IIM Newsletter November 2019

Dear IIM members and affiliates

Since the October IIM newsletter, there was a plethora of interesting events, meetings and happenings related to our industry.  The world of information is not showing any signs of slowing down.  From the world summits on using geographic information and earth observations in Canberra, our own seminar on “Artificial Intelligence at Work” that was broadcasted around the globe, to the opening of the exciting exhibition “SPY: Espionage in Australia” at the National Archives of Australia last night.

You can read about some of the exciting news and interesting activities and themes in this issue.

Your IIM also had our Annual General Meeting, which celebrated a very successful year with activities and events held across our country and set foundations for exciting 2020.

Yours sincerely
Vladimir Videnovic
President

GEO Week provides a unique forum where governments, businesses, the research community, non-for-profit organisations and other communities concerned with the well-being of our planet come together to share views, mature the overall vision for the GEO future, cooperate on issues and create solutions.

Building on the Mexico City Declaration from 2015, the GEO Week 2019 focused on the GEO Strategic Plan aiming to bring the GEO communities together in order to grow the understanding and importance of Earth Observations.  Most of the business decisions today need to carefully consider how they impact the changes of “GEO”, our planet.

Read the report on Geo Week 2019

SPY: Espionage in Australia – an exhibition about intelligence work at the National Archives of Australia
29 November 2019 to 27 April 2020
Read report on Espionage in Australia Exhibition

Artificial Intelligence in Business: Balancing Risk and Reward.
AI technology is evolving faster than expected and is already surpassing human decision making in certain instances. And sometimes, in ways we can’t explain. While many are alarmed by this, AI is producing some of the most effective and dramatic results in business today.
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Age of Intelligence - By Microsoft AI
Age of Intelligence – Democratizing AI to empower individuals, organizations and society towards fulling the promise of holistic growth.
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Microsoft’s vision for AI in the enterprise
At Microsoft, we believe that the enterprise can achieve far more with a comprehensive AI strategy rather than incremental changes through isolated use cases. Our vision for the enterprise is to enable every company to transform by bringing AI to every application, every business process, and every employee—and as a result, achieves more than they ever thought possible.
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A Developer’s Guide to Building AI Applications - Create Your First Intelligent Bot with Microsoft AI
This book will show you how to create your first AI application in the cloud, and in the process learn about the wealth of AI resources and capabilities that are now rapidly becoming available to programmers. The application we create will be an AI-infused Bot, a "Conference Buddy," that helps create a novel Question and Answer experience for the attendees and speakers participating in a conference.
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