Data and AI Innovators – Fredrik Backner
The telco and the retail industry have much more in common in terms of data and analytics than you would think.
The person who brings together these two worlds and can give an insightful overview of the two industries is Fredrik Backner, a speaker at Data Innovation Summit 2019.
Data and AI Innovators – Jorge Davila Chacon
Jorge Davila Chacon discussed the RL application for debt collection at Data Innovation Summit 2017. But a time-lapse of almost 3 years is a lifetime in the machine learning world. This was the reason we invited Jorge to talk about recent developments in AI and ML, and particularly in reinforcement learning, not only from a technical side, but also from a social aspect of the adoption of these technologies.
Data and AI Innovators – Daniel Zakrisson
Giving up ownership over their data even for collaboration for building machine learning models is what organisations fret about. Daniel Zakrisson talked about federated machine learning as a solution for this predicament at Data Innovation Summit 2019.
How Volvo Group manages to communicate the value of data
Volvo Group is a clear pioneer with data and AI. We’ve already seen how Volvo Car Group in reinventing the self-driving cars department on daily bases. AI and innovation are the springboards for Volvo Group in all their operations focusing on connectivity, electromobility and automation.
ML codes can open iron doors: Gesture recognition
Electronic access cards are nothing new – last century news. But what if you could open a door just by making a wrist with your phone. A group of very smart guys sat down and decided to find a way to take the experience of opening a door to the next level – and the perfect solution was to turn the phone into a key relying on gesture recognition.
Automated and AI-enabled B2B lead generation
How to generate more leads? This is a question that all B2B businesses are trying to answer by relying on different inbound and outbound B2B lead generation methods.
Data and AI Innovators – Alun Jones
We sat down with Alun Jones to talk to us about the developments, challenges and future outlooks of data science in his industry. Alun spoke at Data Innovation Summit 2018 and shared his experience with that it means to work as a Data Scientist in heavy asset industry.
Data and AI Innovators – Panos Alexopoulos
Panos Alexopoulos brought knowledge graphs on stage at Data Innovation Summit 2018 to share his lessons from building one for the labour market.
Data and AI Innovators – Martin Walker
To get a better understanding of what has changed in the financial industry regarding data management, we sat down with Martin Walker who spoke at Data Innovation Summit 2018.
Data and AI Innovators – Dylan Tredrea
Data Innovation Summit turns five next March. Along the way, we have had fantastic speakers unselfishly sharing their knowledge on stage with their peers. Without them, this journey would be impossible. This interview is part of an interview series dedicated to humanising Data and AI innovation and celebrating speakers who have presented on Data Innovation Summit. The emphasis lies on the Data/AI […]
Data and AI Innovators – Diego Galar
Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring in the Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering at LTU, Luleå University of Technology, is bringing in the most advanced views from the academic and research field when it comes to Industry 4.0 and industrial AI.
Business
How Volvo Group manages to communicate the value of data
Volvo Group is a clear pioneer with data and AI. We’ve already seen how Volvo Car Group in reinventing the self-driving cars department on daily bases. AI and innovation are the springboards for Volvo Group in all their operations focusing on connectivity, electromobility and automation.
Towards a data-driven retail organisation: ICA Gruppen case study
One may wonder at hearing the words grocery retailer, data-driven and innovation pronounced in a single sentence, but ICA Gruppen – the leading grocery retailer – is breaking new ground with data and analytics.
Making data actionable in Schibsted Media Group
Being an international publishing company, the largest media group in Scandinavia and owning some of the largest newspapers in Sweden and Norway, on top of all operating classified business ads and media sites for over 20 countries, for Schibsted Media Group implies collecting a lot of data. But as it is, data is only valuable if you know how to analyse it and take action.
The data management journey of H&M Group
This is why this time we are going to look into H&M Group’s data management journey. Alex Astrogold, H&M Group’s Data Management Architect portrayed the other side of the global retail brand’s data coin at Data 2020 Summit 2019.
How industrial AI is driving the manufacturing industry
One industry that abundantly reaps the fruits of AI innovation is without doubt manufacturing. AI has proven to be a real game-changer for the heavy asset and manufacturing industry.
Data and AI Innovators – Risto Karinkanta
Risto Karinkanta took the stage at Data Innovation Summit and shared Nordea Bank’s inspiring story what true collaboration looks like when the barriers between business and data are broken down.
Data and AI Innovators – Saulius Valatka
We reached out to our past speakers from previous editions of the Data Innovation Summit. The first one to break the ice is Saulius Valatka, Technical Lead at Adform.
We need to talk about diversity in data (part 2)
Last week, we talked to some of our Nordic Women and Data Summit speakers on the topic of diversity; their thoughts on diversity, specific activities their companies are involved in to encourage diversity and their personal journey with data.
We need to talk about diversity in data (part 1)
In the month leading to the second edition of the event that brings together women data practitioners to discuss accelerating data and AI innovation in the organisation, we talked to our speakers on the subject of diversity and the importance of initiatives that encourage more female engagement in the tech and data fields. But we also asked them about their personal experience and decision to start a career in data.
The journey with data and analytics: Linda Borelius, NWD Summit Chairwoman
This week, we focus on our other Chairwoman – Linda Borelius, CEO at Sparks AB. We don’t see Linda first time in this role, she was a Nordic Women and Data Summit Chairwoman last year too. In her opening remarks, she discussed her beginnings and decisions to start a career in data.
Tech
Data and AI Innovators – Jorge Davila Chacon
Jorge Davila Chacon discussed the RL application for debt collection at Data Innovation Summit 2017. But a time-lapse of almost 3 years is a lifetime in the machine learning world. This was the reason we invited Jorge to talk about recent developments in AI and ML, and particularly in reinforcement learning, not only from a technical side, but also from a social aspect of the adoption of these technologies.
Data and AI Innovators – Daniel Zakrisson
Giving up ownership over their data even for collaboration for building machine learning models is what organisations fret about. Daniel Zakrisson talked about federated machine learning as a solution for this predicament at Data Innovation Summit 2019.
ML codes can open iron doors: Gesture recognition
Electronic access cards are nothing new – last century news. But what if you could open a door just by making a wrist with your phone. A group of very smart guys sat down and decided to find a way to take the experience of opening a door to the next level – and the perfect solution was to turn the phone into a key relying on gesture recognition.
Automated and AI-enabled B2B lead generation
How to generate more leads? This is a question that all B2B businesses are trying to answer by relying on different inbound and outbound B2B lead generation methods.
Data and AI Innovators – Panos Alexopoulos
Panos Alexopoulos brought knowledge graphs on stage at Data Innovation Summit 2018 to share his lessons from building one for the labour market.
AI-powered telecom network of tomorrow: Ericsson case study
The telecom networks of today connect people. The telecom networks of tomorrow will not only connect people but also things, factories and offer immersive video use cases with the help of 5G and IoT.
Taming the reproducibility crisis in data science: Lars Albertsson
Reproducibility is a common challenge that plagues the scientific community. And data science is no exception. Everyone is talking and writing about how to overcome it, but few have had real progress.
ML-powered accommodation hunt: The Airbnb approach
There’s rarely a person that hasn’t booked or at least tried to book a trip at least once with Airbnb. Founded in 2008, it’s an online platform that has revolutionised how people find places to stay around the world.
“Dumb intelligence” or getting wrong results with machine learning
Ismail Elouafiq, a Data Scientist at SVT has drawn a genius association between machine learning systems. (Disclaimer: Ismail’s presentation and this article contain mentions of cats, so people that are allergic or just don’t like cats, you’ve been warned.)
Understanding Outer space with data science
Data gives us the universal truth in every field. And we’re not only talking about here down on Earth but also far above – as far as our eyes can […]