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With John Pavley (SVP Software Engg, Viacom).
Wed, Apr 24, 2019 @ 06:00 PM   $20   NYC Seminar & Conference Center, 71 W 23rd St, #515
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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About this Workshop
Instructor: John Pavley (Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Viacom)

Overview
RPA takes the robot out of the human. The average knowledge worker employed on a back-office process has a lot of repetitive, routine tasks that are dreary & uninteresting. RPA is a type of software that mimics the activity of a human being in carrying out a task within a process. It can do repetitive stuff more quickly, accurately, & tirelessly than humans, freeing them to do other tasks requiring human strengths such as emotional intelligence, reasoning, judgment, & interaction with the customer... Business-operations people can learn quite quickly how to configure & apply the robots. - Leslie Willcocks (McKinsey Digital)

What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA), why is it being called the most disruptive technology to impact business in decades, & how will it affect you?

We are at the precipice of a revolution in business innovation. In the past, organizations outsourced high-volume, back office production & IT operations to cheap foreign labor in other parts of the world. But that outsourced labor is quickly being replaced by the new kid on the block -- RPA.

The total contract value for outsourced & managed services has declined from $138 billion in 2007 to $62.7 billion in 2017. Meanwhile, experts are predicting that the RPA market will grow to a $5 billion by 2020 from just $183 million in 2013. (CIO.com)

Digital labor is now cheaper, faster & more productive than old school, outsourced labor ever was. And businesses are seeing immediate ROI (with potential ROI of 30-200% in the first year alone).

RPA robots are capable of mimicking most human user actions. They log into applications, move files & folders, copy & paste data, fill in forms, extract structured & semi-structured data from documents, scrape browsers, & more. For example, this bank redesigned its claims process by deploying 85 bots to run 13 processes, handling 1.5 million requests per year. The bank added capacity equivalent to more than 200 full-time employees at approximately 30 percent of the cost of recruiting more staff.

For businesses, part of the appeal of using bots is that they are typically low-cost & easy to implement. While RPA undoubetedly will cause a certain number of job eliminations, it will also create new opportunities for employees to channel their time & talents to more meaningful work within the company or to upskill by learning to work with RPA (No Degree Needed - $3 Billion RPA Company UiPath Offers Free Path To Career Opportunities - Forbes). That's where this workshop comes in!

What We'll Cover
"We will address the problems of RPA today from a business & employee perspective as well as the benefits. It's not a panacea-not yet. But long term supervising & training computers & robots is probably what we will mostly be doing all day in manufacturing, hospitality, medicine, entertainment, food services. I'm including stepping stone & life preservers in the talk as metaphors for surviving & thriving in a world where technological change is only accelerating." -- John Pavley (workshop Instructor)

Instructor, John Pavely (Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Viacom) will provide a thorough overview & examination of the exponential rise of RPA in business & its impact on enterprise companies, small businesses & startups. He will also review how executives, managers, & employees are impacted by RPA & how they can use RPA to improve their output & to explore new career opportunities. But there is a lot of hype out there & people need to ask really hard questions before embracing a technology driven change in companies -- John Pavley will cover that in this workshop as well (discerning the hype from the real deal). And finally, through hands-on in-class exercises (bring your laptop!), attendees will learn how to develop real RPA processes.

Takeaways include learning:

What RPA is & how businesses get value out of it (business executives, IT staff, non-technical employees, business owners & entrepreneurs)?
How data scientists, analytics workers, white color workers, & non-technical, administrative workers can learn RPA & use it elevate their career & explore new opportunities;
How RPA interacts with AI & Machine Learning tools;
The ethics of RPA (including how automating business processes that delete jobs is changing corporate culture); and
"Robots for Hire" -- how startups & small business that don't have tens of thousands of dollars to invest in RPA can implement RPA today, at a low cost, to remain competitive.
There will be an exercise to be completed in our online forum during the workshop. Please bring a laptop or mobile device to access the internet.
Who Is This Workshop For?
Although attendees will learn how to develop & implement RPA, there are no prerequisites or specific technical experience necessary to participate (that is the beauty of RPA - anyone can learn to do it fairly quickly).

This workshop is open to everyone & is ideal for technical employees (IT managers, developers, engineers, etc.), non-technical employees (administrative, creative, etc.), entrepreneurs, small business owners, professionals in industries that will most impacted by RPA in the immediate (accounting, banking & finance, etc.)
 
 
 
 
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