As we evolve from pandemic to next normal world, 36% of manufacturers are already engaged on AI projects and 23% more have plans to use AI in coming months to unlock the anticipated trillions of dollars in value in industrial sectors. Based on the lessons learned during the pandemic they are all seeking the best way to achieve new levels of productivity, safety and agility by unlocking the AI driven insights from petabytes of data they harvest from their connected factories. To answer these and other questions, many manufactures are turning to AI to speed time to value. Are you a manufacturer looking at how AI can benefit your business? If so, join this webinar with two leaders in AI as they discuss where and how manufacturers are seeing value from AI in areas such as inspection, predictive maintenance, quality control, video analytics and digital twins.

The names of many of the new companies and technologies created to combat the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems can evoke thrilling acts of derring-do on the high seas. WaveKiller uses compressed air systems to create "walls" of bubbles up to 50 feet thick, to guard against erosion and contain waste and oil spills. The Inceptor is a solar-powered barge deployed by the Dutch nongovernmental organization Ocean Cleanup along rivers in Southeast Asia to gather tons of waste before it hits the sea. Saildrone and WasteShark build and deploy fleets of autonomous drones to ply the oceans, gathering meteorological and marine data in the former case and trash in the latter. This sample of (often menacingly-named) technologies represents the increasingly diverse approaches to combat marine degradation--diversity which is desperately needed, as climate change wages war on the health of the world's oceans on many different fronts.

ABBYY, a global leader in Content IQ technologies and solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based TimelinePI. TimelinePI provides a comprehensive process intelligence platform designed to empower users to understand, monitor and optimize any business process. The global process analytics market size is expected to grow to USD 1,421.7 million by 2023 according to Research and Markets. The acquisition of TimelinePI is a strategic investment by ABBYY into the emerging process intelligence market which is critical to truly understanding the impact and effectiveness of business processes and opportunities for productivity gains from digital transformation investments. TimelinePI's vision of combining the most versatile process mining and operational monitoring with cutting-edge, process-centric AI and machine learning will serve as a critical cornerstone to ABBYY's Digital IQ strategy.

Customer experience is a combination of the perceptions, emotions, and reactions that a consumer has while using different channels to interact with a company's environment, products, or employees. Major brands aspire to deliver an engaging and compelling experience across all the touch points and "moments of now" they have with their individual customers. To deliver on their ambition, they build the ability to consistently support the entire customer experience lifecycle: from initial contact, through the process of acquisition, engagement, and into a long-term relationship – anywhere, anytime, any device, seamless, contextualized, personalized, and proactive. Many of them have already started the transformation towards having a single, consistent customer platform that supports the end-to-end customer experience by interconnecting enterprise-wide sets of customer data and insights, customer engagement engines (such as marketing, CRM, commerce), and enabling processes through a digital architecture. This next-generation digital platform not only connects the whole client ecosystem of business and technology partners, but also the ecosystem of internet platforms, social networks and devices favored by the consumer.