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The AI-focused virtual summit, DataNext: Putting AI innovation into action, successfully concluded on March 22, 2022. The event saw the participation of over 1000+ industry stakeholders across businesses, 40+ speakers, and 15+ immersive demos and industry-specific solutions to improve business outcomes powered by data, analytics and AI

These sessions gave an in-depth insight into some of the best practices and megatrends curated with exclusive live showcases of technological innovations, immersive demos, hands-on labs, and more. Some of the speakers and delegates who participated in the day-long digital event included Gramener CEO Anand S, Flipkarts SVP, and Head of Analytics and Applied Sciences Ravi Vijayaraghavan; Microsoft Asias GM Data and AI Renee Lo; Microsoft India CTO Dahnesh Dilkhush, among others.

At the opening session, Anand S from Gramener, who spoke on Natural intelligence: Teaching humans to use data, highlighted the importance of telling stories with data and how businesses can leverage this to present their data vividly.

Dont share the analysis. Dont share the data. Instead, share the insights as complete stories, said Anand S, saying that the real effectiveness of clear storytelling comes with practice.

Following that, in an exclusive spotlight session, Flipkarts SVP Vijayaraghavan spoke on Analytics and Data Science for E-commerce overview and use cases on Customer Experience. In one of the most insightful sessions of the Microsoft DataNext event, he explained how the Indian eCommerce giant uses analytics and data science techniques to solve multiple business problems and enhance the customer experience in real-time. The session predominantly focused on applications of consumer modelling by leveraging various AI/ML techniques and statistical methods in driving a better experience for its customers.

This was followed by a keynote presentation from Microsoft Asias GM data and AI Renee Lo, where she spoke on the topic Future of Decisions: A Chief Digital Officers Top of Mind. Here, she addressed some of the underlying factors driving digital transformation today, and how business leaders and CDOs can navigate through ambiguity.

She said that businesses should look at the entire landscape and not just a data platform. Further, she emphasised that businesses should look at their people, operating model and executive strategy, to ultimately work on big business use cases, impacting the entire organisation.

The one-day Microsoft DataNext event had exciting industry-focused roundtable discussions, deep-dive tech workshops and solution demos across diverse topics and formats.

The keynote speech was followed by a roundtable discussion on how CDOs can enable data-driven culture within organisations. The session was moderated by Biswajit Das, Director at KPMG, alongside other industry leaders, including Microsoft India CTO of Azure Dahnesh Dikhush, Innominds Meduri Ravi Kumar, Happiest Minds Technologies Ajay Agarwal, eClerxs Gokulraj Perumal, Capillary Technologies Gaurav Mehta, CMS Info Systems Rohit Kilam, and Cigniti Technologies Rajesh Pawar.

Other tech roundtable discussions included:

Besides these tech roundtable discussions, Microsoft DataNext had a series of workshops around data modernisation, cloud-scale analytics, and Azure AI from leading solution experts across Asia, Australia and India, comprising topics such as

Microsoft DataNext summit was curated in collaboration with Analytics India Magazine. The event was aimed to help business and technology leaders understand and unlock the next wave of data and AI solutions for accelerated growth.

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Microsoft DataNext: 'Putting AI Innovation into Action' ended on a successful note - Analytics India Magazine