Actionable insights regarding artificial intelligence delivered to business leaders at AI Roadshow
ROSEBANK – Business people, media and civil stakeholders attended the event which helped them gain insight into the current state of the analytics market in South Africa.
Opportunities made possible through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics were brought to life at the annual AI Roadshow hosted by analytics company SAS at Hyatt Regency in Rosebank on 30 May.
Business people, media and civil stakeholders attended the event which helped them gain insight into the current state of the analytics market in South Africa and how analytics, cloud and AI could be leveraged for business value.
Speakers at the event included SAS South Africa country manager Akesh Lalla and IDC SA senior research manager for cloud and IT services Jon Tullett, among others.
Keynote speaker and business philosopher Anders Indset began the event by encouraging delegates to think, ask questions and put people first in order to gain real value out of technology such as AI and use it to solve problems. Indset aims to show leaders how to cope with the 21st century by bridging the philosophy of the past with the technology and science of the future.
“Intelligence isn’t enough. Today we have to look at the world from a different perspective because the world is changing and never has the gap between generations been bigger. People don’t buy products and services, they buy relationships, they buy services, they buy magic,” he said.
SAS business operations director David Cosgrave delivered a presentation on evolving the analytics platform and getting choice and control with SAS.
Cosgrave said, “The first thing that everyone in analytics is currently looking for is flexibility, with the rise of new models, open source languages and quickly downloadable packages, but how do you have flexibility while also keeping control of the process?” He answered his own question by saying, “By moving analytics and unifying open source and proprietary data science platforms into a unified, governed life cycle.”
The AI Roadshow aims to provide decision-makers with the knowledge they need to exceed, the understanding needed to incorporate analytics and AI into their business and the experience of new innovations within the tech space.
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