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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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Leading startups hubs: Barcelona 6th place!

Apiumhub

Ship2B is an organisation that accelerates and invests in startups that have a social impact. Twenty50 – is a global talent hub, the first multidisciplinary social platform based in cooperation, exchange and thought. By the way, in 2016 Barcelona was ranked the second smartest city in the world by Juniper Research.

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AoAD2 Practice: Alignment

James Shore

Maybe you’ve had that experience, too: being part of a great sports team, a band, or a volunteer group. 1 This agenda is based on [Larsen and Nies 2016] (Chapter 6), with some changes. Violations of social agreements are trickier, but it’s still best to start by assuming good faith. But we’ve also heard stories of amazing teams.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This created a de-facto duopoly long before either company had proven that it has a sustainable business model. However, Hoffman and Yeh do a good job of explaining the conditions in which blitzscaling makes sense: The market has to be really big; there has to be a sustainable competitive advantage (e.g.,