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This week we are focusing on the next Disruptive event -- with the theme being Artificial Intelligence. The scheduled date is at Microsoft at 5:30. There will be food, wine, Pizza, Hint Water, gourmet sandwiches & more. Panelists will include experts from IBM, Microsoft, Google, & more. Please check back as we add more details.
The event is free but fills up rather fast if you RSVP now but find out you can't make it later please let us know. We look forward to seeing you!
1. Bruce Weed | Developer Advocate for the East Coast, IBM
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Bruce Weed is the City Leader/Developer Advocate (New York) for IBMs Digital Business Group. Bruce covers the Eastern part of the U.S. witha mainfocus in NYC. Bruce engages directly around latest technologies with partners & customers alike, his expertise is around Watson/AI, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud & Bots, Digital Assistants & Big Data. Bruce also has industry knowledge in Retail, Finance, Healthcare, & Automotive & has extensive experience in technology, sales, businessdevelopmentand marketing.
Additional skills & experience lie in software development, product & brand management. He runs LinkedIn groups with over 50K+ members on IBM Watson & IoT, IBM Big Data & Analytics, & Blockchain for Business; these groups look at both use cases & technology trends. Bruce also runs the IBM Watson - Cognitive Business & IoT Meetup in NYC with over 1600 members. He is a Watson/IoT, Blockchain & Big Data evangelist who keynotes many major conferences around the world.
2. Heather Shapiro, Microsoft Bots Expert
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Heather Shapiro is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft's Developer Experience group, where she educates developers on Microsoft's new technologies. In this role, Heather works closely with students & developer communities across the North East to understand the newest technologies & architectures. Prior to becoming a Technical Evangelist, Heather completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University & graduated in the Class of 2015. She received her Bachelors of Science in Computer Science & Statistical Science & completed an Honors Thesis about employing Bayesian Approaches to Understanding Music Popularity. Heather blogs at<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://microheather.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">http://microheather.com</A>(<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://microheather.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">http://microheather.com</A>) & tweets at<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://twitter.com/microheather" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">http://twitter.com/microheather</A>. (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://twitter.com/microheather" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">http://twitter.com/microheather</A>.)
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Moderator: Kevin Pianko
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Partner of BDO USA, LLP performs audits of public & private companies & assists them with the financial & operational aspects of their business. Kevin has industry expertise in life sciences, private equity activities, SEC/public companies, tech, manufacturing, professional services, & financial services. He is also a regular on Bloomberg Radio & NBC.
Host: David Carlos, CTO of B&L Management
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David is our Sexy Technologist, TechGeekand Entrepreneur!
5-Minutes of Stand-up Comedy byShaun Eli, Comedian & Executive Director of<A HREF="http://www.ivystandup.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">TheIvyLeagueof Comedy</A>!
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Chris Mahon, Outer Places
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We need your full name & those of your guests for security reasons. For guests, RSVP for them separately or email their full names to: lkeyson@disruptivetechnologists.com
WHEN: June 5th, 6:15 PM to 8:30 PM WHERE: Microsoft, 11 Times Square, 8th Avenue
AGENDA:
6:15 pm to 6:45 pm: Networking (Funding Post supplied gourmet sandwiches, Dana supplied wine & Microsoft supplied pizza) (Come as early as 5:45 PM if you want to network more!)
6:45 to 8:30: Panel & Group Discussion.
8:30 to 9:00: Extra Networking, more food & drink!
 
Some ideas we will discuss on the AI trend:
Toward a new generation of digital assistants Automation / Artificial Intelligence are on the verge of pervading all aspects of business & our daily lives. At the moment, most efforts seem to be focused on digital assistants & the low hanging fruit such as replacing cumbersome text interfaces with Natural Language Processing interaction, performing pattern recognition in huge data sets, or automating repetitive or highly regulated processes requiring low human intelligence (even driverless cars fall into this category). Current developments in AI seek to push automation into higher value-added tasks. Although machines can certainly imitate & reproduce human behaviors, we believe that machines cannot, by their very nature, reproduce human thought (despite claims to the contrary). Therefore, instead of attempting to automate actual human expertise, & replacing human beings at work, we believe that to be successful, automation should seek rather to enhance human work performance. Thus, we believe that the next threshold in digital assistant automation will need to pay significant attention to content-based algorithms, which requires:(1) clarifying & narrowing the scope of the domain of a digital assistant, & (2) successfully organizing & running the digital assistant automation project.
1) Clarifying & narrowing the scope of the domain of a digital assistant: What makes a human expert so powerful are the distinctions that they apply in complex situations, often subconsciously. By eliciting & capturing these distinctions in a usable form forothers, including those who will be programming the automation algorithms, we provide explicit knowledge boundaries & related human points of view. In addition, certain traps need to be avoided when automating, including two extremes:
1. Cognitive biases / prejudices that can creep into the algorithms: a. These are false distinctions, i.e. divisions /categorizations being made where none actually (or no longer) exist; 2. Lack of sophistication in automated rules: a. When an underlying distinction goes undetected & therefore is not implemented when it ought to be. We promote functional exception handling, consistency & completeness techniques within algorithms for verifying on the spot the knowledge domain boundaries.
2) Successfully organizing & running the automation project of a digital assistant: Successful projects share certain characteristics: 1. Well-defined scope (including at least automation target scope, technology scope, & human/organizational scope) in the context of human-machine systems; 2. Well-defined objectives & clear success criteria; 3. Frequent coherent deliverables enabling rapid feedback. Research & technology has considerably evolved in regards to the nature of human knowledge & methods for making it accessible to others, by identifying & transferring human tacit knowledge between persons.
Lauren Keyson Founder & Publisher Disruptive Technologists LKeyson@disruptivetechnologists.com 212-300-4084