1. • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
• The Future of Business
• How technology that senses, comprehends,
acts and learns will help your business grow
• Feb 16, 2017
• Panama City, Panama
2. About Me
Passionate About Business and Technology
Successfully served in a number of diverse roles:
Managing Director CIO - Latin America Start-up CEO
4. Agenda
We Will Explore the Business Implications of Artificial
Intelligence thru the Lens of Investment
( Follow the Money )
• What Business and Thought Leaders Are Saying
• Start-up Ecosystem ( Venture Funding )
• Industry Disruption ( Case Study )
• What is Means for You and Your Business
11. Venture Investment in AI Startups
Equity financings to the AI space have gone from
$282M in 2011 to $2.4B in 2015,
746%
increase
in 5
years.
Over 6 billion invested in 1,000+ AI Startups
22. How Will These Startups Transform Your
Industry?
… what will you do about it?
23. Taking Action
1. Study the List Start-up Companies in This Presentation
and See What Companies / Ideas are Getting Funded
2. Pick an Industry/ Problem set and write Use Cases
where your product solves a clear pain point ( write it
down )
3. Write Your Hypothesis ( Idea ) and the Test Your
Hypothesis in the Market with the goal of learning not
selling ( do it quickly, cheaply )
I Hope You are Motivated, Confused and a Bit
Overwhelmed. Here are some ideas to get started…
24. Taking Action
4. Find data sources that are underexploited and
underutilized in your company / industry ( data is raw
material for AI )
5. Build Your Network - Make Fiends with People That
Know More Artificial Intelligence Than You Do and Ask
Good Questions
6. Read Eric Ries “the Lean Start-up“ and apply proven
principles of successful start-ups.