From FDI to the Investment in Outsourcing

From April 11 to April 13, I attended Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) in Dubai, one of the most important world forums on the promotion of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).

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I had an honor to moderate a session on outsourcing within this conference, whose objective was to advise the governments on how to capture opportunities in this dynamic and global market of outsourcing. Here is a brief account on this session.

My panelists were renowned experts and global industry thought leaders:

  • Christina Knutsson, Director at GDP Global
  • Jon Becker, Legal Counsel at Clearly Legal Ltd
  • Michael Ansah, Vice President of Dell
  • Roland Jabbour, Chairman at Jabbour Holding Group
  • Zhengping Yu, Executive Director of IBM China GTS GCG

Outsourcing was selected as one of the hot topics at AIM due to the fact that more and more money is being channeled into the alternative forms of investment, like mergers and acquisitions, licensing, subcontracting and outsourcing.

Foreign Direct Investments

Several thousands participants, ministers of more than 100 countries, government officials, industry experts and consulting companies convened to a large number of sessions and country presentations. Here are just few numbers to illustrate the current state of foreign direct investments in the world:
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Natural Language Processing and Watson APIs

Cognitive APIs

Year 2016, marked by the win of Google DeepMind in strategy game Go is definitely the year of artificial intelligence. Cognitive computing, machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing – these new concepts offer tremendous opportunities for bringing god-like intelligence and judgment capabilities to our everyday technical and business applications.

In January we, at IBM, made a presentation to the FinTech community in Geneva on cognitive computing and on how to use Watson APIs. Here in this article is a summary of what cognitive computing is and how to put it easily in practice.

Sasha Lazarevic, Alexandre Gaillard (Swiss Fintech Leader), and Pierre Kaufmann (IBM Cognitive Solutions Architect)
Geneva, January 11, 2016 : Sasha Lazarevic, Alexandre Gaillard (Swiss Fintech Leader, InvestGlass CEO), and Pierre Kauffmann (IBM Cognitive Solutions Architect)

 
But first of all, I feel I need to clarify some concepts:

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