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Taming dragons: A breakthrough approach to AI for business leaders

Elizabeth Partridge (milk+honey), Nick Paquin (milk+honey), Byron Freney (milk+honey)
1:30pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 5, 2018
AI Business Summit, AI in the Enterprise
 Location: Yosemite ABC
Secondary topics:  AI in the Enterprise
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Who is this presentation for?

  • C-level executives and strategic decision makers

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A clear understanding of your key business goals

What you'll learn

  • Learn a breakthrough approach for implementing enterprise AI in the language of business

Description

For many legacy companies, simply getting started is one of the hardest things about integrating enterprise AI (EAI). Business leaders struggle to find the right entry point to introduce AI technologies, and they are understandably frustrated when the promised benefits of EAI don’t materialize.

Beth Partridge, assisted by Nick Paquin and Annie O’Connor, shares a breakthrough approach to decoding machine learning opportunities, based on embracing EAI as a core competency. Through lectures and hands-on activities in breakout groups, you’ll gain a clear understanding of what AI can do for your business and how to go about implementing it.

Outline:

EAI as a core competency

  • Learn why one-off projects and MLaaS (machine-learning-as-a-service) models are insufficient and potentially counterproductive approaches to AI integration
  • Understand why AI is a fundamental capability that can and should be applied across all functions of your organization

Machine learning applications

  • Learn the three basic outputs that the majority of machine learning models used in enterprise AI deliver (and which every business leader already understands and uses)
  • Begin to formulate a strategic adoption plan for your business based on your new-found knowledge and a focus on ROI

Staffing for data science

  • Discover why scarcity of data science resources may not be the roadblock you think it is
  • Explore the varying skills required at different phases of the machine learning development process
  • Learn a team approach to economize the hardest-to-find skill sets while cultivating talent from within
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Elizabeth Partridge

milk+honey

Beth Partridge is founder, CEO, and chief data scientist at milk+honey, a company born from her hard-won understanding that success in business now requires a deep commitment to data-driven decision making and development of a culture of experimentation and innovation at all levels of an organization. Beth is that rare executive with a powerhouse combination of natural leadership, deep technical experience, and impeccable execution skills. She is filled with excitement about the data revolution and the profound transformation that’s upon us. Beth has nearly 30 years of executive-level experience in manufacturing, product engineering, quality control, technical support, and operations. She holds a BS in electrical engineering and a master of information and data science from UC Berkeley.

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Nick Paquin

milk+honey

Finding, attracting, placing, and developing the next generation of technology and IT professionals requires something other than the scattershot approach to professional matchmaking that drives most outsourced recruitment efforts. As workforce enablement director at milk+honey, Nick Paquin augments best practices in recruitment and relationship management with milk+honey’s proprietary skills matrix to ensure eligible candidates possess the skills, professional understanding, and personality to carry out and complete machine learning projects for milk+honey’s clients.

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Byron Freney

milk+honey

Byron is a business leader, strategist and original thinker with a knack for finding creative solutions to thorny problems. His greatest contribution to most engagements is his ability to see all sides of a situation, and develop insights that advance initiatives. Byron has worked as an executive and a consultant in sectors ranging from automotive to financial services, packaged goods to publishing, sporting goods to technology. The common threads running through his experience are an unusually centered enthusiasm, an ability to say hard things in constructive ways, and an applied appreciation for the things that unite us in our humanity.

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Jeremy Fortes | CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER
09/10/2018 6:28am PDT

Tony, the link to the deck is now available above. You can also download the presentation from our site: http://milkandhoney.ai/taming-dragons

Tony Cleveland | DIRECTOR
09/06/2018 9:28pm PDT

Will the deck from this tutorial be made available? I thought it was mentioned that it would be but I missed the link.