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The Winner – Powered by AI Technology
As business leaders look for new ways to use AI technology to create competitive advantages, we saw a fascinating example of how an AI-based system can provide a dramatic advantage in sports – propelling the Emirates Team New Zealand to win the 2021 America’s Cup....
Galahad Partners with Celerity
Galahad has partnered with Celerity, a global firm with teams that imagine, design, engineer and deliver outcomes that lead to faster and more sustainable business results. We will help clients integrate data sources, summarize opportunities across customers and with...
Galahad Joins Teradata’s Partner Program
Galahad is now a member of Teradata's Global Trusted Partner Program. Through our combined data-centric solutions, Teradata and Galahad enable clients across a broad range of industry verticals to operationalize insights to that power the most important aspects of...
Galahad CEO Panel Moderator and Presenter at AI Summit in NYC
Rob DiCesare, CEO and Co-Founder of Galahad, was a panel moderator at the AI Summit New York City on December 12, 2019 with several hundred attendees. The topic was “Operationalizing ML Across The Business - How to Best Join Up Data Strategy and Model Deployment with...
Galahad CEO Keynote Speaker at Alliance Bernstein Quantitative Finance Conference in Boston
May 8, 2019 – Galahad’s CEO Rob DiCesare delivered a keynote presentation with an overview on how natural language processing and machine learning are being used to make better investment decisions in the highly competitive global investment industry. Rob said “One of...
Galahad Data Scientist Reports
Rishi Sharma, Senior Data Scientist at Galahad, reports on his participation in a recent global NLP research forum from Seoul, South Korea. https://youtu.be/KL82hnmw57k
Artificial Intelligence in Business Gets Real
Very encouraging and interesting highlights on the adoption of AI in this 2018 Artificial Intelligence Global Executive Study and Research Report from MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group.(1) Overall, the second annual MIT Sloan...
Galahad Data Scientist’s Research on Training AI for Common Sense published in top AI industry journal
A conversation with Galahad’s Rishi Sharma, Data Scientist and Bob MacDonald, CMO. Congratulations to Rishi Sharma as the first author on a research paper “Tackling the Story Ending Biases in the Story Cloze Test” that was published in the Association for...
Alexa, Move My Bank Account to Amazon
Amazon may be taking the plunge into banking, and by any estimation, it’s a game changer for the industry, according to Bain & Company. News reports that it is seeking a bank for a cobranded, mobile-friendly checking-account-like product initially targeted to...
How financial services can move intelligent automation from a cost play to a growth strategy.
Capgemini reports that financial services firms worldwide are using automation to transform their operating models as they target process efficiency and reduced operational costs. The economics of this efficiency play are compelling: a 10–25% increase in cost savings,...
Gartner: Nearly Half of CIOs are Planning to Pilot AI Projects
Gartner’s latest CIO Agenda Survey, released 2/13/18, asked CIOs if they had plans to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI). 46% responded that they have developed plans to do so. But only 4% said they had already implemented AI within their organizations. A further 20%...
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018
Topping Gartner’s list are: building an AI Foundation and developing intelligent apps/analytics. Great news for our team at Galahad Group, as these are at the core of what we help clients achieve. Here are brief summaries and a link to the full list. Trend No. 1: AI...
AI Breakthroughs in Audit, Risk & Compliance – Impact on Auditors!
I had the opportunity to meet with and provide a perspective on this topic to several dozen auditing and compliance professionals at a recent conference in Rochester, NY. Interest levels were very high, and leaders from several major firms continued our discussions...
What Makes Personal Assistants So Hot Right Now
Excellent article by Katherine Lazarevich, Digiteum, on what makes personal assistants so hot right now. And why we should expect even more innovation and interest in this market. An important callout from the article "AI-enabled agents make an attempt to solve the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Automation
Deploying AI and machine learning to automate repetitive tasks performed by knowledge workers, essentially building digital operations assistants, requires new types of data to be captured than we are accustomed to. For machine/deep learning algorithms to be trained...