{"id":24801,"date":"2020-09-01T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/?p=24801"},"modified":"2020-12-18T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T07:08:49","slug":"ai-toronto-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/ai-toronto-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"What AI Looked Like in 2019 and What It Will be After \u2018AI Toronto 2020\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/itech-conference-2020-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iTech Conference 2020<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, AI Toronto 2020 &#8211; a two-day long AI-centric conference and expo &#8211; is also going virtual.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">According to its official website, Canada\u2019s top data and analytics event will be now delivered exclusively online on September 29-30, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">AI Toronto 2020 is hosting 200+ speakers and 100+ AI-related solution providers through a virtual exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-large;\"><b>Topics that will be covered in AI Toronto 2020<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What can be the discussion between two persons practising AI very actively?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I often notice team members of our AI team discussing common yet significant two questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">How to make current AI solutions more accessible?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What are the future trends in the AI industry?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">However, the specific topics would revolve around AI governance, accessible AI for small businesses, computer vision, AI automation, and decentralized AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Glorious Previous Years of AI Toronto<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">That was epic! &#8211; 4600 attendees!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In 2019, AI Toronto was organized on June 12-13 with over 70 exhibitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Many well-versed AI experts from different industries presented their thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Snowflake &#8211; cutting edge cloud data platform &#8211; was one of the sponsors of the event along with the University of Waterloo, MariaDB, Datameer, DarkTrace and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The following video giving a glimpse of the 2018 version of the AI Toronto is worth watching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Big Data and AI Toronto 2018\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYd6wQIxWu4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Coming to the major motive of writing this blog, let\u2019s discuss how the Canadian AI ecosystem has evolved and where it is heading.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Canadian AI Ecosystem &#8211; Before AI Toronto 2020<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A government-funded AI research centre &#8211; the rarest thing &#8211; is what Canada has!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vector Institute &#8211; launched in 2017 &#8211; is a government-funded <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corporation dedicated to research in the field of artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">At present, Vector is working with more than 40 industry sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It is also providing AI training to students and building an army of local talents for local companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This training helps companies to hire local talents, expand the business and raise significant funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">44 companies have already raised funding with direct or indirect help from Vector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">They recently released their next 3-year strategy and it looks promising!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<center>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Excited to announce our new 3-year strategy! Built around 4 key pillars, it aims to bolster Canada\u2019s place as a premier hub of AI talent &amp; research, increase AI adoption in industry &amp; health care, and support high-level talent development. Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bP3ka5T8Ei\">https:\/\/t.co\/bP3ka5T8Ei<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kQ9Z0Sjo9E\">pic.twitter.com\/kQ9Z0Sjo9E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vector Institute (@VectorInst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VectorInst\/status\/1273731663256858629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n<\/center>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In essence, the Vector Institute is the top pillar of the Canadian AI ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Another important pillar is Canadian startups leveraging AI technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Coveo<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Coveo is a SaaS company offering a platform for intelligent enterprise search and predictive insights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a new round of funding worth $172 million, the valuation of Coveo already crossed $1 billion last year. [<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/11\/06\/coveo-raises-227m-at-1b-valuation-for-ai-based-enterprise-search-and-personalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Techcrunch<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It utilizes AI for customer behaviour analytics so that businesses can serve the right information to the right customers at the right time to increase sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Element AI<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">CAD$5 million from the government of Canada plus $100 million USD in the first funding round &#8211; that\u2019s how successful Element AI is!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It owns several useful products working on AI technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">One such product is Knowledge Scout that turns data into actionable insights and enables users to get insights into data very easily by typing queries in natural language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Another product is Document Intelligence that extracts data from several documents automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>OTTO Motors<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It is a robotics company that is building smart fully autonomous robots for heavy lifting and material handling in the warehouses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Recently, in June 2020 &#8211; even during the pandemic &#8211; they have successfully raised $29 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">They leverage AI to give ability related to dynamic interaction and obstacle avoidance to the robots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Otto Motors Is Bringing Self-Driving Vehicles to the Manufacturing Floor\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zshAly6fUhY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Canadian AI Ecosystem &#8211; After AI Toronto 2020<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Let\u2019s address this with the future trend in AI!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The major future trend our AI engineers and business experts are anticipating is the fusion of AI and software-based automation called <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/intelligent-process-automation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intelligent automation<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or AI automation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And most importantly, it will take the industries by storm within the next 6 to 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><i>But how AI automation works and where we can use it?<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">To understand the working on AI automation, let\u2019s first understand the basic software-based automation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It is called software-based automation because of the software program which gets installed on the computer and performs web or system-based tasks automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The limitation of this basic automation is that it can only automate a process with fixed input and output.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Here is where AI automation comes into the picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">AI provides intelligence to the software program responsible for performing tasks automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Because of the intelligence, the software can now automate a task even with dynamic input and output.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Using AI automation, you can automate many labour-intensive tasks such as,<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Invoice Processing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Payroll Processing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Email Communication<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hiring &amp; Onboarding<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Product Categorization<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">PDF Data Extraction<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>We don\u2019t just discuss AI, but execute AI in automation, mobile apps and managed IT services.<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Our AI team has been following the AI Toronto event since its inception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We aim to keep the Canadian economy thriving by helping businesses grow using affordable AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Thus, we automate the first 2 processes without charging anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re also revolutionizing <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/managed-it-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">managed IT services<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with AI.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Using AI, we make IT support rapid that increases system uptime and saves our customers\u2019 operating costs. AI also makes us deliver high ROI and low TCO to our customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We also develop AI-enabled mobile apps across all industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">At the end of the day, we are limitless when it comes to AI execution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For any business challenge, you can get a free consultation session with our AI engineer by filling out the following form.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/contact\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image.png\" alt=\"Schedule One-on-One- Meeting\" width=\"914\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image.png 914w, https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image-768x270.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/a><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like iTech Conference 2020, AI Toronto 2020 &#8211; a two-day long AI-centric conference and expo &#8211; is also going virtual. 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