how to scale industrial adoption of ai in belgium? · 2018. 10. 8. · exploitatievan usage data...
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How to scale industrial adoption of AI in
Belgium? Challenges & opportunities
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Impact of AI on
our daily life
Groeiendbelang van A.I. in dit ecosysteem
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Bron: Omar Mohout, Sirris, https://scaleups.sirris.be/
AI impact op
bedrijfsprocessen
AI impact op
aanbod van
bedrijven
AI impact op
business modellen
In manufacturing:
• Optimisatie van processen
• Automatisatie
• ..
In bedrijfsprocessen:
• Business analytics
• Interactiemet klanten
(e.g. chatbots)
• ..
• Andere :
• ..
Exploitatie van usage data
Nieuwe generaties van slimme
producten en diensten
• Autonome producten
• Gepersonaliseerde
producten
• Digitalisering van
diensten die vandaag
menselijk inzicht vereisen
• Andere :
• ..
Digitalemarktplaatsen:
• recommender systemen
• ….
Nieuwe diensten:
• Op basis van populaties bij
klanten
• Digitale servitisatie
• ….
• Andere :
• ..
I. SciFi or horror scenario’s in media
II. Access to relevant data
III. New business models + impact on organization
IV. Need of combined expertise: AI + domain knowledge
V. AI is dynamic : fast evolution
AI adoption nowadays scalable ?
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Lines of action to scale industrial AI adoption
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Strategic exercice
Organisation OfferingBusiness
model
1 – to – 1
journey
Collective
journey
Proof of Concept
Implementation
Itera
tive
mu
ltistag
e p
roce
ss
Long
term
vision
AI/D
ATA
Co
ach
AI/D
ATA
Exp
erts
Companies
need also
support on:
- Regulation
- IP rights
- Ethics
- (Re)skilling
Stimulate a vivid AI ecosystem in all regions (e.g. Digityser, The Beacon, …)
Leverage EU funds for Data Innovation Hubs
Stimulate a strong Belgian AI supply side to ensure scalability
Innovation calls should be accessible for startups/scale-ups (open & industry driven innovation calls)
At least one AI supplier should be involved in each subsidized innovation call
Assign a key role for AI industry in major research projects (e.g. imec)
Build on our strengths: focus expertise on B2B applications (e.g. production & manufacturing)
Support all companies in their strategic exercise by SME cheques or by any other means
Support all companies on legal & ethical issues (“AI Legal & Ethical Council”)
Support all companies in their search of talent (“AI Talent & Work Council”)
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Lines of action : Ecosystem
Vivid AI supply side:
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Lines of action : Talent Labour market for AI experts is very poor today
Start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, universities and knowledge institutions are fishing in the same little pool of AI experts
As demand is growing, this situationwill deteriorate if no extra talent is attractedor trained
Stimulate throughput of PhD’s in AI in companies
Stimulate industry oriented PhD’s in AI (e.g. Baekelandmandates)
Stimulate internships& collaboration between academics and private sector
Expand the AI Expert pool
Basic computational skills and AI in secondary school
Stimulate AI master & bachelor programmes
Stimulate lifelong learning initiatives
Stimulate migration of data/AI experts to Belgium
Thank youFor your attention
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