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He leads the team of applications, data, and AI experts ensuring they are developing market-leading solutions and supporting customer teams with the technology and solutions customers need most. Vishal was previously with DXC Technology where he was the senior business leader for their Data & Analytics AI, Machine Learning, and IoT business. Leading a significant pivot in the company's strategy, he leveraged best-in-class partnerships with cloud-based next-gen platforms to implement scalable industrialized solutions for DXC customers. Vishal is a senior executive with experience in multiple geographies including Asia Pacific, India, and the Americas. He has deep experience in consulting across IT and Business Process Services with exposure to Product Management, Design Thinking, Marketing, Operations, and P&L leadership in diverse industries.
Making AI Work In Conglomerates: How India's Mega Companies Are Betting Big On AI
India's top multinational conglomerates are in the midst of a digital transformation. Indian companies, not usually viewed as disruptors are now seeing a critical opportunity in leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to identify newer opportunities and adapt to the fast-changing business environment. We are seeing a trend where business leaders across industries are deepening their commitment to AI and analytics and seeking ways to apply them at scale. However, making AI work in a conglomerate is not easy. For companies of the scale of Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra and the Tata Group, bigger isn't always better when it comes to driving cross-division synergies and catering to every division's needs.
Gigaom The Analytics of Language, Behavior, and Personality
Computational linguists and computer scientists, among them University of Texas professor Jason Baldridge, have been working for over fifty years toward algorithmic understanding of human language. They are, however, doing a pretty good job with important tasks such as entity recognition, relation extraction, topic modeling, and summarization. These tasks are accomplished via natural language processing (NLP) technologies, implementing linguistic, statistical, and machine learning methods. Voice response and personal assistants -- Siri, Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Alexa -- rely on NLP to interpret requests and formulate appropriate responses. Search and recommendation engines apply NLP, as do applications ranging from pharmaceutical drug discovery to national security counter-terrorism systems.
UPDATED: Ethien appoints former OC and Freshfields partner as head of business solutions and partners with RAVN Legal IT Insider
New managed legal services, technology and advisory firm Ethien has hired Osborne Clarke consultant and former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Paul Taylor as its head of business solutions as it also announces a new strategic partnership with RAVN Systems. Taylor, who joined OC as a partner in its digital business team in 2007, will work with Ethien's law firm and in-house legal clients to develop solutions that help improve quality and efficiency and reduce risk within legal services delivery. He will also act as Ethien's general counsel. For the past three years Taylor has worked on service delivery improvement within OC, designing many of the solutions developed for the firm's clients. This involved the development of integrated solutions allowing OC's lawyers to collaborate directly with in-house counsel on a common work platform.