As more companies realize the great need for data scientists to develop, experiment, and deploy artificial intelligence (AI), IBM designed a certification program. It offered it to the company workforce, and incentivized employees completed the program through coursework, skills training, and apprenticeships. IBM's certification and related programs "will speed the journey to AI and help improve business performance, efficiency and growth," said Martin Fleming, IBM vice president and chief economist. The demand for data scientists is recognized in the tech industry which "actually identifies the demand for data scientists as one of the industry's most pressing needs." Fleming cites social-media career platform LinkedIn's 2018 report, which found 151,000 US data scientist positions unfilled. "More companies are looking inward for ways to build the skills among their existing workforces," he said.

"We use drones to take super high-resolution photographs of fields to leaf level, in addition to using satellite and plane imagery," explains Eli Bukchin, Co-founder and CTO at Taranis. "The big problem farmers face is maintaining oversight on hundreds of thousands of acres: up to 40 percent of crops are routinely lost because of insects, crop disease, weeds, and nutrient deficiencies. We have a team of 30 agronomists who work on tagging images to feed AI models that enable us to identify problems before they affect the crops, so farmers can intervene earlier in a more targeted way and use fewer chemicals." As Taranis works all over the world and often in remote locations, it needed to find a way to upload large volumes of image files, along with creating a scalable infrastructure powerful enough to test complex machine learning models. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) along with TensorFlow provided the answer.

Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN) has made the Alexa Echo available in Brazil. The mega popular virtual assistant chatbot is now able to speak Brazilian Portuguese. "Echo Dot and Echo Show 5 are available for pre-order in Brazil today and will begin shipping to customers starting next week, while Amazon Echo will be available to customers in November,'' according to the press release. "We're excited to introduce Alexa to customers in Brazil, with a custom-built experience that honors Brazil's language and unique culture. Customers across Brazil will be able to ask for their favorite music, control their smart home, and enjoy skills from hundreds of customer-favorite Brazilian brands including Show do Milhão, Porta dos Fundos, UOL Esporte, iFood, Leite Ninho, Cinemark, and more.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, the large accounting and management consulting firm, released a startling report indicating that workers will be highly impacted by the fast-growing rise of artificial intelligence, robots and related technologies. Banking and financial services employees, factory workers and office staff will seemingly face the loss of their jobs--or need to find a way to reinvent themselves in this brave new world. The term "artificial intelligence" is loosely used to describe the ability of a machine to mimic human behavior. AI includes well-known applications, such as Siri, GPS, Spotify, self-driving vehicles and the larger-than-life robots made by Boston Robotics that perform incredible feats. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks about Siri during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 4, 2018, in San Jose, Calif.

Earthquake Alert! 6.7 temblor, epicenter 3.8 miles west of Ventura, California--impact will be in eleven minutes--evacuate, evacuate!" While you run to the hall closet to grab your earthquake kit, you shout out: "Alexa, where is my emergency evac location?" Walk north to Wilshire, then take a left on Warner," she responds. As you and your neighbors pour into the building stairwell, you hear audio from a phone: "Google Earth Q estimates substantial potential for structural damage in the West San Fernando Valley and Coastal West Los Angeles to pre-2006 code dwellings and buildings. Most of West LA will experience total loss of power for anywhere from six to twenty-four hours in duration."

As our ability to sequence genomes has skyrocketed, allowing us to churn out A's, C's, G's, and T's at breakneck speed, our capacity to decipher the sequences has not kept up. This issue was discussed at a recent meeting organized by Advances in Genome Biology and Technology. "We have well exceeded our ability as humans to deal with data," said Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, professor, molecular medicine, and executive vice president of Scripps Research. "We need help from machines." To have high-performance medicine, he asserted, "we need high-performance computing."

With technological advancement, IT technology developers are making efforts to develop software that can ease the physical work life. One such advancement in technology is intelligent automation. The intelligent automation is a combination of automation and artificial intelligence. This new technology has revolutionized the way data is handled and processed. The intelligent automation system determines and synthesizes a massive amount of information, automates the business and operational workflows and adapts it.

A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) uses a constellation of satellites around the earth for accurate navigation, timing, and positioning. Natural phenomena like space weather introduce irregularities in the Earth's ionosphere, disrupting the propagation of the radio signals that GNSS relies upon. Such disruptions affect both the amplitude and the phase of the propagated waves. No physics-based model currently exists to predict the time and location of these disruptions with sufficient accuracy and at relevant scales. In this paper, we focus on predicting the phase fluctuations of GNSS radio waves, known as phase scintillations. We propose a novel architecture and loss function to predict 1 hour in advance the magnitude of phase scintillations within a time window of plus-minus 5 minutes with state-of-the-art performance.

Latin America is an ocean of opportunities for developing talent, business and innovation in sectors where Montreal is a leader. Despite their complementarity, Montreal rarely looks at Latin America and vice-versa. "Connecting Intelligence" aims to push forward, conversations leading to understanding how entrepreneurs, and organizations in Montreal and other countries could collaborate to impact the lives of many. This panel is open to people from all sectors, as AI is not a sector but a science that could be applied to all sectors. Sectors invited include video games, life sciences, cyber-security, deep tech, fintech, aerospace, advanced manufacturing technologies, telecom, agritech, nanotech, advanced materials, environment.