The Association is delighted to welcome change management consultants Sia Partners for a virtual event centred on Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used to optimise business decisions.

The session will provide an overview of some of the most common topics tackled nowadays in business: Customer centricity, Marketing and Productivity and connect them to specific macro use cases that are being solved with the help of AI (customer segmentation, recommendation systems, process and route optimization, social listening, sentiment analysis, etc).

Drawing on a number of case studies in which they have first-hand experience, speakers Pierre Leplatois, Partner, and Tiago Pereira, Data Science Manager at Sia Partners, will outline where AI was applied (energy forecast at substations, fraud detection on counterfeit items, route optimization for logistics, social listening) and delve deeper into one of the use cases to explain in detail the benefits and how to enhance business decision making.

Since 2005, Sia Partners Ireland (formerly Pathfinder Consulting) have been delivering value to clients in Ireland and the UK, supporting them to realise business objectives, and developing their resource capabilities to become more customer centric and increase competitive advantage. Based in Dublin’s Silicon Docks area, they are a core part of the Sia Partners global network, working across many industries but with specific depth of experience in Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Technology, Agri business food and Nutrition & Pharma and Life Science.

The virtual event is free to members who may bring a guest. Note members must log in to avail of free entry.

The Association is delighted to invite acclaimed HBR author Alex Lazarow for a virtual fireside chat on Thursday, 1 April  2021 at 6pm.

Alexandre (Alex) Lazarow has spent his career working at the intersection of investing, innovation, and economic development in the private, public, and social sectors. He is the author of Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs – from Delhi to Detroit – Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley (HBR Press). Alex is a venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation, a global firm that invests across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America and has served as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, a financial regulator with the Bank of Canada, and an M&A investment banker.

A regular columnist with Forbes, Alex is an adjunct professor specializing in impact investment and entrepreneurship at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is a Kauffman Fellow, CFA Charterholder, and a Stephen M. Kellen Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The event will be moderated by Frank Dillon of Decision.

This virtual event is free to members who may bring a guest. Note members must log in to avail of free entry.