The success of a venture-backed company usually depends on two main factors: its technical innovation and the velocity with which it introduces new products. In order to sustain these competitive advantages throughout their growth, companies must ensure that the delicate relationship between the CEO and the CTO is effective.
Read MoreFinding the best fit... There are some exciting new technology options that can push your business to the forefront of innovation. But how do you know which technology is the most valuable ...
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Read MoreVelocity Wins “Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything.” We’ve all heard this quote more than once: in seminars, board rooms, even on television. This is in part, I surmise, because ...
Read MoreIn the last post, we highlighted the disruption that chatbot technologies are poised to make in call centers. To recap, we are seeing the trend that Generation X and Y have now shown a preference for text-based communication over voice. This results in consumers increasingly wanting to talk with brands via messaging platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger. Simultaneously, there has been an explosion of conversational A.I. technology tools and frameworks in which natural language processing can be used to automate customer support inquiries. As the last installment discussed, this trend provides a compelling opportunity for companies to drastically reduce the costs of running their call centers.
Read MoreAs we move into a world of AI First solutions, there has been a lot of debate, fear, and hope about the impact it will have on our lives. A new field of Ethically Aligned AI has emerged as a result, and this article attempts to paint a vision of hope for year 2022, describing the possibilities if the movement achieves its goals, and then explains why I think this future is possible.
Read MoreGeeta Chauhan, CTO, Silicon Valley Software Group, joined Rishaad Salamat and Bryan Curtis on Daybreak Asia. She discusses the importance of ethical design in AI, how she envisages a future where we all have personal digital assistants and how users will gain ownership over their data.
Read MoreIn high-profile discussions of deep learning on professional panels or in the media, leading experts always point to medical diagnostics as one of the most exciting and significant applications ...
Read MoreYahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro and Julie Hyman join Silicon Valley Software Group Managing Partner Matt Swanson to discuss ...
Read MoreThis interview is a repost from SVSG CTO and AI Practice Lead Geeta Chauhan's interview in Intel Developer Zone here. Even as a child, Geeta Chauhan was a maker at ...
Read MoreThe success of a venture-backed company usually depends on two main factors: its technical innovation and the velocity with which it introduces new products. In order to sustain these competitive advantages throughout their growth, companies must ensure that the delicate relationship between the CEO and the CTO is effective.
Read MoreAfter participating in dozens of TDD projects, I've learned that there are many ways to solve a technical challenge -- including using frameworks or programming languages that I personally wouldn't touch. It is thus critical to put aside one’s own ideas of technical purity and “the right way of doing things” during TDD and to have an open mind about how technology can be used.
Read MoreBernard Fraenkel, SVSG Practice Lead, explains the process of technical due diligence, a key step in the technology company investment cycle. Bernard has led engineering teams of all sizes for over 30 years in Silicon Valley and around the world, and has overseen more than a dozen due diligence assessments.
Read MoreAn MVP is all about getting a product into the hands of your customers quickly and learning from their feedback. Importantly, it also serves as a foundation for your engineering team to build on as your company grows. Before any code gets written, you will need to select the tech stack that will power your application.
Read MoreSecurity matters. This is a short essay written by Silicon Valley-based Snowflake Computing’s Director of Security, Mario Duarte.
Read MoreState of the market: shot in both feet In 2015, the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that Internet of Things (IoT) products and services will become an $11.1 industry by 2025. ...
Read MoreAs GPU deep learning becomes more common, data managers will have to navigate several new layers of complexity in their quest to build or buy suitable data infrastructure. AI-related deep ...
Read MoreIn the last post, we highlighted the disruption that chatbot technologies are poised to make in call centers. To recap, we are seeing the trend that Generation X and Y have now shown a preference for text-based communication over voice. This results in consumers increasingly wanting to talk with brands via messaging platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger. Simultaneously, there has been an explosion of conversational A.I. technology tools and frameworks in which natural language processing can be used to automate customer support inquiries. As the last installment discussed, this trend provides a compelling opportunity for companies to drastically reduce the costs of running their call centers.
Read MoreIn 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. That astronomical number set off waves of speculation as to what value Facebook could possibly see in a company with just 55 employees and roughly $20 million in revenue, although it had 500 million users. At last week’s F8 conference, that vision became a lot clearer, and it’s big. Chatbots will cause a near-term disruption in how businesses interact with consumers, and a long term paradigm shift in how people will interact with machines.
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