JANUARY: AI in Enterprise - FinTech Edition
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Apply to attend here: http://bit.ly/ai-enterprise-fintech
Financial Services (FinServ) companies have been in the forefront of designing and implementing AI projects in asset management, banking, and insurance. Companies are aggressively evaluating a broad array of digital transformation technologies in core business processes like online account opening, risk management, underwriting, algorithmic trading and portfolio management, core support practices, customer-facing and relationship management, hiring and other activities.


Wednesday, January 20, 2021
11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Apply to attend here: http://bit.ly/ai-enterprise-fintech
FEBRUARY: AI in Enterprise with Mohamed El-Geish (Cisco)
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Apply to attend here: http://bit.ly/ai-enterprise-elgeish

Mohamed El-Geish is the Director of AI for Cisco's Contact Center solutions that sits in the Collaboration group. In 2019, Cisco acquired Voicea, where El-Geish was a co-founder and Chief Architect and worked on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) developing the company's AI assistant. Earlier in his career, El-Geish worked at LinkedIn and Microsoft. El-Geish co-authored Computing with Data and served as a teaching assistant at Stanford University for machine learning and deep learning courses.
For Cisco, AI has become an appealing technology in customer service, specifically, in the customer contact center. Contact centers handle large volumes of inbound and outbound interactions, and make interaction channels (voice, email, text messaging, social media, etc.) as efficient and optimized as possible. Mohamed will address AI's subfields including speech recognition, natural language processing, virtual assistants, forecasting, computer vision, etc. and their applications in the enterprise.
For El-Geish, AI holds the prospects of augmented intelligence and has far-reaching potential for economic prosperity and welfare in a plethora of business domains. Join the AI in Enterprise session this February to learn more about his and Cisco’s use cases and projects.
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The AI in Enterprise Series
In contrast to other discussions on AI, this series aims to provide key insights on how enterprise firms are thinking critically and strategically about AI integration. Drawing on the LISH’s extensive experience over the past decade running programs that develop algorithm and AI-based solutions with partners across industries—as well as subject matter expertise from Harvard Business School faculty and partners—this series will provide a uniquely enterprise-focused forum for understanding artificial intelligence.
Watch highlights from the November 2019 event:
Moderators
Karim R. Lakhani is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the faculty co-founder of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. He specializes in technology management and innovation. His research examines crowd-based innovation models and the digital transformation of companies and industries.
Marco Iansiti is an expert on digital innovation and transformation, with a special focus on strategy, business models, and new product development in high technology industries. His research studied innovation and operations in both firms and firm networks. He examined the strategy, business models, and innovation processes of a variety of organizations including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Wal*Mart, AT&T, Dell, Amazon, and Google, among many others.
In their book, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World, Lakhani and Iansiti show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have constrained business growth for hundreds of years.
Doug Levin is XIR at the Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard and best known as the sole founder and first CEO of Black Duck Software. He is an advisor to an array of young companies in the cybersecurity and AI/machine learning segments, including Accuknox, Nirmata, StormForge, Prescient Devices, Stynt, Tolemi and Wabbi. He serves as a board director for DJ MicroLaminates, FiVerity and ReversingLabs. Levin is a frequent guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School where he speaks on a range of topics, including finance, technology and markets, and entrepreneurship. Levin received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned an advanced degree in International Economics from the College d’Europe in Bruges, Belgium and a Clean Technology fellowship.