Here are 10 practical steps for leaders & teams to move beyond the hype and get going with Data & AI.

Participants were given a mall as a context and then use machine learning to simulate an aspect of the mall. The idea in the workshop is to open both tech and non-technical people for understanding and apply machine learning.

'Step into my Office', is a series of interviews powered by The Future Factory and The Drum Network, which investigate the details behind the office door. The Future Factory is a lead generation and growth consultancy that spends one day per week working from their clients' workplaces, getting under the hood of agency life, ambitions and culture among all its idiosyncrasies and charm. What does your business do? Futurice partners with Europe's leading companies to help them build capability for the future through digital innovation, co-creating digital products and services and changing organisational culture. We started in Finland in 2000 and have since expanded to the UK, Germany and Sweden.

The fast paced and fragmented online discussion is changing the world and not always to the better. Media is struggling with moderation demands and major news sites are closing down commenting on their articles, because they are being used to drive an unrelated political agenda, or just for trolling. Moderation practice cannot rely on humans anymore, because a single person can easily generate copious amounts of content, and moderation needs to be done with care. It's simply much more time consuming than cut and pasting your hate or ads all across the internet. Anonymity adds to the problem, as it seems to bring out the worst in people.

Slush, Europe's leading startup event, took place in Helsinki from November 30th to December 1st. Thousands of attendees including startups, investors, tech companies, and researchers came together to get a glimpse of the latest developments in a massive range of fields. Futurice was there in force: our Futucafe went on tour, providing good coffee and a meeting space for attendees, and we launched the Chilicorn Fund as a way to make the world a slightly better place. Our data science team went along too, and I'm going to talk about some of the trends we saw there. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, data science: these terms were on the lips of companies and speakers throughout Slush.