Abstract: 

AI - everyone is talking about it but who is actually doing it (and generating business results). This session takes an industry by industry perspective on true AI adoption disambiguating the hype from the reality, the theoretical from the practical and the research labs from ROI.
In Alyssa's presentation, she will:
Showcase companies getting actual real value from leveraging artificial intelligence and discuss ideas around how any company, from SMB to enterprise, can use artificial intelligence within their own business and industry.
See examples of AI working in the real world featuring the following industries:
- eCommerce/Retail
- Robotics and IoT
- Agriculture Technology
- Education

Bio: 

Alyssa is a customer-driven product leader dedicated to building products that surprise, delight and bring new value to market. Her experience in scaling products from conception to large-scale ROI has been proven at both startups and large enterprises alike. As Director of Product Management at IBM Watson, Alyssa saw first-hand how thoughtful, sophisticated use of data has the power to transform industries. During her recent tenure at IBM, she oversaw the development of a large portfolio of AI products including vision, speech, emotional intelligence and machine translation.