[Colloquium] Jan. 22 - CDAC Data & Technology Outlook: Future of AI and Data-Driven Business Applications

[Rob Mitchum]

*CDAC Data & Technology Outlook: Future of AI and Data-Driven Business
Applications*

*Date*: Friday, January 22nd
*Time*: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
*Location*: Zoom (register for link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdac-data-technology-outlook-future-of-data-driven-business-applications-tickets-133714649115>
)

Join us for a fireside chat with *James Phillips, President, Business
Applications Group at Microsoft* and *Michael J. Franklin, Liew Family
Chair of Computer Science*. We’ll cover the future of augmented and mixed
reality, data for enterprise, and the broader implications of these trends
for startups, incumbents, and the future of work.


*James Phillips, President, Microsoft Business Applications Group*
James Phillips is a Microsoft president and leader of the company’s
Business Applications Group – a product development organization with 7,000
team members spanning the globe.

His teams build and operate Microsoft’s business applications and services;
and the application, integration and intelligence platforms beneath them –
collectively powering the digital transformation initiatives of some of the
world’s largest organizations. His product portfolio includes the Dynamics
365 family, the Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps Power Automate and
Power Virtual Agents) and Microsoft’s AI and mixed reality business
applications.

Phillips joined Microsoft in 2012 as a strategy advisor to Satya Nadella,
then president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Phillips was founder and CEO of multiple
software companies; held engineering, product management, corporate
development and marketing leadership roles at Intel, VMware and Synopsys;
and spent two years as a technology investment banker with UBS PaineWebber
advising public and private software companies on M&A strategy and
execution.

He holds a BS in Mathematics and earned his MBA, with honors, from the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

*Michael J. Franklin, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science; Senior Advisor
to the Provost for Computation and Data Science*

Michael J. Franklin is the inaugural holder of the Liew Family Chair of
Computer Science. An authority on databases, data analytics, data
management and distributed systems, he also serves as senior advisor to the
provost on computation and data science.

Previously, Franklin was the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science
and chair of the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California,
Berkeley. There, he co-founded Berkeley’s Algorithms, Machines and People
Laboratory (AMPLab), a leading academic big data analytics research center.
The AMPLab won a National Science Foundation CISE “Expeditions in
Computing” award, which was announced as part of the White House Big Data
Research initiative in March 2012, and received support from over 30
industrial sponsors. AMPLab created industry-changing open source Big Data
software including Apache Spark and BDAS, the Berkeley Data Analytics
Stack. At Berkeley, he also served as an executive committee member for the
Berkeley Institute for Data Science, a campus-wide initiative to advance
data science environments.

An energetic entrepreneur in addition to his academic work, Franklin
founded and became chief technology officer of Truviso, a data analytics
company acquired by Cisco Systems. He serves on the technical advisory
boards of various data-driven technology companies and organizations.

Franklin is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a
two-time recipient of the ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management
of Data) “Test of Time” award. His many other honors include the
outstanding advisor award from Berkeley’s Computer Science Graduate Student
Association. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Wisconsin in 1993, a Master of Software Engineering from the Wang
Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986, and the B.S. in Computer and
Information Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1983.

*Part of the CDAC 2021 Data & Technology Outlook Series*

Many of the data science and computational tools that revolutionized the
modern business landscape resulted from close collaborations between
industry and academia. Tomorrow’s innovations are under construction today
in R&D departments and university laboratories, where researchers develop
solutions to the most pressing data challenges across fields.

This winter, the Center for Data and Computing (CDAC) at the University of
Chicago presents a series of critical conversations between industry
leaders and researchers pushing the frontiers of data science forward,
presenting and discussing new tools in artificial intelligence, data
analysis and discovery, security and privacy, that will define the next
decade of data technology in science and industry. The Outlook series will
provide a balanced understanding of the trends reshaping business and tech
with the goal of translating hype into realistic predictions.

-- 
*Rob Mitchum*

*Associate Director of Communications for Data Science and Computing*
*University of Chicago*
*rmitchum at uchicago.edu <rmitchum at ci.uchicago.edu>*
*773-484-9890*
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