For the second year running, Google's massive I/O developer event will take place at the storied Shoreline Amphitheater, right around the corner from the company's Mountain View headquarters. Last year's conference had a host of major announcements worthy of such a high-profile venue -- it's where Google Home, the Google Assistant and the Daydream VR headset were all introduced. But this year, things seem like they'll be a little quieter, at least in terms of big consumer-facing hardware. It'll probably be a year of refinement, where big initiatives continue to be polished. We'll be there all three days this year, bringing you breaking news, analysis, interviews, videos and more.

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Statistica, a leader in data science. The acquisition will augment TIBCO's analytics product offerings, adding new capabilities aimed at making it easier for data scientists to unlock the power of machine learning and leverage it in a variety of applications, such as those analyzing the often large amounts of data produced in IoT systems. The transaction remains subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks. Statistica will enable users to more rapidly uncover insights from source data. It will also become part of the TIBCO Insight Platform to empower a broader audience of business users with these analytical capabilities and allow actions to be triggered in related systems, ensuring insights turn into the best outcomes for the business.

SYS-CON Events announced today that EARP Integration will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. EARP Integration is a passionate software house. Since its inception in 2009 the company successfully delivers smart solutions for cities and factories that start their digital transformation. EARP provides bespoke solutions like, for example, advanced enterprise portals, business intelligence systems and mobile applications for international enterprises across different sectors such as Energy and Utilities, GreenTech, MedTech, FinTech, Facility Management and Housing, Automotive Manufacturing, and Sport. EARP also cooperates with international software houses by providing them with highly qualified and well-selected, multilingual teams for bigger projects.

Teleperformance (Paris:RCF), the worldwide leader in outsourced omnichannel customer experience management, today announced the launch of its chat bot (artificial intelligence) technology, increasing its portfolio of services. The new solution was leveraged by a strategic partnership with Artificial Solutions, a technology leader in artificial intelligence and Natural Language Interaction (NLI). Teleperformance provides services in 265 languages and will initially provide artificial intelligence services in 35 languages, using sophisticated chat bots with state-of-the-art natural language understanding and intelligence capabilities. The chat bots can assist customers in factual inquiries by offering automated customer services in natural written language. Teleperformance has developed a distinctive capability of blending chat bots with live support to make the process of addressing customer inquiries seamless, personalized and efficient.

This summer, Delta will test a facial recognition system for checking luggage. The airline says that the move is an effort to save customers time and further streamline the pre-flight process. "One machine will be equipped to test facial recognition technology to match customers with their passport photos through identification verification," the press release says. The $600,000 pilot program's four machines will reside at the sprawling Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The news comes after recent word that domestic airports would start using biometrics for registering travelers when they leave the US and return.

SYS-CON Events announced today that T-Mobile will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. As America's Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc., is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services through leading product and service innovation. The Company's advanced nationwide 4G LTE network delivers outstanding wireless experiences to 67.4 million customers who are unwilling to compromise on quality and value. Based in Bellevue, Washington, T-Mobile US provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at Javits Center, New York City, is co-located with 20th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.

Businesses collect mountains of data daily. Now it's time to make those mountains move. NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang announced today at our GPU Technology Conference that SAP and NVIDIA are working together to help businesses use AI in ways that will change the world's view of business applications. "With strong partners like NVIDIA at our side, the possibilities are limitless," wrote SAP Chief Innovation Officer Juergen Mueller in a blog post published today. "New applications, unprecedented value in existing applications, and easy access to machine learning services will allow you to make your own enterprise intelligent."

"We are using AI to improve healthcare experiences in a way that has never been done before," said Kyle Robertson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, NarrativeDx. "Our partners have been eager to leverage our technology to better understand their patients' experiences. The demand we are seeing is phenomenal, and we are on track to increase our client base 10x in 2017." The NarrativeDx AI platform analyzes comments at a per-phrase level and identifies sentiment, named doctors and nurses, key themes, procedures, and even readmission risks from complex patient comments. The technology is proven to improve patient experience measures by 80 percent, and increase outpatient referrals by over $50 million.

SYS-CON Events announced today that OpsGenie will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Founded in 2012, OpsGenie is an alerting and on-call management solution for dev and ops teams. OpsGenie provides the tools needed to design actionable alerts, manage on-call schedules and escalations, and ensure that the right people are notified at the right time, using multiple notification methods. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.

MindMeld has pioneered the development of a unique AI platform that enables customers to build intelligent and human-like conversational interfaces for any application or device. Through its proprietary machine learning (ML) technology, MindMeld delivers incredible accuracy to help users interact with voice and chat assistants in a more natural way. At Cisco, we believe that AI and machine learning will play an increasingly vital role across all parts of our business. Given our industry leadership in networking, collaboration, data center, analytics, and unified communications, we are uniquely positioned to take advantage of AI and ML and embed it across the network and the cloud. Cisco is unlocking capabilities through AI that were unthinkable in the past – for example, empowering our customers to self-manage their network and data center, stay ahead of security attacks, embed intelligence at the edge, deliver predictive analytics, and revolutionize the workplace.