Council Post: Protecting Rainforests With Big Data And AI: Four Key Lessons For The Enterprise

As CEO of Hitachi Vantara, Gajen helps solve clients' problems by bringing to bear Hitachi's unrivaled industrial expertise across sectors. You might not think saving the world's tropical rainforests is a data challenge, but the urgent task of protecting the last remaining two million square miles of forest is precisely that. What is more, the challenge holds vital lessons for anyone tackling a data project with seemingly insurmountable odds. Logging, much of it illegal, strips the planet of more than 32 million acres of natural forest every year. If you ever imagined literally trying to find a needle in a haystack, then you might be able to contemplate what it is like to find a chainsaw in forested areas the size of Australia.