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Dr. Ken Urquhart is a technology executive shaping the future of trusted AI…
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Adventures of a Physicist at Large in the Business of High Tech
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture - Green College - University of British Columbia
A university degree teaches you critical thinking, how to communicate ideas to others, and how to carry out original research. It also gives you the ability to reinvent yourself to thrive in an endlessly evolving job market.
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How to talk successfully with business executives about AI/ML
ACM/IEEE ValleyML.ai
See publicationBusiness executives look to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to increase revenue, reduce costs, and make quicker, more accurate data-driven business decisions. And yet adoption lags the interest and the hype. Communicating your value proposition to a busy executive is an art form in itself. You may be an expert in AI, but can you sell your project/product to an executive decision maker? Can you describe how to measure and validate success? And...can you deliver on time with a…
Business executives look to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to increase revenue, reduce costs, and make quicker, more accurate data-driven business decisions. And yet adoption lags the interest and the hype. Communicating your value proposition to a busy executive is an art form in itself. You may be an expert in AI, but can you sell your project/product to an executive decision maker? Can you describe how to measure and validate success? And...can you deliver on time with a realistic budget? Learning those skills is not difficult - and they are key to a long and successful career in our best of all possible worlds.
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Strategy Check: 5G is coming, do you have a plan to thrive?
The Phocuswright Conference - 2019
See publication5G is coming soon and you can’t rely on your old strategy to guide you. Regardless of whether or not 5G is part of your core technology, in the new ultra-connected environment, you will need a documented strategy to maintain alignment across your business. 5G deployment will stress the limits of your apps and digital services, it will shift customers’ expectations of your product, create new alternatives to your product, force robust data privacy policies, and prompt questions we can’t predict.…
5G is coming soon and you can’t rely on your old strategy to guide you. Regardless of whether or not 5G is part of your core technology, in the new ultra-connected environment, you will need a documented strategy to maintain alignment across your business. 5G deployment will stress the limits of your apps and digital services, it will shift customers’ expectations of your product, create new alternatives to your product, force robust data privacy policies, and prompt questions we can’t predict. Learn how to identify the business planning and strategizing that is necessary to create a successful 5G game plan, enabling you to leverage the benefits and mitigate the risks of our 5G future.
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Get ready for 5G to transform travel and hospitality
PhocusWire
See publicationSoon, 5G will be here. And it will offer a blazing-fast wireless connection that moves data between your customers and data systems in near-real time. But does your business have a documented strategy for how to succeed in this new, ultra-connected environment? In this presentation, we walk through examples of how 5G technology will be integrated throughout the customer journey in the travel and hospitality industry – from deploying virtual reality, to enabling hotel service robots. We will…
Soon, 5G will be here. And it will offer a blazing-fast wireless connection that moves data between your customers and data systems in near-real time. But does your business have a documented strategy for how to succeed in this new, ultra-connected environment? In this presentation, we walk through examples of how 5G technology will be integrated throughout the customer journey in the travel and hospitality industry – from deploying virtual reality, to enabling hotel service robots. We will also provide you clear steps on how to confidently initiate a strategic plan for when 5G rolls out.
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From Data Scientist to Data Alchemist – Data Monetization transforms the way your business thinks
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Corporation
See publicationAre you a data alchemist? Are your data initiatives adding millions of dollars to your company’s bottom line in cost savings or new revenue? Data monetization enables a business to make better, faster decisions that drive the company forward, potentially saving (or making) millions. As you might expect, data monetization is more than hiring some data scientists. It is about transforming your business by having executives and data scientists work together.
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The Alchemy of Data Monetization in Media & Telco
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company
See publicationData is your key asset - are you maximizing its value? Find out how to turn your data into gold. The key to successful data monetization is identifying and understanding the business processes you want to optimize, finding and integrating your data, and identifying which analytics will provide actionable insights. Luxoft and Microsoft experts will guide you through using these insights to increase revenue, reduce costs, and make quicker, more accurate data-driven business decisions.
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From Data to Dollars - The Alchemy of Data Monetization
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company
See publicationA compelling data monetization plan articulates clearly how your corporate data will generate bottom line results for you. Your strategy should address four key questions: (1) How should you approach monetization? (2) What are the risks? (3) What are the benefits? (4) What are the costs to build capability and execute the strategy successfully? This is the essence of data alchemy – converting something of lesser value into something of greater value. In the case of data monetization, it means…
A compelling data monetization plan articulates clearly how your corporate data will generate bottom line results for you. Your strategy should address four key questions: (1) How should you approach monetization? (2) What are the risks? (3) What are the benefits? (4) What are the costs to build capability and execute the strategy successfully? This is the essence of data alchemy – converting something of lesser value into something of greater value. In the case of data monetization, it means using the data collected in your various business systems to achieve reduced costs, increased customer satisfaction, an expanded partner ecosystem, and an increased bottom line.
Honors & Awards
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Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture at the University of British Columbia
Green College, the University of British Columbia, and the Grauer Foundation
Adventures of a Physicist at Large in the Business of High Tech.
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Governor General's Academic Gold Medal
Governor General of Canada
(from https://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=15008) Governor General's Academic Medal: Lord Dufferin, Canada’s third Governor General after Confederation, created the Academic Medals in 1873 to encourage academic excellence across the nation. Over the years, they have become the most prestigious award that students in Canadian schools can receive.
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Microsoft - One Microsoft Award
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Achievement Award
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Patent Strategy Leadership Award (twice)
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Ship It Awards - Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista
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Professor Rudi Haering Award
Simon Fraser University
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