Emmanuel Keita
Presented at the 7th Annual BayesiaLab Conference at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
At the heart of the companies' information systems, close to decision-makers and operational staff, my professional experiences led me to observe that Business Intelligence (BI) did not provide a satisfactory answer to their real problems. What had changed in 20 years? Rainbow colors on the screens, OLAP cubes democratization, calculation speed… exciting — and also a nightmare — for those in the IT department. But what is the real added value for the decision-makers and the workers? Curious about the potential of AI, I had just been trained in Python, but as a statistician, I saw nothing intellectually satisfying in my discovery of machine learning. Then, a guy talked to me about "Bayesian networks."
That will be the starting point for this talk. An escapade into "augmented intelligence": Bayesian networks and BayesiaLab, encounters, change of relationship to the data, to beliefs, to the world, and to myself… But, who am I, really?
has a multi-disciplinary background in mathematics and information system management:
"Augmented Intelligence Evangelist" — he popularizes decision-making discernment to different audiences: from high school to Google Zurich events, he focuses on human discernment in decision-making: not all is data!
National defense auditor (France), Emmanuel was contributor of the "Villany report" — AI’s French strategy — (03/2018) and autor of an article "Le potentiel des réseaux bayésiens" in Défense & Stratégie Internationale (04/2019).
Data manager and statistician consultant in the pharmaceutical industry (GSK), in charge of statistics at Fujifilm, France.
Head of the Business Intelligence division of Groupe Soufflet (agri-food industry).
Emmanuel recently stopped Sundiata’s adventure for new challenges.