SPS Connect 11/25 - 10:15 - 10:55 a.m.
AI: from automation to the digital business model
Artificial intelligence is probably the most important basic technology of our time. The current focus of AI use is on the automation of existing processes.
However, experience to date in the digital economy shows that digital companies rarely achieve their competitive advantages by optimizing what already exists, but almost always by inventing new business models. Those who link technology and economics correctly will find many starting points for data- and AI-driven business models.
Dr. Holger Schmidt, digital economist, speaker, lecturer at TU Darmstadt and Managing Director of Deix Digital Economy Investments, welcomes you to the lecture "Artificial intelligence: from automation to digital business models".
Date: November 25, SPS Connect - 10:15 - 10:55 a.m.
About Dr. Holger Schmidt
Dr. Holger Schmidt teaches digital transformation at TU Darmstadt, writes books and columns for Handelsblatt and is the inventor of the platform index. As a business editor, primarily for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he has followed the digital transformation closely for two decades. His main topics are the platform economy, artificial intelligence and digital business models. In the 1990s, the economist wrote his doctoral thesis on the welfare effects of climate protection.
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