Slides for Ross Dawson's keynote at Oracle CloudWorld

1. Business in
the Age of AI
▪ Futurist
▪ Strategy advisor
▪ Author
@rossdawson

2. Humans and machines

4. Organisations
Emergence
Leadership
Intelligence
Value
Strategy

5. Emergence

6. The birth of artificial intelligence

7. Soaring data
Source: Seagate/ IDC

8. Parallel processing

9. Source: Michael Nielsen, Yoshua Benglo, Ian Goodfellow, Aaron Courville
Algorithm sophistication

10. Explosion in investment
Source: Upfront Ventures VC Survey, January 2017

11. Intelligence

12. The language of artificial intelligence

13. Source: Gartner
The outcomes from data and analysis

14. Foundational AI

15. Supervised
Unsupervised
Reinforcement
Types of machine learning

16. Starting with supervised learning

17. Discovery with unsupervised learning

18. Getting better through reinforcement learning

19. Applying learning to new situations

20. A voracious appetite for data
Source: EasySolutions

21. Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Improving performance

22. Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Improving performance

23. Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Improving performance

24. Value

25. Source: Tractica
Impacting everything
Artificial Intelligence Revenue Share by Industry: 2025

26. Biometrics
Image recognition
Speech recognition
Fraud detection
Security scanning
Applications of AI
Process efficiency
Predictive
maintenance
Personalised
education
Ad and product
positioning
OptimisationPattern
recognition
Process
automation
Task and workflow
automation
Robotics
Machine operation
Vehicle operation
Automation
Approvals
Data insights
Decision support
Customer
recommendations
Decision
making
Conversational
agents
Emotion analytics
Article writing
Translation
Negotiation
Communication

27. From image recognition to customer value
Source: Neuromation.io

28. Preventative maintenance

29. Reviewing contracts
Source: LawGeex

30. Logistics optimisation

31. Energy efficiency

32. Replacing HR with AI

33. Customer service over messaging
Source: MasterCard

34. Emotionally engaging service

35. Shifting business models

36. Organisations

38. Expertise

39. Image: JoesSistah
Creativity

40. Image: ^rika^
Relationships

42. Source: AlphaBeta
Deconstructing jobs

43. Image: Faude
Redesigning work and organisations

44. Strategy
Image: chrisgj6

45. Paths to value in an AI world
Build a roadmap for the journey ahead
Establish governance for AI
Identify opportunistic applications
Design an ecosystem-based platform architecture
Develop your talent and capabilities
Aggregate data strategically
Reshape business models and organisations

46. Build a roadmap for the journey ahead

47. Establish governance for AI

48. Identify opportunistic applications

49. Design an ecosystem-based platform architecture

50. Develop your capabilities and talent pool

51. Aggregate data strategically

52. Reshape business models and organisations
Source: Evans, Center for Global Enterprise

53. Leadership

54. The only way
you can control your destiny
is to be more flexible
than your environment
- The Law of Requisite Variety

55. Source: The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
A culture of iteration

56. A race with no finish line

57. Organisations
Emergence
Leadership
Intelligence
Value
Strategy