Research
Realizing 2030: Future Of Work
July 16, 2019New research reveals that human-machine partnerships and emerging technologies will usher in a more inclusive and rewarding work experience over the next decade. Explore the findings.
Luminaries
Episode 40: Forging the Future of Finance…One Blockchain Link at a Time
Duration 21:00
At the heart of it, blockchain is about trust, transparency, and security. Right now, companies spend endless time and money establishing and maintaining trusted, secure relationships and transactions. Blockchain has the potential to streamline these processes, eliminate redundancy, and enhance security. On this episode, Australian Securities and Exchange CIO Dan Chesterman offers a rare down-to-earth, practical look at what blockchain is, what it does, and how to implement it.
AI: Hype vs. Reality
1.6 – AI Has Eyes: Computer Vision
Duration 25:24
Can a fake mustache fool facial recognition technology? How is computer vision being used? Can we really be tracked everywhere we go? Jessica Chobot dissects the hype in the season finale.
Most recent Recent Perspectives
Risk Management
Six Reasons Why Cyber Criminals Love Social Media
July 9, 2018Social media is an enabler for business, but it also presents a growing digital risk to consumer-facing organizations because the global rise in popularity of social media platforms has lured fraudsters to expand their activities to the virtual world. Take a look at the six reasons why cyber criminals love social media.
Artificial Intelligence
This Deep Learning Technology Is Redefining Ad Integrity
July 2, 2018Company brand logos are everywhere these days, and not just where they expect them to be. A business knows when it has placed an advertisement in a magazine, but it has no knowledge if an ad has been seen by more than the publication’s readers. This is no longer the case thanks to deep learning technology. Learn how deep learning tools are helping businesses identify if its brands and logos in photos posted to social media and how this is producing actionable information that can increase their market share.
Blockchain
How Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Are Transforming the Auto Industry
June 28, 2018Take a look at how some auto giants intend to use cryptocurrency technology to drive innovation. It’s not in the payment model aspect you may be thinking but instead as a means for cars to communicate with each other whilst on the road.
Trailblazers
2.12: Timing the Market
Duration 28:52
The stock market is one wild ride, from the literal rough seas of the renaissance to the forthcoming disruption of algorithms and AI. Invest your time in this week’s episode to learn the exciting origins and incredible future of how shares and stocks exchange.
Digital Literacy
How Project-Based Learning Preps Students for Tech Careers
June 25, 2018See why textbook learning is making way for more project-based learning, an emerging approach that takes STEM knowledge and students’ own interests and combines them into projects that demand individuality and critical thinking, communication and collaboration.
AI
Robo-Accountants Are an Accountant’s Best Friend
June 20, 2018Since the inception of the profession, accountants have been “numbers crunchers” and “bean counters”—mathematically inclined individuals tasked to laboriously assemble a company’s financial data and calculate revenue and expenses toward closing the books each quarter. Now so-called robo-accountants are doing the hard work, freeing accountants from crunching the numbers to make sense of them for operational and financial decision-making purposes.