On November 29th, one year on from the release of ChatGPT, Grant Thornton hosted an exciting customer half day event titled “AI Unleashed: Empowering Business Leaders” with sessions focused on sharing lessons learned, practical strategies and approaches for unleashing the value of AI in your organisation.
We were privileged to have Minister Dara Calleary as the keynote speaker. He emphasised the importance of ethical and responsible AI usage and reiterated the supports available to businesses and the upcoming EUAI act in 2024, as Ireland becomes a leader AI Technology. Our Digital Transformation lead Trevor Dunne gave the attendees his perspective on the lessons learned and on why AI provides an exciting and accessible opportunity for all businesses for innovation and growth.
We also learned from Microsoft Ireland's COO Ronan Geraghty about the AI-Powered Organisation, and from Colin O’Brien, Director in Digital Transformation, and Analytics Engines’ Alastair McKinley about how businesses can get started with AI.
Solgari's CEO John Colgan talked us through how their solution makes it easy to provide Rapid and Easy AI Enhanced Customer Service and then H2O.ai's Seth Warner explained how their platform help’s customers Scale their AI Practice and Maximise Business Value.
Finally, we got some expert advice from a distinguished panel on how to realise the promise of AI to boost individual productivity, reshape business processes and transform customer engagement. The panel included Professor Patricia Maguire from UCD, Patrick Ward from Aitheria Partners, Ronan Geraghty as well as Trevor Dunne.
Many thanks to all who contributed and attended, we now look forward to helping our customers as they take their first steps on the amazing journey that AI will bring.
As a next step please click on the link below to access presentations from the event and set up a follow up call.
