Background
Artificial intelligence is already present in a variety of applications all around us in our current World. The year 2020 and COVID19 pandemics accelerated further the digital transformation, and according to Delloite’s report conducted among IT and business executive, 73% considers their organization skilled or even seasoned in AI adoption, and expect that AI will transform their organization or even industries in the next 1 to 3 years.
Still, the full potential of the current state of the art of artificial intelligence is still waiting to be broadly adopted and utilized, and we need to study and discuss how to harness it for sustainable world development.
Building appropriate skills while sharing knowledge on new technical developments, breakthroughs, and data while keeping access to technology and knowledge open so each region of the World can join, benefit from applying new technologies, and be part of the global 4th industrial revolution and future sustainable and circular business models.
Objectives and target audience
The goal of the webinar is to showcase the current state of Artificial intelligence and to create a discussion platform for experts and interested parties to share their insights on AI applications in electronic data exchanges, business process optimization and automation, and possible new use cases and industry changes we can see due to increased adoption and new developments in AI and related fields in the near coming future.
During this webinar, the Advisory Group will invite speakers representing stakeholders in different position of eBusiness and international trade and, ranging from private sector representatives, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, policymakers, to discuss their implementations of Artificial intelligence, ongoing projects, existing use cases, newly risen opportunities together with challenges and obstacles they face implementing such technologies and transferable lessons learned.
The main question to answer and discuss will be:
- How can AI applications lower barriers to entering global markets, making international trade more accessible?
- What are the opportunities and business processes, and scenarios where AI can bring new optimization supporting sustainability?
- How can AI contribute to trade and logistic areas of circular economy?
- To which United Nations Sustainable Development Goals AI can contribute and how?
UNECE welcomes the following groups to participate in this virtual conference:
- UN/CEFACT Bureau members, Domain coordinators and Experts
- Government officials and policy makers with interest in AI
- IT developers and Business practitioners looking for AI related knowledge
- Academia and researches interested in technologies supporting business and international trade.
