This summer, student interns at Booz Allen Hamilton bested the competition on edge computing with the help of NVIDIA Jetson Nano. The Booz Allen Summer Games Challenge (SGC) calls on student interns across the U.S. to develop breakthrough solutions for its clients' most pressing problems. This summer, Project RAZOR placed top 10 among artificial intelligence and machine learning projects with a fully autonomous ground vehicle powered by Nano. The team competed against 80 other teams of four to five students developing projects over 10 weeks. Previous SGC winning projects include technology that helps the blind navigate, as well as ways to fight human trafficking and global disease.

To gain an understanding of the outlook towards AI in India, PwC conducted a comprehensive global survey between May and September 2019 eliciting nearly 1,000 responses from CXOs and decision makers from India and other regions. The respondents spanned across industries such as technology, media and telecom, financial services, professional services, health, industrial products, consumer markets, government, and utilities. The survey also included respondents across various business functions such as IT, finance, operations, marketing, customer service, sales, human resources, legal, risk and compliance.

Developers of new technologies, scaremongers, pessimists and people with something to sell are always predicting the demise of the recruitment industry and the end for recruitment consultants. We're all going to be replaced by robots. Some would say that the recruitment industry has been at death's door for at least twenty years. Reality indicates that people are rarely in a job for life, and job moves mean active candidates in the job market. Particularly in management consulting, good candidates are constantly seeking new challenges.

A vast new research survey on Future Systems from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) sheds important light on the enormous impact that technology investment and adoption have on a company's financial performance and most notably, the mindsets and behaviors of companies that are industry leaders. The new research, titled: "Full Value. How to scale innovation and achieve full value with Future Systems," provides insights on how to scale innovation and achieve full value of technology investments, builds on Accenture's initial Future Systems report launched last year, and is based on a survey of more than 8,300 organizations across 20 industries and 22 countries. It is designed to help companies understand and close the innovation achievement gap – defined as the difference between potential and realized value from technology investments. The Future Systems research is Accenture's largest enterprise IT survey ever conducted and includes measures of both mature and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and extended reality.

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In this age of automation, organizations need to adapt to stay competitive. A report from Willis Tower Watson states that employers expect 17 percent of work to be automated by 2020. As technology evolves, your workforce must constantly update its skills and understand how new technology affects the nature of their jobs. But to set up employees to successfully embrace this new age of work, organizations need to future-proof their approach to learning. Rather than defining competencies designed to help their employees be successful today, they should empower their workers to focus on skills that will be critical for success tomorrow.

The fastest growing Big Four professional services firm in the U.S., KPMG is known for being a great place to work and build a career. We provide audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others.

We've been doing research on these issues for some time and it became really clear about a year ago that there was a significant need for some kind of committee-based oversight related to data and information ethics,

As DevOps matures, and the "shift-everything-left" philosophy gains ascendancy, there's a movement to automate all--or most--phases of testing. However, there are some critical functions that may resist automation. In fact, contrary to the "automate-everything" impetus, human testers won't ever go away. Indeed, human testers need to be more involved, and earlier in the development process. In this podcast, Mike Kavis and guest, Angie Jones, discuss the human aspect of testing and how humans add significant value by assessing the system as a whole, helping developers design better code, and determining the level of testing automation that should occur.

As part of the continued strategy and growth of Decision Point AI it has today incorporated it's professional services consulting business Decision Point AI UK as Decision Point AI Limited in Edinburgh, Scotland. We have embarked upon a major strategic engagement in the UK, USA and the Europe, using Scotland as a launch pad. Today we formally launch Decision Point AI UK our UK Professional Services Consulting capability with the'problem solved' attitude to servicing clients issues. As with our UK consulting launches 3 month lead period, we also involved in soft launches in the USA from NYC and Europe from Dublin. The company continues to gain clients and markets based on the prior'BigFour' relationships from its leadership team and new clients from the thriving Scottish technology and innovation scene.