The Japan AI Experience and Why Japan is the Fastest Growing Adopter of AI

Jeremy Achin, DataRobot CEO, co-founder, and architect of automated machine learning, kicked off the conference with his keynote address. He delivered a primer on AI as a tool for finding business opportunity in data and outlined the history of DataRobot from its humble beginnings in 2012 in a co-founder's kitchen in Connecticut, U.S. to a global company five years later. He closed out by presenting a vision for the future of the technology. Takuya Kudo, Accenture Applied Intelligence Unit, delivered a keynote on the surging demand for data science and the improving performance accuracy in automated machine learning. Kaoru Kawamoto, Head of Business Analysis for Osaka Gas, presented the final keynote.