Intel AI Summit 2021 is a place to learn, share, and connect with people at the forefront of artificial intelligence and its impact on business, industry, and society.

What can AI do for you? A lot, as the recent Intel® AI Summit 2021 showed. Artificial intelligence opens up a wide range of possibilities, from small devices to massive clouds. Suppose you don’t know where to start or how to develop and scale up your ideas and innovation. If so, content from the two-day summit is now available on-demand to inspire you with the latest in the Intel® AI technology stack, as well as successful use cases from customers in the Asia Pacific Territory and Japan (APJ -T).

AI is no longer the prerogative of connoisseurs. In the keynote, Dr. Nash Palaniswamy provided an overview of Intel® AI strategy: ubiquitous, open and for all. The Vice President, SMG, General Manager, AI, HPC and Data Center Accelerator Solutions and Sales at Intel® also shared the company’s cutting-edge offerings in the field – from hardware and software applications to deployment of AI in cloud and edge ecosystems. His keynote was just the start of a virtual event featuring over 20 industry expert speakers leading over 25 innovative sessions, which you can watch at your leisure through May 2022.

An overview of how users implement AI on the Intel® Architecture (AI) platform was presented by Hong Wei Yi, AI Sales Manager Asia, DCG Sales Group at Intel®. She curated some examples of how AI and the platform led to easier deployment, better performance, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) in various applications such as drug discovery, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), etc.

Take a front-row seat to fireside chats and hear how organizations are doing wonderful things with Intel® AI, such as Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest e-commerce startup, and Max Kelson, a consulting firm. Australian-based AI consultancy.

The Fireside Chat with Tokopedia featured three speakers representing the startup’s collaboration with Intel® and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which has helped the company scale and turn AI into ROI (back on investment): Tahir Hashmi, technical member, and vice president of growth engineering at Tokopedia; Erwin Huizenga, APAC Solution Machine Learning Lead at GCP; and Ayu Ginanti, Head of APJ-T Cloud at Intel®. They discussed how they succeeded, from addressing funding gaps, skills and data challenges, to measuring the success of AI projects as they moved from lab demonstration to everyday life.

Tokopedia was launched in 2009 and became a unicorn six years later. It has been using Google Cloud since 2018. In May, it merged with transportation and payment unicorn GoJek to create the GoTo Group. GoTo is currently Indonesia’s largest digital services platform and contributes around 2% of the country’s GDP, with over 100 million active users. Last July, GoTo announced its collaboration with Google Cloud for its next phase of growth.

“We look forward to our continuation partnership with Intel® and Google Cloud as a key technology partner to support GoTo’s continued expansion into cloud infrastructure, data with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the cloud, and productivity and collaboration with Google Workspace. We hope this partnership will also allow us to provide the convenience of accessing highly available and scalable services from anywhere and anytime for businesses, especially MSMEs and consumers,” said Herman Widjaja, Director of technology, Tokopedia, in the announcement.

Google Cloud is supported by the Intel® architecture, which delivers the most demanding enterprise workloads and application security, compute, and memory requirements.

During this time, meldCX’s breakout presentation shed light on how GCP built its Edge AI solutions on Intel® technology. Joy Chua, executive vice president of strategy and development at meldCX, shared how the independent software vendor (ISV) overcame its business challenges and accelerated its IoT (Internet of Things) journey with basics of IoT. ‘IA. She illustrated the process from product ideation to deployment for clients such as Australia Post and Westpac.

Last year, Australia Post upgraded its parcel shipping with meldCX Concept SALi (Smart Automated Accommodation API) self-service kiosks. The kiosks use machine learning and computer vision technology to scan and detect each package, automating package delivery operations. This led to a 67% reduction in queues and 95% accuracy in recognizing handwritten labels at Australia’s leading postal service provider. Concept SALi leverages Intel® AI technology such as Intel® Core processors, Intel® Movidius™ and Intel® OpenVINO™ toolkit.

Intel® AI Summit on-demand sessions also featured demo presentations with a selection of specialists from Intel® and its partners, namely Databricks, Dell Technologies, Fortanix, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, LAB3, Lenovo Global Technology and L&T Technology Services. All sessions from Day 2 of the summit are also available, such as the keynote from Pradeep K Dubey, Principal Investigator and Director of the Parallel Computing Lab at Intel®, and his special guests. They shared how Intel® technology, software, and innovations are helping pave the way for AI by making it more scalable, productive, powerful, and intelligent.

The Intel® AI Summit 2021 on-demand can be accessed here. Start something amazing with AI today.