On Tuesday, August 8, the U.S. Department of State hosted an interactive webchat featuring experts from Amazon Web Services sharing their thoughts on artificial intelligence (AI) and the benefits it can provide startups. Viewers from across the world - including audiences at U.S. embassies, American Spaces, and private organizations - submitted questions in real-time for the panelists.
Artificial intelligence is now everywhere in our day-to-day lives - whether it’s ordering household products, searching the internet, playing music, providing weather forecasts, or many of the other purposes AI can serve. Entrepreneurs all over the world are also embracing solutions AI can provide to their businesses by improving efficiency and making their products more user-friendly and accessible to consumers.
The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including:
- How startups can use AI to improve efficiency and cut costs
- How AI will impact business operations and strategies in the next 5 years
- What applications of AI are accessible to entrepreneurs in regions with limited access to capital
- What are the risks of AI
- How AI is innovating different sectors including health care and finance;
- How students and young entrepreneurs can become knowledgeable in AI
The program also featured Arabic and French interpretation.
French version: [ Ссылка ]
Speaker bios:
- Hassan Sawaf
Director, Artificial Intelligence at Amazon Web Services
With nearly 20 years of expertise in language technologies, Hassan Sawaf is well-recognized in the field of machine translation, speech recognition and machine learning. In 1999, he cofounded AIXPLAIN AG, a company focusing on speech recognition and machine translation. Hassan also spent time at SAIC as Chief Scientist for Human Language Technology, where he worked on multilingual spoken dialogue systems.
- Joseph Spisak
Head of AI Partnerships at Amazon Web Services
Joseph has experience driving strategies and technical/business engagements around Machine Learning based Cloud workloads such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Video Summarization and Analysis, and Speech Recognition. Joseph has more than 15 years delivering products and services in Digital Video, Cloud-based Media Transcoding, Image Processing, and Machine/Deep Learning in the consumer mobile, broadcast, and cloud segments.
- Ben Snively
Specialist Solutions Architect, Data and Analytics at Amazon Web Services
Ben Snively is a Specialist Solutions Architect on the Amazon Web Services Public Sector team, where he specializes in big data, analytics, and search. Previously, Ben was an engineer and architect on DOD contracts, where he worked with Hadoop and big data solutions. He has over 11 years of experience creating analytical systems.
- Stacey Wood (Moderator)
Global Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services
Stacey joined Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector (AWS WWPS) in April from the U.S. Department of State where she was a Foreign Service Officer for 8 years. As the Global Manager for Startups, Stacey leads AWS WWPS’s outreach efforts to early stage companies, with a particular focus on supporting social entrepreneurship and civic tech. While with the State Department, Stacey lived and worked in China and in Ghana, and helped shaped government policy around innovation, entrepreneurship, and the digital economy.
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