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Paul Daugherty, Accenture | Technology Vision 2018

Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Accenture, sits down with Jeff Frick at Accenture's Technology Vision 2018 in San Francisco, CA. https://siliconangle.com/2018/03/06/m... Machines now call the tune. Are we ready to dance? As guests mingled among the appetizers and food at Accenture’s Technology Vision event last month in San Francisco, California, jazz music played in the background. The band improvised a number of classic standards, which was noteworthy because one of the players was Shimon, a robot, and it was playing a mean marimba. The presence of a jazz-playing robot was fitting because the theme of the evening was the intersection of human and machine, highlighting the release of Accenture PLC’s “Technology Vision 2018” report. It documented the need for enterprises to fully understand emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality and cloud computing. The robot’s musical accompaniment offered yet another example of civilization’s inexorable march to a world where machines are part of daily life, doing just about everything humans can do in real time. “We’re talking about a fundamentally different role that companies need to play as they’re thinking about the next evolution of the products and services they’re offering to their customers,” said Paul Daugherty (pictured), chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture. “We believe that the future is really about human plus machine working together.” Daugherty spoke with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the Accenture Technology Vision event to discuss the firm’s work in extended reality, use cases for virtual technology, Daugherty’s recent participation in the World Economic Forum, and the importance of training a workforce for the future. This week theCUBE features Paul Daugherty as our Guest of the Week. Embracing extended reality The importance of how people interact with technology, and what that will ultimately mean for business, has led Accenture to form its own Extended Reality group. This new division focuses on assisting companies to create and deliver customer experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and other immersive technologies. Examples of how this translates in the enterprise are plentiful. One of Accenture’s projects involved creating the BMW i Visualiser, which employed augmented reality to transform the car-buying experience. Through a smartphone-driven app, BMW customers interact with a virtual version of what they might want to purchase. The integration of 3D product data and Google’s Tango technology lead buyers through an AR experience that allows users to create and move around in a life-sized virtual car. BMW was looking for an approach that would entice millennial buyers who loathe the traditional salesperson-guided car shopping experience. “The average kid spends about eight-and-a-half hours in front of a screen,” Daugherty said. “It’s a pivot point in terms of thinking about how companies provide technology.” That race to capture screen time becomes especially important when the amount of actual usage gets factored into the equation. The research firm dscout Inc. published a report last year that documented the results from a user group study that monitored every swipe, type and touch on a smartphone. The results showed an average of 2,600 times per day that people touch their phones, with the heaviest users exceeding 5,000 times. Numbers like these highlight the need to adopt emerging technologies for a variety of enterprise needs, including training. When Wal-mart Stores Inc. went looking for a way to better prepare its employees for the riotous shopping experience the day after Thanksgiving (also known as Black Friday), the company settled on a VR solution. Using Oculus Rift-viewing headsets at its 200 training centers, Wal-Mart employees engaged in simulations that provided an immersive, highly crowded experience. “They were better prepared to handle the high volume, the incidents that could happen, the unexpected circumstances,” Daugherty said. “That’s this next generation of experience that we’re moving toward.” Davos dialogue on tech solutions Buying a car or preparing for massive crowds of bargain-hunting shoppers is one thing. Solving really big problems, such as revolutionizing global food production, is quite another. Daugherty, who has recently written a book titled “Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI,” attended the World Economic Forum gathering in Davis, Switzerland, in January and spoke with attendees about using the power of technology to address major global issues. ....... #theCUBE #Accenture #SiliconANGLE #TechVision2018 @Accenture #Accenture #TechVision @theCUBE @SiliconANGLE theCUBE #theCUBE