Rohit Prasad, VP & Head Scientist of Alexa Artificial Intelligence, Amazon, speaks on “Evolution from keyword searches to AI-enabled conversations” at Center Stage of Web Summit in Altice Arena on November 05, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) 2014 was a formidable year for the Read more…
A major shift is taking place in the oil and gas industry. Whereas it was hard to avoid the impression that O&G companies only adopted new technologies as a last resort in the past—or only for very specific reasons, like using cameras for security—today, companies both big and small are Read more…
Boasting the world’s largest population that also has a disposition for early-technology adoption, China is often looked at as an attractive target for U.S.-based companies that are planning to expand their reach. Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent introduce a Read more…
Guest post by Henri Zietsman, Startup Business Development, Africa, AWS I recently embarked on a journey to bring AWS Startup Days to Johannesburg, Lagos, Accra and Nairobi. AWS Startup Days are free events for early-stage founders, developers, and investors that aim to help early-stage founders build quickly with AWS services. They do Read more…
In 2006, Mike Ford and Mike Rogers were working together at a health tech startup digitizing paper-based claims sent from hospitals to medical funds. At the time, Ford had an investment in a local hostel through which he gained unique insight into how the Internet was disrupting hospitality management. He Read more…
AWS is back in Helsinki, Finland for its third year at the Slush Conference. This year’s event is expected to host 25,000 attendees, including 4,000 startups, and 2,000 investors. For full details on the event, visit https://www.slush.org/events/helsinki Our AWS team will be on site, so drop by and see us at our booth. The Read more…
Ambyint, a Calgary- and Houston-based startup focused on oil & gas well optimization and automation, provides an artificial lift automation and optimization solution to engineering and operations teams that scales production workflows using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and physics-based mathematics. AWS recently caught up with Ambyint CEO Alex Robart Read more…
Prior to co-founding Glia in 2012, Justin DiPietro and Dan Michaeli were working with Accenture as growth and operational consultants for a fortune 500 electronics retailer and Carlos Paniagua was working towards his PhD in real-time embedded systems from the University of Tartu. While their original project was to figure Read more…
When thinking of two types of businesses that are at odds, startups versus enterprises would be a pair that quickly comes to mind. The free-wheeling attitudes that many founders bring to their new companies, with mantras like “move fast and break things,” do not quite translate to how larger corporations Read more…
While Silicon Valley is often credited as the hub for high-tech innovation and development, Europe is where we are seeing new centers of innovation emerging. Sweden, in particular, has positioned itself as a center for excellence for financial technology (fintech) startups, and over the past few years, we’ve seen some Read more…
