LiveTiles are a hyper growth Saas company that has recently established an innovation centre in Sligo with the aim of generating 50 new jobs in the Sligo region. The Sligo team has direct focus on producing product solutions that will create industry-specific digital platforms that incorporate AI. This event is a showcase as to what can be achieved on a global scale from a regional location in the area of Artificial Intelligence. This event is building LiveTiles brand awareness in Ireland, showing the strength of the North West tech and manufacturing clusters and highlighting the availability of skilled personnel with an emphasis on work/life attractiveness of Sligo.

With a background in law, Karl Redenbach was trained to avoid risks. His entrepreneurial spirit, however, convinced him to leave behind a law career and head to London and then New York City with ideas about how to make workplace practices simpler and more efficient. Redenbach is the co-founder and CEO of LiveTiles, an'enterprise as a service software company', which claims some of the world's largest brands as customers. In plain English, LiveTiles specialises in helping businesses bring their digital workplace systems onto one screen with easy-to-use drag and drop software. "We control the chaos of the workplace," Redenbach explains during a conversation in his New York City office.

Machine learning algorithms are worked into a variety of popular products on the market today and used by the biggest technology companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, and IBM, to name a few. But while machine learning algorithms are fairly routine and practical, there is the primary subject from which it branches: artificial intelligence (AI). After decades of popular films and books, what has been achieved from AI? First, the benefits of AI research have yielded various applications, from Apple's Siri to IBM's prototype diagnostic app, Watson. Apps are useful to anyone with a smart phone, but at this point consumers and programmers alike have grown accustomed to them. There are those who would like to push the envelope beyond what we have yet seen.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no foreign term. While technically machine intelligence, most people conjure images of robots when they think about AI. The man who coined the term back in 1955, John McCarthy, defines AI as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." AI is indeed much like an engineering process. Yes, these machines are smart and capable of achieving multiple tasks, but they also need a facilitator, right? That's where the human element comes in.

Machine learning algorithms are worked into a variety of popular products on the market today and used by the biggest technology companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, and IBM, to name a few. But while machine learning algorithms are fairly routine and practical, there is the primary subject from which it branches: artificial intelligence (AI). After decades of popular films and books, what has been achieved from AI? First, the benefits of AI research have yielded various applications, from Apple's Siri to IBM's prototype diagnostic app, Watson. "AI has attracted more than 17 billion in investments since 2009. Last year alone more than 2 billion was invested in 322 companies with AI-like technology" (Kelly).