Trescon's World AI Show Inches Jakarta Closer to its AI Vision

JAKARTA, Indonesia - July 14, 2020 - PRLog -- Organized by Trescon, the 15th global edition of World AI Show (https://jakarta.worldaishow.com/) focusing on the Indonesian AI market kicked-off with over 500 attendees including top AI, RPA & Cloud service providers and senior-level decision-makers from enterprises and governments.

The virtual conference addressed the uses of AI to tackle the city's governance, people, living, mobility, economy, and environmental issues and the Indonesian government's declaration of AI as one of the strategic technologies of its "Making Indonesia 4.0" roadmap.

Dr Ir Hammam Riza, President, Agency of Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Government of Indonesia, added that the Indonesia Artificial Intelligence National Strategy will provide the data ecosystem and infrastructure that supports AI's contribution to national development.

Supported by the KEMKOMINFO (Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of Indonesia) and endorsed by Jakarta Smart City, World AI Show featured powerful keynotes, tech talks and panel discussions from major AI and cloud-based solution architects. Speakers who joined the conversation included Yangqing Jia, Vice President and Senior Computing Platform BU, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, USA; Soon Hyung Hwang, Product Market Manager, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Singapore; Inu Wikantiyoso, Senior Account Manager, Darktrace, Indonesia; Sigrid Rouam, Global Director Data Science & Data Analytics for Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore; Kaspar Situmorang, Executive Vice President, PT Bank Rakyat, Indonesia and Sutowo Wong, Director, Analytics and information management, Ministry of Health, Singapore among others.

"Today, one thing that is really important is data. The accumulation of huge data is immensely valuable. You want to protect it and have the infrastructure to store them and process them" said Yangqing Jia, as he covered the various ways in which Alibaba Cloud's IoT Solutions can help build an automated solution with fully integrated, data-driven and highly scalable cloud computing solutions.

Keynote speakers touched upon major topics such as Leveraging Digital Transformation through Indonesia's AI National Strategy; AI and Public Sector, Coronavirus Outbreak: How Cloud Technologies; AI and ML are helping us deal with the pandemic; How AI is Changing Enterprises; How Banks and Financial Institutions are making the most of AI; and How AI Will Shift Customer Experience to the Next Level; and more.

World AI Show - Jakarta 2020 was Officially Sponsored by - Lead Sponsor - Alibaba Cloud, Platinum Sponsor - Darktrace, Gold Sponsor - Microsoft and Silver Sponsor – Intetics. Exhibitors at the show included NeoSoft, Neuro.net, SpaceDC and Telkom.