BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240211T233504Z UID:01CAC059-77DE-47D5-A2AD-3E13786C3855 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20230928T173000 DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20230928T193000 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event Details Full Title: "Peter Coffee: What’s Worth Knowing? Repricing of Skills and Talents in this Epoch of AI"\n\nTechnolo gy Impact on the Worth of Human Talent\n\nTechnology impact on the worth o f human talent and training has been envisioned for decades\, but the conv ersation has taken on new intensity and immediacy in the months since gene rative AI became a part of daily life.\n\nWith his own four decades of exp erience in AI applications\, and his global perspective as a writer\, educ ator\, and VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce\, Peter Coffee will bri ng us his annual update on the trajectories of change in what we’ll do a nd how we’ll do it.\n\nInsights on Generative AI\n\nCompanies which are deploying AI in ways that augment rather than seeking to replace human bei ngs\, will have an edge in attracting and retaining talent as well as a co mpetitive advantage in their markets.\n\nPeter recently wrote an interesti ng article\, called “AI Truth – User Assembly Required” (https://dig inomica.com/ai-truth-user-assembly-required) in which he points out that G PT models built on public data will encounter obstacles – plagiarism\, h allucination\, GDPR compliance -- whereas company-specific models assembli ng enterprise data into a conversational knowledge base may be a far more valuable role. Indeed\, Salesforce is already providing an AI product call ed Einstein GPT. Blackstone uses it in its private wealth management busin ess to contact clients with personalized investment suggestions. Einstein GPT’s features have been compared to Google’s ability to tailor ads to customers’ preferences.\n\nJoin this tech visionary for a glimpse into the future – to better understand the trajectories of change and the pro found impacts of technology in shaping how the world moves forward.\n\nAbo ut the speaker Peter Coffee\n\nPeter Coffee\, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce\, has been with the company for thirteen years. He works with the company's customers\, partners and account teams in areas including co nnected customer engagement\, new data models and methods\, trust technolo gies and practices\, and business applications of AI-derived techniques. H e currently spends most of his time with customers assisting their acceler ation of digital transformation timelines in response to the global pandem ic.\n\nPeter spent his eighteen years pre-Salesforce writing for publicati ons including eWEEK\, Computer Language and AI Expert\, while also publish ing two books and contributing to many others in areas including Java prog ramming\, information governance\, and nanotechnology developments. Before that\, he worked for ten years as an AI applications analyst and desktop computing manager at The Aerospace Corporation\, and in project management roles for various divisions of (what was then) Exxon Corporation in locat ions from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic. He has lectured on innovation practices and AI techniques at Stanford\, CalTech\, Harvard Business Schoo l\, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT\, along with other instituti ons in Singapore\, India and Spain. His current writing often appears at d iginomica.com/author/peter-coffee.\n\nIn the real world\, Peter has been a Boy Scout high-adventure expedition leader\, choral and instrumental comp oser/conductor/performer\, and manager of a Los Angeles-area food bank\; h e is President and co-founder of the Foundation for Intelligent Life on Ea rth\, a Seattle-based nonprofit focusing its immediate attention on food i nsecurity in that region along with its principal ongoing support for clim ate-change research and mitigation.\n\n=================================== ================================\n\nPlease fill out the three question Sur vey for IEEE attendance (last link under "Hosts").\n\nCo-sponsored by: Act ual Host: AITP LA\n\nAgenda: \n5:30 PM - 6:15 PM: Virtual networking (inc luding discussion topics of interest to you with speaker)\n6:15 PM - 7:30 PM: Presentation\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374030 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374030 ORGANIZER:AWBrown@USC.edu SEQUENCE:34 SUMMARY:"Peter Coffee: What’s Worth Knowing: Skills & Talents in Epoch of AI?" an OCCS & AITP LA Virtual Meeting URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374030 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;" ><strong>Virtual Event</strong></span><strong><span style="text-decoration : underline\;"> Details</span>&nbsp\; Full Title: "Peter Coffee: What&rsqu o\;s Worth Knowing? Repricing of Skills and Talents in this Epoch of AI"</ strong></p>\n<p><strong>Technology Impact on the Worth of Human Talent</st rong></p>\n<p>Technology impact on the worth of human talent and training has been envisioned for decades\, but the conversation has taken on new in tensity and immediacy in the months since generative AI became a part of d aily life.</p>\n<p>With his own four decades of experience in AI applicati ons\, and his global perspective as a writer\, educator\, and VP for Strat egic Research at Salesforce\, Peter Coffee will bring us his annual update on the trajectories of change in what we&rsquo\;ll do and how we&rsquo\;l l do it.</p>\n<p><strong>Insights on Generative AI</strong></p>\n<p>Compan ies which are deploying AI in ways that augment rather than seeking to rep lace human beings\, will have an edge in attracting and retaining talent a s well as a competitive advantage in their markets.</p>\n<p>Peter recently wrote an interesting article\, called &ldquo\;AI Truth &ndash\; User Asse mbly Required&rdquo\; (https://diginomica.com/ai-truth-user-assembly-requi red) in which he points out that GPT models built on public data will enco unter obstacles &ndash\; plagiarism\, hallucination\, GDPR compliance -- < strong>whereas company-specific models assembling enterprise data into a c onversational knowledge base may be a far more valuable role</strong>. Ind eed\, Salesforce is already providing an AI product called Einstein GPT. B lackstone uses it in its private wealth management business to contact cli ents with personalized investment suggestions. Einstein GPT&rsquo\;s featu res have been compared to Google&rsquo\;s ability to tailor ads to custome rs&rsquo\; preferences.</p>\n<p>Join this tech visionary for a glimpse int o the future &ndash\; to better understand the trajectories of change and the profound impacts of technology in shaping how the world moves forward. </p>\n<p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>About the spea ker</strong></span><strong> Peter Coffee</strong></p>\n<p align="left"><st rong>Peter Coffee</strong>\, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce\, has been with the company for thirteen years. He works with the company's cus tomers\, partners and account teams in areas including connected customer engagement\, new data models and methods\, trust technologies and practice s\, and business applications of AI-derived techniques. He currently spend s most of his time with customers assisting their acceleration of digital transformation timelines in response to the global pandemic.</p>\n<p align ="left">Peter spent his eighteen years pre-Salesforce writing for publicat ions including eWEEK\, Computer Language and AI Expert\, while also publis hing two books and contributing to many others in areas including Java pro gramming\, information governance\, and nanotechnology developments. Befor e that\, he worked for ten years as an AI applications analyst and desktop computing manager at The Aerospace Corporation\, and in project managemen t roles for various divisions of (what was then) Exxon Corporation in loca tions from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic. He has lectured on innovation practices and AI techniques at Stanford\, CalTech\, Harvard Business Scho ol\, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT\, along with other institut ions in Singapore\, India and Spain. His current writing often appears at diginomica.com/author/peter-coffee.</p>\n<p align="left">In the real world \, Peter has been a Boy Scout high-adventure expedition leader\, choral an d instrumental composer/conductor/performer\, and manager of a Los Angeles -area food bank\; he is President and co-founder of the Foundation for Int elligent Life on Earth\, a Seattle-based nonprofit focusing its immediate attention on food insecurity in that region along with its principal ongoi ng support for climate-change research and mitigation.</p>\n<p align="left ">===================================================================</p>\ n<p align="left"><strong><em>Please</em></strong>&nbsp\;fill out the three question Survey for IEEE attendance&nbsp\;<em><strong>(last link under "H osts").</strong></em></p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>5:30 PM - 6:15 PM:&n bsp\; Virtual networking (including discussion topics of interest to you w ith speaker)<br />6:15 PM - 7:30 PM:&nbsp\; Presentation</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR