What insights into digital transformation and AI are available?

Today, there are many times more digital sensors in the world than people. Combining these with advances in computing power and communications technologies, big data and machine learning are now starting to deliver on their promises to transform business and society.
 
Imperial experts are helping businesses to understand the fundamentals of new digital technologies and find ways to apply them to a range of business challenges. They are also helping industry partners to understand the ethical implications of AI and ensure that new technology promotes happiness and wellbeing rather than working against it.

Digital Transformation

Digitalisation and regulatory issues

Drawing on his experiences as Chief Competition Economist for the European Commission, Professor Tommaso Valletti will unpack significant regulatory issues encountered by companies invested in digitalization, such as antitrust and consumer data privacy. He assesses how different big tech companies - Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple in particular - have faired against these regulations and consumer trust over the past 20 years.

 

Digital Transformation: Digitalisation and regulatory issues

Digitalisation and regulatory issues

To succeed as a business based on digital products and platforms and prevent litigative intervention

Drawing on his experiences as Chief Competition Economist for the European Commission, Professor Tommaso Valletti will unpack significant regulatory issues encountered by companies invested in digitalization, such as antitrust and consumer data privacy. He assesses how different big tech companies - Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple in particular - have faired against these regulations and consumer trust over the past 20 years.

 

Digital Transformation: Human-centric design thinking

Digital Transformation: Human-centric design thinking

Discussions around digital transformation in business are of

Dr Ileana Stigliani discusses the value of using Design Thinking to drive digital transformation. By empathising with the needs and pain points of users and by using digital technologies to deliver innovative solutions to meet these needs, this approach, which starts from outside of the organization to drive change internally, helps businesses embrace the complex challenges of digital transformation in a way that is not only human-centred but also more effective.

Digital Transformation: Supporting business with natural lan

Digital Transformation: Supporting business with natural lan

Professor Lucia Specia provides an overview on the most recent developments in NLP

Natural language processing (NLP) technologies can support businesses in various ways by enabling or facilitating human-human (e.g. word prediction, machine translation) and human-machine communication (e.g. chatbots). Professor Lucia Specia provides an overview on the most recent developments in NLP, in particular those based on deep learning, as well as current challenges in the field.

Digital Transformation: The innovation potential of network-

Digital Transformation: The innovation potential of network-

Professor Michael Bronstein discusses the power of network based artificial intelligence

Professor Michael Bronstein discusses the power of network based artificial intelligence to enable product and service innovations in a variety of industry contexts, from healthcare and nutrition through to algorithms to provide more personalised experiences on social media and streaming services such as Netflix