THE AUSTRALIAN STARTUP THAT TAPPED IBM WATSON FOR ITS TECH-DRIVEN VOD SERVICE
By Administrator | 27 July 2017
VIDEO on demand technology startup Oovvuu has teamed up with IBM to launch a news platform powered by its AI product, Watson, which is designed to connect viewers to the most relevant video and news content.
The US multinational technology company is in Australia and staging its Watson Summit Australia events in Sydney and Melbourne to showcase the potential of IBM's cognitive technologies and has put forward the Sydney-based Oovvuu as a case example of how it can be used to help businesses interact with its customers.
Oovvuu founder and CEO Ricky Sutton is one of the keynote speakers at the summits as his company uses Watson to connect video content from 40 broadcast partners, such as ABC, BBC, and Bloomberg, with the most read-news articles using the power of IBM's Watson to match videos with breaking news.
Business News Australia spoke with Sutton after his speech at the Sydney event on Tuesday and ahead of the Melbourne event on Thursday and asked him about how the deal was pulled together and the 'torture' of being a startup entrepreneur. Read more
Ben Hall - Business News Australia - 26 July 2017
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