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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

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Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. This spending on AI infrastructure may be confusing to investors, who won’t see a direct line to increased sales because much of the hyperscaler AI investment will focus on internal uses, he says.

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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

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Washington, DC-based Monumental Sports & Entertainment, for example, owns the NHL’s Washington Capitals, NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s Washington Mystics, and the Capital One Arena in DC. The NHL can influence and promote practices among its franchisees but cannot mandate them.

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Ways Las Vegas leverages smart tech to transform city living

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To the over 40 million people who travel to Las Vegas every year, the city is all about entertainment that ranges from shopping and gambling, to sport, nightlife, and world-renowned dining. We want to come up with ways to maximize human capital and if technology can assist in that endeavour, we’re always willing to give it a try, he adds.

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Australia’s leading IT executives honoured at CIO50 2024 Awards

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Brissett has been leading the delivery of an AU$1bn portfolio of capital technology and digital initiatives in support of New South Wales’ largest-ever investment in transport infrastructure. Chief technology and innovation officer for Transport for NSW Kurt Brissett took out the CIO50 top spot.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

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And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. Conversing with ChatGPT is entertaining, but the beta version available today is not terribly useful for enterprise purposes.

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Speed to Insight is the Entertainment Game Changer

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This is the third in our series of interviews with Jeremy Whitham, Strategist in Customer Success at NetBase Quid® on how consumer research and data analysis are important capabilities for the entertainment and media industry, and any industry really. In the entertainment industry, you’re always in the process of selling up the ladder.

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What is a chief data officer? A leader who creates business value from data

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Capital One appointed the first CDO in 2002. To date, many of those appointments have been concentrated in the insurance, banking, media and entertainment, retail, and IT/technology verticals. Only a few organizations followed suit in the decade that followed.

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