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Microsoft AI | Vision ISV Partner Day 2019 Our Sponsors Partner Led . Changing business . Changing business . Cloud Know How . New Services . Additional Session . AI. The new cloud horizon April 16th, 2019 ISV Partner Day 16th April 2019 #Learn AI. The new cloud horizon #Innovate What is the AI What’s the Microsoft How can Microsoft opportunity? approach to AI? help you Accelerate #Grow your Path to AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) “The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines”. Who is EXPERIMENTING 1 with AI today? Who is DEVELOPING 2 AI functionality today? Who is in PRODUCTION 3 with an AI Solution today? The AI Tsunami The AI Will See You How AI Builds A Insurers turn to artificial intelligence in Now: How Better Manufacturing war on fraud Cognitive Process Computing is Transforming Medicine AI CAN Do AI COULD Do AI SHOULD Do AI: DRIVING THE VS VS NEW RETAIL REVOLUTION AI in popular culture AI is here | Market Signals AI Research Papers AI Job Vacancies AI mentions in US Congress/UK Parliament AI mentions in company earnings calls AI is here | 250 new disruptive startups per month CognitionX – 700+ Chatbot technologies (Source: CognitionX Link) “Innovate or Die” (Source 19/02/19 – Link) The rate of digital disruption is impacting everyone — size, reputation and history offer no immunity — causing the lifespan of large, successful companies to significantly decrease… AI is here | Customer Adoption Where Executives See AI Delivering Value Across 5 Key Industries (Link) “…There is no singular, winning business model or process these executives are looking to AI to transform. Instead, they’re pressure-testing all of them.” Source – Swiss Cognitive (Link) Why AI Now? | The Perfect Storm “By 2019 40% of Digital Transformation initiatives will use AI Services, while by 2021 75% of enterprise applications will use AI” – IDC Demand Side Micro Customer Personalised Precise Target Performance Segmentation Message Experience Measure Customer Personal “You “You Get me” “You know “You found me” “You heard me” Experience Understand me” what I like” Digital Feedback Loop Empower Engage Optimize Transform employees customers operations products AI Powered Digital Transformation Data Cloud Algorithms Supply side Vision AI Technical Innovation Speech Language AI Use Cases | How can you build AI in your solution? QnAMaker Seeing AI Visual Studio VideoIndexer LG, Visteon & ZF Build, train and publish a Seeing AI narrates the Intellicode Extract insights from your Azure AI is a core simple question and world around you developer productivity by videos and quickly enrich platform on which answer bot based on providing AI-assisted your apps to enhance partners build these structured documents. development discovery & engagement platforms Microsoft AI | Vision “AT MICROSOFT DEMOCRATISE AI TO ACHIEVE MORE” Bring AI to every APPLICATION Bring AI to every PROCESS Bring AI to every PERSON Microsoft AI Story - Vision Video.mp4 3 initial Steps to AI Success 1 “One of the myths in AI is that you can AI your way out of something you don't understand” Get your Data READY, and solve the RIGHT Anthony Scriffignano problem! Chief Data Scientist & SVP @ Dun and Bradstreet Understand your data and determing the right Problem to Solve PROBLEM • “In WWII UK Navy wanted to increase armour of their aircraft to ensure they came back home”. SOLUTION • Analysed where planes had been shot up (Red Dot). • Up-armour the wingtips + central body + elevators. REVIEW • Up-armour the purple areas. • The planes were getting shot there too, but they weren’t making it home. ISSUE • The Navy didn’t have the whole sample set, only the survivors. • What they identified was where the aircraft could suffer the most damage without catastrophic failure. Source: Link Abraham Wald (Austrian born statistician) Assess your AI Opportunity | AI Business School https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-business-school 1. Defining an AI strategy • What role should AI play in your organization? “41% UK business “..but less than 50% of 2. Enabling an AI-ready culture leaders believe current UK businesses have an • How do you become an AI-ready organization? business model won’t AI strategy to address exist in 5 years…” this challenge” 3. Responsible AI in business • Implications and guidelines for EthicalAI in business. 4. AI technology for business leaders https://aka.ms/AIopportunity • Advancements in AI tools, products, and services 2 “We’ll need to be thoughtful about how we address the societal issues that technology Create an AI Manifesto advances from AI will bring on how you will use AI about.” both ethically and Brad Smith responsibly. President and Chief Legal Officer - Microsoft AI Adoption | “Crossing the FUD chasm” The Future Computed | 6 Ethical principles to guide the development & use of AI Fairness AI Systems should treat all people fairly Transparency AI Systems should be Understandable Accountability AI Systems should have algorithmic accountability “ DEMOCRATISE AI TO ACHIEVE MORE” Satya Nadella – Microsoft The Partner Pledge | Mirror the values and standards Microsoft sign up to Microsoft Partner Pledge Through our Digital Skills Programme, we aim to deliver 30,000 new digital apprentices, train 30,000 public sector officials and create 500,000 new cloud experts by 2020. Sign up today: http://aka.ms/PartnerPledge Cindy Rose, UK CEO, Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/ai/ai-for-good Accessibility Earth Humanitarian Action 3 “We work in an industry that does not respect tradition, only Create a culture of Learning Innovation” & Experimentation Microsoft AI Patents resulting in AI Innovation AI Human Parity Azure Data & AI Platform | Turning Data into Insight & Automated Action OrchestrationData DataStorage Storage Machine LearningIntelligencePrebuild Models UserAction Experience Data Studio Sources Make &Data Collect Factory Data Clean &Data Transform Lake Store Data BI before AI, Scale Insights withCognitive AI Operationalise AI Services ML Dev. Environments People Integrations CosmosDB Experimentation Service Services SQL Azure Operationalization Model Management Data Catalog SQL Managed Functions & Web Instance Server Serverless SQL Data Storage Blob Bot Apps Warehouse Mobile Data Science & Framework Deep Learning VM Apps Table Storage SQL Server 2017 Batch AI Azure Search Bots Event Hubs Big Data & Analytics Dashboards & Visualizations Stream Analytics HDInsight IoT Sensors Automated and Data Lake Analysis Power BI IoT Hub DataBricks Systems devices Analytics Services Azure AI Platform | From Conversational AI to custom ML Custom Models for Data Scientists Pretrained APIs for Developers AI apps & agents Knowledge Mining Machine Learning “I want to Infuse an App or agent with AI” “I want to unlock insights from my content” “I want to build my own ML model” Vision OCR, Image Classification, Face detection, Person Identification. Speech Speech-to-text, Text-to-Speech, Translation, Speaker Recognition Language Text Analytics, Spell check, Translator, QnA maker, Language Understanding AI Experimentation | Start YOUR AI journey for Free Today https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/free/ai/ https://aischool.microsoft.com/ • 12 months of popular free Azure Services • Tailored learning pathway for your role • £150 credit to explore any Azure service • AI Services Conversation AI, AI Services, ML • 25+ Azure Services Always Free Microsoft AI Resources | Supporting ISVs on your journey with AI Learn AI See AI Try AI Build AI Sell AI AI Opportunity • AI Demos - • Free Azure • AI Gallery Sales Education • Microsoft AI Opportunity • MS Kiosk – Demo App • Free AI Services • Microsoft Docs • Business Value of Azure Report • AI Gallery • Free Cognitive Services • Azure Citadel • AI Business School • AI Business School • AI Lab • Free Azure for StartUps • Designing AI Guidelines Go-To-Market Tech Education • Microsoft AI Customers • Internal Use Rights • Azure IP Advantage • AI Inner Circle • Microsoft Learn • Hands-On Labs Support • Go-To-Market with • AI School • ISV Resource Hub Microsoft Guidance: • Microsoft Solution • AI Partner FastStart • Playbooks Providers • AI Partner Pledge • AI Playbook • Partner Advisory Hours Cosell • SaaS Playbook • DevChat • Azure Marketplace • AI Decision Tree • Technical Journeys • Appsource • AI Partner FastStart • Technical Presales • Coselling with Microsoft • The Future Computed Assistance • Partner to Partner • Digital Transformation • Microsoft StartUp Events eBook Series Events • MS Events • MS Tech Events 1. AI Partner Fast Start: http://aka.ms/UKAIPartner • MS Developer Events 2. AI/Azure Training: http://aka.ms/UKPartnerAzureSkills • MS Startup Events 3. AI Decision Tree: https://biz-excellence.com/2019/02/15/ai-dt/ 4. Grey Matter – Code Matters – AI: https://codematters.online/category/ai/ Three key Initial Steps to AI Success: Get your Data Ready, & Solve 1 the Right Problem . Download UK AI Opportunity . Access the AI Business School Create an AI Manifesto 2 . Download Future Computed . Sign the Microsoft Partner Pledge Create a Culture for Learning & 3 Experimentation . Experiment with Free AI Services . Access the AI Resources for your Journey Thank You Lee Corbett AI Partner Recruit Lead Microsoft lcorbett@Microsoft.com @leecorb https://www.linkedin.com/in/leecorbett/.
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