A Marketer’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence separates science fiction from science fact, giving marketers a solid understanding of how companies are employing artificial intelligence with specific examples of voice recognition, language processing, computer vision, augmented reality and robotics. Machine Learning gets the spotlight, as it takes a central role in marketing data management, analytics and insight harvesting.
This classroom-style workshop will give you the ability to speak confidently with colleagues about the possibilities and determine where to apply this innovative technology for marketing. You’ll also leave with a firm grasp of how these new AI tools will change marketing and how you can stay relevant in tomorrow’s marketing department.
Pricing
| Early-Bird (Before 07/07/19) | Standard Price | |
| AMA Member | $1395 | $1495 |
| Non-Member | $1745 | $1869 |
For early-bird pricing, use the code “EARLYBIRD7” at checkout.
Why Attend
A solid understanding of the Internet would have made a huge difference to an individual’s career in 1995. A clear picture of how smartphones change retail would have had a major impact on a marketing professional’s decisions in 2007. Today, AI and ML are set to change the way marketing is done and the ways brands will communicate with prospects and customers. Now is the time to fully understand how this new technology works and what it means.
Interview With the Instructor
AMA Event Policies
Tuesday, August 6
Registration and Hot Breakfast
We’ll kick off the day with a nice breakfast so you’ll have energy for the day. You’ll also be provided with lunch and breaks throughout the day.
Artificial Intelligence Defined
- Science fiction vs. fact
- Voice recognition
- Natural language processing
- Computer vision
- Augmented reality
- Robotics
- Machine learning
Separating the Hype from the Possibilities
- Why now?
- General vs. narrow ai: when to roll your eyes/when to keep them wide open
- The myth of the AI-pocalypse
- Robots will not eat your job
- Scary pronouncements and the reasoning behind them
- Lack of explainability
- Bias in the data
- Bad actors
Intro to Marketing Analytics
- Analytics: A prerequisite to AI and ML
- What makes a great analyst?
EXERCISE: Marketing data literacy spectrum – Where is your organization today?
Machine Learning Explained - How ML is Different
- From programming to statistics to machine learning
- Examples of ML explained
- Decision trees become a random forrest
- Support vector machines
- Neural networks become deep learning
What ML is Good AT: Functional Proficiency
- Counting
- Segmenting/clustering
- Pattern matching
- Anomaly detection
What AI is Good FOR: Marketing
Where Machines Fail
- Statistics and logic are not reason and common sense
Wednesday, August 7
Hot Breakfast
Breakfast will be waiting for you when you arrive for day two. Lunch and breaks will be provided throughout the day.
The New Importance of Data
- Need for large amounts of data
- Need for clean data
- Need to understand data streams
On-boarding AI - How to bring AI and ML into Your Organization
- Goal Identification
- Task prioritization
- Choosing useful data sets
- Working with data scientists
- Buy vs. build
- Change management and expectation setting
EXERCISE: The AI maturity model – Where do you stand?
Keeping Your Job - Uniquely Human Skills & Strengths
- Perfecting the smell test
- The power of experience
- The need for creativity
- The power of collaboration
- Soft skills become paramount
EXERCISE – Identifying the best place to start
- What is your top, corporate goal?
- Which is your most agile marketing task/ function/ team?
- Who in your company is most likely to support experimentation?
- Who in your org has budgetary discretion?
- Where/from whom do they get their input?
- Which repetitive tasks are best for pilot projects?
- What is your next step?
A Look Over the Horizon - The Weird Future Right Around the Corner
- Training an ecosystem of bots
- Systems that negotiate with systems
- Brand building becomes even more crucial
Open Discussion/Wrap-up
Jim Sterne
Director Emeritus, Digital Analytics AssociationJim Sterne focuses his thirty-five years in sales and marketing on creating and strengthening customer relationships through digital communications. He sold business computers to companies that had never owned one in the 1980s, consulted and keynoted about online marketing in the 1990’s, and founded a conference and a professional association around digital analytics in the 2000’s.
Following his humorous Devil’s Data Dictionary, Sterne published his twelfth book, Artificial Intelligence for Marketing: Practical Applications. Sterne produced the eMetrics Summit from 2002 – 2017, and now produces the Marketing Analytics Summit. He was co-founder and served for 17 years as the Board Chair of the Digital Analytics Association.
Attendees will receive a copy of Jim Sterne’s book, Artificial Intelligence for Marketing: Practical Applications
Training Series Location
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Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312.542.9000
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