Trust and transparency of AI for the enterprise (sponsored by IBM Watson)

IBM Analyticss Dinesh Nirmal solves school lunch and the struggle to keep ahead of regulations. With AI tech like deep learning and NLG, supplying meals to Californias kids leaps from enriching metadata for compliance to actionable insights for the business.

AI is real and has immense value potential for enterprises. However, there is a lot of hype and confusion around AI, creating a critical need for every business to be thoughtful about developing the right strategy and vision for AI within the organization. Join Manish Goyal to explore four success factors for an AI journey and learn how you can best unlock the value of enterprise AI.

Join Ari Kaplan, Erin LeDell, Chris Coad, and David Kearns to see where AI meets business intelligence, as they explore the latest ML technologies and concepts powering today's decisions, including Hortonworks, Aginity Amp, H2O.ai, IBM Data Science Experience, and moreusing real-life baseball data to illustrate the concepts.

Rachael Rekart offers an overview of Autodesk Virtual Agent (AVA), which has revolutionized the way Autodesk approaches customer service. Customers chat with AVA as they would a human, in natural language, and AVA processes transactions quickly, returns accurate answers, or gathers information to pass to a human counterpart to resolve the query.

To help enterprises formulate their strategies for actionable and effective use of AI, HfS and IBM have jointly developed a practical guide to starting your AI journey, leveraging insights from IBMs Institute for Business Value (IBV) and recent HfS research, as well as real-world experiences, gleaned from interviews with clients and field practitioners.

What was once science fiction has now become reality as multiple AI consumer-based solutions have hit the market over last few years. In turn, consumers have become more comfortable interacting with AI. But has AI really lived up to the hype? For consumers, perhaps not yet. However, AI for business is a different (and more valuable) animal. Carlo Appugliese details how business can put AI to work.