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The Price is Automated – Using AI for Optimal Pricing

Retailers are increasingly finding commercial success in using AI to dictate their pricing strategy.The complexity of pricing can be a large issue for retailers. Between shifts in consumer behavior to worldwide disruptions...

Fraud Detection

The Face Behind Financial Solutions at Shopify

With a staggering 25.5 million Shopify merchants between Black Friday and Cyber Monday last year alone, the number of people chasing financial queries is unimaginable. We sat down with Data Science Lead & Fraud Detection Team Manager Nevena Francetic to hear how she manages it all....

Event Highlights

How to Spend Your Time at Europe's Biggest Deep Learning Summit

Speakers from Google, ASOS, DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, NASA, Amazon and more will come together in London to share the most cutting edge work in their space, bridging the gap between the latest technological research advancements and real world applications in business and society....

Deep Learning

How AI Techniques Can Improve Customer Experience In Fashion Domain

FalconAI is a VC backed start-up developing cutting-edge AI in esports and fashion domains. Our team includes top AI researchers and engineers located in Boston and Istanbul. Our aim is to make human...

Deep Learning

How AI Can Radically Disrupt Market Research and Customer Experience

The pathbreaking emergence of Artificial Intelligence has opened immense opportunities for businesses belonging to almost every sector. As we have already witnessed the growing applications of AI from media to finance to education...

Retail

The Rise of AI Systems in Retail: 2018 Review

As the development and capability of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, many remain cautious of a dystopian future straight from the realms of Hollywood. However, as businesses continue to search for the...

Retail

Introduction to Recommender Systems in 2018

Many e-commerce and retail companies are leveraging the power of data and boosting sales by implementing recommender systems on their websites.In short, these systems aim to predict users’ interests and recommend items...

Women in Tech

Women in AI Podcast: Kat James, Royal Mail

At the Deep Learning in Retail and Advertising Summit, leading minds working in AI from the likes of ASOS, Vodafone, Argos, WalmartLabs and many more came together to share their latest research and...

Deep Learning

Deep Learning and AI Assistant Summits London, Day 1 Highlights

“In 10 years, AI will be as exciting as electricity is to us today. You walk into a room right now and you don't even have to switch the lights on. AI will...

Retail

How Focal Systems can help Retailers beat Amazon Go

At Focal Systems, we believe that there will always be a place for brick and mortar retail, particularly in the grocery space. Customers want to touch and smell fresh produce, to personally select...

Machine Learning

How do ASOS use deep learning to optimise performance?

Artificial intelligence is being applied in retail across the whole product service cycle from targeted marketing, product recommendation, customer service interactions, and customer lifetime value.With the Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising...

Deep Learning

Nearly time to hit the sales! AI can help you dodge the crowds

Christmas shopping may be over, but I wouldn’t say no to boxing day sales! Having said that, no one wants to be stuck in a queue outside in the freezing cold at...

Deep Learning

Can AI transform the way we buy & sell?

As traditional high street shopping takes a back seat in retail and e-commerce continues to lead the way, online marketplaces such as eBay and Lalafo continue to grow and further establish their place...

Deep Learning

Amazon's Andreas Damianou on how to introduce probability & uncertainty to deep learning

If I were to describe a fictional person, place or object right now, the chances are that you would be able to evoke an image of my description in your mind's eye. I...

Deep Learning

Hate online shopping? AI can give you a helping hand

Huge amounts of data are available via e-commerce, allowing retailers to create deep learning algorithms that can follow the customer journey to help optimize search results, targeted advertising and predict the types of...

Future of Education

Everything You Need to Know About AI Assistants

The big question on the tip of everyone’s tongues: are these non-human virtual assistants about to steal our jobs? The answer, in short, is no. AI assistants are being created to help...

Guest Blogs

Building an AI Operating Model with Daniel Gebler, Picnic

Artificial Intelligence is certainly big news right now. Every day we see more and more research, documentary-based television programs, and new articles report about the advances in AI.There is certainly that fear...

Deep Learning

The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Retail

Despite constant concern that technology is eliminating the need for human interaction in daily life, high street shopping is still very much alive. Companies like Amazon may be without physical stores but the...

Deep Learning

Looking back at expert interviews - Which tech advances have come to fruition?

Since the start of 2017, RE•WORK has had the pleasure to continue hosting the Deep Learning Series and Machine Intelligence Summits around the world.San Francisco, London, Singapore, Boston and Amsterdam are...

Deep Learning

London Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising Summit, Day 1 Highlights

The use of deep learning in retail and advertising, is rapidly expanding and becoming an integral part of consumerism.We’re almost at the end of day 1 of our Deep Learning in...

Deep Learning

Creating a More Efficient Shopping Experience With Deep Learning

Image source: Tech at InstacartRetail is undergoing an artificial intelligence revolution. The latest advancements in deep learning algorithms are now impacting all corners of the industry, from stock optimization and smart warehousing, to...

Machine Learning

Fashion DNA: Structural Feature Mapping in the World of Retail

Image source: Zalando ResearchWhen applying artificial intelligence to the world of fashion, in which the clothing and other articles involved have many varying individual properties, a meaningful structure must be defined.It seems...

Big Data

Machine Learning Intelligence For Micro-Moment Shopping

As artificially intelligent software becomes more economical and accessible for businesses across the globe, retailers and online marketplaces are now focusing on harnessing the power of big data and machine learning to understand...

Neural Networks

Top 5 Key Areas: Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled research and industry to master many challenges in computer vision and natural language processing that were out of reach until just a few years ago. Yet...

Machine Learning

Using AI to Estimate Customer Life Time Value in E-Commerce

As deep learning techniques and applications continue to spread across business and society, this technology is now making an impact on retail and advertising. Data mining and deep learning algorithms are applied to...