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Disruptive Technologists: Grappling with the Economic Impact of AI & Automation Spread
1. V E R Z U S
W E L C O M E T O
Grappling with the Economic
Impact of AI & Automation
Spread
Disruptive Technologies
Microsoft Monday July 29 2019
2. 7:00 Introduction to Disruptive Technologies
7:01 Quick Disclaimer
7:02 Introduction to the Panel
7:03 Grappling w/ the Economic Impact of AI
& Automation Spread.
Quick Video - 60 Minutes on A.I.
Q1. 40% Jobs Lost in 15 Years?
Q2. Does American Exceptionalism Apply?
Q3. What Is The Biggest Opportunity Next?
8:00 Questions from the Audience.
8:15 Panel Wraps Up
8:20 Fireside Chat
8:45 Fireside Chat Wraps Up
9:00 Post Event Discussion
The Format
3. Legal Disclaimer
‘The views and opinions expressed are those of the panelists
and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of
the company they work for.’
Be Nice…
4. Google International Growth
Identify opportunities, build business strategies, sell ideas,
and generate revenue for internal stakeholders and
Google’s largest clients in the Business & Industrial
Markets sector
Author & Public Speaker
Why the Chicken Crossed the World: 18 Surprising Secrets
from China on Success, Wealth, and Happiness.
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Chicken-Crossed-World-
Surprising-ebook/dp/B01C5J6UAC/ref=nodl_
Columbia University Lecturer
Winning the China Market, as a Female Executive.
Highlighted key insights from authored China book.
China Expert
Rachel Loui
5. Founder and CEO of Gust
Managing Director of Rose Tech Ventures
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels
Co-founder and MD of the AREA Technology Accelerator
Associate Founder of Singularity University
David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, angel
investor, author and keynote speaker who has founded or
funded over 100 pioneering companies.
He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel",
by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by
Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in
New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of
Silicon Alley".
He is the New York Times best selling author of both Angel
Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun
Investing in Startups and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a
Scalable, High-Growth Business.
David S. Rose
6. Ambassador, IBM Quantum Computing
Adjunct Professor, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Teaching and Research in Training and Learning in Machine
Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Publications
Excellence in Big Data.
Leitlinien für den Big Data Einsatz.
Big Data und Geschäftsmodell Innovationen in der Praxis. Big
Data Technologies: Wissen für Entscheider.
Management von Big Data Projekten.
Leitfaden Big Data im Praxiseinsatz: Szenarien, Beispiele,
Effekte
Cognition and the Web Cognition & Web
A Hitchhiker's Guide to AIX OSI Services/6000
The Cultivated Machine
Genius or Genial? Will the Computer be the next Genius?
'But don’t forget, only love conquers death..’
Mark Mattingley-Scott
7. Business Thinking Institute, Diversity & Business Success
Expert
“You cannot succeed in business without business thinking; and,
you will have limited success in life without business thinking.”
Founder and President, The Midmarket Institute
President, MIT South Asian Alumni Association
Founder & CEO, Argea
Manufacturing R&D Engineer, Boeing
Developed an idea to build robots to assemble the Boeing
777 airplane fuselage. Subsequently developed a prototype
robot to assemble the fuselage of the 757 airplane.
Author of a number of books. With more in the works...
Ram V. Iyer
8. Microsoft Global Digital Advisor
One of Microsoft's elite team, defining a premier customer
digital strategy with innovative business models and
executing on business transformation through leading edge
Cloud migration, comprehensive data integration, and
actionable analytics via AI deep-neural frameworks &
machine learning technology.
Formerly Head of Strategic & Creative Solutions at Astadia, a
leading Digital & Marketing Automation agency.
Blogs for HuffingtonPost.com on popular culture, media &
entertainment and recently wrote a piece ‘Defining Your
Digital Transformation’ on LinkedIn. His additional writing and
producing credits include the short film “Taking it for
Granted” which screened in over 15 film festivals in the U.S.
https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/
Pete Dorogoff
9. AI Advisor and Strategy Consultant, Foxy Machine
Strategy and consulting for large enterprise, early stage
leading-edge technology companies, DoD and US and Global
Governments. More interested in revolution than incremental
change.
Researching Quantum Computing software approaches to AI,
Data Bias and Personalization at Scale.
Google Moonshot winner, The Optimized Self
IBM Watson Innovation winner, Watson Bridge.
AI Influencer to Dell and SAP.
Board member of NYAI, XPrize, Tech Transfer Days NYC,
Women's Leadership Summit NYC.
Oliver Christie
10. I n c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h Ve n t u r e Ca p i ta l i s t Ka i - Fu L e e , o n
d e v e l o p m e n t s i n A I a n d C h i n a ' s e f f o r t to d o m i n a te t h e
f i e l d .
S c o t t P e l l e y : I w o n d e r, d o y o u t h i n k p e o p l e a r o u n d t h e w o r l d h a v e
a n y i d e a w h a t ' s c o m i n g i n a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e ?
K a i - F u L e e : I t h i n k m o s t p e o p l e h a v e n o i d e a , a n d m a n y p e o p l e h a v e
t h e w r o n g i d e a .
S c o t t P e l l e y : B u t y o u d o b e l i e v e i t ' s g o i n g t o c h a n g e t h e w o r l d ?
K a i - F u L e e : I b e l i e v e i t ' s g o i n g t o c h a n g e t h e w o r l d m o r e t h a n
a n y t h i n g i n t h e h i s t o r y o f m a n k i n d . M o r e t h a n e l e c t r i c i t y.
h t t p s : / / w w w. c b s n e w s . c o m / n e w s / 6 0 - m i n u t e s - a i - f a c i a l - a n d - e m o t i o n a l -
r e c o g n i t i o n - h o w - o n e - m a n - i s - a d v a n c i n g - a r t i f i c i a l - i n t e l l i g e n c e /
h t t p s : / / w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = _ 6 F m 3 q 7 R 8 i Q & f e a t u r e = y o u t u . b e
60 Minutes - Kai-Fu Lee
11. I n c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h Ve n t u r e Ca p i ta l i s t Ka i - Fu L e e , o n
d e v e l o p m e n t s i n A I a n d C h i n a ' s e f f o r t to d o m i n a te t h e
f i e l d .
S c o t t P e l l e y : I w o n d e r, d o y o u t h i n k p e o p l e a r o u n d t h e w o r l d h a v e
a n y i d e a w h a t ' s c o m i n g i n a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e ?
K a i - F u L e e : I t h i n k m o s t p e o p l e h a v e n o i d e a , a n d m a n y p e o p l e h a v e
t h e w r o n g i d e a .
S c o t t P e l l e y : B u t y o u d o b e l i e v e i t ' s g o i n g t o c h a n g e t h e w o r l d ?
K a i - F u L e e : I b e l i e v e i t ' s g o i n g t o c h a n g e t h e w o r l d m o r e t h a n
a n y t h i n g i n t h e h i s t o r y o f m a n k i n d . M o r e t h a n e l e c t r i c i t y.
h t t p s : / / w w w. c b s n e w s . c o m / n e w s / 6 0 - m i n u t e s - a i - f a c i a l - a n d - e m o t i o n a l -
r e c o g n i t i o n - h o w - o n e - m a n - i s - a d v a n c i n g - a r t i f i c i a l - i n t e l l i g e n c e /
h t t p s : / / w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = _ 6 F m 3 q 7 R 8 i Q & f e a t u r e = y o u t u . b e
60 Minutes - Kai-Fu Lee
12. B l u e A n d W h i te Co l l a r D i s p l a c e m e n t
- T r u c k D r i v e r s
- C h e f s
- Wa i te r s . L e s s T h a n $ 1 5 p h
C h a n g e To Fa b r i c O f S o c i e t y
- Fa s te s t C h a n g e O f A n y Te c h n o l o g y R e v o l u t i o n
- C l a s s R e v o l t?
- B u r n i n g T r u c ks?
E c o n o m i c I m p a c t To Wo r ke r s
- I s U n i v e r s a l B a s i c I n c o m e T r u s te d ?
- H o w S h o u l d R e t r a i n i n g B e Ta c k l e d ?
D o m i n i q u e C r e n n W i n s T h i r d M i c h e l i n S t a r, a F i r s t f o r a
Wo m a n i n A m e r i c a .
n y t i m e s .c o m / 2 0 1 8 / 1 1 / 2 9/d i n i n g /d o m i n i q u e - c r e n n - m i c h e l i n - t h r e e -
s t a r s
40% In 15 Years
13. W h a t M a ke s A m e r i c a G r e a t To d a y
- I s t h e U S l e a d i n g A I D e v e l o p m e n t?
- W h o S h o u l d A c c e s s U S P u b l i c D a ta ?
U S v s C h i n a v s E u r o p e
- A g a i n s t O r P a r t n e r s h i p?
- R e l e v a n t W i t h G l o b a l Co m p a n i e s?
W h a t M u s t T h e U S D o B e t te r ?
T h e R o l e O f G o v e r n m e n t
- W h a t S h o u l d P o l i t i c i a n s K n o w ?
- To R e g u l a te O r N o t?
- W h a t L a w s A r e N e e d e d ?
American Exceptionalism
14. W h a t To I n v e s t I n N e x t
- W h e r e D o e s Yo u r N e x t C h e c k G o?
- W h a t A r e T h e T r e n d s To L o o k Fo r ?
- W h a t I s M o s t E xc i t i n g ?
H o w To R e t r a i n A Wo r k f o r c e
- D o e s D i v e r s i t y M a t te r ?
- W h a t S k i l l s A r e M o s t I m p o r ta n t?
H o w To L e a d A Co m p a n y
- B i g g e s t C h a l l e n g e s?
- W h o I s D o i n g A G o o d J o b?
Biggest Opportunity
15. “ N o s e c t o r, n o c o u n t r y a n d n o b u s i n e s s i s i m m u n e f r o m t h e
i m p a c t o f d i s r u p t i o n . T h e c o m p a n i e s t h a t w i l l s u r v i v e a n d
t h r i v e i n t h i s f a s t - e v o l v i n g d i g i t a l w o r l d w i l l b e t h o s e w h o
s e i z e t h e u p s i d e o f d i s r u p t i o n b y e m b r a c i n g c o l l i s i o n s . ”
- E Y S t u d y
T h e 2 0 1 9 E Y C E O I m p e r a t i v e S t u d y
h t t p s : //w w w.e y.c o m /e n _g l
Final Thoughts
16. F i r e S i d e C h a t Wi t h B r u c e E p s te i n
9 p m A f te r D r i n k s A t H e a r t l a n d B r e w e r y C h o p h o u s e
Ta b l e s B o o ke d U n d e r D i s r u p t i v e Te c h n o l o g i s t s
O v e r T h e R o a d o n t h e B a r s i d e .
8:20 Fire Side Chat
9pm Drinks