watson join the cognitive era
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Presentation of IBM Watson, the components of Watson, how it works and examples of where Watson is being put to use, today. Finally links and information about, how you can get to work with Watson as a software developer. Presentation given in te conference 'Driving IT' in Copenhagen, November 14, 2014TRANSCRIPT
Watson – Join the Cognitive Era Anders Quitzau Contact: About.me/andersquitzau
Watson: a new partnership between human and computers
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Scale expertise by elevating the
consistency and objectivity of decision making across an
organization.
Enhance the cognitive process of
professionals to strengthen decision making in the
moment
Accelerate development of expertise in
others by capturing the expertise of top performers
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Watson's intelligence and capabilities today – in a nutshell
Adapts and learns
Explores
Reasons
Visualizes
Understands natural language
Generates and evaluates hypotheses
Watson understands me.
Watson engages me.
Watson learns and improves over time.
Watson helps me discover.
Watson establishes trust.
Watson has endless capacity for insight.
Watson operates in a timely fashion.
Reusable services form the basis for all Watson cognitive solutions
Services
The same services are used by business partners, customers, and IBM Developers.
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Fluid, Inc.
Challenge • Drive conversion, customer satisfaction, and
brand loyalty for mass marketers and luxury goods merchants such as The NorthFace, Reebok, Google, Sears, and Clorox
Solution • Fluid’s cognitive, expert personal shopper app
powered by IBM Watson transforms consumer dialogue to make the best possible purchases
Benefits • Empowers consumers to shop as they
choose while helping retailers foster a consumer led experience that turns shoppers into buyers
• Replicates the best of the in-store experience online which is like putting an expert sales associate in the hands of every consumer
• Expected to help consumers make the same query online in plain English to find the perfect items
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Home
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DEMONSTRATION
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LifeLearn and Watson Transform Veterinary Care
SparkCognition and Watson Implement Next-Gen Security Analytics
Red Ant and Watson Train Retail Sales Employees
WayBlazer and Watson Redefine the Travel Experience Bumrungrad Hospital and
Watson Improve Cancer Care
Johnson & Johnson and Watson Give R&D Discoveries a Makeover
Mayo Clinic and Watson Tackle Clinical Trial Research
MD Anderson and Watson Undertake "Moon Shots" to End Cancer
ANZ Global Wealth and Watson Help Financial Planners Improve Their Advice
USAA and Watson Help Military Members Transition to Civilian Life
This will be Watson
Sees Hears
Experiences
Understands natural language
Generates and evaluates hypotheses
Adapts and learns
Reasons
Explores
Visualizes
Cognea will add ‘human’ interface to Watson – where needed
If we really want to augment and scale human recognition, we need to re-invent how we compute: IBM TrueNorth ‘brain-chip’ may be the answer….
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The Watson Ecosystem is composed of mutually benefiting, interconnected partners
Talent Partners
Content Partners
App Partners Develop cognitive powered applications powered by IBM Watson
Fuel the ecosystem with content to drive cognitive applications
Support application partners with developing and designing their solutions
Watson Developer
Cloud
Watson Content
Store
Watson Talent Hub
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Delivering the cognitive experience to the masses
million equity investments
subject matter experts
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Watson Developer
Cloud
Watson Content
Store
Watson Talent Hub
+ + Tools and APIs enabling
ISVs with self-service training, development, and
testing of their cognitive application.
Brings together sources of free and for-fee data, including general knowledge, industry-specific content, and subject
matter expertise to help power Powered by Watson apps.
Helps to bridge ISVs� resource gaps by providing a marketplace for skills like linguistics, natural language processing, machine
learning, user experience design, and analytics.
engaged innovators
2500 +
Get hands on fast!
• Get a Bluemix account • Try the Watson services
free of charge • Take the next step toward
further development or production deployment
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Now go and be cool….
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/
ibmwatson/ecosystem.html
Take the next step and submit your request to work with Watson http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/getting_started.shtml
https://www.ibmdw.net/watson/
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