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Lab to Live: Creating the platform for global logistics with Scale AI and Flexport
Global trade today is largely run on offline relationships with the people who move goods. Scale AI and Flexport discuss how AI can harness unstructured data to increase efficiency and compliance across networks of global trade stakeholders. Plus, get a deep dive into real-world cases, including the future of AI/ML in the global supply chain and the implications of trade crises on logistics (like the Suez Canal obstruction in 2021).
Featuring:
James Chen - CTO - Flexport
Melisa Tokmak - GM, Document AI - Scale AI (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Reimagine the future of shopping with AI
How can we seamlessly connect online and offline shopping? Join us in this conversation between Żabka, the biggest network of convenience stores in Poland, and AiFi, a thriving innovator in the automated retail space, to explore the success story of using state-of-the-art AI to win over customers and set the new standard for the future of shopping.
Featuring:
Tomasz Blicharski - Executive Vice President (EVP), Managing Director of Żabka Future - Zabka
Ying Zheng - Co-founder, President - AiFi (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Where there’s a process, there’s an opportunity: Telus & Minit Process Mining case study
Canada’s biggest telecommunication operator Telus has embarked on an ambitious journey. Being an early adopter, they have selected innovative Process Miningtechnology as a strategic tool to optimize their processes across the organization and gain competitive advantage in the thriving telco market.
In this session we will discuss why Process Mining is the technology of choice for Telus, how they selected the right partner and what benefits they are looking to gain. You will also learn what possible pitfalls to avoid in a strategic project like this and what is the most important advice if you are considering Process Mining for your organization.
Featuring:
Rudina Holmqvist - Sr. Process Improvement Consultant - Telus
James Dening - CEO - Minit (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: The impact of AI in delivery businesses
Daniel Hulme, CEO of Satalia, and Chace Calum, the Author of “Surviving AI”, will be discussing what the problem of the travelling salesman is, what optimisation is and and how it can help the delivery businesses, and how companies like Tesco and DFS will use the digital twins model to fine tune their operations, financial performance, their working conditions, and their customer service.
Featuring:
Daniel Hulme - CEO of Satalia, Director of Business Analytics MSc - UCL
Calum Chace - author of "The Economic Singularity" - Three Cs (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Enhancing CX with Soul Machines’ Digital People: Meet Nestlé Toll House’s Cookie Coach Ruth
‘Ruth’ is Nestlé Toll House’s first Digital Person — created by Soul Machines — who acts as a cookie coach. Her job is to guide bakers through the baking process and help them troubleshoot along the way. In this curious session, Cross & Bertelson discuss the process of creating Ruth, the impact she has had so far and what the future looks like for innovation in AI and customer experience.
Featuring:
Orchid Bertelsen - Head of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Nestlé USA
Greg Cross - Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer - Soul Machines (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: How Pure Storage accelerated Folding@home’s quest for Covid-19 therapies
There’s a growing need to crunch and synthesise big data in rapid, organised systems to solve real-world problems. Join Pure Storage and Folding@Home as they look at the power of simplicity, flexibility and reliability for enterprise infrastructure. They’ll also explore how FlashBlade Technology accelerated scientists’ search for COVID therapies, and discuss the need for storage capacity and unification to solve critical problems at scale.
Featuring:
Stacie Brown - Senior Field Solutions Architect - Analytics at Pure Storage - Pure Storage
Greg Bowman - Associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics - Folding@home
Brian Carpenter - Senior Director of Unstructured Technology Strategy - Pure Storage (Moderator)
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