Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 24 | Page 43

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// “Cybersecurity will become top of the board agenda across all industries, and businesses should expect to increase cybersecurity spend and look to deploy specific training in order to rise to the challenge and keep ever- valuable data protected from new threats and growingly sophisticated cybercriminals.” Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO and Co-Founder at Content Guru “AI has already started to feel like an old conversation, but the reality is that it’s www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: 2020: THE CIO’S PRIORITIES only just off the starting blocks in many industries. In the last year, contact centres and organisations that focused on customer engagement have moved beyond the AI hype into practical implementation. There are tangible examples of AI applications already in full swing in the contact centre industry, ranging from Natural Language Processing (NLP) to image recognition. “Research from industry-leading analyst, Gartner, suggests that in 2020, 80% of customer service interactions will be Jon Lucas, Co-Director at Hyve Managed Hosting INTELLIGENTCIO 43