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EU AI Act Overview | AI for me but not for Thee?
EU AI Act Overview | AI for me but not for Thee?
By Yorke Rhodes III
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US AI Exec Order | AI for me but not for Thee?
US AI Exec Order | AI for me but not for Thee?
By Yorke Rhodes III
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Warnings for companies building talk-to-your document RAG systems with AI (which is a lot of companies): 1) No one is testing the final LLM output…
Warnings for companies building talk-to-your document RAG systems with AI (which is a lot of companies): 1) No one is testing the final LLM output…
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few people have been as extremely hands-on from the beginning of the GenAI era as my friend Jesus Serrano. At the very least, he deserves a Microsoft…
few people have been as extremely hands-on from the beginning of the GenAI era as my friend Jesus Serrano. At the very least, he deserves a Microsoft…
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A Harris Administration would have a long road ahead given the incalculable costs of Chokepoint 2.0 to investors, to the industry’s cautious optimism…
A Harris Administration would have a long road ahead given the incalculable costs of Chokepoint 2.0 to investors, to the industry’s cautious optimism…
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Alexander Hamilton Gold Award - Risk Management for Blockchain in Supply Chain with Financial Controls
Treasury Risk
Microsoft has won the Gold award in the Risk Management category of the Alexander Hamilton Awards from Treasury & Risk for our work in blockchain in supply chain and finance.
This work is the result of a multi-disciplinary and cross group effort including Supply Chain, Finance, and Treasury to fuse together goods movement, documents, and financial controls on blockchain via a shared subledger among multiple parties to a transaction.
https://lnkd.in/eQpK2wYH
Through the…Microsoft has won the Gold award in the Risk Management category of the Alexander Hamilton Awards from Treasury & Risk for our work in blockchain in supply chain and finance.
This work is the result of a multi-disciplinary and cross group effort including Supply Chain, Finance, and Treasury to fuse together goods movement, documents, and financial controls on blockchain via a shared subledger among multiple parties to a transaction.
https://lnkd.in/eQpK2wYH
Through the detailed tracking and visibility we can realize just-in-time payments reducing risk and improving cash management.
We plumbed through all the way to internal systems on the Microsoft side including Invoicing, AR/AP, and payment gateway. On the supplier side it is connected to warehouse management systems and AR/AP systems.
There is no requirement to align on choice of ERP system across parties. Disparate systems are interconnected via API providing end-end near real-time view via the subledger all the way back to systems of record of each party. -
Gartner Supply Chain Breakthrough of the Year 2020
Gartner
Gartner’s Power of the Profession Award winners show how supply chain organizations overcome challenges through innovative technology and customer initiatives along with initiatives that impact people and social issues,” said Eric O’Daffer, vice president analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain practice. “Supply chains that responded well to the challenges of 2020 went beyond conventional practice, applied digital technology, worked toward societal good and took employee-centric…
Gartner’s Power of the Profession Award winners show how supply chain organizations overcome challenges through innovative technology and customer initiatives along with initiatives that impact people and social issues,” said Eric O’Daffer, vice president analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain practice. “Supply chains that responded well to the challenges of 2020 went beyond conventional practice, applied digital technology, worked toward societal good and took employee-centric approaches.”
There were four award categories, highlighting technology or process innovation, customer or patient innovation, social impact and people breakthroughs.
Microsoft won the overall award Supply Chain Breakthrough of the Year, which celebrates the initiative that drives a breakthrough innovation for customers, the business and the lasting benefit of society.
Microsoft also won Process or Technology Innovation of The Year for its submission “A Blockchain That Works: Saving $50 Million in Supply Chain Costs.”
Microsoft’s cloud supply chain team developed new blockchain capabilities that reduced cycle time and improved end-to-end, item-level traceability. The technology has uncovered $50 million in hidden costs and expanded margins by digitizing items in a shared data structure. The team developed a single platform that allows users to trace inventory through all steps in the supply chain, from the component supplier to the final delivery. This solves traditional visibility problems in multitiered supply chains. The blockchain platform enables all parties to view, contribute to and monitor the data. The digitized assets on the platform include serialized inventory and the statements of work, purchase orders, invoices, as well as shipment and receipt notices associated with those goods across all parties. -
Inc 500 Ranking of 126th Fastest Growing Company
Inc 500
As COO of Ward Media, managed the company through it's second consecutive year listing, ranked as the 126th Fastest Growing company on the Inc 500 Fastest Growing companies index.
Listings:
2008, Rank: 126, 2007 Revenue: $12,068,064
2007, Rank: 131, 2006 Revenue: $6,003,913
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German
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Organizations
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Supply Trace | Open Source Data Hub for Forced Labor Visibility
Advisory Board Member
- PresentSupply Trace is a not-for-profit open source and open data platform based on the work started by Dr Laura Murphy leveraging her principal investor skills and techniques to discover and bring to light instances of forced labor with a keen focus on specific regions where this is prevalent. This platform is the result of collaborations across universities leveraging the work of principal investigations, culling the data associated in multiple languages, using data science and AI to make sense of…
Supply Trace is a not-for-profit open source and open data platform based on the work started by Dr Laura Murphy leveraging her principal investor skills and techniques to discover and bring to light instances of forced labor with a keen focus on specific regions where this is prevalent. This platform is the result of collaborations across universities leveraging the work of principal investigations, culling the data associated in multiple languages, using data science and AI to make sense of it and providing a scalable technical platform that can be used to democratize access. It stems from the principal investigator work at Sheffield Hallam and technical engineering team in supply chain at Northeastern University.
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Ethereum Climate Alliance
Founding Member
- PresentInspired by Microsoft's commitment to mitigate its carbon emissions since its founding in 1987, the Ethereum Climate Platform plans to incentivize and fund the development of projects that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, alongside delivering positive environmental and social impact. Launched at COP27 with a host of Web3 companies and civil society leaders and the UNFCCC Climate Innovation Hub to announce the initiative. Founding members of the platform’s launch team a large number of…
Inspired by Microsoft's commitment to mitigate its carbon emissions since its founding in 1987, the Ethereum Climate Platform plans to incentivize and fund the development of projects that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, alongside delivering positive environmental and social impact. Launched at COP27 with a host of Web3 companies and civil society leaders and the UNFCCC Climate Innovation Hub to announce the initiative. Founding members of the platform’s launch team a large number of firms. These include: AAVE, Art Blocks, Celo, CodeGreen.Org, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, ERM, Filecoin Green, Gitcoin, Global Blockchain Business Council, Huobi Global, Laser Digital, Microsoft, Polygon, The Climate Collective, UPC Capital Ventures and W3bcloud, in collaboration with Gold Standard. Catalyzed by the historic transition from a reasonably heavy carbon footprint to one that is 99.5% lower overnight, the group seeks to mitigate the prior PoW footprint. The post-Merge operational footprint of Ethereum which runs PoS is vastly lower, so the group will initially focus on mitigating the PoW footprint. This work requires significant detailed attention to how PoW and PoS distributed systems consumer energy over large decentralized network infrastructure. The work to discover and monitor this alone is a significant research project.
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Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition | BSIC
Board Member
- PresentA key mission of #BSIC is to bring light to the great work going on that uses blockchain in social impact. To this end the organization incubates, highlights blockchain projects that are addressing social and environmental challenges across the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Board Member
- PresentThe Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a member-driven standards organization whose charter is to develop open, blockchain specifications that drive harmonization and interoperability for businesses and consumers worldwide. Our global community of members is made up of leaders, adopters, innovators, developers, and businesses who collaborate to create an open, decentralized web for the benefit of everyone. Key to success is providing enterprise specifications and cloud scale know-how to this…
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a member-driven standards organization whose charter is to develop open, blockchain specifications that drive harmonization and interoperability for businesses and consumers worldwide. Our global community of members is made up of leaders, adopters, innovators, developers, and businesses who collaborate to create an open, decentralized web for the benefit of everyone. Key to success is providing enterprise specifications and cloud scale know-how to this emerging category to drive innovation and adoption in business, corporations, and government world wide. A major pillar of success is helping enterprise cross the chasm.
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Accounting Blockchain Coalition
Board Member
-The accounting blockchain alliance is dedicated to educating businesses and organizations on accounting matters relevant to digital assets and distributed ledger technology, including blockchain. The organization provides guidance on best practices and serve as a knowledge-sharing platform as organizations address the sweeping changes and resulting opportunities created by the implementation of blockchain technology.
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