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Intelligent Agents: Transforming Brands, User Experience, The Enterprise
[We are in the process of moving this event to an online platform, more news soon]
Experience an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Intelligent Agents, and learn to take strategic advantage of this critical technology.
Featuring speakers from IBM Research, SRI International, Brandflight, and the Post-Lean Institute.
Humans are starting to have conversations with products and services. With Amazon’s Alexa we see how Intelligent Agents (a.k.a. “Digital Assistants”) will also be used to curate offerings from marketplaces. We will examine Agents in detail, from multiple perspectives, and build a shared understanding of threats and opportunities for investors, corporates, and policymakers.
We will capture what we have learned in an e-book made available to participants and members of the Post-Industrial Forum.
We will capture what we have learned in an e-book made available to participants, featuring their own thoughts and contributions. The e-book will also be available to members of the Post-Industrial Forum.
About the Post-Industrial Forum
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have exponential technology development coupled with massive decentralization. This goes beyond “digital,"it is change on an anthropological level. We are transitioning to a post-industrial civilization. (For more background, see this
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Who should attend?
- Corporate executives
- Board members
- Investors (VCs, CVCs, PE GPs and LPs, Family Offices)
- Policymakers and policy advisors
Note: Seating is limited.
Book: Attendees will receive a complimentary electronic copy of speaker Dr. Bob Moore's new book on dialog design.
Program
08:00am Registration, coffee, light breakfast
09:00am Introduction: Intelligent Agents and the
Post-Industrial Transition
Frode Odegard, CEO, Post-Lean Institute
- How and Why Agents will reshape the Business Landscape
- Agents and Industry Decentralization
09:15am Intelligent Agents: Core Technologies,
Platforms, and Future Directions
Dr. Karen L. Myers, Lab Director, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI
- How Intelligent Agents work
- What capabilities do they have now?
- What capabilities can we expect in the near future?
10:30am Break, coffee
10:45am How Intelligent Agents are
Transforming Commerce and
Threatening Established Brands
Sergei Mitrofanov, Partner, Brandflight
- How digital disruption puts brands under pressure
- How Intelligent Agents can commoditize brands
- Agents as Brands, how your brand can co-exist with Agents
11:35am Designing Natural Dialogs with Agents
Dr. Robert J. Moore, IBM Research, Almaden
- Why are today's Agents so conversationally limited?
- A discipline of dialog design and the user experience
- Agents and the Future of Enterprise Software Development
12:30pm Lunch provided
1:30pm Intelligent Agents, the Post-Industrial Enterprise, and the Future of Work
Frode Odegard, CEO, Post-Lean Institute
- Agents for customer acqusition, support, and hiring
- Automating management tasks, Agents in the boardroom
- A work landscape of Humans and Agents
2:15pm Break, coffee, snacks
2:30pm Facilitated workshop. Build the Future!
- How will agents reshape business?
- How can you take advantage?
- What are the risks?
Contribute to an e-book which will include participants’ ideas.
4:00pm Close
Speakers
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO, Post-Lean Institute
Frode is a thought leader in next-generation, post-industrial management science. His major focus is on how corporates, investors and policymakers can best navigate humanity’s transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode’s multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a deep background in organizational design and a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, and philosophy. When not at work on post-industrial management science, he can be found in the dojo practicing traditional Iwama style Aikido.
Dr. Karen L. Myers
Lab Director, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
Dr. Myers’ research focuses on intelligent systems that facilitate man-machine collaboration. Her expertise includes autonomy, multi-agent systems, automated planning and scheduling, and intelligent assistants. She has led the development of several AI technologies that have been successfully transitioned into operational use in areas that span collaboration tools, task management, and end-user automation. Myers has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Toronto, and a degree in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Sergei E. Mitrofánov
Senior Brand Strategist and Partner at Brandflight
Sergei has an over 25 years of experience in marketing and brand strategy development and more than a decade’s experience in mentoring startups. He is head of branding agency Brandflight’s subsidiary in Russia and Eastern Europe. Brandflight was founded in 1997 and has offices in London, Moscow, Stockholm, Berlin and Palo Alto. Its client list includes Virgin, Nestlé, Net Jets, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, Nokia, BMW, SAS, Spotify, Airbus, P&G, J&J, Nordea, Volvo, and IBM.
Dr. Robert J. Moore
Research Staff Member, IBM Research Almaden
Bob examines the intersection of human conversation and technology. Currently, he is developing a methodology for Conversational UX Design that applies the formal, qualitative models of natural human conversation, from the field of Conversation Analysis, to the design of conversational interfaces. He has developed a general Natural Conversation Framework, also implemented on the IBM Watson Conversation service, which defines a set of conversational UX patterns. In addition to conversational systems, Bob explores the use of automated transcription technologies in the practice of Conversation Analysis research. In the past Bob has worked as a research scientist at Yahoo! Labs and at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and as a game designer at The Multiverse Network. Bob holds Ph.D., M.S. and B.A. degrees in sociology with concentrations in ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and ethnography.
