Richard Jones

VP APAC Dataiku

Richard has been a regular speaker and panelist within IT Industry events across APAC over the last 15 years. He is based out of Singapore and has been living in APAC for 17+ years. He has spent the best part of 25+ years working in both vendors and customer landscapes. He has specialized within the Data Domain within customers & disruptive technology domain within vendors his whole career. Has led and scaled multiple companies across the APAC and is very excited to be building and leading the Dataiku team to support international growth. Hobbies are hiking, golf, cooking, snowboarding and deep-sea fishing, and anything that has an engine will be a sure way to get him to engage in activites. He is master training of NLP and fascinated to understand more how the human mind makes decisions and how the impacts of AI support everyday business activities

APAC Day- 8 Sep

11:00 AM Economics of Scaled AI

Benefits cases for AI capability are stuck in the dark ages: delivering projects that convinced your stakeholders to invest in the first place are not sufficient to ensure long-term success. This creates risk that just as you are getting up to speed, the rules change and value you already delivered moves on to someone else’s balance sheet, leaving you with a dilemma. Having already harvested the low-hanging fruit, do you ask for more investment with less certainty on ROI, or try to do more with less?