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Time to add TechHeads 2024 in #kalmar to your calendar! 🗓️Main theme is “Journey into the AI Frontier” with three parallel tracks: #ecommerce, #ehealth and #emergingTrends ✨ Read more at TechHeads 2024 Conference. Welcome!

I look forward to traveling ✈ to New York City to join the NextGen Commerce Conference taking place this coming week on June 26, 2024. The conference is organized by Coresight Research. What I like about Coresight events is that Deborah Weinswig 韋葆蘭, Renee Hartmann and the rest of the team do a great job of attracting a diverse group of plugged-in senior leaders from the retail sector. The sessions are also fast paced so you have to be quick in presenting ideas and observations. The NextGen Commerce Conference builds on the valuable work that Coresight has been leading through its AI Council.  Launched last fall, the Council has personally been beneficial in helping build a better understanding of how AI technology will diffuse through eCommerce and marketplaces.  Gaining perspective on the many eCommerce and marketplace use cases is valuable. However, it is also important to understand the AI adoption curve.  AI solutions are bought directly by brands. But, more often than not, the solutions are embedded in third-party business services.  So, in addition to understanding use cases, it is important to understand how AI will become deeply bundled within business services. My remarks will focus on the explosion of innovation taking place among circular economy service providers. These companies are embedding AI into their service/technology/platform offerings including product digital passports, advanced product grading technology, returns management, reverse logistics optimization, and circular marketplace discovery, matching and pricing solutions. Examples of these circular economy service providers embedding AI into their core services include: Treet, Optoro, goTRG, TWICE COMMERCE and Trove. Coresight’s event will take place at Amazon’s offices in New York City. Amazon spent $1 billion on this property in 2020, so definitely looking forward to seeing what it looks like. 👀 See: https://lnkd.in/gAw_A2NQ 👉 Interested in attending NextGen Commerce Conference? Here’s the registration link: https://lnkd.in/gKnfgRv4 #retail #innovation #AI #platformstrategy #circulareconomy #Amazon #trends #reverselogistics McFadyen Digital

Asseta is set to revolutionize the $6 billion used semiconductor equipment market with its unveiling. This innovative platform promises to transform tech shopping by providing a transparent marketplace, ensuring fair deals for both buyers and sellers. Co-founded by Anton Brevde, Jonathan Pease, Garrett Beck, and Danial Afzal. With its focus on clarity and transparency, Asseta aims to simplify the process of buying and selling high-value tech equipment, making it accessible to a broader audience. This move could significantly impact the tech industry, providing a more efficient way to circulate valuable resources. For more insights, check out the detailed article on Newzchain: https://lnkd.in/gGh-wG8F #TechTransparency #Innovation #Semiconductor #Newzchain

Exciting News: IQONIC.AI is a Top 10 AI for Business Provider in Germany! 😱😍 We’ve made it to the finals of The Spark awards, and now we need your support to become #1. 🏆 👉 Vote for us until September 15th with just a few clicks: https://lnkd.in/esSj-e95 Why we deserve the award? 👉🏼 A Universal Issue: We tackle the challenge of achieving beautiful, healthy skin for life. 👉🏼 Business-to-Business Focus, Human-Centered Impact: While our solution is B2B, we always prioritize the individual. 👉🏼 We Think Beauty Holistically: Our solution addresses not only beauty brands but also retailers, drugstores, pharmacies, salons, hairdressers, supplement providers, and many more. 👉🏼 Championing Diversity: Our algorithms are inclusive and designed to work globally, ensuring a more diverse future for the industry. 👉🏼 Sustainable and Beneficial: Our personalized product recommendations lead to better outcomes for both businesses and consumers, while also reducing waste and benefiting our planet. Help us conquer the global market! Vote for us now and share this post with your network! 🌍 #TheSpark #TheSpark24

Fellows, who is attending #START24 , I would be happy to meet you at our booth and chat with you about some captivating topics such as AI in 3D reconstruction, the overall value of Digital Twins in e-commerce, as well as the future of Spatial Computing

Our Top Insights from IT-TRANS 2024!🚨🚉 We are happy to announce that our attendance at IT-TRANS 2024 at Messe Karlsruhe was a huge success and a great opportunity to showcase our products, GIVA and TapConnect. IT-TRANS is the leading event for innovations and developments in the public transport sector. A sector that is undergoing a huge transition and experiencing significant developments. Discover what we learned from the event in our latest blog: Top 3 Takeaways from IT-Trans 2024: Innovations Shaping Public Transport 1. Uncertainty in the revenue distribution of the Deutschland ticket - How will the D-ticket revenue be fairly distributed? New models are emerging, but the future remains uncertain. 2. Increased cooperation between hardware and software-focused companies - Collaboration between hardware and software companies is key to creating advanced, user-friendly public transport solutions. 3. The rise of AI and machine learning in public transport - AI and ML are revolutionising public transport, from predictive maintenance to personalised passenger services. 👉 To read the full blog and discover what developments move the Public Transport Sector visit: https://lnkd.in/e76AsGbr #ITTrans #Ximedes #Fleetmanagement #Ticketing #Karlsruhe

I am currently in Copenhagen at #DTWIgnite, participating in the world’s leading telecommunication conference with a team of great architects and developers. We are sharing our perspective as the leading digital telco on the event’s key topic: what it takes to be AI native, while collaborating with industry shapers.  In her inspiring keynote, Executive Board member for Technology & Innovation, Claudia Nemat, generated a genuine ovation by emphasizing that technology should serve a purpose, encapsulated in her vision of "human-centered technology." This means that whatever we do with our fantastic technology, the human being is in the center. She elaborated on this with three pillars:  🔸 Everything we develop must have a practical benefit for our customers. She cited T Phones as an example, where an AI-based assistant provides shortcut solutions through voice input, instead of navigating various interfaces. 🔸 Everything we create should adhere to ethical standards and do no harm. While AI and technology cannot prevent war or environmental degradation, they can help us solve these problems more effectively. 🔸 We must always consider limited resources and avoid any waste. She stressed the need to bring technology back to our customers while exploring collaboration with industry players around open APIs and interfaces.  Collaboration is one of the most, if not the most, important messages and defining element of this event. Yesterday, we demonstrated this by presenting our collaboration with Orange. Alongside Koen Vermeulen, Group CIO, we highlighted the need to go beyond sharing ideas and start producing software together. We welcomed Girija SAINT ANGE from Orange and Jannik Krämer, our product manager, who shared details about improving developer productivity by streamlining and utilizing our respective CI/CD platforms.  Earlier that day, with our Chief Engineering Officer, Laurent Donnay, Ruben Schaubroeck, Senior Partner from McKinsey & Company, and Antonietta Mastroianni, Chief Digital and IT Officer from Proximus, we discussed the key findings from McKinsey’s recent IT Excellence Panel Survey. Here is what I find particularly interesting: prioritizing efficiency is not for its own sake, as IT cost leaders consistently outperform their peers on multiple excellence dimensions, such as engineering and architecture.     We are here from different parts of Deutsche Telekom, including product, network, and IT, sharing our story at our magenta booth. We are also represented in TM Forum’s Innovation Hub, addressing the industry’s most critical challenges, and we are also participating in an ongoing hackathon with Google, harnessing AIVA as TM Forum's enterprise search agent to address business challenges.  Nadine Junker, Sharareh G., Mamta Bharti, Karsten Thon, Christopher Braun, Sigrid Braun, Marcus Greuel Csaba Garay, Christian Heck, Sergei Lukin, Björn Oestrich, Dushyantt Garg, Sri-Jagadish(Jag) Baddukonda Andreas Böhmann

On this episode of the Six Five - On the Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Dominique Vanhamme, ED CommSP Segment, Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo and Mehran Hadipour, VP Global Alliances, Rakuten Symphony Inc. (A Rakuten Group Company). Their conversation delves into the future of AI at the edge and how their newly announced solutions are set to revolutionize the adoption and integration of AI in businesses. Their discussion covers: * The synergy between Lenovo and Rakuten Symphony, highlighting the collaboration's objectives and the role of Lenovo's newly announced solutions in advancing AI integration in businesses * Understanding the appeal of Lenovo and Rakuten Symphony for companies seeking AI at the edge solutions, and why they stand out in the marketplace * Insights into customer needs and pain points that inspired the joint solutions by Lenovo and Rakuten, along with the anticipated value these solutions will provide to customers * Predictions around the evolution of the telecommunications sector and Lenovo's strategic position within that transformation #Lenovo #RakutenSymphony #AI #EdgeComputing #SixFiveOnTheRoad #DominiqueVanhamme #MehranHadipour #Telecommunications

Less than 24 hours to go for the CommerceNext Growth Show 2024! This year's event consists of several visionary keynote sessions, and true connections that promise to unlock unlimited growth potential in your e-commerce journey. Hari Valiyath, Chris Spadafino, Carrie Frasure, and Caitlin Connor are heading to New York for the event, so come say hi to find out why AI should be a major part of your growth strategies! #CommerceNext #PixisAI #MarketingAI

CEO #MarcOpelt über den Wandel beim E-Commerce-Riesen #Otto: https://buff.ly/3wEwIAr a) #Highlights: 1. Otto transforming into a technology company (2nd order: Need to build new systems/#platform, hire more #techtalent. 3rd order: #CulturalShift required for legacy company) 2. Building an e-commerce platform with #marketplace, #advertising, #payments (2nd order: New #revenue streams, need for new tech. 3rd order: Complex interactions between components) 3. Massive reorganization during #COVID (2nd order: #RemoteCollaboration #challenges. 3rd order: Cultural impact of restructuring) 4. Using MVPs and rapid iteration (2nd order: Faster time to market. 3rd order: Organizational agility required) 5. Embracing constant change and building a culture around it (2nd order: Difficulty in changing mindsets. 3rd order: Sustainability of transformation) b) #KeyMetrics: - 10 #AI solutions are Jenny-driven - 15% tech employees initially - 65 AI solutions live - 400 employees working on #BI - 3 million daily visitors - 5,000+ tech employees now (over 50%) - 6,000 marketplace partners - 20 million products offered c) #Recommendations: - Question existing business models and strategies - Build own technology platform tailored to needs - Start with an #MVP and iterate rapidly - Reorganize and restructure to enable transformation - Embrace constant change as the new normal - Focus on cultural change alongside technological change - Gain trust and patience from investors/owners d) Funny Tidbits: - Video featured Otto's mascot character and #Adidas shoe collab plug - Skit with music artist characters making #meta references - Speaker's self-deprecating comment about doing too many #PowerPoints - Anecdote about people mistaking someone yelling "Otto" in public