AI Everywhere

Rick Villars

Group Vice President Worldwide Research

Crawford Del Prete

President

Post pandemic, our world is increasingly digitally enabled. On this foundation, we are moving into an unprecedented era of automation, fueled by generative AI. Understanding these seismic shifts is a constantly moving target. There is however, one certainty; the role of technology will only increase in importance, and differentiated data and insights will remain mission critical to capturing value and maintaining a competitive edge. In this session hear from Crawford Del Prete, President of IDC, on how IDC is seizing the automation opportunity to innovate for long-term success.

Meredith Whalen

Chief Research Officer

The tech industry is at a seminal moment as GenAI launches us into a new leg of the digital journey - AI Everywhere. The combination of executive level interest, clearly defined outcomes, and rapid adoption of Generative AI moves AI from an emerging software segment in the stack to a lynch-pin technology at the center of a platform transition. We will see a move from narrow AI to widening AI with a massive reduction in time and costs to develop automation and intelligence use cases. Enterprises’ relationship with data will drastically change in terms of how value is extracted from both structured and unstructured data. Most significantly, the way in which work is performed will be forever altered.
In this session, Meredith Whalen will present a five-year outlook on how Generative AI will transform enterprises and preview IDC’s worldwide 5-year outlook for generative AI spending. Ms. Whalen will also outline how business functions and industries will be transformed by sharing IDC’s FutureScape Generative AI predictions along with IDC’s latest primary research about buying intentions, including top use cases. The most pressing concerns and challenges tech buyer’s will face in 2024 will be discussed and what tech suppliers can do to address them.

Bob Parker

Senior Vice President, Research

As spending shifts quickly to Generative AI use cases, technology markets must adapt and expand to meet demand. New concepts like foundation models, application specific infrastructure, deep trust, and converged software and services will define markets and determine success. The business models employed by technology vendors will also have to be refined with significant consequences for revenue recognition and profit margins.
In this session, Bob Parker will present the IDC consensus view on the market segmentation that will result from these forces. He will provide a timeline for how these segments will develop and become increasingly relevant shares of the overall technology market. Bob will also offer guidance on what companies should be doing today to take full advantage of the opportunity.

Gail Fulciniti

Group Vice President, Global Product Management

With the reach of analyst expertise across technology, industry and regions, IDC’s global research point of view on Gen AI includes advising our customers on how to overcome challenges and maximize opportunities during this significant time of transformation. Learn how IDC’s Gen AI research strategy leverages the span and depth of our collective analyst knowledge to rapidly deliver relevant, actionable, and impactful research throughout IDC’s AI product portfolio and beyond.

Experience IDC's products in a new way. Participants will be broken into two groups to experience IDC's new and existing products. There will be a short presentation in each session along with the ability to demo new products and gain additional insight. Join us in our Go To Market Room and our Data & Analytics Room to learn more.

Much of the investment in AI based applications will focus on use cases that are specific to an industry. In this session, we will provide examples of these applications from three industries. Each of these case studies will show how foundation models are being used to transform these industry activities in meaningful ways to deliver outsized returns.

Nimita Limaye

Research Vice President

Nimita Limaye will discuss how AI is changing drug development.

Adelaide O’Brien

Research Vice President

Adelaide O’Brien will discuss how government is addressing vulnerabilities and moving forward in Generative AI.

Ananda Chakravarty

Research Vice President

Ananda Chakravarty, Research Vice President, will show how AI is being applied to the complex process of merchandise planning.

Dr. Parag Mallick

Founder & Chief Scientist, Nautilus Biotechnology
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