Future Of Business With Game Changers, Presented By Sap

The buzz: Knowledge. Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s 2008 “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete” chartered a revolution in how businesses are run and humans create knowledge. Today, Big Data is an uber-hyped business and IT buzzword, IoT is accelerating data creation, and Artificial Intelligence, such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, is back in fashion. Are we at the start of the most radical transformation of thoughts and knowledge, with computers, not humans, leading the way? The experts speak. Vishal Dhanuka, Hortonworks: “Given enough data, everything is statistically significant (Douglas Merrill). Jay Thoden van Velzen, SAP: “Imagine a box with 500 million knobs, 1,000 light bulbs, and 10 million images to train it with. That’s what a typical Deep Learning system is” (Yann LeCun). Francesco Mari, SAP: “Causal explanations of chance events are inevitably wrong (Daniel Kahneman). Join us for Big Data: Future of Creating Knowledge