Ep. 26 – Digital Acceleration: Weekly News (#ICYMI)

Welcome to Digital Acceleration News. By popular demand, we will comment on relevant recent news related to Digital Transformation: AI, ML, IoT, Cybersecurity, success stories, and Systems Integrators Whitepapers. Click on Subscribe to be notified of new episodes.

Digital Acceleration News

  • Protocol comments on how and why Digital Transformation has failed to deliver an improved Customer Experience. In Episode 2 and Episode 3, we commented on how critical preparation work is and setting the expectations correctly for internal and external stakeholders.
  • ZDNET has a very interesting article commenting on Digital Transformation predictions for 2022.
  • McKinsey & Company published the Coca-Cola Digital Transformation success story in its July Podcast. Instead of focusing on technology, they focused on their people and customers. Great read.
Artificial intelligence
  • The Tribune published an interesting story about how Pakistan is enforcing its China Border Security with 140 AI-based systems, covering 3448Km. Instead of building physical infrastructure, they take benefit of Technology and innovation.
  • Barron’s comments on the recent news of a Google Engineer who was fired due to his observations of a chatbot showing sentience behavior. At the present time, there is increasing controversy about training chatbots to keep them unbiased and ethical in making decisions.
  • MIT News published a very interesting report about how to use Artificial Intelligence to control digital manufacturing, focused specifically on 3D printing, covering machine-learning approaches, real-time monitoring, and simulation.
  • This week, Nasdaq published an overall article about the intersection between Cybersecurity, Cloud, AI, and Robotics. Must read.
  • As Companies accelerate their digitalization efforts, the security surface of many organizations is expanding, and Thought Leaders are looking for new best practices and lessons learned from non-biased third parties. This time National Science Foundation and Yale announced they would join forces to advance privacy and Cybersecurity (TechGenix)

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