Thanks to Emerging Technologies, the Future Will Never Be Slow Again

The fast-changing, uncertain and ambiguous environments that organisations operate in today, require organisations to re-think all their internal business processes and customer touch points. In addition, due to the availability of Emerging Information Technologies such as big data analytics, blockchain and artificial intelligence, it has become easier for startups to

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How to Develop Conversational AI for Your Business

Since a few years, chatbots are here, and they will not go away any time soon. Facebook popularised the chatbot with Facebook Messenger Bots, but the first chatbot was already developed in the 1960s. MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed a chatbot called ELIZA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA]. The

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AI is Like Lego; Why You Should Hire a Chief AI Now

Artificial Intelligence is like Lego; to build something nice, you need to combine the right pieces in the right way. Most of us have played with Lego when we were small. I did at least and I absolutely loved it. I can remember the days when my friends and I

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Why the Organisation of the Tomorrow is a Data Organisation

The fast-changing, uncertain and ambiguous environments that organisations operate in today, requires organisations to re-think all their internal business processes and customer touch points. In addition, due to the availability of emerging (information) technologies such as big data, blockchain and artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/future-artificial-intelligence-global-perspective/], it has become

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: A Global Perspective

The world is being transformed through rapid breakthroughs in data [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/organisation-tomorrow-data-organisation/] and AI. Every day, we hear about more innovations — from small startups to global economies. Nearly every job currently occupied by human labour–from farmers, offshore customer service representatives and even taxi drivers–could be

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How AI Will Change Corporate Governance

Growing investments in Artificial Intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/artificial-intelligence-change-travel-industry/] (AI) technology have transformed many areas in the business world, especially among high-tech and financial organisations. External spending on AI-related projects went up to $12 billion in 2016 [https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2017/07/09/mckinseys-state-of-machine-learning-and-ai-2017/#78312db075b6] . Companies

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Travel Industry

Since I have a passion for travelling as well as the hospitality industry (having a bachelor in hospitality management), and I believe in the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), for this week’s article I decided to look into what happens when you combine the two. As it seems, Artificial

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How Conversational AI Will Change Customer Service

By 2020, approximately 20.4 billion devices are estimated to be connected to the internet [http://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-devices-will-outnumber-the-worlds-population-this-year-for-the-first-time/] . These IoT devices are getting smarter, connecting to intelligent applications [https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-big-data-trends-for-2017/2493], such as Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, and helping consumers make

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