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Anything but Artificial: Construction’s AI-Powered Comeback From the Pandemic
Artificial intelligence is transforming the construction industry by helping companies leverage the power of data to streamline operations, prevent health and safety issues on-site—and win.
By Stephen Sklarew
September 13, 2021
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by Stephen Sklarew
Stephen Sklarew started his career at Ernst & Young LLP and has more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant and technology product leader at startups and public companies: CEB (acquired by Gartner) and Sage Software. He built and managed globally distributed teams, created productive partnerships and led tech due-diligence for numerous technology acquisitions and has sold and delivered services and products to companies in technology, construction, healthcare, financial services, legal, media, automotive and education industries. Stephen was CTO or VP of Product at three innovative SaaS-based product companies using big data, machine learning, mobile and Cloud-based technologies. Synaptiq provides actionable solutions using machine learning, machine vision, natural language processing and other data-driven techniques to help clients discover the data they already have – or the data they could have – and how to use this data to drive innovation and propel success.
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