This talk covers work being done in the Retail and Consumer Products industries, where there is a need to track and trace live goods including plants and food. The technical aspects of how to implement this will be covered including where Internet of Things (IoT) sensors are leveraged to provide location, status, and state to know previous, current, and future provenance of products materials, and consumer goods. Blockchain, sensors, and analytics will be covered in specifically how they are used in various examples.
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Abstract:
Phil and his Salesforce colleagues, Sonke Rohde and Steven Tamm, shared cutting-edge ML research as applied to hyper-personalized commerce and enterprise systems. They peeled under the cover of the successful Salesforce "platform" as a triumph of the monolith as a system engineering pattern. He provided an honest assessment of how a silicon valley company approaches innovation while balancing customer demands and diverse ethical concerns around the world.
