Michael Peter is a Principal Architect for Google. With decades of experience building, architecting, strategy, partnerships in software applications for the enterprise, Michael has a very insightful view of harnessing Artificial Intelligence. Michael communicates the need for a real strategy and leaning in to the recent shifts with Generative AI. The opinions are of the speakers themselves, and not representative of their employer.

ATD welcomes Sarah Medrano, Digital Product Leader at Cargill Business Studio. By combining deep agricultural expertise, Cargill utilizes that domain expertise with digital solutions driving innovation around key supply chain challenges. Hear about there initiative ReSKUed, looking to solve key challenges around food waste with data and predictive analytics.

10 Academy identifies the highest potential recent university grads from Africa (no work experience) and gets them into global AI/Web3 jobs in 6 months. 10 Academy has been designed to scale across the continent and get thousands of brilliant people into work each year. 10 Academy has already achieved financially sustainability, with 100% of operating costs paid through income share from trainees.

Selection focuses on work ethic, bias to self-learn, communication skills and bias to build community. There are 10 applicants for every spot on the program.

Tom Marlow (CTO of Black Hills IP) and Dr. Manjeet Rege of University of St. Thomas deep dive into patent analytics and the insight generated regarding innovation and momentum of advanced technologies. Discussions around NLP algorithms and processing patent text, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Patent Policy/Operations & Adapting the Patent System to AI and NLP technologies.