An introduction to A.I,
Blockchain and IoT
Johann Romefort, Tech Evangelist

What is A.I?
And why should you care?

Artificial Intelligence is based on the assumption
that the process of human thought can be
mechanized

The Turing Test
“A computer would deserve
to be called intelligent if it
could deceive a human into
believing that it was human”
- Alan Turing

Development of computer systems able
to perform tasks normally requiring
human intelligence

Question
Can you think of existing A.I
system doing that already?

Why is everyone
talking about A.I?

A.I is different from
regular software

A.I Learns

A.I Predicts

A.I creates
new experiences

Breakthrough in
A.I
Why now?

(Big) Data is the new.

Neural Networks

GPU

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/

A.I
Industry use-cases

Conversica
A.I assistant
for sales lead

Healthcare:
Largest market for A.I

A.I can see the
unseen

What does A.I
need to flourish?

Data Scientists

Infrastructure

Data

Question
Where do you think A.I
could have an impact
on your business?

AI is the new electricity
Andrew NG

What is
Blockchain?
And why should you care?

The history of
value exchange

3500 years ago...
The Signet Ring

Trust Regulators
Nowadays...

The “middleman” model is far
from being perfect

Question
Why is trust in
institutions declining?

What is the
blockchain?

It’s a technology to enable
transactions between
non-trusted parties
without the need
for a middleman

A public ledger

Centralized vs Distributed

Immutable:
Data cannot be changed, just added

The blockchain is a
public, distributed
and immutable
database

https://blockchaindemo.io/
DEMO TIME!

Why do we need
blockchain?

Question
What kind of data do
you produce & who
owns this data?

We’ve lost control of
our personal data
Tim Berners Lee

Blockchain has the
potential to disrupt
the way we share
data

Blockchain
Industry use-cases

Supply Chain Management

Irrefutable traceability of goods

Food safety & sanitary risks

Fight Fraud & Corruption

Blockchain for the automotive industry - use casesAutomated
Transactions

Blockchain provides a
new model to
exchange value,
share data &
prevent
fraud

The Internet Of Things

What are
those
things?

A growing market

From IoT To Internet of Everything

Question
What do we gain by
connecting everything?

Access to even
more data

Enrich customer
experience

Increase safety

IoT in Retail:
Digitalizing Brick & mortar

Smart Shelves

Smart Inventory
Management
with RFID, sensors...

… or drones.

Convergence of
A.I, Blockchain
and IoT

IoT
as a source of
data

Blockchain
as a secure storage
for the world’s data

A.I
as the brain for
the data economy

Potential for entirely new
customer experiences

Thank you
romefort@gmail.com
https://romefort.net
https://linkedin.com/in/romefort