
• Physician Insight
• Regulatory Analysis (FDA)
• Go-to Market Competitive Insight
• Op Efficiency in Drug Development
• Automation in Bio DS & AI due to skills Shortage

5. …agile organizations
insist on full transparency of
information, so that every
team can quickly and easily
access the information
they need...
MCKINSEY, JANUARY 2018
Organizations possess
lots of data...siloed inside
disconnected applications, and
unavailable to employees at
their moments of need. ​
FORRESTER, JULY 2018
85% of employees
are not engaged or actively
disengaged at work.
GALLUP, 2017

6. Introducing the Last Mile Problem
BigDataManagement
&Analytics
Data Scientist Driven The Last Mile Problem
Direct Alignment with Business NeedsQuantifiable & Faster ROI
Reduced Time to Value
Search,Discovery&
OperationalAI
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7. Many AI tools’ designs
mainly focus on data, not
human. Thus, a great AI
platform is usually solution
based rather than tool based.
AI AUTHORITY
CHAO HAN, HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE, LUCIDWORKS
SEPT 2018

8. Facet,
Topic &
Cluster
Query Rule
Matching
Natural
Language
Machine
Learning
Boosted
Results
Signals
Content
Index
System Generated
Human Generated
Application Generated
Data
Solution
Digital Workplace

9. • Open source tech at its
core: Apache Solr & Apache
Spark
• Personalizes work with
applied machine learning
• Hardened on the biggest
corporate & government
information systems

10. advanced connectors and AI enrichment,
surfaced by one or more applications via App Studio
AIAI AI
Fusion
Connect users to
insights precisely at
their moment of need
any format, any platform
System Generated
Human Generated
Application Generated
Data
Digital Workplace
Solution

11. NLP: NER, Phrases, POS
Document Classification
Anomaly Detection
Clustering
Topic Detection
Connectors
ETL Pipelines
Search Engine &
Data Processing
SQL Engine
Rules Engine
Scheduling & Alerting
Query Pipelines
Query Intent Detector
Automatic Relevancy
Signals & Query Analytics
Recommenders
A/B Testing
Scalable Operations
Extensible
System Generated
Human Generated
Application Generated
Data
Modular Components
Stateless Architecture
User-focused Experience
Geospatial Mapping
Results Preview
Rapid Prototyping
Digital Workplace
Solution
CloudScalable CDCR Security

12. Digital Transformation
Solutions

13. Hyper-
Personalization
In Projects
Increased
Value
Employee
Engagement
Analytics
Explore
Curate Integrate
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

14. The Integration Challenge:
Securely access, ingest &
synchronize data in real-
time, and at massive scale

15. Integration requires:
•Comprehensive data access
•Integrated end-to-end security
•Classification & categorization

16. Integrate

17. Integrate
Eliminating data silos and reducing tribal wisdom
FEATURE BENEFIT IMPACT
Entity Extraction
Classify and categorize items
such as people, places, and
things from unstructured text
Improve search precision so people can do their
jobs better with less error
200+ connectors and
advanced Connector SDK
Real-time access to billions of
documents across storage
systems and file formats
Increase: access to precise information and
employee productivity. Decrease: frustration,
time to market, and time to value.
Integrated security
Reduce risk by meeting global
compliance requirements
Securely administer access controls by
integrating AD, SSO, and Kerberos with support
for field, document, and user level restrictions
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18. The Curation Challenge:
Gracefully combining human
and machine intelligence to
deliver relevance

19. Curate the experience by:
• Understanding the way your analysts
access and pivot around data
• Automatically tuning relevancy through
ML
• Personalizing predictive outcomes and
insights with AI

20. Curate

21. FEATURE BENEFIT IMPACT
Self-learning, real-time
recommendations engine
Help users when they don’t
know what they are looking for
Increases employee productivity. Decreases:
frustration, time to value and time to market
Natural Language Processing
and Rules based NLP suite
Parse and process normal
language queries so users don’t
have to learn complex
operators or functions
Allows users to search like they speak
augments individual and organizational
intelligence
Content and signal-driven
automatic relevancy
Personalized results improve
with each click as the system
learns from user activity
Connects people to insights, content and
each other, promoting collaboration,
reducing frustration and increasing
innovation
Curate
Dramatically improving researcher engagement
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22. Let’s see what can be
created…..

23. Who are we?
CUSTOMERS ACROSS THE
FORTUNE 1000
400+
SPONSORING
COMPANY FOR
Apache
OFFICES IN
San Francisco (HQ)
Durham, NC
United Kingdom
India
Hong Kong
230EMPLOYEES

24. Our clients

25. Thank you
Simon.Taylor@Lucidworks.com
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