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Writer's pictureBart Schrooten

Data & AI Expo, highlights of Day One

Updated: Oct 2

Day one focused mainly around successfully implementing AI. Responsible AI (Trustworthy & Ethical) were topics mentioned during the presentations and discussions. Here are some highlights and learnings from three key sessions:


AI Strategy manual for CTOs - A corporate journey to production



  • Mistakes often made when going to production

    • Overestimating the applicability of off the shelf solutions

    • Underestimating computing cost

    • Rushing from prototyping to production -> build a full stack team and define complete software specifications upfront

    • Underestimating the importance of change management -> design and implement re-skilling strategies for your workforce


High level steps:

  • Opportunity mapping

  • Tech assessment

  • Prototyping: set KPIs

  • Go-to-production strategy: build P&L of the project

  • Product development

  • Adoption, maintenance and improvements



Panel Discussion: Getting to Production-Ready: Challenges and Best Practices for Deploying AI



  • Define carefully the use case

  • Understand the data

  • Understand how to move from development to production environment

  • Align expectation across stakeholders and ensure buy-in

  • Understand how the model becomes part of the larger ecosystem

  • Plan for data acquisition -> data curation -> data guardrails

    • Models fail if guardrails not right

    • Test and try to break the model

  • Avoiding bias

    • Responsibility starts at the collection of data and understanding the sources

      • Ensure data is up to date and keep it up to date

    • Data leaks and privacy are still an issue

  • Explainability

    • Data needs to be timely = only possible with automation and orchestration starting at pre-production

• Ensure that data is sovereign (research shows 65% of data is managed onprem but 90% of organisation don’t have the infrastructure to run it)


Putting Structure into Chaos - How to develop trustworthy AI-Powered workflows


The key to successfully deploying AI is evaluating the AI model = does it fit my purpose?


Classification is easy to assess vs GenAI is more difficult

  • Sampling is the most misunderstood  method

  • Ask what is the confidence interval of the sample size?

  • How much is enough?


It is easier to evaluate the workflow 

  • Back propagating from customer journey

  • Get advice from someone who has built the workflow for your industry



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