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#dts23 is about to begin! Excited to be here!

Ready for a welcome address from @dccahalane, group CMO @dogpatchlabs #dts23

An interesting panel going on on the ignite stage, mapping out the funding landscape of 2023, the shift in investments, how we're going to have to "do more with less" (sigh.) #dts23

But I'm about to move already to the prism main stage for the opening keynote of Dr Patricia Scanlon - #ai ambassador and @soapboxlabs founder #dts23

#dts23 I'm so eager to hear all about @ScanlonPatricia's thoughts on opportunities and challenges ahead in embracing #ai!

It is on all of us to be able to regulate the threads that #ai poses. We can't sit down, relax back, and see what happens. We need to be an active participant in this conversation around #ai.
It's here to stay, it's here to change the way we live. #dts23

But what is #ai? The ability of machines to perform a task that would normally require human intelligence. This definition is one of the many, and it's up to discussion, still. To be fair, there's a lot of stuff that #ai does thay the human brain barely understands. #dts23

Huge datasets, a huge number of dimensions... Our brain just can't cope with these factors.
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So many terms, so much to understand in the #ai landscape. Foundations models, super intelligence, weak ai, strong ai? I must say, indeed, it's something so constantly shifting that it's very hard to keep track. I read a lot, and it's never enough! #dts23

Can't be talking about #ai without talking about biases. What's so key about #ai is its ability to scale up: a small error on a scale of hundreds, thousands of people, is no longer a small error. #dts23

Humans are biased. #ai is biased. Legacy data are biased, so using legacy data mostly means perpetuating the same biases over and over again. It's a fact. #dts23

And we can't definitely be talking about #ai without talking about intellectual property. With generative AI this has become a huge debate, a debate that is ongoing as we speak. #dts23

This also shifts entirely the workforce needed in an #ai landscape. Data scientists, engineers, techno people, we all need them. But we need likewise responsible data managers, regulators, lawyers. #dts23

Regulations are needed. #ai impacts so much of our life - eduction, health, employment - that we can't afford to not do anything and "hoping for the best". We got it wrong with social media, says @ScanlonPatricia. I absolutely agree. #dts23

The social media ship has sailed, it's too late now to regulate better whatever the hell goes on in there. But this, #ai, is such a powerful technology, the only responsible thing to do is to regulate it. Now. #dts23

An interesting question from the audience on this piece of news I still need to read
#dts23 - and this closes the opening keynote, which was absolutely inspiring!

Now ready for another keynote by @NatNatarajan01 - talking about #ai, human intelligence, global growth! #dts23

Starting with a bunch of #ChatGPT jokes ;) #dts23

Work as we know it has changed forever. And business dynamics are impacting global workforces today. With fast shifts in technology, #ai advancements... What does this mean for our jobs?
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These are all very good questions. But now quickly shifting the gears towards a panel on "Leading the way - Women in Tech driving DE&I Solutions" 🔥 #dts23

The panel is moderated by @SpeakerShinjini and it's composed of Anna Brailsford @CodeFirstGirls, Mary-Christine Nolan, Ruth Thomas @PersonioHR, Brìd McMahon @integralads
Notice there are all women?! It's possible! #dts23

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@CodeFirstGirls is an amazing reality: teach women to code for free & help them transition to a job position.
@pluralsight also present with their tech learning platform.
@PersonioHR with HR and talent acquisition perspectives. And finally @integralads.

It's a fact the big majority of people studying computer science / tech majors are white men. We need to create alternative ways to get into technology. It seems that women might get closer to tech later in their lives - perhaps after having chosen their university degree #dts23

It's obviously not only a matter of fostering diversity & inclusion. It's an important job that's gonna be absolutely key into meeting the challenges that come with the current evolution speed of #ai and tech. #dts23

I love the remark on changing your mind. You might get closer to the tech space, to realize later on this is not your thing. It's okay to change your mind, but we can only enable this if if we create alternative possibilities and education / career paths. #dts23

Question is now - When did you learn how to self-promote?
The panel share their personal experiences. Some points.
- The ability to hold a room definitely comes from your deep knowledge on a subject.
- Women and men are raised differently. This is still a fact. >#dts23

- Sometimes you can learn about D&I in your family as much as you can learn outside, in the world.
- You need to believe you deserve a seat at the table

Impostor syndrome, anyone? #dts23

Speaking in facts is not necessarily bragging. But let's not forget research shows men are more likely than women to apply for jobs even when they don't meet all requirements for the position. This can only be fixed with education reforms. My two cents. #dts23

We might also start redefining the actual concept of diversity. What are we talking about? Gender gap is important but it's only a slice of the cake.
I naturally think immediately of neurodiversity. Which makes me wonder: is there a quiet room on site? #dts23

I might need to take a silent break myself very soon 😅#dts23

When your milestone is measured with the number of lives you change every month - well... You definitely gotta love your job lol #dts23
Nolan for @pluralsight

Great to hear the panel closing with a bunch of milestones achieved by these amazing women! I wouldn't mind listen to some failed experiments, too! Projects don't work, some days you just don't want to go to your job. Can we talk more about that, too? #dts23

I rushed into the evolution stage room to follow a bit of the sustainability panel. Driving profits with purpose - I like the title. It says everything and nothing at the same time :) #dts23

My Belgian stomach is set on 12.37 by the way, and I'm getting hungry 😁I have seen soooo many catering points all around the venue, is going to be hard to choose what to have #dts23

Food will have to wait for now! Ready for another keynote, this one by David Singleton, CTO at @stripe - "Engineering for Agility - strategies to overcome th challenges of scale". #dts23

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The best software tends to be written by small movitated teams. In shifting the focus from speed to scale, you need to keep in mind 5 things. #dts23

1. Sensible architecture
Adding technical debt to your product is only normal when a product is young. But as you go, you need to actively curate your code base. #dts23

Build a consistent domain model. It will act as a connective tissue across all relevant stakeholders. What is a transaction? What is an account? Important that everybody talks the same language. #dts23

2. Operational excellence
Get ahead of incidents before they happen. As the code base grows, how do you ensure reliability? First and foremost, define what reliability means in your case. Minimize operational failures to zero. You need a system of safe change management. #dts23

Automated tests and automated frameworks for continuous deployment are your friends.
You don't only want to prevent issues, once they are there you need to be sure you can detect them, remediate the damage, and eliminate the root cause. #dts23

3. Practical deployment of #ai
@stripe has used #ai models for years now. Now it's also using #llm to address developers into the right documentation (stripe docs).
Sigma assistant also uses a big LLM to convert questions into SQL queries. #dts23

Engineers at @stripe are also enthusiastically using @github co-pilot to speed up their coding activities. #dts23

This picture needs no word, I think. Though I missed the source. #dts23

4. No code and low code
A majority of new @stripe integrations today begin with no code at all. #dts23

5. User feedback
Last point is perhaps the most important of them all. How long does it take for you to take your user feedback and feed it back into your product?
The OODA loop model helps decision making go faster and more efficiently. #dts23

Remain directly connected to your users. It's the only way to make sure whatever you're building serves a purpose.
I'm thinking of the amazing job beta testers do a lot of times!
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An absolutely amazing keynote from David Singleton of @stripe. I didn't expect anything less! #dts23
And now, food!

The quickest lunch ever (my God the rush!) and here I am listening to @bengoertzel talking about the future of Large Language Models. #dts23

How can we use #LLMs in a way that they become valuable ingredients for Artificial General Intelligence? These models should be used as components for something bigger. #dts23

Goertzel now talks about Zarqa, @SingularityNET neural symbolic LLM 👇🏾
link.medium.com/B08SYwYtfAb
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Now a panel discussion led by Goertzel, with Janet Adams from @SingularityNET, and as special guest, Desdemona the Robot! 🤖 #dts23

Desdemona just told us compassion is a very broad thing, and humans do it in our own way, while robots might do in another way. Well, Desdemona's language model is well trained, Desdemona is pretty eloquent 😅#dts23

What's the impact of #ai on the artistic scene and music, in particolar? Adams tells us that music is and has always been an ever expanding endeavor. AI can and will create new ways of being creative, beats we've never heard before. A whole bunch of possibilities. #dts23

It's time to check @TheJamGalaxy! I'm super curious to see where this project will go 🚀 🎶 #ai #dts23

This felt weird and captivating at the same time. Will be succumb to the singularity? Will #ai destroy humanity? Desdemona says we can all sleep soundly at night, it's aaaalll going to be alright. I want to believe them ;) #dts23

Ran across the venue to go back to the ignite panel, where Alisa Cohn is talking about work culture and secrets for successful unicorns #dts23

Key question to ask yourself - have I been clear? I am writing this down, as a reminder to myself. It's so so easy for messages to get diluted, lost, misunderstood. Ask yourself - have I been clear? #dts23

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Another panel discussion now at the ignite corner, where field leaders will be talking about how #ai and automation are shaping sales and marketing efforts. #dts23

Chesney from @HubSpot, Rathod from @Builderai and Hughes from @SolidRoad_nl #dts23

Solidroad mission is to automate and improve processes around CRM.
And doing so using #ai 👇🏾
solidroad.com/#dts23

I don't think thriving for max efficiency all the time is necessarily the way to go, but I do believe it's important to understand which parts of a job somebody is not able to perform (and a part where they would excel!) because of manual, repetitive and frustrating tasks #dts23

Trends in #ai within marketing - how to get the right message to the right people at the right time? Understanding the footprint of somebody with #ai is super crucial to model persona, and target marketing communication. #dts23

Is #ai going to take our jobs? AI will enable us to focus more on personal relationships, while opening up new functions and responsibilities. So, in short, the job market will change (it already is), but we'll still have jobs lol #dts23

Targeting people with marketing proposals: #ai opportunity number one in sales, says Chesney. #dts23

I like this message from Rathod, @Builderai: #ai can actually make people focus on what really matters, enabling evolution and growth and therefore creating job opportunities! #dts23

Never heard of this Google extension 👇🏾 #dts23
chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

And now Brett Martin, founder of @Kumospace_, will talk about how to build strong cultures with remote teams. Looking forward! #dts23

What is company culture? It can mean so many things. Every company has one. The question is - do you let it happen, or do you define it? Great question. #dts23

Integrity, respect, responsibility. Sometimes are void words that don't carry a lot of weight. #dts23

Culture is mostly what you do. Do you show up on time? Do you use kind words? Do you show compassion?
A good way to define culture is to look into what an organization chooses to prioritize and to reward. #dts23

I love this. Culture becomes the norm. It's there when you're not. #dts23

. @gitlab mentioned as a great example of an organization that has a strong company culture, it uses it. It's proud of it. Pinging my friend here @angelogulina #dts23

Having documentation is not enough. It needs to be accessible easily at all time! #dts23

The big secret to all of this is: there's no secret. Voilà!
But takeaway message - it's all in the million little things. @Kumospace_ and work culture, at #dts23.

I moved now to the workshop corner, a session on #ai and #LLMs is about to start, with a focus on business communication. #dts23

We're fashioning a 21st century bicycle. Digital dividends are now expected all around businesses. #dts23

This workshop by the way is led by @RingCentral - now presenting #ai powered advanced meeting insights. One of the many solutions to unlock value from voice data. #dts23

Couldn't resist and popped by at the evolution stage - How #ai and other technologies are helping to advance DE&I in the workplace. #dts23

I can't take notes anymore, I need coffee 😂
Back at the workshop corner, with a session on #ai, and specifically on how to use the AI use case builder and the AI value matrix. With @lucamarchesotti from @GemmoAi #dts23

Are doing #ai for the right reasons? 😏 #dts23

The AI value matrix, ladies and gentlemen. #dts23

How can AI be useful? It gets you data, insights, and finally actions. Ultimately, it's all about maximizing revenue streams. #dts23

Thinking about #ai in terms of skills and output is useful because you want to focus on T1 in this matrix here 👇🏾
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. @lucamarchesotti at #dts23 with the AI value matrix

How to build an #ai use case - start with the problem, not with the data, describe who's having the problem, describe the current status quo, and the impacted business metric(s). #dts23

Only look at the technology at the very end of the use case pipeline. After the technical analysis, take care of a deep assessment of the quality of the data. #dts23

Back after a quick break to talk about the future of #ai and #MachineLearning teams: beyond the algorithm! #dts23

By 2025 95% of global organizations will experience skill shortage. But let's start by looking at what are machine learning teams.
Key roles are highlighted - business analysts, data engineers, data scientists.
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An idea to let diversity explicitly manifests within a data team: choose a dataset and let people analyse / visualise It - the richness of the output will reflect the uniqueness and diversity of the people that produced it. #dts23

How to reduce the chance for an algorithm to screw up? Well, if you intend to deploy a model globally, for example, you might not want to train it with Europe only data. Seems logical, and yet... #ai #dts23

Strategies for Building
Succesful AI Product - This is the last session I follow today, and the last tweet of today, as my phone battery is giving up! See you tomorrow, #dts23!

Good morning Dublin! Back for day 2 of #dts23. A couple of cups of coffee and I'm already starting with the first keynote over at the evolution stage - What leaders should know in the age of #ai! Ready, set, go!

Fergal Reid, director of #MachineLearning at @intercom, opening, of course, mentioning #ChatGPT #dts23

#LLMs are not very good at storing data and retrieving it back efficiently, says Reid, while we should be focusing on the reasoning capabilities, which he will illustrate now #dts23

Here an example #dts23

Reid goes on talking about extrapolation vs interpolation. I love when graphs are in talks 😁and guess what? The #Python code for this was generated by #ChatGPT
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The human intuition behind a LLM. Context is everything, or at least makes a big big difference. #dts23

On to the features built at @intercom - summarization, edit tone of voice, expand from shorthand. I edit the tone of my emails A LOT. A LOT. #dts23

A customer support knowledge base plugged in a bot powered by #GPT4 - here is Fin #dts23 (wonder if the name means something?)

An LLM can seem inert, as if just completes text, but it can actually be turned easily into an agent. It's a component in a complex ecosystem, and it opens up a whole bunch of new ways to develop software. #dts23 #ai #MachineLearning

Leaders should look at the tasks people are trying to accomplish, and see where #ai can help them. Automate tasks will help people focus on what really matters in their jobs. #dts23

A bit of networking here and there, and back to the ignite stage for a fireside conversation on "From moving fast and breaking things to the culture of mending and nurturing" - gotta love this tile, no? #dts23

Alexander Vassilev, CEO of @WeTransfer, with the moderation of Massimo Marioni, Europe Editor, Fortune. #dts23

Moving fast and breaking things perhaps used to work. But the world is today different than 5 years ago, and it's perhaps the moment to put responsibility back into tech development. #dts23

Growth at all costs is not sustainable. And users see this. They won't trust a company that doesn't nurture their employees. They won't trust a company that doesn't take clear positions and pushes a certain culture forward. #dts23

What you're trying to do is important, but it means little without the how. How you're trying to solve a problem is as important as the what. Employees care about the how, and users do, too, more than we might realize. #dts23

Important, and I agree to this, Vassilev says that extremes are bad. Nurturing and mending doesn't mean losing entirely the impatience, the ambition, the fast pace. Reaching an equilibrium seems optimal, which really doesn't come as a surprise. #dts23

And back to the evolution stage for a panel discussion on digital transformation unleashed. Paul Kelly, Donal Spring, Bozhidar Batsov, Marie McGinley, moderated by @SpeakerShinjini #dts23

Where do we stand with respect to the digital transformation within organizations? It used to be all about data and analytics, the focus is shifting towards technology as an enabler to go fast(er). Technology as an enabler. Love that. #dts23

Technology as a multiplier. I also like this very much. Productivity amplifier, says one of the panelists. I would even push this to more than productivity. It's also about creativity, diversification, human & machine synergy. #dts23

Is it time to outdate the "digital transformation" term? A panelist says they don't really like the transformation word used like this. Transformation is about people, adopting new technology is not really transforming organizations. #dts23

Another panelist says that a lot of businesses actually haven't even started to begin to leverage the power of data, let alone #ai. Digital evolution might be a better expression. I like this. #dts23

Speaking now of regulations around technology, McGinley stresses the importance of a tight collaboration between the legal & the technical departments. Whatever you build, you need to make sure it's ethical and respects fundamental users rights. #dts23

There's no one size fits all when it comes to regulation and technology. You can only make it work looking deeply at the input, deeply at the output, considering all the things that happen in the background. All of them. And with black-box technology, this is very hard. #dts23

It's critical that we push for companies to build models in the open, so that we get a view of how decisions are made, says Spring from @RedHat. I completely agree, and I think this is the biggest challenge with currently face with the recent #ai models. #dts23

It boils down, as it usually does, to power - who has it and what they can do with it. #ai disruptive models should be designed in the open, in a collaborative and transparent way. That is the only way to nurture a digital evolution we can all benefit from. #dts23

Trust is a result of actions. You can do so much with #ai. Fighting fake news, create fake news. Develop great marketing campaigns, develop horrible marketing campaigns. Humans, us, should always be in the driving seat. Making decisions is our responsibility. #dts23

Beautiful session this was! Over to the workshop corner for a session on delivering more agile, resilient and efficient IT, by Callum Brown from @LogicMonitor #dts23

After the pandemic rush, a new normal sets in, develop new digital services, transform quickly, all good, but... Where's the strategy? #dts23

Current focus in tech industries seem not to be so much on fast growth - also because of current economy - but mostly on the workforce. How to reduce the frictions left by an amount of legacy systems in IT pipelines? #dts23

The shift seems to be from tools to platforms. We used to build for stability, which is not really the way things work right now. We need fast adaptations. #dts23

We now build for scale, agility, which introduces a great amount of complexity. #dts23

This slide is quite overwhelming, but not much far from reality. The tech landscape is so big and so diverse. Tools, languages, paradigms. The complexity is huge and can be intimidating. #dts23

Tool-driven monitoring is no longer sustainable. More tools means more cost, more alerts, higher downtime - we end up reacting instead of innovating.
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Observability in business - what is happening, where is it happening, why is it happening? We should be able to answer these 3 questions at all times. And not only when things go wrong. #dts23

Tips - consolidate point tools into a single platform, prioritize onboarding and visualisation of observability data, adopt open source instrumentation whenever possible. #dts23

I'm in desperate need of an espresso and some chocolate, then running over to the evolution stage for a session on real-world #ai - practical applications to boost business efficiency and revenue #dts23

This is another panel discussion, with Alan Gormley from @ShopboxAI, Jonathan Keane as moderator, @SundayIndy, Marie Toft from Emotionise AI, and Olivier Blais from @moov_ai #dts23

Putting Emotional Intelligence in #ai says @mariegtoft
emotionise.ai
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The Canada #ai landscape as Blais experiences it, seems to be very much research oriented, while @moov_ai wants to bring AI into meaningful, practical use cases. #dts23

Emotionise AI creates models that introduce generative AI to organizations in a smooth, gentle way. These models have an emotional engagement component to them. I'd love to hear more about this aspect. #dts23

A bias aspect that Gormley brings forward is the one where #ai actually behaves against a company interests. That's why you can't start using AI if you first don't have a full understanding of your business and your needs. #dts23

Interesting perspective from Blais, as well. Everything is risky. The two extremes of Yolo and burn things on one side, and being blocked by risks on the other side, are not productive. Again, wisdom seems to be in the middle - build fast, but be responsible! #dts23

Customer support alert! There's always a technical problem and a personal one, says Toft. The pandemic has crashed human interactions to then ground (I like to think we can get them back?), can you imagine what we can do with an #ai that can show emotional intelligence? #dts23

Is data science still the sexiest job of the 21st century? Perhaps. But it means very little without a strong connection to the business. Data scientists still talk too little with product managers, management, customers! #dts23

A question rises naturally - if we rely on a tool to create emotional connections, aren't we risking to become more emotionally stunted? Toft seems pretty confident it's quite the opposite. Interacting with a machine that bring in emotional intelligence > #dts23

> will only make us behave kinder and more humanly.
I have no formed a clear opinion about this, yet. #dts23

The death of death! Singularity and immortality by 2045. A keynote from José Luis Cordero, director of the Millennium Project. #dts23

The singularity is near
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singularity.com

In 40 years we moved from "cacca" to Tera - this historical journey from Cordeiro is hilarious 😂 #dts23
Technology is not linear, it's growing exponential!

The medicine of the future will be preventive. We'll know what we will die of, and we'll able to do something about it, because of the right preventive medicine. Cordeiro talking about genome sequencing and the absolutely insane knowledge that comes from it. #dts23

Four attitudes towards the future - you suffer it, hiding yourself way, you respond, you prepare, and even better you create. #dts23

Clarke's three laws are now mentioned on the stage!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27….?wprov=sfla1

Aging is the mother of all diseases, and Cordeiro calls age the final enemy, the real enemy of humanity. This is a brain-bending talk, and I'm feeling many different things at the same time 😁
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I'm definitely hearing a lot of new things today. Have you ever heard about the longevity dividend? #dts23
link.springer.com/referenceworke….

I don't know how to feel about this keynote. I'll have to read up some stuff on aging and living forever, I think. Not without a good psychotherapy session, though, LOL. On to the next panel! #dts23

Digital Transformation 2.0 - Merging the art of the possible with the art of the likely. With Joanna Murphy, Bivin Varghese, Martin Curley, and Peter Hendrick. #dts23

58% of premises across Europe currently have access to high-speed broadband, the objective is to move to 100% by 2030. Digital infrastructure will be crucial to meet this goal
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Varghese from @techmahindracsr defines digital transformation 2.0 as a fast-paced adoption of technologies, like #ai.

Don't fall in love with a technology, fall in love with a business model. #dts23

Rushing back to the evolution stage for a session on #ai in the data protection context. A panel with Sean Hurley, Lawyer on the data protection commission, and Barry Scannell, leading #ai law expert. Led by Morwenna Coniam, Bloomberg. #dts23

When using training data querying from the internet, you'll most likely infringe intellectual property. The same goes when using #ai powered co-pilots when writing code. These are all real risks. #dts23

In the #ai context, there are a number of risks with respect to data protection. Facebook was recently fined 265mil euro for failing to implement proper safeguards to protect users data. This was obviously not GDPR OK. #dts23

It's vital that engineers and sofware developers think about these risks from moment zero. It needs hard work and proactive strategies. It's not something that can be left as an afterthought exercise. #dts23

For the purpose of text and data mining, IP content on the internet can be used for reuse, even commercial, unless opt out has explicitly happened. Not sure I got this right, gotta check the EU provision.
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Risks exist both on the data collection side and the data generation side. Providing inaccurate information at the moment of training (basically with wrong datasets) can create absolutely life changing/threatening issues. #dts23

The EU is doing a great job into regulating #ai, says Scannell. Foundation models are right now mostly based on open source, but this will shift, too. A lot of models will become proprietary and bespoke. It's key to have an EU act to regulate this very complex ecosystem. #dts23

An exciting piece of legislation, the AI EU act, says Hurley. However, it's not as straight forward as with GDPR. Under GDPR, we need to transparently say what we do with data and how. Doing this with black boxes models is going to be very tricky. #dts23

Scannell calls for an international research effort within academia. I would even say now more than ever before is crucial academics work together with companies! #dts23

A number of ethical considerations around #ai. Hiring context - accept or reject applications using an automated system. This is not OK under GDPR, but it's OK to have a system that helps and supports an human decision. #dts23

What about the ethical considerations of not using the technology? A question nobody asks, says Scannell. We can save lives and do tremendous amount of good with this technology. Yes, we need to regulate it. No, we don't need to be afraid and run away. #dts23

This was another great conversation. I have the feeling I could be listen to this for hours and hours and never get tired. Except I need a toilet break and I'm getting hungry 😁 But now time for a fireside on "How to evolve and grow" #dts23

Panelists are Vassilev from @WeTransfer and Nick Tzitzon from @ServiceNow, moderated by Leisha Santorelli, @BBCNews Culture.

The first commercial flight was in 1914, 100 years later, we still haven't found a good way to board planes (sooo trueee). So, is #ai going to wipe us all out? No, we can only hope it can find a way to improve our boarding experiences 😅#dts23

Policy work right now is crucial, because there are so many divergent opinions around #ai adoptions. Policies can be the place where some common feeling is achieved, and compromises are made. #dts23

The topic of ethics is very tricky when your business scales globally. Because cultural and geographical differences cannot be underestimated. #dts23

The line of change has never been this fast, and will never be this slow again. I need sugar, this is too much to take in. 😁 #dts23

Still can't see in my head how moving fast to adapt fast sits well with a culture of nurturing and mending. I guess businesses that manage to do this, are the ones that actually make a difference in society. #dts23

ESG, healthcare, just two examples for good #ai. For technology that can make a difference. The world is hungry for meaningful change. For a much needed change. #dts23

How to keep a growth mindset? Stay relaxed now and then, you and the people around you! Water the plant of creativity, it's a competitive business, but without health and peace of mind now and then, you won't be able to survive. That closes this panel fireside! #dts23

I'll now break for lunch, coffee, and some networking! Back in an hour with a keynote on the magic of AI! #dts23

Back with a demonstration of the magic of #ai! Till Haunschild showing us some magic tricks to demonstrate the potential of emerging technologies!

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Something for you, @angelogulina.
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An #ai powered Rubik cube that solves itself! #dts23

Back to the workshop corner for a session on leading through chaos. @JakeWoodTR will be talking about volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. In short, VUCA. #dts23

A rapid deviation from the norm, volatility. We're missing at least one piece of critical information, uncertainty. Overwhelming amount of information, complexity. The world around us no longer makes sense, ambiguity. #dts23

Every company should have a vision and values. How are you going to guide decisions in the absence of explicit plans? Through values, through a consistent culture. This helps organizations move fast. #dts23

Vision + plan + role + impact. In moments of chaos, roles shift, they have to, sometimes. It's key to always make the impact explicit, no matter the role. #dts23

In toxic cultures, information is currency, is power. #dts23

Challenge people to ask these four questions after every meeting is crucial to build shared consciousness. #dts23

Leaders must control the controllables, says Wood.
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I love the last two comments on a company culture. A way to measure if values are used is to really see if they are brought up into difficult decisions and conversations. Second, a company that falls very easily on policy making, most likely has a very weak culture. #dts23

Also loved the view on agile teams. Agile teams move faster, make faster decisions, they're more efficient. Yes, they are bound to make more mistakes, but it's usually mistakes you can survive, at a much smaller scale. Great talk, this was!! #dts23

Last couple of sessions at #dts23! I'm staying at the workshop corner for one more round (tired of running up and down lol), with a session from @PersonioHR on stress-free HR.

How to reduce turnover and increase retention?
It all starts with the recruitment and the onboarding. #dts23

The software solution presented looks like a rich platform to smooth out both hiring and onboarding of talent. Cool stuff! #dts23

Some tasks on the onboarding pipeline might be - give bank coordinates, order hardware via IT, read up on safety instructions. #dts23

Last speaker of today is Alessandro Lori from @Verizon, giving a keynote on Innovation in action - using #ai to make a positive impact. #dts23

This talk starts off with a very sad number #dts23

Million of messages from vehicles tracked every day by Verizon Connect. A good amount of units in a fleet emit a lot of CO2 in idle state. Technology has proven useful at reducing this to the minimum. #dts23

Learning from vehicles patterns, data can help to understand which electric vehicle is most suited for a specific use case / costumer. #dts23

Verizon connect also learns a lot from decoding video sequences. Action recognition, object detection, and distance estimation are all possible from analyzing these video streams. #dts23

We should invest in education and adoption, says Lori, it's the only way to use technology in a manner that will benefit everybody and not just the few, whil protecting ou planet for the years to come. #dts23

Lori closes off telling us that Verizon Connect is building personal Business Analysts for their costumers, helping them not only bringing down CO2 emissions, but potentially also saving hundreds of lives every year. #dts23

This closes off #dts23! At this point, my brain is nothing more than a pile of mushy stuff. Time to go back to the hotel, take some rest, and then head downtown for the after party!

@threadreaderapp please unroll