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Social Media Monitoring– Episode 4: Watson Certification

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Richard RodtsProgram Director, Watson University Engagement@rrodts linkedin.com/in/rrodts

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Agenda

• Road that has led to certification• Current State• Process to certification• Q&A


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Data flows from every device, replacing guessing and approximations with precise information. Yet 80% of this data is unstructured;; therefore, invisible to computers and of limited use to business.

HEALTHCARE DATA GOVERNMENT & EDUCATION DATA

99% 88% 94% 84%

Healthcare data comes from sources such as:

Government & education data comes from sources such as:

PatientSensors

Electronic Medical Records

Test Results

Vehicle Fleet Sensors

Traffic Sensors

Student Evaluations

UTILITIES DATA MEDIA DATA

93% 84% 97% 82%

Utilties data comes from sources such as:

Media data comes from sources such as:

Utility Sensors

Employee Sensors

Location Data

Videoand Film

Images Audio

By 2020,

of new information will be created every minute for every human being on the planet.

growth by 2017 unstructured growth by 2017 unstructured

1.7 MBgrowth by 2017 unstructured growth by 2017 unstructured

Cognitive systems can understand the world through sensing and interaction, reason using hypotheses and arguments and learn from experts and through data. Watson is the most advanced such system.

Today, businesses in

countries across.

There are

Watson ecosystem partner companies, with

78%of business and IT executives believe that successful business will manage employees alongside intelligent machines.

On average there are

Among C-Suite executivesfamiliar with cognitive computing:

96%

84%

94%

89%

in insurance intend to invest in cognitive capabilities.

in healthcare believe it will play a disruptive role in the industry, and 60% believe they lack the skilled professionals and technical experience to achieve it.

in retail intend to invest in cognitive capabilities.

in telecommunications believe it will have a critical impact on the future of their business.

3617industries are applying cognitive technologies.

350+

100of those have taken their product to market.

1.3BWatson API calls a monthand growing.

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Growing Need to Identify Skills• Watson Academic programs has grown from

10 Universities teaching Watson in 2014 to 213 world wide in 2016.

• With this growth is a request by clients to formally authenticate developer skills in Cognitive.

• Requirement for independent 3rd party testing.• Need from developers to make known their

proficiency in Watson without having engage individuals to do so.


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Watson Certification• On premise test that is focused on developers that have

experience working with Watson APIs via Bluemix.• Will Launch Q2 2016.• 60+ questions that will take 90-120 minutes.• Study guide to be released in Q2 2016• Validation and Certificate provided by Pearson VUE.



What’s next?• Look out for a follow up email with a copy of these slides, a recording of the

webinar, Q&A recap, and additional resources

• The series continues bi-weekly on Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 9am PT

• Social Media Monitoring in Practice - Wednesday, June 15


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