Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon Oct 21 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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The future of AI holds immense potential for transforming various industries and services that we all experience in our day-to-day lives. AI offers significant business benefits such as increased efficiency, cost savings, and the creation of new products and services. Companies can leverage AI to automate routine tasks, enhance decision-making processes, and gain deeper insights from data, thereby driving innovation and competitive advantage. However, the rapid adoption of AI also brings forth critical social and ethical consideration. These include concerns about job displacement, privacy, bias, and the need for transparency and accountability and protection from bad-actors. In this talk we will expose how AI is already being used all around us and explore the significant remaining work necessary to be put in place to address the political, social, legal, and moral concerns for this once in a generation technology transformation.
About Russ Sagert:
Russ is the Chief Technical Officer for Industrial Manufacturing and Energy at NetApp. NetApp is a leading supplier of IT infrastructure and public cloud services to customers around the world, covering all industries and government agencies. Their solutions are foundational in driving technology innovation and implementation like those required in adopting Artificial Intelligence into their businesses. As CTO, Russ acts as a senior business advisor to Fortune 500 companies such as ExxonMobil, Tesla Nestle, and Disney looking to transform their businesses. Today most conversations centre around AI, the investments and technologies needed, but importantly, all the considerations associated to cyber securing, ethics, and legal.
Russ, originally from Edmonton where he graduated from NAIT, has held similar executive positions at Schlumberger, S&P Global, and GE. He has called Canmore home for the past 14 years.