September 2024 Tech Upload
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WI Tech Month is a month-long celebration of the tech industry in Wisconsin that has taken place since 2021. WI Tech Month provides a platform for companies, organizations, and individuals to showcase their innovations, expertise, and accomplishments. Join us in |
A lot has happened in the past year since generative AI burst onto the scene. Join us at our 2024 Tech Summit as we revisit this technology and dive into the advancements and current state of AI one year later. Interact with industry leaders from Gartner, Microsoft, and Google. You’ll explore how organizations have positioned themselves in the past year, discuss the ongoing impact of AI on your business, and understand successful strategies for piloting and implementing AI technologies. |
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What’s in the DNA of the Connected Future?
In a digital landscape where rapid technological advancements are around every corner, data centers, networks and AI are converging as the foundational “DNA” that will define a more innovative and well-connected future.
How do we ensure strong connectivity in the digital age? By embracing the DNA of the connected future. As the backbone of digital infrastructure, data centers process, store and safeguard vast amounts of data. Reliable networks act as connective tissue, powering real-time analytics, cloud applications and seamless global connectivity. And AI and automation technology, key drivers of recent technological advancements, enable streamlined operations, increased efficiency and better-informed decision-making. Together, these elements form the DNA that will empower extraordinary digital transformation.
Are you ready to protect against AI-generated cyberthreats?
2 key steps to protect your data
To protect your organization against malicious use of generative AI, you need a multilayered cybersecurity strategy. A strong approach that blends preventive, investigative and reactive measures is your best chance of warding off cybercriminals.
2 key cyber protection competencies
In this period of artificial intelligence, businesses require two key cyber protection competencies:
- Artificial intelligence for detection
- Assessment through advanced attack simulation
Here are the common ways they can use AI to breach your cyber defenses:
- Social engineering
- Phishing
- Spamming
- Malware attacks
- Fraud
5 Tips for an Effective CX Strategy
Elevate your customer experience transformation efforts with these tips.
The customer experience can make or break a buying decision, but brands can elevate their CX through holistic digital transformation. An effective CX strategy includes a smart transformation partnership to scale your customer experience and complement your modernization goals.
Intrigue Your Customers
With an effective CX strategy, companies can surpass customers’ lofty expectations and inspire loyalty. How? By embracing digital transformation as an integral part of delivering a better customer experience.
Transform While You Perform: Build a Winning CX Strategy
When innovation meets market demand, brands amplify what they can accomplish. Discover five tips to elevate your CX strategy in this infographic:
Elevate Your Organization with Effective SaaS Operations Management
By Ryan Mosher
Heartland Business Systems (HBS)
Today, Software as a Service (SaaS) is worth over $195 billion—increasing in size by 500% since 2015—and is considered the most critical technology in business success.
The SaaS revolution—which unofficially began in 1999 when Salesforce launched its customer relationship management platform—now accounts for more than 70% of company software use.
While SaaS has gifted organizations with a vast arsenal of cloud-based tools, it has also presented complex challenges that must be managed effectively so that all of that great software is a help, and not outweighed by the complexity of managing it.
Chances are, SaaS is a major part of your organization and will continue to grow in importance. How you choose to manage SaaS—or not manage SaaS—will be just as significant as the software itself.
Other IT News
Supersize Your Brain Power
UW-Green Bay Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Noncredit Certificate
Leverage AI to increase efficiency, boost profitability and deliver more business value.
Machine learning mimics the problem-solving and data-processing capabilities of human intelligence. Learning how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) will enable you to respond to changing business situations faster and more informed. Adopting AI will contribute to enhanced efficiencies, profitability and competitive advantage.
Classes start September 23 and run through November 20. Program is virtual. Registration is now open!
What is WRAP and how can it help train AI more efficiently?
By George Fitzmaurice
IT Pro
Web rephrase augmented pre-training (WRAP) could be key for helping businesses shape existing content to better suit AI training
Generative AI is booming, though developers are quickly running into obstacles, from the high energy demands of AI compute to the complex infrastructure required to train systems.
For the latter, data is of the utmost importance. Stockpiles of clear, quality data are vital for those companies looking to train and build their own AI models. Getting data pools in order is a key part of the early development process.
One novel theory for making this process easier is web rephrase augmented pre-training (WRAP), a technique put forward by researchers at Apple and Carnegie Mellon University in a paper published earlier this year.
From raw data to real profits: A primer for building a thriving data business
By Ari Libarikian, Kayvaun Rowshankish, Markus Berger-de León, and Vishnu Kamalnath
McKinsey Digital
Almost two centuries ago, Lewis Tappan and John M. Bradstreet illustrated the potential for turning data into a profitable product. At the time, businesses and merchants were expanding their operations and needed a reliable way to determine the creditworthiness of potential partners. Bankers and investors were eager for more consistent, objective information in this burgeoning economy to guide their lending and investment decisions. Tappan and Bradstreet established firms dedicated to collecting, analyzing, and selling data, along with the insights they derived from it. Their firms filled a critical gap in the market, eventually merging to form Dun & Bradstreet.
Fast-forward to today, when companies are often awash in data and trying to figure out if they can turn it into a business. The answer isn’t obvious. Building a data business is not for every institution, especially in a field where a few dominant players with massive advantages in data already exist. However, the potential rewards can be immense for companies that can unlock unique data, analytics, or organizational know-how to create a product that addresses an untapped market opportunity.
More colleges are offering AI degrees — could they give job seekers an edge?
NBC News identified at least 13 major colleges and universities that now offer bachelor’s degrees in artificial intelligence.
By Victoria Feng
NBC News
As artificial intelligence continues to attract attention and investors, colleges and universities are beginning to market undergraduate AI degrees to students, from Arizona State University to the University of Texas at Dallas.
New graduates are coming into a rough tech job market. While computer science degrees were once seen as a golden ticket to high-paying tech jobs, now, it’s become harder to land tech internships or entry-level positions with increased competition and major cuts across the industry.
But AI majors and professors are hopeful that a more specialized course of study may help graduates stand out.
NBC News identified 13 major colleges and universities that began offering bachelor’s degrees in AI in the last six years.