THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Steve Bennett, Director of Global Government Practice, SAS
From Apollo to AI: A new era of exploration
The US government is the single largest producer of data in the world, and we have not only an opportunity … but a responsibility … to put that data to work for the American people, and for the advancement of humanity. Steve Bennett Director of SAS Global Government Practice SAS
INFLECTION POINT FOR ANALYTICS & GOVERNMENT
We are at an inflection point in history in terms of how analytics can have an impact on government. From fraud detection to child safety. Resource optimization to student achievement in education. Cybersecurity to maximizing health outcomes. The opportunities are nearly limitless to better serve Americans.
Plenty of challenges exist too. In issues ranging from privacy to algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence, the ethics of exploring the digital frontier must be something we get right on the front end, not looking back and wishing we had done things differently.
The bigger our digital frontier gets, the more we explore it.
>90%
50%
all data generated in last two years
163 Zettabytes
40%
of data generated yearly by 2025
1/4
25%
of that 163ZB consumed in real time
Let’s make sure we look to the information we have already at our disposal in our government agencies. And see what discoveries analytics will unlock in the next 50 years.