InnoTech San Antonio

Ever wondered where AR/VR fit outside of gaming? We will cover use cases where these emerging technologies are bringing a real ROI to businesses. You will gain a new perspective and appreciation for the opportunity to scale current offerings or new products to existing customers. One of our case studies is a local company that has changed its industry. Will your company be next?

This presentation explains in business friendly terms and visuals how intelligent software & robotics will drive an explosion in automation. AI, Deep Learning, Robotics, Natural Language Processing and Decisions Support Systems all play a role in the rise of Machine Intelligence. We will discuss a framework how machine intelligence pieces fit together and how to explain them to your business stakeholders. We will also present a methodology how to find and evaluate opportunities in your organization. How you work with business leaders to apply these technologies will determine if you can keep up with your competition and deter cyber threats.

Have you heard Blockchain is going to disrupt every industry? In this talk, I will give you real answers to what use cases and case studies are proving out. We will discuss use cases for IoT, Cybersecurity, Supply Chain, E-commerce, segments along with vertical case studies.

This session focusses on understanding where the momentum is in the market for AI, across various industries and how is it poised to shape in the future. This session will go into the detail of the common patterns, the adoption challenges and best practices from working with global corporations and organizations,. The session will end with a set of predictions for how Enterprise AI is shaping in 2019 and beyond.

Twenty years ago, Bill Gates spoke about creating a “digital nervous system” for a business that was connected both internally and externally using networks, servers, PCs, and the internet. That vision has largely been achieved on a bigger and richer scale. Today what used to be an idea straight out of “science fiction” is now becoming a “science reality” with the convergence of massive processing power, storage, and connectivity. Machine learning and its capabilities are already imbedded in many advanced products - and the number different intelligence and learning applications for a business to choose and utilize is growing exponentially.

Since 2012, Russ Finney has served in parallel as a researcher with the itmWEB Group, as an advisory partner with the Stratamation Network, and a business and strategy Lecturer at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. From these perspectives, and the associated research, he is seeing and sharing the critical paths and trends that the most successful companies are taking to plan and maximize their own use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to serve both customers and internal employees. Artificial intelligence is creating significant new efficiencies for business and, as a result, these improvements are creating the additional space for employees to be more innovative and to add more value. In this talk, Russ explains exactly how organizations are making this happen.

Prior to his current research and teaching, Russ worked as a CIO in the semiconductor, aerospace, and financial services industries for over 20 years. In 2016, he was named a Top 5 executive CIO Influencer through social media by Apollo Research (@rfinney). The key take-away ideas from this presentation are IT executive action items and approaches which can be immediately applied at any company - no matter the size or sophistication.