Kimberly NevalaStrategic advisor, SAS

Peter GuerraNorth America Chief Data Scientist, Accenture

Capt. Michael J. KanaanDirector of Operations for the U.S. Air Force-MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator

Rob StillwellSenior VP and Business Analytics Officer, Seacoast Bank

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AI Adoption Is Nascent

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AI and Business Strategy

“You don’t focus on ‘I’m going to go do AI.’ You focus on

‘I’m going to do supply chain better, and I’m going to leverage AI to do that.’”

Peter Guerra

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Connection and Collaboration

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The Collaboration Challenge for the U.S. Air Force

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Cultivating AI & Technology Literacy

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CIO and Technology Enablement

“ … AI and machine learning experts are putting quite high demands on

IT, more demand in terms of agility in IT. The difference

between IT that works and IT that doesn’t work for machine learning

is quite big. ”Astrid Undheim

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AI is the Tip of the Iceberg

Mature Data Management81%

Mature Cloud/Data Center 73%

Mature Development Processes and Workflows73%

Mature Cybersecurity 71%

Advanced AI Practice

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The New Data Mindset

“ If you say, ‘Let’s just start gathering data,’ you might not be going down the best path. ”

Rob Stillwell

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Making AI Operational

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Risk and Reward in AISix Areas of High Concern

1. Deliver inadequate return on investment.

5. Produce results that humans cannot explain.

3. Be used unethically.

2. Produce bad information.

4. Support biased, potentially illegal decisions.

6. Be too unpredictable tomanage adequately.

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Aligning Outcomes with Intent

“ No one at any of the companies that have had issues on this ethics piece got up in the morning and said, ‘I’m going to make a

discriminatory AI…’ ”Capt. Michael J. Kanaan

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Managing Ethics and Risk

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Providing Transparency and Explainability