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IE Open Day: The New World of Work. Are you ready for the 4th revolution?"

Open Day

PROFILE Master Degrees
EVENT TYPE Conferences
EVENT FORMAT Face to Face events
DATE 1st December 2018
TIME 10:00 - 14:00 (GMT +01:00)
LANGUAGE English
IE Open Day: The New World of Work. Are you ready for the 4th revolution?"

The new paradigm is here to stay enabling opportunities that will shape our future. With sectors changing at an exponential but differentiated rate our habits and way of living face unprecedented change. Bots that can solve our daily problems, drones taxiing us through the cities, additive manufacturing to reduce waste are some of the few examples of the impact of technology. Are we ready for the next generation of change?

AGENDA

10:00 Welcome & Coffee

10:15 – Master Class “Digital transformation in practice: Why? What? How?” | Casimiro Juanes

Digital transformation is nowadays a common term to describe the changes required in any company as a result of digital economies.This session will help us to know the challenges companies face and how to address them through the discussion of real cases and learning from a number of industry examples.

11:30 – Master Class “The 4th IR and How to Capitalize on it: Do we really know what is coming?”| Konstantina Valogianni

The advent of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought new challenges to the way businesses operate and is creating new opportunities that corporations need to capitalize on in order to remain competitive. This talk is aimed at introducing the fundamental machine learning algorithms, analyzing successful business applications.

12:45 – Master Class “Big Data: The Analytical Revolution” | Juan José Casado

Leading companies are scrambling to understand how to use Big Data and analytics to transform the foundations of their businesses. During this session on Data Science, we will cover the basics of what Big Data means, what data scientists do, and how Big Data can help companies to better innovate and improve their inclusion efforts.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Casimiro Juanes is adjunct professor at IE University, where he has for more than 5 years being teaching Digital Innovation and Digital Transformation. Over the course of more than 20 years’ career dedicated to IT and security, he has held numerous roles of increasing responsibility at Ericsson. Currently, Casimiro is Digital Transformation Driver within Group IT.

Konstantina Valogianni is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at IE University. She holds a PhD in Information Systems from Rotterdam School of Management, during which she specialized in designing machine learning algorithms applied in the energy domain, and specifically electric vehicle charging.

Juan José Casado is a Big Data & Advanced analytics expert with 15 years of work experience in consulting focused on helping business from different industries to get the most value from their data. He is founder, Professor & Academic Program Director of the Master in Business Analytics & Big Data at IE, as well as the Data & Analytics Corporate Director at Sanitas.