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Ai Asia summit 2019

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Launched some exciting new Ai products at the Ai Asia summit 2019 Intellect interviewer : data driven hiring ProcBot : smart RPA for purchase ordering FinBot : conversational Ai for banks MiRec : Machine Learning based recommendation engine Envision : Machine Learning Based Sales forecasting engine

Slasscom Innovation Awards 2019

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We bagged 3 awards at the slasscom innovation awards ceremony where our products were developed using RPA & Machine Learning to automate and predict internal processes in 3 main use cases.

Microsoft Ai for Accessibility hackathon 2019

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Was great to take part in the Microsoft Ai for Accessibility hackathon 2019 and get 1st place for our innovative solution The problem ========== Early identification & improving gait in children with Artificial intelligence. According to WHO Gait disorders effect more than 5% of the global population Our Solution Approach =============== A Pokémon like Game "Walkémon Go" which uses location based, AR & AI features to motivate the children on self physiotherapy as well as self assessment at early stages Full Solution approach & presentation below https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lkb9ll6mjp7m0b/walkemo_go_final.pdf?dl=0

NIBM Cyber Fest 2019 Hackathon 11th September

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Was Great to share a few insights on the emerging technologies to the Students who participated in the Cyber Fest 2019 Hackathon @ NIBM 

STEMUP Volunteer Summit 2K19

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Was great to be part of the  STEMUP Volunteer Summit 2019 - August 24th  STEMUP Volunteer Summit was an exclusive one day event that was hosted in Colombo. This summit featured a catalog of discussions, team building activities, entertainment and giveaways combined with networking opportunities with fellow volunteers. The STEMUp Foundation is a not for profit organization whose mission is to inspire and engage students to become interested in pursuing STEM degrees and careers. Our mission is fulfilled through the programs and resources we offer to the South Asian Community.  We support a view that STEM literacy is a foundation skill that matters for all careers. STEM builds critical thinking abilities, creativity and collaboration skills. Gaining STEM proficiency provides the basis for these skills and builds the flexibility to adapt quickly to frequent changes in the labour market. STEMUp Educational Foundation runs several initiatives to get students interested in STEM as ea

“Technology Married with Liberal Arts” -> Modern Day Marketing with Data & AI

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“Technology Married with Liberal Arts” Modern Day Marketing with Data & AI The Hype The topic on Artificial intelligence has got immense attraction and probably is the most hyped up technological revolution in this Era. The entire industry is now talking about data science , data engineering and basically everything revolving around data & predictions. “data is the new oil !” , even though this has become such a cliche term ,I personally think it’s not that cliche and it definitely is credible. You would see many technical jargon's such as Machine learning, cognitive computing, neural networks, deep learning, natural language processing, vision recognition, speech recognition etc. But what does all this mean ? does it seem all confusing ?   The History Let’s take a few steps back and see how this bubble all started. The research on Ai was not something that started a decade ago,   in fact it began in the 1950’s. Researches continued to

“Why spending millions on a CRM solution alone won’t get you that ROI ?”

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33% of global CRM projects fail according to the CIO magazine ( https://www.cio.com/article/2381909/what-to-do-when-your-crm-project-fails.html )The analysis further elaborates that there are many reasons for these failures and the most common ones in high level are, ·        Incapability of the CRM product ·        Not identifying clear goals of the CRM project ·        Negative user experience of the product. ·        Data quality issues ·        Low business user involvement at initial stages of the project ·        Not identifying the end user expectations at an early stage. ·        Bad project management ·        Poor requirement gathering & Business use case identification ·        Integration nightmare But here is my opinion and a view point of it,   Customer Experience has been misunderstood as a Technology first approach & many organizations believe that implementing a CRM software can take their customer experience strateg

Machine Learning for Kids

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Machine Learning for Kids Democratizing the knowledge and experience on AI & Machine Learning along with STEMUp Educational Foundation & MillenniumIT ESP. With the theme "Machine Learning for kids" we want to share knowledge and experience to all the schools in the island so that they will have an enthusiasm and will be geared up for the future for the emerging technologies such as AI. The first volunteer training was held today.

The Global AI Night 2019

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It was great to share knowledge and demo some of the real world use cases at the Global Ai Night 2019 , where Ai is coupled with customer experience / crm so that organizations can get unforeseen insights , innovative engagements & automation. The Global AI Night is a free evening event organized by local communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft Azure. The event takes place on the Tuesday 2nd of April on venues all over the world centrally organized by our HQ in the Netherlands, supported by Microsoft. The event is the perfect balance between quality content, awesome lectures, getting your hands dirty and learn & share with other community members. Dive in and learn how to implement intelligence into your solutions with the Microsoft AI platform, including pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, as well as deep learning tools like Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio Code Tools for AI, and C

SLASSCOM RPA Conference - BOT Hackathon 1st place SME Category

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SLASSCOM RPA Conference - BOT Hackathon 1st place SME Category Problem Definition  Company’s printing department gets 30-40 Artwork designs related to orders every day.  Clients are powerful and core business area depends on the shared Artworks and any delay, mismatch or miss out can lead to business loses. It’s very important to find a reliable solution to avoid human errors and standardize Artwork download process.   Importance of RPA Implementation to address major challenges is identified and it increases productivity and efficiency while optimizing the current process.  challenges • Time zone difference of clients hence Artworks receive after core business hours • Artwork files are large where significant time is required to download  • Downloading large files during core business hours leads to network slowness  • Clients are awaiting on the download confirmation where it is getting delayed  • When download gets fails separate effort