Rise of Data-Driven Intelligence

We are heading to an era where linear thinking has no place since the possibilities for the creation of our organization is limitless and every scenario is possible. As a consequence, our future is destined to become variable and uncertain due to the multitude of choices we will make. In order to overcome these limitations, there are many proposed platforms and solutions. However, most of these are trying to create intelligence from existing data disconnected from knowledge and human wisdom, ignoring the social contexts by analyzing past transactions and interactions with probabilistic predictions into potential futures. As a result, huge energy and cost are spent without concrete outcomes due to the high pace of changes in our societies and behaviors.

A new AI is required to align with the speed of value creation and changes.

• Define Artificial Intelligence and its role
• Learn the difference between Conventional AI versus Linguistic AI
• Learn how to make decisions that are based on value (Key Value Indicators) instead of past performance (Key Performance Indicators)
• How to leverage existing data and systems that have been invested in so far and move into a digital era without data integration

Speaker: Walid el Abed

Dr. Walid el Abed is a French linguist and computer scientist, and is known for the proposition of a new model called the Semantic Meta Model (SMM) (Meta Modèle Sémantique - MMS). He was born on September 20, 1968. He is the founder and CEO of Global Data Excellence. He is a worldwide renowned expert and visionary in AI and data-related topics, with 30 years of on-field experience across various sectors.

He started his career in 1995 in the automotive industry before moving to the IT sector in 1998 and then to the financial and business consulting sector in 2001. After diverse missions for large financial, manufacturing enterprises and governments, Dr. el Abed joined the food & beverage industry at Nestlé headquarters as a Business Excellence Manager driving the data strategy for the group.
In 1996, he created the first human-computer dialog in natural language: Nixus (Natural Intelligence eXpanded Universe System) when the idea of a dialog between humans and machines was in its infancy.

Since 2000, Dr. Walid el Abed has introduced and taught the Data Excellence discipline at the Tesnière Centre specialized in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at the University of Franche-Comté and also at the CNAM (Centre National des Arts et Métiers) and Paris Dauphine University, and finally at the Fribourg University of Law as a philosophical, economic, political and organizational model.

In 2007 he founded Global Data Excellence (GDE). GDE is a Swiss ICT company based in Geneva. The entire philosophy of the sustainable business of GDE relies on a new discipline, the governance by value allowing perpetual excellence. This innovative discipline is made possible by a holistic framework embedded into a software system : DEMS (the Data Excellence Management System) with the vision to elevate data to excellence empowering a data-driven society governed by value/ or objectives.