Vikas Anand

I'm speaking at the Six Five Summit today on how to get real ROI from AI. My session will share what's applicable today and how we're bringing real results to customers here at Twilio. Register at the link below.👇 #SixFiveSummit24 #AIUnleashed @Six Five Media

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If you're running a data or AI-focused startup, connect with Stephan Goupille and his team! When three of the industry's brightest data minds join forces to back your venture, you get more than just funding – you gain invaluable operator expertise. They understand the challenges and opportunities you face because they've been there themselves.

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🚀 We're excited to share that Cendyn and Shiji Group are partnering to boost hotel profitability! 🙌👉 https://ow.ly/Ttzb30sCKLJ Our seamless integration between Cendyn CRS and Shiji Enterprise Platform PMS provides a unified experience to streamline operations and drive revenue growth. This collaboration empowers hoteliers to intelligently manage rates and availability, boost productivity and operational efficiency, enhance overall guest experiences, and implement highly targeted marketing strategies. By leveraging this integration, hoteliers can maximize profitability and create deeper connections with their guests. Don't miss out on the opportunity to empower your hotel business with smarter technology and stay ahead in the competitive hospitality market! #HospitalityTech #HotelManagement #HotelProfitability #RevenueOptimization #TravelInnovation

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The API Economy State of the Market Report has many great insights, including this trend of how regulations and standards are shifting the conversation from platforms for the sake of platforms to the importance of ecosystems. Check it out! #API

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Here are my key takeaways from the second panel at the ”Resilience in the Ever-Changing Environment" conference at Nasdaq in #NY moderated by Kris Pederson who is leading the EY Center for Board Matters, featured industry luminaries like Bhawna Singh, Okta CTO, Mike O'Rourke, Head of Nasdaq AI & Emerging Technology, and Usman Sheikh; Partner & Chair of the Blockchain & FinTech Practice At Baker McKenzie They discussed product differentiation and M&A strategy in relations with emerging technologies such as #GenAI, #QuantumComputing, #Blockchain, #EdgeComputing; shaping the future of business and society, highlighting the importance for boards to be well-versed in such areas and to ask timely questions to ensure management has been considering these topics and making informed decisions. Boards should consider how generative AI can enhance productivity, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation, while ensuring it is used ethically. Boards should help establish ethical guardrails for AI usage, promote transparency, and address potential biases. They should collaborate with stakeholders to ensure AI aligns with societal values and ethical standards. Additionally, risk management around AI should include the following: AI Laws: Boards need to stay informed and proactive about the evolving legal landscape surrounding AI. This includes understanding compliance requirements, anticipating regulatory changes, and engaging with policymakers. Active engagement can help shape policies that balance innovation with ethical considerations. Ethical and Secure AI Deployment: As AI becomes more integral to business operations, ensuring its ethical use and securing AI systems are paramount. Companies should extend security measures to their entire data platform and pipeline and adhere to high standards of ethical AI practices, possibly under the guidance of specially formed committees. AI Innovation in the Wrong Hands: There is a significant risk of AI technology being misused by malicious actors. Boards should implement robust ethical guidelines to ensure their AI innovations are not misappropriated or used unethically. This involves careful vetting of partners and clients, as well as ongoing monitoring of AI deployments to detect and prevent misuse. Attack Protection / AI Security: As AI systems become more integrated into business operations, they become increasingly attractive targets for cyberattacks. Boards must prioritize AI security by investing in advanced security measures and conducting regular audits. This includes safeguarding AI algorithms, ensuring data integrity, and protecting the underlying infrastructure to prevent unauthorized access and attacks. #NasdaqResilience #TechInnovation #BoardGovernance #GenerativeAI #QuantumComputing #Blockchain #EdgeComputing #AIEthics #AIRegulation #BoardLeadership #BoardOversight #BoardResponsibilities #BoardOfDirectors

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#Confluent CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps shared his insights with BusinessToday on how #DataStreaming is changing the way modern companies function and how #realtime #AI enables business to improve every aspect of front, middle and backoffice in an enterprise.

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A great article with a simple explanation for why data streaming is necessary for modern businesses. Check out the article and sign up for our upcoming Kafka Summit Bangalore to learn more about data streaming! https://lnkd.in/gD6t3rXF

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Using the RFP Assistant Solution has given our customers new ideas 💡 about how they can use GenAI on AWS to solve other problems within their organization. #aws #genai #startups

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Excited to present insights from Jay Kreps, our CEO of Confluent and co-creator of Apache Kafka, on the transformative power of data streaming: - Data streaming is revolutionizing business operations, with 72% of IT leaders already leveraging it for mission-critical systems. - Apache Kafka addresses pivotal challenges in data integration and streaming, providing a scalable platform to break data silos. - Real-time AI applications depend on data streaming for cutting-edge capabilities, impacting bottom lines by optimizing operations and enhancing customer experiences. Stay tuned for more insights! #DataStreaming #ApacheKafka #RealTimeAnalytics #AI #ConfluentLeadership

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This old post from Ben Horowitz highlights a common struggle among entrepreneurs – expecting the team to perform seamlessly without investing in training. People are not plug-and-play; they bring diverse backgrounds and perspectives. You gotta spend time training and educating on your business, the way you want to talk to customers, and the right experience you want for them. Training is a powerful tool and needs to be done regularly! https://lnkd.in/ekv8c6WD #Entrepreneurship #Training #BusinessSuccess

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We are pleased to announce that you can now achieve up to an aggregate 1.3 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 12 GB/s throughput per OCI compute instance with the OCI Block Volume Service. In addition, you can also attach up to 32 Ultra High Performance (UHP) volumes to a single OCI compute instance. This service update is particularly useful for high I/O workloads, such as OLTP, AI/ML, data warehousing and analytics, databases with large data sets and extensive complex processing. https://lnkd.in/eHErX5mC

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Jay is spot on here "One of the biggest barriers to AI innovation is access to clean and trustworthy data. The truth is, while you can have a great AI/ML model, without contextual, real-time data from your business, the model is useless for most applications. Connecting AI models to enterprise data in real-time is one of the more challenging problems to solve." Many may think they are "doing AI" but until this bigger, more challenging problem is solved, AI will have little impact in the enterprise.

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So nice to see Bratin Saha, AWS VP/GM, at the center stage joining our Co-Founder and CEO at the Imagine Keynote today! We are a Strategic Partner for AWS and have been steadily building upon our multi-year relationship. Today we are excited to announce our integration with Amazon Q in the conversation automation space. Amazon Q for Business Users is a Gen AI powered assistant that can be used seamlessly within Automation Anywhere's A360 platform by our customers to answer questions, get summaries and generate content and more importantly complete tasks within the enterprise context.   Here is what Mihir Shukla, our Co-Founder and CEO said about the power of this integration: “By making conversational automation available enterprise-wide with AWS Q, we’re arming every employee in companies with the potential to automate and transform their challenging process workflows to transform the way they work and reduce the time it takes from days and weeks to minutes”. Find out more in this press release: https://lnkd.in/g23rmVYa Prince Kohli, Adi Kuruganti, Tom Garland, Jay Bala, Peter White, Steve Shah, Claudia Michon, Matt Wood, Jagjit Dhaliwal (JD), Omar Zarka, Olawale Oladehin, Asheesh Mangla, Imran Moin, Watson G., Tanner McRae, Pranjal Raje, Dayanand Thakur, Gabe Akisanmi, Kartik Dalal, ShreeLakshmi Krishnamurthi, Charu Venkatraman, Sarangadhar Sahani, Geoffrey LAISSUS, Shane Patel #AAImagine, #AWS, #AmazonQ, Automation Anywhere, Amazon, #AI, #GenerativeAI

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In the latest episode of Prodcast, Silvia Botros (SRE Architect, Twilio, and author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition") and Niall Murphy (Co-founder & CEO, Stanza) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss many topics near and dear to reliability: cultural shifts in database engineering, rate limiting, load shedding, holistic approaches to reliability, proactive measures to build customer trust, and much more!

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My favorite of these quotes is this one… Data and customer value drive AI partnerships AI is a game-changer, but not a magic bullet. Successful cloud #partnerships will be built on data, customer value, and integrations. "Right now, #data is the best value add you can provide... if you, a legacy company, have a large customer base and can provide certain kinds of data that is not available to any of these companies and you can #monetize that, that is kind of the Holy Grail," Neeti Gupta highlighted. Seems like the key reason #Salesforce and #Workday partnered recently.

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This is cool: semantically aware caching of GenAI responses: https://lnkd.in/ebwPknvJ

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