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AI workshops to enrich New Zealanders tech knowledge

International experts, industry leaders, academics and local trailblazers in the field of artificial intelligence will gather together for New Zealand’s AI event.

According to a recent press release, the Auckland University of Technology will be participating in the event through the AI-DAY workshops, showcasing how prolific advancements in AI are changing the world.

AI Workshop Sessions

These 90-minute workshop sessions are designed for business people across all disciplines.

The sessions are not super technical and would not require the audience to be a data scientist or a developer to be able to attend.

Scheduled on 3 to 4 April 2019, there are 8 workshops to be held at the University’s grounds. Some of which are:

  1. How to Identify a Business Problem to Solve with Artificial Intelligence

This will be a practical workshop to help business and technical leaders work together to identify practical business problems within different industries that could be solved with AI.

  1. End to End Building of ML/DL Apps

This workshop will allow audience to take part in the entire Machine Learning process. This includes operationalisation and monitoring of the model over time.

It will also teach trigger model update scenarios or automating of the entire pipeline from raw data to ML API.

  1. Quickfire AI: Explore 4 Different Types of AI in 90 minutes

This will be a hands-on workshop wherein participants will explore four AI techniques to gain an understanding of their practical applications.

This session is suitable for those with no coding or data science experience and will require participants to bring a laptop.

  1. Want to Know What’s Involved in “Hiring” a Digital Employee?

The workshop is a practical exercise that will give the audience great insights into the nature of creating and on-boarding a true digital employee.

It will also demonstrate various AI technologies at work.

  1. Designing Your Company’s Next Influencer: Bringing Your Brand to Life in a Digital World

AI now allows brands to put a ‘digital skin’ on their brand. Chatbots and Digital Assistants/Humans can now embody companies as never before.

However, their ‘personas’ need to be carefully crafted to create memorable, believable and valuable client experiences.

These are the influencers of the future. Lessons learned from bringing brands to life in Digital Human form will be shared.

  1. A Peek Behind the Magical AI Curtain

This workshop will address what is behind the technology, how rapidly it takes to build AI systems and how to get a business buy in.

Other Activities

Aside from the workshops, the event comprises of other opportunities for interested New Zealanders to get involved in.

There are conferences as well as a hackfest, with strictly 120 teams competing to develop AI solutions.

PARTNER

Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

PARTNER

CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

PARTNER

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

SUPPORTING ORGANISATION

SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

PARTNER

HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

PARTNER

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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