Talks
Educating audiences
about the latest advances
in artificial intelligence
I am very fortunate to take the occasional break from architecting machine learning platforms in order to teach executives about the latest and greatest developments in artificial intelligence. I cover a variety of topics and try to incorporate a good mix of: (1) where is the technology now?; (2) where is the technology heading?; (3) how can you prepare your organization for this change?; and (4) what are the ethical implications?
Talks
93
To date, I've spoken at dozens of conferences, meetings, and trainings.
Countries
11
These speaking opportunities have allowed me the opportunity to travel all over the globe
Average Participation Rating
4.9
I solicit feedback from every talk to continually improve and audiences have resonated with my work.
Presented to
Speaking Topics
Understanding the Explosion of Artificial Intelligence:
Past, Present, and Future
Understanding the Explosion of Artificial Intelligence:
Past, Present, and Future
We are living in the midst of an explosion of artificial intelligence that is disrupting entire industries and completely transforming the way we live: new cars now have autopilot for highway driving, email and text messaging applications anticipate our next sentence, our phones recognize our faces and voices, and robots are learning to move and manipulate objects on their own.But if the algorithms behind many of these advances were developed decades ago, why are we only now starting to appreciate the full impact of this disruptive technology? The truth is that the convergence and exponential growth in several foundational building blocks is what’s enabled data scientists to unlock its massive potential. Understanding these unlocks is key to predicting where we should expect to see the biggest transformations in the future.Drawing real-world examples from a variety of different companies and industries, Dr. Michael Housman offers up some insight into why the explosion in artificial intelligence is occurring now, how you can best position your organization to harness the power of these advances, and what the future looks like for the fields of computer vision, natural language understanding and generation, reinforcement learning, and cognitive computing.
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Unpacking the
Black Box:
How to Leverage Recent AI Advances within your Organization
Unpacking the
Black Box:
How to Leverage Recent AI Advances within your Organization
Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have the potential to completely transform virtually every industry. Given the exponential pace of these advances, there are a number of questions that naturally emerge: how can leverage these advances to improve business outcomes? Where do I even begin? With 15 years of experience helping organizations to transform through the intelligent design of artificial intelligence applications, Dr. Housman lays out a simple framework for identifying problems can be fixed with data science, offers up several examples from his own career of organizations that successfully made the leap, and then leads a working session to help participants "think about the black box" to identify immediate opportunities for data science to make an impact and walk them through the process of doing so.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence:
The Third Wave of Digital Disruption
Generative Artificial Intelligence:
The Third Wave of Digital Disruption
In the 1990s, we saw the rise of the consumer web completely change the way we produce and consume digital content. In the 2000s, we saw social media transform the way we share digitized links, images, and videos. And now, in the 2020's, we're in the middle of a third wave of digital disruption as generative artificial intelligence is transforming the way that content is created: images created by DALL-E 2 are photo realistic, ChatGPT can converse intelligently with users about any topic, and Stable Diffusion is creating user avatars. Given the exponential pace of these advances, you may be asking yourself: Where is generative AI headed? How can I help the companies I engage with to leverage these advances and stay competitive within an constantly evolving landscape? Where do I even begin?
With 15 years of experience helping organizations to transform through the intelligent design of artificial intelligence applications, Dr. Michael Housman offers up some insight into how these algorithms work, why the explosion in generative artificial intelligence is occurring now, how you can best position your organization(s) to harness the power of these advances, and what the future looks like for creation of digital art, movies, pictures, books, articles, and other media. He will also lay out a simple framework for identifying problems can be fixed with these new tools and offer up several examples of organizations that are already making the leap. He concludes by leading a working session to help participants “unpack the black box” to identify immediate opportunities for organizations to leverage generative artificial intelligence and walk them through the process of executing against that roadmap.Read More
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Testimonials
Dr. Michael Housman is a faculty member at the EY Tech University, teaching in our Disruptive Tech Program. He specializes in AI and quantum computing, and consistently impresses senior clients and partners with his engaging, informative, and accessible lectures. Incorporating humor and practical insights, he receives high feedback scores for his up-to-date content. I highly recommend him as an expert on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence.
Riaz Shah
EY Partner and Global Learning Leader
With the sudden emergence of ChatGPT late last year, we found that our partners and investors were asking us questions about what to do with the new technology. We brought in Dr. Michael Housman to explain how generative artificial intelligence worked and how they could leverage it within their businesses. He did an incredible job unpacking the dense subject matter and making it accessible to a lay audience while also giving them a framework for solving problems they encounter. All of the audience members were raving about his talk afterwards and I cannot recommend him more highly as a subject matter expert and a speaker!
Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje
Managing Partner, B37 Ventures
PepsiCo organized an executive leadership meeting in Athens and we brought in Singularity University to help us think exponentially and expose us to disruptive technologies. We decided to add Dr. Michael Housman to our program because of the rapid growth and adoption of generative AI models like ChatGPT and he did not disappoint! He provided us with an overview of how they work, where the ecosystem is headed, and potential implications for our business. Everyone walked away with a much deeper understanding of how generative AI is going to transform our business and how we can harness those tools to shape the future instead of letting it happen!
Celso Borges Shimabukuro
Vice President & Head of e-Commerce Europe, PepsiCo
I am sincerely grateful for the fantastic presentation Dr. Michael Housman delivered at our ILLT offsite. His insights into the world of AI were truly eye-opening - I think everyone in the room was completely blown away, and potentially slightly terrified too!! His passion and ability to communicate the concepts in such a clear and accessible manner really were inspiring, and despite the fact he was only with us virtually, the audience were captivated. It was a really solid foundation for the work we did in the afternoon on identifying further areas of our business that could benefit from the application of AI technology.
Kellie Deayton
Head of Business Management – Individual Life, TAL