{"id":57930,"date":"2023-08-21T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-my-161844363.ap-southeast-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/articles\/?p=57930"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:09:36","slug":"dataai-world-tour-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/dataai-world-tour-malaysia","title":{"rendered":"Is Malaysia Ready For A World Of Data And AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premier Data and AI company, Databricks, brings the Data + AI World Tour to Malaysia, marking our first-ever event of its kind in the country. The Data + AI World tour is a global event.\u00a0 Currently, it has stops in more than 30 cities across 5 continents this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Malaysian leg of the tour was held in Kuala Lumpur, and gathered hundreds of data and AI experts and visionaries to connect and share best practices. This tour is aimed at creating awareness about large language models (LLMs), the lakehouse paradigm and Databricks\u2019 latest product Innovations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The theme of this year\u2019s tour is Generation AI. It highlights\u00a0 the inflection point reached with the rise in the popularity of LLMs. This will be a catalyst for how every company reimagines its data, product, and corporate strategies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaysian attendees had the opportunity to hear from top experts about actionable best practices and compelling insights. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pioneering companies like PETRONAS, Ikano Retail, UEM Edgenta and Aerodyne Group participated to share their highlights as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keynote speakers included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phuah Aik-Chong, Chief Executive Officer at PETRONAS Digital<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chari T.V. Thirumala, Board Member at UEM Sunrise, RedOne, Phil Tower and AirAsia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ir. Dr. Lim Eu Shawn, Chief Global Solutions Officer, Aerodyne<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Rorig, Head of Data, Ikano Retail<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chua Yong Howe, Chief Digital Officer, UEM Edgenta<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an organization and big data processing platform working with more than 10,000 organisations worldwide, Databricks Lakehouse Platform helps businesses to unify their data, analytics and AI.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt Ikano Retail, our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. By partnering with Databricks, we aim to become a data-informed organisation, by democratising data and providing the right insights at the right time and place, allowing us to improve operational efficiency and enhance our customers\u2019 shopping experience. As the exclusive IKEA franchisee in multiple countries, we believe actionable insights derived from our Databricks-powered Lakehouse will help us to better serve our customers through personalised omnichannel experiences in today\u2019s dynamic retail landscape,&#8221; said Michael Rorig, Head of Data, Ikano Retail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are excited to bring the Data + AI World Tour to over 30 cities in 5 continents and to host this event in Kuala Lumpur for the very first time for our Malaysian data and AI community. This is a pivotal moment in the AI revolution and we are seeing an incredible AI momentum in ASEAN now,\u201d said Ed Lenta, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Databricks Asia Pacific &amp; Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Data + AI World tour brings together AI leaders from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":57933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[1279,1280,1278,1281,1283,982,1282,1284],"class_list":["post-57930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data","tag-databricks","tag-ikano-retail","tag-news","tag-petronas-digital","tag-uem-edgenta"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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