This week in CONNECT:
- Digital Leader: Apple’s EVP of Retail’s Philosophy of People
- Case Study: Walmart’s AI Transformation
- Search Engine: GeniePool Simplifies Genetic Data Access and Analysis
- Report: The State of Generative AI in 2023
- Events: 20-SEP-2023 WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies; 20-SEP-2023 NVIDIA Digital Event – Speech AI Day
- Jobs: AI Filmmaker for Curious Refuge, Product Manager for Meta, and more.
and DigitalRosh Team
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1. Digital Leader: Apple’s EVP of Retail’s Philosophy of People
Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s executive Vice President of retail (2014-2019,) paved her professional journey in the fashion industry with impressive achievements (among others, as the CEO of Burberry).
Ahrendts’ responsibilities at Apple included improving the customer experience in Apple stores and integrating the digital and physical shopping experiences. She admired Apple’s design-centric approach to products but at the same time put the focus on the people (70,000 employees).
Ahrendts brought to Apple a different approach – the people-centered approach, which had proven itself throughout her career. Notably, Ahrendts became Apple’s highest-paid employee, earning $24.2 million in 2017, twice as much as CEO Tim Cook.
Listen to Angela Ahrendts explaining her philosophy as a human-centered leader
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2. Case Study: Walmart’s AI Transformation
AI has been pivotal in refining Walmart’s operations, customer engagement strategies, and overall business model, ensuring it remains a global retail leader in the digital age and maintains its advantages in its everlasting battle of the giants with Amazon. Here are the fields in which AI was implemented by Walmart:
- Inventory Management
- Customer Experience Enhancement
- Fraud Detection
- Recommendation Systems
- Ethical AI Systems
- Adapting to Digital Shifts
- Productization of AI
Digital transformation is an ongoing journey, and it’s important to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies. If you’re looking to learn more about digital transformation, please check out our course “Managing Transformation at the Age of AGI” (Hebrew).
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3. Search Engine: GeniePool Simplifies Genetic Data Access and Analysis
GeniePool is a valuable tool designed to help researchers and clinicians access and analyze genetic data more efficiently. It addresses a critical need in the field of genetics by providing a user-friendly platform for finding specific genetic variations in a vast pool of genomic information.
In essence, GeniePool is like a search engine for genetic information, making it accessible to both experts and non-experts and helping us unlock the secrets hidden within our genes.
Thank you Noam Hadar for sending us this article. Noam is one of this project’s innovators and is also one of this year’s Teva Bio-Mix competition participants. Click here to sign up for this year’s final competition event.
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4. Report: The State of Generative AI in 2023
A McKinsey survey reveals that about 33% of respondents are using generative AI in their organizations, with C-suite executives personally using these tools.
This adoption comes with expectations of workforce changes, particularly in marketing, sales, and service areas.
However, only 21% have established policies for gen AI usage, citing risks like inaccuracy, cybersecurity, and IP concerns.
Shifts in AI talent needs are evident, with increased demand for data engineers, machine learning engineers, and AI data scientists. Prompt engineering roles are emerging alongside gen AI adoption. Over two-thirds of respondents plan to increase AI investments in the next three years.
Read the full article on DigitalRosh
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5. Events:
20-SEP-2023 – WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies
The eighth session of the WIPO Conversation – Generative AI and IP will provide a platform for in-depth exploration and dialogue, aiming to navigate the intricate interplay between generative AI and intellectual property rights. By examining recent advances, identifying practical solutions, and envisioning future directions, this session aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of generative AI’s transformative potential and its wide-ranging implications for the entire intellectual property landscape.
Sign up here
20-SEP-2023 – NVIDIA Digital Event – Speech AI Day
Join NVIDIA for an exciting and interactive online conversation with industry experts delving into the trends and cutting-edge techniques in speech AI—automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and neural machine translation (NMT) technologies.
Speech and translation AI is rapidly becoming an integral part of our daily lives, enabling virtual assistants, revolutionizing call centers, capturing meeting notes, and enhancing augmented reality experiences. Speech AI Day offers the opportunity to hear from renowned speech and translation AI leaders and experts as they share their groundbreaking research, explore real-world applications, and discuss open-source contributions.
Register here
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6. Jobs Board: AI Filmmaker for Curious Refuge, Product Manager for Meta, and more.
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