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Dylan Fox가 4월 샌프란시스코에서 열리는 HumanX 행사(4월 6-9일, Moscone Center South)에 참석한다고 알림. HumanX는 6,500명 이상 AI 리더·빌더·투자자가 모이는 대형 컨퍼런스로, 영감에서 실행으로 이어지는 실무 중심의 네트워킹과 협업을 목표로 하는 업계 주요 행사임.

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Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security

It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.

3/10/2025: Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework, Light Reading

My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.

Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared three other highlights from the show.

3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, HumanX

The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing Better.com’s Vishal Garg, Clearcover’s Kyle Nakatsuji, Honeybook’s Colleen Stauffer, Sunrise AI’s Deepak Shrivastava and S&P Global’s Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.

3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, HumanX

Since this panel–featuring Altana’s Peter Swartz, Fusion Fund’s Lu Zhang and Choco AI’s Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.

3/11/2025: Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy, PCMag

The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October from much farther away–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.

3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, HumanX

My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of d-Matrix and Ami Badani of Arm: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.

3/11/2025: Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007, PCMag

I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.

3/13/2025: Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release, PCMag

Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.

3/14/2025: Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet, PCMag

I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information security, and I was happy to share that with PCMag readers.

#5G #AI #AIInfrastructure #AlexStamos #Android16 #AppleDataDetectors #Barcelona #customerService #cx #dataCenters #GoogleGemini #HumanX #informationSecurity #infosec #KamalaHarris #LasVegas #MacOSXLeopard #MWC #MWC2025 #supplyChains #Vegas

Entertaining and enlightening talk at #HumanX from @stamos.org about what AI is doing to information security (aka "the only part of computer science that gets worse every year"). "Have humility," he said. "95% of the bugs in your AI system have not been invented yet."

An unusual speaker at #HumanX: Colin Kaepernick. Most of his panel with Business Insider's Ben Bergman covered his creator-support firm Lumi Story AI, but Bergman had to ask about the QB's ostracism by the NFL. Kaepernick said he still works out: "I will forever be ready to step on a field."

I’m at #HumanX this week!

Who else is in Vegas to say hi 👋

⬆️ No, it is not the #media that isn't bothering to cover #KamalaHarris.

#Harris is hiding from the media and the public, but she is meeting in PRIVATE with entrepreneurs and investors all the same — Building #pecuniaryCapital instead of spending #politicalCapital.

#Upfront #UpFrontSummit #HumanX #AI

@Lassielmr @GreenFire

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another tidbit from the Upfront Summit here in LA this week: Kamala Harris was there to meet in a closed-door talk with Al entrepreneurs and investors. She's also speaking at the HumanX Al conference in Vegas in a couple weeks...

There's growing counterprogramming to #SXSW in March. The #HumanX conference in Las Vegas overlaps with the Nerd Spring Break event and is poised to be a big stop for #AI enthusiasts. Unfortunately, I can't make it, and now I have serious FOMO after seeing the lineup.

I’m sitting out SXSW

The second weekend of this March will not treat me to a few things that have been constants in my late-winter business travel since 2012: a taco- and BBQ-centric diet, the squawks of grackles, panel FOMO, and sore feet from walking up and down the streets of Austin.

I’m breaking that streak of covering SXSW in person (including moderating panels at this conference in 2012 and 2019) not because I’m tired of that event or its excesses but because of other events.

One is MWC Barcelona, which this year takes place a week later than in previous years. That scheduling means I’d either spend barely half a day at home between returning from Spain and flying out to Austin–or I’d have to fly from Barcelona to Austin, resulting in 12 days in a row away from my family.

The other is HumanX, a new AI conference in Las Vegas that runs from March 9 to 13–overlapping half of SXSW–and whose organizers saw fit to invite me to moderate a few panels there. As much as I vastly prefer Austin to Vegas, comped travel beats paying my own way, especially when that involves SXSW-inflated lodging expenses. So that officially shut the door on my going to Marketing Spring Break.

The final plot twist to my late-winter schedule came with the Web Summit people asking if I’d like to speak at Web Summit Qatar. I had passed on that last year because this new addition to their conference lineup overlapped with MWC, but this time it happens the week before. And since I’d heard good things about last year’s event and was curious to see that part of the Middle East, I’m off to Doha in a week and change.

The catch here is that because Web Summit Qatar itself ends only two days before the first MWC pre-conference events start, I’d have little more than a day at home between crossing the Atlantic westbound and then flying back across it eastbound. Instead of that overdose of jet lag, I will spend 12 days in a row away from my wife and our kid–but not entirely away from family, since I’ll stay with my wife’s sister and her family in London for those between-conference days. I know I’ll appreciate that chance to reconnect with a part of my non-work life, even if it comes with elevated odds of my stepping on a Lego.

#ATX #AUS #Austin #Barcelona #bbq #conferences #Doha #HumanX #LasVegas #London #MarketingSpringBreak #MWC #Qatar #southBySouthwest #speaking #sxsw #tacos #WebSummitQatar