In this crazy year of online events, conferences are trying to lure the audience by offering anything and everything under the hood. Promises are being made that hundreds of topics will be covered. Data Platform Virtual Summit 2020 will cover the length and breadth of Azure Data, Analytics & AI stack. Yeah, your favorite SQL Server comes under Azure Data & your lovable Power BI comes under Analytics:). This year we are adding a new track, Industry Solution, which will feature sessions related to Data/Analytics/AI solution-ing for different industries and verticals like BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Utility, Energy, Hospitality & more.

Understanding how my GPS works doesn't prevent it from degrading my map reading skills. Any skill you don't practice gets rusty. As Dunning-Kruger tells us, the more sure we are about our understanding the less understanding we are likely to have. AI that tells us what we already think to be true may well be simply crystallizing our biases in a non-disputable form. For example there was an article a few months back in Technology Review about using AI to (a) decide which convicted criminals to incarcerate based on an AI-generated "recidivism score", and (b) the use of AI to direct police to places where crime is most likely.