How technology that senses, comprehends, acts and learns will help your business grow

1. • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
• The Future of Business
• How technology that senses, comprehends,
acts and learns will help your business grow
• Feb 16, 2017
• Panama City, Panama

2. About Me
Passionate About Business and Technology
Successfully served in a number of diverse roles:
Managing Director CIO - Latin America Start-up CEO

3. About Me
Live in Florida with My Wife.
Have Two Sons in College

4. Agenda
We Will Explore the Business Implications of Artificial
Intelligence thru the Lens of Investment
( Follow the Money )
• What Business and Thought Leaders Are Saying
• Start-up Ecosystem ( Venture Funding )
• Industry Disruption ( Case Study )
• What is Means for You and Your Business

5. • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
• Thought Leaders

6. Gartner Group
The smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the
history of IT.”

7. Google CEO - Sundar Pichai
"In the long run, we're evolving in computing from a
'mobile-first' to an 'AI-first' world,"

8. Amazon CEO - Jeff Bezos
It’s the first inning. It might even be the first guys up at
bat. We're on the edge of the golden age of AI."

9. Alphabet CEO - Eric Schmidt
‘I Was Proven Completely Wrong’ About Artificial
Intelligence” - AI is Real!

10. • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
• Venture Back Start-ups
• ( Follow the Money )

11. Venture Investment in AI Startups
Equity financings to the AI space have gone from
$282M in 2011 to $2.4B in 2015,
746%
increase
in 5
years.
Over 6 billion invested in 1,000+ AI Startups

12. 200+
Startups

13. Machine Learning
Machine Learning will Change the Way We Build Software
and the Types of Applications We Build

14. 100+
Startups

15. 80+
Startups

16. Computer Vision
Building Smarter Apps That See The World Like You Do

17. • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
• Industry Transformation ( Health Care )

18. Health Care AI Transformation
AI Is Transforming the Way Health Care is Practiced

19. • Start-up Ecosystem ( Venture Funding )
• Big Bets by Big Players
• What is Means for Your Business / Industry

20. HealthCare AI Innovation

21. • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
• The Future of Your Business

22. How Will These Startups Transform Your
Industry?
… what will you do about it?

23. Taking Action
1. Study the List Start-up Companies in This Presentation
and See What Companies / Ideas are Getting Funded
2. Pick an Industry/ Problem set and write Use Cases
where your product solves a clear pain point ( write it
down )
3. Write Your Hypothesis ( Idea ) and the Test Your
Hypothesis in the Market with the goal of learning not
selling ( do it quickly, cheaply )
I Hope You are Motivated, Confused and a Bit
Overwhelmed. Here are some ideas to get started…

24. Taking Action
4. Find data sources that are underexploited and
underutilized in your company / industry ( data is raw
material for AI )
5. Build Your Network - Make Fiends with People That
Know More Artificial Intelligence Than You Do and Ask
Good Questions
6. Read Eric Ries “the Lean Start-up“ and apply proven
principles of successful start-ups.

25. Taking Action
Attend a “Start-up Weekend Event”
https://startupweekend.org/

26. • Thank You!
• d.saenz@accenture.com
• Twitter: @diego_s
• 954-471-7552