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Technology is being inserted into everyday physical objects. We can teach objects to
respond to our presence, motion, vocal commands, eyeball tracking, and even autonom-
ic physiological behaviors such as heart rate or sleep patterns.
37 Businesses across the world are moving rapidly to connect their products and equip-
ment to the Internet-of-Things, opening up opportunities to create new business mod-
Speakers els and transform how they run their operations and engage with customers. However,
tapping into the IoT is only part of the story. For companies to realise the full benefits of
IoT enablement, they need to combine IoT with rapidly-advancing Artificial Intelligence
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technologies, which enable ‘smart machines’ to simulate intelligent behaviour and take
well-informed decisions with little or no human intervention.
Attendees
23
Countries
5
Stakeholders
Objective
Bentley’s AssetWise is a modular suite of software services that aligns with busi-
ness outcomes, maximizing return on asset investments and ensuring safe, reliable,
compliant, and cost-effective operations to drive the performance of infrastructure
assets throughout their operable life using disciplined asset lifecycle information
management.
Prakash Iyer, Trimble shared that its main focus is on Virtual Reality, Farm Manage-
ment, Field Inspection, 3D Modeling, Point Cloud, Visualization, Project Manage-
ment, Mechanical Design, Structural Design.
Nitin Chugh, HDFC shared about the various AI practices that HDFC has introduced
to arrest bad loans, bad credits, Fraudulent activities and to enhance the Customer
Relation managements, etc.
Session 2: Connected Industry and Enterprise: Role of AI & IoT
Chairperson:
• Tulika Pandey, Director, Overview
DEITY, Ministry of Electronics and This session aimed to bring a comprehensive worldview of AI interven-
Information Technology,
GoI, India tions across all segments. How an enterprise can build its own Intelli-
gent Assistant for different channels—ranging from web browsers to
Speakers/Panelists mobile apps to home devices to messaging services.
• Shri Ripudaman Singh
Bhadoria, Additional CEO &
Project Director, SWAN, Madhya
Pradesh Agency for Promotion of
Information Technology (MAP_IT)
Key Discussion Points:
• Gopalakrishna Tulika Tulika Pandey chaired the session and presented her viewpoints from Gov-
Kuppuswamy, Vice President,
Hitachi, India ernment of India perspective. Iot Sensors are producing unprecedented amounts of
data that is too much for human beings to sift through. She also raised her concerns
• Sapna Ahuja, Chief Operating
on the security issues that are at the brim.
Officer, MapmyIndia, India
• Siva Ravada, Senior Director of Ripudaman Singh shared the initiatives that have been taken in the state of Madhya
Development, Oracle Corporation,
USA Pradesh and how the MAP_IT Department is using the AI in their work. AI in govern-
ment sector is helping to deliver government services to the citizen intelligently.
• Bart Adams, Head of Products
& Innovation, Luciad, Belgium
Bart Adams, Luciad shared that Luciad is doing fundamental R&D to exploit IoT lo-
• Sunil David, Regional Director
cation information for mission-critical decision making through statistical & machine
- IoT − India & ASEAN, AT&T Global
Network Services India Pvt Ltd, learning methods
India
• Dr Praphul Chandra, Dr Praphul Chandra, Koinearth shared A new spectrum of applications can be en-
Founder & CEO, Koinearth, India abled by combining Artificial Intelligence with Blockchains. He used the case of Crop
• Vijay Kumar, Vice President and Insurance.
Head Technology, Esri India
Sapna Ahuja, MapmyIndia spoke on Location Intelligence through AI & IoT. Mapmy-
India has ‘Map Engine’, ‘Intouch Platform’ and ‘Analytic Platform’.
Siva Ravada shared that Oracle Corporation has been implementing a wider range
of these applications: a) Assets Monitoring b) Production monitoring c)Fleet monitor-
ing d)Connected Worker.
Sunil David, AT&T Global Network Services India shared that AT&T offers a
multi-network approach to provide the flexibility and agility customers need to opti-
mize their IoT solutions
Vijay Kumar, ESRI spoke about the effective usages of IOT for Geospatial space
through their IOT platform ArcGIA with big data Capabilities.
Session 3: Applying AI & IoT for Businesses and Governments
Chairperson:
• Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO,
Centre of Excellence – AI & IoT, Overview
NASSCOM The Session aimed at creating a balanced discussion on how the future
Speakers/Panelists: technologies can help leverage and ease the Businesses in Private and
Government sectors.
• Dr Madurapperuma,
Acting CEO, Information and
Communication Technology
Agency, Sri Lanka Key Discussion Points:
• Dhaval Doshi, Founder, Sanjeev Malhotra, NASSCOM shared his vison and how NASSCOM is spearheading
Smarthome NX , India
various innovations in AI & IoT. He emphasized that IoT will be one of the biggest
• Kumar Navulur, President, contributions of IoT will be Industry automation. The internet connected devices
Digital Globe Foundation, USA will facilitate industry automation systems that will allow users to efficiently control
• Venkata Mane, Program appliances and machines over the internet.
Manager, Velocity, U&G, Cyient,
India Dr Ajith Madurrapperuma, ICTA spoke about an active implementation of AI & IoT
• Geoff Sawyer, Secretary in Government and Businesses. The Government of Sri Lanka is gearing towards
General, EARSC, Belgium creating a ‘Digital Health Ecosystem’ in the country.
Kumar Navulur, Digital Globe Foundation spoke about the issue of Data Consisten-
cy and Curation and also the Big data veracity.
Venkata Mane, Cyient, India spoke about Cyient Spacebots which is a SaaS platform
with a library of bots that automatically identify defects from geospatially distributed
Assets over a photorealistic 3D virtual map.
Session 4: Disrupt or be disrupted
Chairperson:
Overview
• Vijay Karna, Senior Director
Business Process Change The session focused on the Disruptions that have been virtuously
Management Leader, Capgemini caused by AI & IoT interventions all across. AI & IoT should disrupt or be
disrupted to clearly strategize with a simple goal of ‘Value Up’ and ‘Cost
Speakers/Panelists Down’ models.
• Willy Govender, Director &
Founder , Eduworks, South Africa/
CEO, Data World (an EOH Company)
• Magesh Srinivasan, Global
Key Discussion Points:
Head - Connected Cars & AI, HCL Vijay Karna, Capegemini chaired the session and spoke about AI, IoT benefits for
Technologies Ltd, India Utility Industry. As ubiquitous connectivity continues to permeate technology sec-
tors, an increasing need to unite energy technologies, operational technologies and
• Daniel Kruimel, Business
Development Manager - SE Asia, IT with consumer technologies is observed in the industry.
AAM, Australia
Dinesh Chandrasekar, Hitachi India shared that Innovation accelerators are going
• William Veteto, GIS Analyst,
to be the real disruptors of the future change. He introduced Hitachi’s LUMADA IoT
Textron Systems, USA
Platform. It has both edge and the core functions which also includes Asset Avatar
• Dinesh Chandrasekar, which is Hitachi’s unique architecture of digital twin.
Director, Global Solutions &
Innovation (GSI), Hitachi, India
Willy Govender, Eduworks and Data World (an EOH Company) spoke about the
• Avinash Jhangiani, Founder & IOT/AI Disruption in Land Administration..
CEO, play2transform, India
William Veteto, Textron Systems spoke about Disaster Management: Generating
Imagery Intelligence Products by quickly using Machine Learning, Distribution via the
Cloud.
Magesh Srinivasan, HCL Technologies Ltd spoke about the technology trends that
have brought about the AI Revolution .He spoke about the various dynamics of ‘Hu-
man–Data-Machine’ The HUDAMA Paradigm.
Avinash Jhangiani, play2transform, spoke about the 4IR era that brings the oppor-
tunity to Connect, augment and extend ourselves. He shared 6 Cultural Shifts to
accelerate Exponential Innovation - Customer Centric to Human Centric, Death by
Silo to Co-Creation, Scalable Efficiency to Sustainable Creativity, Learn Quickly to Fail
Fast,, Joy in Certainty to Harmony in Chaos
Session 5: AI, IoT & Future Technology Trends: How will the future be?
Chairperson:
• Chandrashekhar Biradar,
Principal Scientist Overview
(Agro-Ecosystems)/Head- The session strived to throw some insight in to the future of AI & IoT
Geoinformatics Unit International with a multi sectoral perspective
Center for Agricultural Research in
the Dry Areas, Egypt
Speakers/Panelists
Key Discussion Points:
• Karan Nadagoudar, Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar, ICAR, Egypt chaired the Session and set the context.
Software engineer and AI
technology enthusiast, Datagrokr He spoke about the issue of Sustainable Food and Future with an emphasis on
Analytics, India Increased land, water and system productivity while safe guarding the environmental
flows and ecosystem services.
• Sai Pattabiram Chief Executive
Officer, ZUPPA Big Data Acquisition,
India Karan Nadagoudar, Datagrokr Analytics presented on Dynamics of Crops Systems
with a focus on Integrated Agro-Ecosystems, Sustainable Intensification and Diver-
• Ravi Kumar Meduri , Vice
sification, Input Use Efficiency-Conservation Agriculture, Thematic Land-Water-Cli-
President – Analytics, Innominds
Software Pvt. Ltd. India mate Resilience.
• Dr. Ir. Frank Cremer, Big Sai Pattabiram, ZUPPA Big Data Acquisition shared that Zuppa AI powered device
Data Architect, Port of Rotterdam,
The Netherlands iLoc is among the first of the future ready aggregation devices enabling building of
bridges between real world and virtual data and powering electronic control systems
• Pratibha Ryali, Portfolio for the future.
Marketing Leader, The Weather
Company, an IBM Business, India
Ravi Kumar Meduri, Innominds Software Pvt. Ltd spoke on AI for Agriculture and the
• Prakhar Verma, Associate Connected Farm. By enabling automation with data from sensors and images backed
Software Engineer, TomTom India
by computer vision, it is possible to match crop varieties and sowing strategies to soil,
Private Limited, India
control water usage for optimal plant growth.
Prakhar Verma, Tomtom spoke about Intelligent Map Making. The various feature
extractions include Image Processing, Semi Automatic Supervised Classification,
Machine Learning, Convolutional Neural Network, Exploring Capsule & Adversarial
Networks.
Pratibha Ryali, The Weather Company (TWC), an IBM Business spoke about the
TWC IoT Platform that the cloud-based data platform ingests large volumes & types
of data, delivers insights from precise weather data combined with location and other
data sets and enables companies to embed weather insights into decision support
platforms to take action.
Dr.Ir. Frank Cremer, Big Data Architect presented Integrating geospatial big data
solutions with a Case study of Port of Rotterdam on the need to make strategic deci-
sions on Infrastructure/assets, Safety, Environment with Available data.
Conclusion
The global Internet of Things Globally, there is a wave of artificial intelligence across various industries, especially con-
(IoT) market is projected to sumer electronic, banking, IT, Automotive, transportation, smart city and healthcare. The
grow from $2.99T in 2014 to
wave is likely to continue in the years to come with the expanding base of applications
$8.9T in 2020, attaining
a 19.92% Compound Annual of the technology. The global market for artificial intelligence is expected to witness
Growth Rate (CAGR). phenomenal growth over the coming years as organizations worldwide have started
capitalizing on the benefits of such disruptive technologies for effective positioning of
their offerings and customer reach.
IoT solutions will deliver valuable insight to support digital transformation and will rapidly
become a strategic imperative in almost every industry and market sector.
Moreover, IoT will push network demand to the edge of the network, pressuring carriers
to quickly deploy more connections at faster speeds, while monitoring and managing
the performance of those connections to deliver thousands of end-user services.
While the IoT is transforming economies and societies with more efficient, data driven
services, challenges such as security threats, device vulnerabilities, incompatible stan-
dards and privacy concerns could undermine the technology’s promise. Governments
will be faced with a host of new and complex issues that will challenge all aspects of
their decision-making. Their responses to these challenges will impact not only freedoms
and rights and the economy, but also the internet itself.”
Contact
Dr Rajeshree Dutta Kumar
Mob: +91-8800466890, Email: rajeshree@geospatialmedia.net
6 - 7, June 2018 | DELHI, INDIA
Theme: Empowering
Governance,
Governance,Development
Development&
Businesses through
& Businesses Future
through
Generation Technologies
Cutting-Edge Technologies
Overview
AI & IoT Summit is being organized by Geospatial Media and Communications on June 6-7, 2018 in
Delhi, India. AI &IoT Summit (Delhi) strives to discuss and highlight the value of AI & IoT. There is a
profusion of promise in the space of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), as a means
to create business value across all sectors. IoT and Cloud are vital to all workflows and various
infrastructures. But any technology remains valid and relevant only when it does something towards
driving societal development and growth. It is predicted that by 2020, about 7.6 billion people will be
interconnected via 50 billion devices, which is a good indication of worldwide diffusion of things and
data connected to the internet via IoT technology. According to business analysts, IoT will lead to an
economic growth of 4.6 trillion dollars in the Global Public Sector by 2020.
Produced by
THEME: objective
Empowering Governance,
Development & Businesses To provide and facilitate a Think Tank/
Thought Leadership platform
through Cutting-
EdgeTechnologies
The Summit aims to deliberate on ‘Empowering Governance, To act as a Catalyst between Policy Makers,
Development & Businesses through Future Generation Government, Market Movers and Leaders
Technologies’. The rationale behind the Summit is to create
an enabling and catalyst platform to understand how AI &
IoT will drive the various services initiated by Government
and Industry together keeping the global trends and edge in
To give a Market Direction with the New
view. It is also seminal for the Summit to cater to the needs
technology trends
of the local and regional contexts as well with the overall
developmental goals of the Government.
Key Focus
→ Hardware: Modules/sensors, storage, servers, and security hardware
→ Software: IoT purpose-built platforms (horizontal and vertical industry), analytics software, application software, and security
software
→ Services: IT and installation services and ongoing or content services
→ Use cases: Connected vehicles, air traffic monitoring, clinical care, insurance telematics, personal wellness, smart appliances,
remote health monitoring, Smart buildings, Smart Homes, environmen tal monitoring and detection, and more
→ Industries: IT & ITES, Telecommunications, Banking, insurance, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, construction,
resource industries, Transportation, Healthcare provider, Government, Education, Telecommunications, Media & entertainment,
Automotive, Power & Utilities, Logistics, Energy, Retail & consumer products, eCommerce, Mining & metals, and more
→ Start ups: Technology, Applications, platforms, Innovators,
The Government of India has announced an ambitious plan. It is worth seeing the new technological disruptions through
It is, indeed, encouraging to note that the focus on new RPAs, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Chatbots,
generation technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence, Augmented Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of
analytics, etc. as far as skill building initiatives have been given Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality. It is seminal to learn
a boost. It remains to be seen how partners from the private the new rules and strategies to make it survive in the new age.
sector eco-system with knowledge and expertise in these
areas get involved in these initiatives.
Connected World through AI & IoT Future Roadmap: Adopting Hybrid Agile Model
The objective of the theme is to flesh out the actual applications In the age of IoT, product life cycles have continued to shorten at
of combining AI and IoT being used in industry today, and to an exponential speed. Organizations will need to adopt a hybrid
demonstrate important trends and future use cases for agile model, borrowing key capabilities from the automotive
technologists who want to make sense of the myriad connected industry and other sectors with high maturity and long life
devices in the coming decade. cycles, while accelerating the pace of release for key software
• Real-world use cases of artificial intelligence combining with components.
the internet of things
• Potential future applications in industry and for consumers
SMART City Solutions and AI & IoT Business Transformations through AI & IoT
Improving cities is a pressing global need as the world’s The Internet of Things (IoT) coupled with advanced analytics
population grows and our species becoming rapidly more capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI) can lead to next-
urbanized. Thanks to the relative ease with which Governments level solutions and experiences. To realize greater value from
can now gather real time data, combined with the capabilities the network, and to radically transform their business and
of artificial Intelligence, cities are realizing interesting new operating models, industry leaders are integrating AI with
ways to run more efficiently and effectively. incoming data from a vast array of IoT devices
Cyber Security & Data Privacy AI & IoT through Geo-enabling Location Intelligence
While we see the benefits of IoT & AI, the biggest risk enterprises When data volume swells beyond a human’s ability to discern the
perceive is security. With potential GBs of raw data, security is patterns in it—when a company is faced with truly big data—we need
at stake. For an organization to be able to effectively manage a new form of intelligence. GIS, infused with artificial intelligence,
the risks of its ecosystem, it needs to clearly define the limits can help decision makers make better decisions at all levels – policy,
of that ecosystem. business, operations, etc. Organizations today are using location-
based data and analytics to do just that in a number of ways, from
reducing costs through augmenting address verification to improving
customer experiences with in-store location technology, and
enhancing civic and community engagement in local government
with spatial analysis software.
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AWARD NOMINATIONS
Recognizing and celebrating professionals and organizations for their
outstanding contribution to the innovative AI & IOT Technology.
Write to awards@ai-iotsummit.com for nominating.
INTRODUCTION
Given recent innovations in technology, it is not hard to imagine a future where consumers commute in driverless
vehicles, shop by leveraging augmented reality, use conversational bots in place of mobile apps and order produce
through their connected refrigerators that interact with online grocery stores. These examples do not sound like
science fiction anymore as these technologies are at a prototype or early-adoption stage today.
Technology is being inserted into everyday physical objects. We can teach objects to respond to our presence,
motion, vocal commands, eyeball tracking, and even autonomic physiological behaviors such as heart rate or sleep
patterns. There is an explosion of data that Governments and businesses across are grappling with today. What’s less
well-known is the value of location data and the intelligence that geospatial analysis can provide business decision
makers, beyond those that are GIS (geographic information system) professionals.
Businesses across the world are moving rapidly to connect their products and equipment to the Internet-of-Things,
opening up opportunities to create new business models and transform how they run their operations and engage
with customers. However, tapping into the IoT is only part of the story. For companies to realise the full benefits of
IoT enablement, they need to combine IoT with rapidly-advancing Artificial Intelligence technologies, which enable
‘smart machines’ to simulate intelligent behaviour and take well-informed decisions with little or no human
intervention.
At its core, AI is about simulating intelligent behaviour in machines of all kinds, and since IoT is about connecting
those machines there is a clear intersection between AI and IoT. IoT combines connectivity with sensors, devices
and people, enabling a form of free-flowing conversation between man and machine, software and hardware. With
the advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, these conversations can enable devices to anticipate,
react, respond and enhance the physical world in much the same way that the internet currently uses networks and
computer screens to enhance the information world.
MARKET OPPORTUNITY
Although the potential for IoT is vast, its practical execution remains in its infancy. As a result, it’s difficult to
quantify the future impact with precision.
Global Context
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) estimated in December 2015 that the robot and AI solutions
market will surge to US$153bn a year by 2020, comprised of US$83bn for robots and robotics, and
US$70bn for AI-based analytics. BAML added that adoption of robots and AI could boost productivity by
30% in many industries over the coming decade, while cutting manufacturing labour costs by between 18%
and 33%.
A new update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things
Spending Guide forecasts worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) to grow 16.7% year over
year in 2017, reaching just over $800 billion. By 2021, global IoT spending is expected to total nearly $1.4
trillion as organizations continue to invest in the hardware, software, services, and connectivity that enable
the IoT.
By 2021, global IoT spending is expected to total nearly $1.4 trillion as organizations continue to invest in
the hardware, software, services, and connectivity that enable the IoT.
Indian Context
In India, IoT market is poised to touch $15 Bn by 2020. India will account for nearly 5% of the global IoT
market by 2020. It is expected that the data science and artificial intelligence industry in India (IT and non-
IT industries) will be worth US $16 billion by 2025, and is likely to spur an additional employment of
150,000 professionals in the country (Economic Times).
The Government of India has committed around $480 Mn (INR 3,073 Cr) under ‘Digital India’ mission for
India Budget 2018 to promote, AI, IoT and Machine Learning. The Sectors are Smart City, Transportation,
Manufacturing, Utility, BFSI (Blockchain), Security (Cyber or otherwise), Research, Training and skill
development, Robotics, AI, digital manufacturing, Big Data intelligence and Quantum communications,
Machine Learning, 3D printing, Supply Chain management, Telecom.
However, Indian government does $1 Bn investment every year for building 100 smart cities. It is
expected that the data science and artificial intelligence industry in India (IT and non-IT industries) will be
worth US $16 billion by 2025, and is likely to spur an additional employment of 150,000 professionals in
the country. (Economic Times)
RATIONALE
With the exponential growth of AI & IoT market globally and regionally, there is a strong need to understand the
challenges that are existent. To tap on the market opportunities, there has to be a business synergy amongst the
stakeholders. The World is becoming ‘SMART’ and hence there is huge rush to understand the need of the
businesses, technology providers, Service providers, Public utility services, Consumers’ needs and behaviours.
There is an absence of a collective understanding on various pressing issues like
Are organizations leveraging disruptive technologies to reimagine their future as well? The answer is a resounding
“yes.” Technology is helping organizations navigate an increasingly interconnected and complex world. For
instance, cognitive analytics and machine learning are enhancing companies’ ability to analyze transactional data
and predict their consumers’ likely behavioral outcomes.
The convergence of Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) were pioneering business technologies and acted
as an enabler for the next generation of technology trends. SMAC technologies are now becoming the building
blocks of a new platform for digital business initiatives. Together, these technologies can be used to create a
powerful platform to provide digital business outcomes. The new waves of disruptive technologies are also broadly
applicable; however, a major difference is that they are highly disruptive not only to enterprise IT, but also to
business models and processes.
The four technologies improve business operations and help companies get closer to the customer with minimal
overhead and maximum reach. The proliferation of structured and unstructured data created by mobile
devices, wearable technology, connected devices, sensors, social media, loyalty card programs and website
browsing has led to an absolute paradigm shift and has helped in in creating new business models built on customer-
generated data.
As the adoption of newer technologies gains pace, enterprises are realizing the need to identify the business
functions that will derive the greatest value from them. In the current business environment, implementing a
combination of technologies seems to yield much better value than implementing a single technology. For example,
without the right analytics tools, it would be impossible to analyze the GBs of data churned out by IOT-linked
solutions. Hence, in order to derive maximum value out of IOT, robust analytical tools are required to understand
the trends and support in decision making. This is also the case with artificial intelligence and conversational
systems.
In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, there will be 26 billion IOT connected devices. The dramatic increase in smart
machines such as chat bots, virtual personal and consumer assistants will create major shifts in business practices
and customer behavior. Operational excellence and improved customer experience are the two main business
objectives for industries today. IOT, artificial intelligence and conversational systems have been identified as the
key technologies to achieve business objective.
The existing disruptive technologies do not appear to be a destination but rather a foundation for further emerging
and maturing ideas. The IOT, analytics and cyber security will play a major role for organizations in growing their
businesses and building sustainable competitive advantages in years ahead. All in all, the new emerging
technologies can add further value and competitive advantage for digital business initiatives. A combination of these
technologies can help optimize the blend of human-machine participation and interaction within business processes
for the digital future.
Additionally, there’s a huge opportunity to exploit data to create competitive advantage and make better, more
actionable business decisions. Location data is already and will continue to be a growing component of all business
data. Smartphone penetration is on the rise around the world, location infrastructure—such as cell towers, beacons,
RFID and GPS—is proliferating, and the Internet of Things is poised to go mainstream within a few years.
However, rather than adding to the complexity of the data landscape, location has the power to bring order to it.
Internet of Things (IOT): IOT has the potential to generate enormous volumes of data. This can enable
organizations gain better insights into consumer behavior and position themselves to drive customer
satisfaction.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA): RPA can significantly reduce labor costs, along with reducing error
rates, improving process flows and improving the management of repeated tasks.
Blockchain: Blockchain can potentially be at the heart of core banking operations by decentralizing the
trust role that banks have had for several decades.
Predictive analytics/artificial intelligence (AI): AI can be leveraged for intelligent decision making in
various processes, which could eventually lead to significant cost reductions.
Virtual reality/augmented reality/mixed reality (VR): Augmented and virtual reality have one big thing
in common. They both have the remarkable ability to alter our perception of the world. Where they differ,
is the perception of our presence. Augmented and virtual reality have the potential to significantly benefit
the Real Estate, e-Commerce, Education and Healthcare sectors.
Location data is already and will continue to be a growing component of all business data. Smartphone penetration
is on the rise around the world, location infrastructure—such as cell towers, beacons, RFID and GPS—is
proliferating, and the Internet of Things is poised to go mainstream within a few years. However, rather than adding
to the complexity of the data landscape, location has the power to bring order to it. Everyone knows businesses
today are grappling with the explosion of data. What’s less well-known is the value of location data and the
intelligence that geospatial analysis can provide business decision makers, beyond those that are GIS (geographic
information system) professionals.
Cyber Security
Organizations are looking at becoming more efficient through technology, but, in the interim, they are facing
challenges in implementing them. While we see the benefits of IOT, AI and conversational systems to achieve
operational excellence and customer satisfaction, the biggest risk enterprises perceive is security. In the era of
implementing a slew of disruptive technologies, what is of prime importance is to recognize the expanded attack
surface that is presented and the security flaws that may be exploited. Currently, as these technologies are evolving,
consistent standards are yet to be developed, with a lot of industries focusing on their development with security at
the forefront of their mind. For an organization to be able to effectively manage the risks of its ecosystem, it needs to
clearly define the limits of that ecosystem.
“Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS)”
This shows that IT transformation is still expensive and requires a thought out value proposition for the businesses
to go for it. This presents a unique opportunity for the concept of “Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS)” to be the
forefront to the solution of the omnipresent challenge to manage IT cost and resources. With Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS), Infrastructure-as-aService (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) already in the market, XaaS brings in a
new proposition of making the IT systems working in silos come together and function as a single unit.
XaaS signifies the provision of connected and in sync with IT systems and services typically over cloud. It supports
the essence of treating every IT requirement as a service, maintaining its availability. This provides better value to
the organization. XaaS can be a viable alternative to provide value to the management than investment in core IT
transformation. This may not be just to stay ahead of the curve or to improve efficiency, but also to build new
capabilities and leverage the synergy of a unified IT ecosystem.
Regulatory
Cyber
Privacy
Security
IoT
Challenges
Standards Scalability
Legal
FUTURE STEPS
Over the last several years, product life cycles have continued to shorten, particularly when it comes to software.
However, in the age of IoT, these product life cycles will have to hit hyper drive. To meet this increasingly frenetic
pace, organizations will need to adopt a hybrid agile model, borrowing key capabilities from the automotive industry
and other sectors with high maturity and long life cycles, while accelerating the pace of release for key software
components. A robust prioritization framework to identify the right mix of capabilities for product delivery and
rapid deployment will be the key to success.
Given that IoT is inextricably tied to consumer device manufacturers, big data platforms and software enablement,
organizations will have to create business application program interfaces (APIs) that enable them to plug into
different IoT ecosystems. At the same time, they will have to rely on other parties to develop the products for
delivery, which will require large changes to the underlying operating models within many organizations.
Over the coming years, ongoing advances in AI will have profound impacts on jobs, skills and HR strategies in
virtually every industry—underlining the fact that companies don’t have the luxury of time as they map out their
plans for an AI-enabled world. Already, integrating AI into IoT networks is becoming a prerequisite for success in
today’s IoT-based digital ecosystems. So businesses must move rapidly to identify how they will drive value from
combining AI and IoT—or face playing catch-up in years to come.
AI & IoT Summit 2018 is being organized by Geospatial Media and Communications on June 6&8, 2018 in Delhi,
India. With the huge success of AI & IoT Summit 2018 – a Co-located conference with Geospatial World Forum (an
annual flagship conference by Geospatial Media & Communications), the AI &IoT Summit 2018 (Delhi) strives to
disseminate insights to the spot-on value of AI & IoT, moving from conceptualization to realization. There is a
profusion of promise in the space of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), as a means to create
business value for across all the sectors. IoTs and Cloud are important Infrastructures. But an infrastructure remains
valid and relevant only when it does something towards driving the societal developments and growths. It is
predicted that by 2020, about 7.6 billion people will be interconnected via 50 billion devices which is a good
indication of worldwide diffusion of things and data connected to the internet via IoT technology. According to
business analysts, IoT technology will lead to an economic growth of 4.6 trillion dollars in the Global Public Sector
by 2020.
The Summit aims to deliberate on ‘Empowering Governance, Development & Businesses through AI & IoT’.
The rationale behind the Summit is to create an enabling and catalyst platform to understand how AI & IoT will
drive the various services initiated by Government and Industry together keeping the global trends and edge in view.
It is also seminal for the Summit to cater to the needs of the local and regional contexts as well with the overall
developmental goals of the Government.
What
The Summit 2018 shall witness key addresses, panel discussion and brain storming sessions on themes across
multiple sectors by global, regional and local experts to cut through the hype and share real case studies of
successful adoption of projects for implementation. To build and strengthen a Community of practices, the Forum
sets to bring together Government, Policy makers, Developmental Sectors, Policy Advocates, Corporates, Think
Tanks, start-ups, Research, and Academia. The Forum provides the perfect platform to support a firm collaboration
needed for organisations and economies to thrive.
• Policy makers & Decision Makers, Government Officials and Functionaries, Thought Leaders, Business
Enterprises, System Integrators, Users, Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Investors, CXOs/ CTOs/ CIO & other
decision makers, Strategic & Technical Attendees, Programmers & Developers, Media Representatives
Key Themes
Governance Services and Role of AI & IoT - The Government of India has announced an ambitious
plan. It is, indeed, encouraging to note that the focus on new generation technologies like robotics,
artificial intelligence, analytics, etc. as far as skill building initiatives have been given a boost. It
remains to be seen how partners from the private sector eco-system with knowledge and expertise in
these areas get involved in these initiatives. Few of them are worth mentioning – AI-based Sowing
App (Agriculture), Road safety measures, Interactive Cane for Visually Challenged (Healthcare),
Water quality for Citizens, ABHED (Artificial intelligence Based Human Efface), etc.
SMART City Solutions and AI & IoT – Improving cities is a pressing global need as the world’s
population grows and our species becomes rapidly more urbanized. Thanks to the relative ease with
which Governments can now gather real time data, combined with the capabilities of artificial
Intelligence, cities are realizing interesting new ways to run more efficiently and effectively.
New Generation Technological Innovations – The New generation technology shall reshape how
firms acquire and develop technology, how business partnerships will change, and how businesses
fundamentally operate as robots become more human. It is seminal to learn the new rules and
strategies to make it survive in the new age.
It is worth seeing the new technological disruptions through RPAs, Blockchain, Machine Learning,
Deep Learning, Chatbots, Augmented Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things,
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
Business Transformations through AI & IoT – The Internet of Things (IoT) coupled with advanced
analytics capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI) can lead to next-level solutions and
experiences. To realize greater value from the network, and to radically transform their business and
operating models, industry leaders are integrating AI with incoming data from a vast array of IoT
devices. Forward-thinking leaders are building out scalable digital platforms that help uncover new
insights about customer behaviors, perform predictive maintenance on key components and enhance
yields in manufacturing, agriculture and logistics networks.
Connected World through AI & IoT - The objective of the theme is to flesh out the actual
applications of combining AI and IoT being used in industry today, and to demonstrate important
trends and future use cases for technologists who want get a lay-of-the-land of how artificial
intelligence might help to facilitate and make sense of the myriad connected devices in the coming
decade. (Examples - Automated vacuum cleaners, Facebook’s facial recognition, Apple’s Siri, Smart
Homes, Security and safety, Automated self-driving cars, and so on)
a. Real-world use cases of artificial intelligence combining with the internet of things
b. Potential future applications in industry and for consumers
Cyber Security & Data Privacy - While we see the benefits of IOT, AI and conversational systems to
achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction, the biggest risk enterprises perceive is
security. With potential GBs of raw data, security is at stake. For an organization to be able to
effectively manage the risks of its ecosystem, it needs to clearly define the limits of that ecosystem.
Understanding AI & IoT through Geo-enabling Location Intelligence - When data volume swells
beyond a human’s ability to discern the patterns in it—when a company is faced with truly big data—
we need a new form of intelligence. GIS, infused with artificial intelligence, can help decision makers
make better decisions at all levels – policy, business, operations, etc. Organizations today are using
location-based data and analytics to do just that in a number of ways, from reducing costs through
augmenting address verification to improving customer experiences with in-store location technology,
and enhancing civic and community engagement in local government with spatial analysis software.
Future Roadmap: Adopting Hybrid Agile Model - Over the last several years, product life cycles
have continued to shorten, particularly when it comes to software. However, in the age of IoT, these
product life cycles will have to hit hyper drive. To meet this increasingly frenetic pace, organizations
will need to adopt a hybrid agile model, borrowing key capabilities from the automotive industry and
other sectors with high maturity and long life cycles, while accelerating the pace of release for key
software components. A robust prioritization framework to identify the right mix of capabilities for
product delivery and rapid deployment will be the key to success.
Key Focus
Keynote Addresses & Smart Life, Smart homes, Smart gird, Smart health and Smart
Deliberations transportation applications, Public safety and Disaster management,
Insightful presentations Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Crop, Security and
Panel discussions Surveillance, Robotics Process Automation, UAVs, Data Analytics
Power talks
Real world case studies
Start ups Meet
Awards Night
Key offerings
Networking opportunity | One-to-one meetings | Policy Mobilisation| Open space for product unveiling| Capacity
building workshops
Geospatial Media and Communications is a knowledge hub, working in the domain since 20-years. It is an internationally
accredited organisation, committed to serve the stakeholders of Geospatial, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Smart Cities,
Location Intelligence and Internet of Things community and work towards opening a new era of industrialization and
productisation, while facilitating collaboration and demonstrating value and benefits of geospatial technology and information for
governance, businesses and people. Over a period of time, it has found an extension in areas like Artificial Intelligence, IoT,
Business Intelligence, Location intelligence and other Disruptive Technology fields. It has been achieving its mission of Making
a Difference to World Economy and Society by publishing periodic magazine, hosting an online portal and generating digital
content on various futuristic technologies and its applications. It has also been organising national and international conferences,
tradeshows, meetings and workshops. Since 2012, Geospatial Media has also been undertaking market assessment and value
based studies and research work aimed at bringing out the challenges, unique proposition and value of geospatial tools and
technologies that drive Policy Advocacy. Till date, Geospatial Media has organised over 150 conferences in 26 countries,
undertaken MoUs with over 40 National Geospatial Agencies and brought out 7 research reports.