Global business content group WOBI recently held its one day meeting on digital transformation in Medellín, Colombia’s Plaza Mayor convention center, bringing together international and national speakers to share ideas and ways to rethink business models and customer relationships. The Medellín event was one of five globally, others being in Mexico City, Madrid, Milan, and...
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After Acquiring Symphony Ventures, Sykes Names Ian Barkin as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
Global outsourcer Sykes Enterprises has announced the appointment of Ian Barkin — co-founder of global intelligent automation (IA) and robotic process automation (RPA) leader Symphony Ventures, Inc. to be its chief strategy and marketing officer. In November of 2018, Sykes acquired Symphony Ventures a company co-founded by Barkin, making it one of the first front-office business...
RPA Vendor Kryon Picks Up $40 Million in Series C Investment
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 26, 2019 – Kryon®, a developer of Robotics Process Automation (RPA) software, has announced the completion of its Series C financing round of $40 million led by OAK HC/FT. Both Aquiline Technology Growth and Vertex Ventures – the firms that had led Kryon’s Series B round – have also exercised their...
IBM, FAPESP Create AI Center in Brazil, Call For Research Projects
The São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) and IBM have joined efforts to support the creation of a Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI), within the FAPESP Engineering Research Center Program. The new Center will pursue a disruptive research program, with the potential to promote paradigm shifts in AI. Its mission is twofold: to generate deeper...
Interview: How Companies Can Start Preparing for a Future Dominated by Automation and AI
Disruption and displacement from RPA and AI are coming faster than most companies realize. Now is the time to begin preparing for the inevitable changes ahead.
Interview: How Cognitive Technologies and Micro-Segmentation Can Combine to Improve Banking Security and Customer Experience
Loren Moss chats with Eric Crabtree of Unisys about micro-segmentation's impact on both security and improving the customer experience.
Japan Opens Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution in Tokyo to Influence Tech Policy
The World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, today opened the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan alongside inaugural partners Hitachi, Horiba, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Salesforce, Sompo Holdings and Suntory Holdings. The Tokyo-based Center will bring together leading businesses, start-ups, civil society, academia and international organizations to shape the trajectory of emerging...
Though Slow to Innovate in the Past, Mining Is Now Ripe for Disruptive Change
“Of all the industries in the world right now, mining might actually be the ripest for disruptive change."
The Digital Americas Pipeline Initiative Is Cultivating Automation and AI Talent in Colombia
"AI is no longer the future — AI is the present. And in this world of technology, the biggest challenge for most enterprises is not tech. It’s the talent."
Frenemies: IBM Teams with Google on Power9 to Compete Against Intel and Amazon in Machine Learning, Data Centers
After spurring Intel’s growth in the CPU market and making the technology company a household name, IBM may be issuing a direct challenge to the chip maker by releasing its new Power9 CPU to the open market. In what may turn out to be a soap opera without the sex or bad lighting, Google seems...









