Facebook’s Brand New Shopping Experience Powered By Artificial Intelligence

For anyone who has ever dreamt of being able to click on any image and buy it, whether it’s Jimmy Fallon’s suit on Late Night or the chair he’s sitting on, Facebook has announced it’s stepping up its e-commerce game with a brand new shopping experience powered by AI.

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How To Become A Brand Strategist | A Talk

What is brand strategy? How do you become a brand strategist? Is brand strategy right for you? Does strategy matter in design? On this episode, you will hear about how Fabian Geyrhalter went from graphic design to becoming a brand strategist.

How Did You Get There? | How Can Others Follow Suit? | Is Strategy Right For Me? | How To Charge For Strategy?

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Tech Industries Moves Further Towards ‘Industry-Specific’ Solutions

Whatever massive upsets, inevitable recessionary slumps and downturns we are experiencing globally, some trends are still surfacing. We’re witnessing a continued rise in vertically-aligned industry-specific software application development. This is not just enterprise software, this is Fin-Tech (finance), this is Edu-Tech (education), this is Health-Tech and this is Agri-Tech (agriculture) and everything in-between.

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For Better And For Worse: COVID-19 Is Forcing Companies To Speed Up Automation

In its report, Forrester notes that many companies are set to invest more in automation than in rehiring in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, corroborating earlier reports that had claimed many businesses were already planning to accelerate their automation strategies.

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General Data Protection Regulation Curse Or Blessing? A Panel Discussion

The GDPR – or General Data Protection Regulation – has continually challenged companies over the course of the last year. What has changed? What are the problems, what are potential benefits? We will discuss this controversial topic with our speakers from different companies as well as an Attorney at Law, who can shed some light on the legal aspects of the GDPR.

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Brand Marketing In The Times Of COVID-19 Crisis

In times of crisis, it may be hard for marketers to know where to begin. In just a few short weeks, people have shifted into protection mode, focused on themselves, their families, their employees, their customers, and their communities. Social media reflects this, with pleas for fellow citizens to follow government safety guidelines. People have crossed partisan lines to build bridges within their neighborhoods and communities and unify against an invisible force.

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Contact-Tracing Apps For COVID – 19 And Why It Is A Threat To Our Privacy

Coronavirus contact-tracing apps harm privacy. Regardless of whether they protect the data they collect, they require users to walk around with their smartphones on all the time, which is a privacy risk in itself. More disturbingly, they normalise the idea of our behaviour and actions being directly managed end masse by apps. Both set dangerous precedents for individual privacy and liberty, far in excess of any risk that our health data might be leaked.

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COVID-19 And Artificial Intelligence – Stanford HAI Virtual Conference

COVID-19 and AI: A Virtual Conference convened experts from Stanford and beyond to advance the understanding of the virus and its impact on society. The speakers and topics engaged the broad research community, government and international organizations and civil society, uniting a global community toward solutions to benefit all of humanity.

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