Why We Need Ethical AI: 5 Initiatives to Ensure Ethics in AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already had a profound impact on business [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/30-ways-how-ai-will-change-your-business/] and society. Applied AI and machine learning (ML) are creating safer workplaces, more accurate health diagnoses and better access to information for global citizens. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will represent a new era of

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How to Ensure Trust in a Digital World

We have a trust issue. In our digital world, it has become increasingly difficult to trust each other. Whether it is another person, an organisation or a device, trust is no longer a given online. This is a serious problem for our society and our democracy. If trust is lacking

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The Top Seven Technology Trends for 2020

We have reached the end of 2019 and just like in previous years, I am looking ahead to see what organisations can expect next year. 2019 was the year of truth [https://datafloq.com/read/top-7-technology-trends-for-2019/5817], with many enterprises developing blockchain proof of concepts, Google confirming a quantum supremacy

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4 Steps to be Successful with the Digital Transformation of Your Business

According to McKinsey [https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/16-statistics-showing-datas-influence-on-customer-experience-02053075] , data-driven organisations are 23x more likely to acquire customers, 6x more likely to retain customers and 19x more likely to be profitable. Being data-driven is good for business. Therefore, it is not a surprise that one question I always get when

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7 Ways How AI Will Change Your Workplace

In the next five to ten years, your workplace will look fundamentally different. Thanks to technologies such as artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/30-ways-how-ai-will-change-your-business/], the internet of things and robotics work as we know it will drastically change. The future of work will come with great opportunities but also

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3 Concepts that Define the Future of Work

The organisation of tomorrow will look fundamentally different than today’s organisation. Those enterprises that are aware of the upcoming changes can best prepare and achieve competitive advantage in a data-driven society. Consequently, the future of work will require management and employees to take a different approach when it comes

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Why We Should Be Careful When Developing AI

Artificial intelligence offers a lot of advantages for organisations by creating better and more efficient organisations, improving customer services with conversational AI [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/how-develop-conversational-ai-business/] and reducing a wide variety of risks in different industries. Although we are only at the start of the AI revolution, we can

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The Database of Tomorrow: The Self-Driving, Autonomous Database

This article is sponsored by Oracle [https://www.oracle.com/database/autonomous-database.html] – redefining data management with the world’s first autonomous database. In the coming years, the amount of data we create worldwide will grow to 175 zettabytes [https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/our-story/trends/files/idc-seagate-dataage-whitepaper.pdf]

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The School of Tomorrow: How AI in Education Changes How We Learn

We live in exponential times, and merely having a digital strategy focused on continuous innovation is no longer enough to thrive in a constantly changing world. To transform an organisation and contribute to building a secure and rewarding networked society, collaboration among employees, customers, business units and even things is

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The Organisation of Tomorrow – Available Now!

Earlier this year, I completed my PhD at the University of Technology Sydney. My research focused on how do emerging information technologies change the interaction of organisations and technologies. The title of my research was: Sociomateriality in the age of Emerging Information Technologies: How big data analytics, blockchain and artificial

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