Consumer IoT is the new smartphone
What is IoT? The Internet of Things is an evolution of the Internet. Now that smartphone sales are slowing, Apple, Intel, and other major technology companies are shifting the focus of their consumer...
View ArticleRecap: Orange hosts the Bay Area Bot Meetup
We haven’t seen a meetup that exciting in a long time! With a packed house here at Orange Silicon Valley, we were super excited to host the bot developers meetup. Developer showcases their latest...
View ArticleUntangling Customer Experience (CX), User Experience (UX) and Customer...
An overview of these often misused terms, with a focus on what it means to act on them at a strategic and organizational levels. At Orange Silicon Valley (OSV), the Customer Experience (CX) team is...
View ArticleStorytelling in Virtual Reality: Silicon Valley and Hollywood get immersive
Virtual reality is a new frontier for storytelling and narrative, with Hollywood and Silicon Valley coming together to make it irresistible. People waving and swatting at unseen adversaries. Drinks...
View ArticleCustomer Interviews – A Primer
Customer interviews are hard, but they are essential for new product design. This article focuses on why you do customer interviews, what exactly you are looking for, and what to do next. When you...
View ArticleGrowing Smarter Report Excerpt: A Day in the Life of a Navel Orange
The following is an excerpt from the upcoming Growing Smarter report that will be released by Orange Silicon Valley. Sign up to receive a free copy and stay up to date on all of the latest research by...
View ArticleChatbots: What’s the reality beyond the hype?
[Originally published on osvproduct.com] Hello, I’m a chatbot! Chatbots or conversational bots are intelligent agents that help people create value for little effort. In the case of conversational...
View ArticleGrowing Smarter Report Excerpt: A Million Flowers
The following is an excerpt from the “Growing Smarter” Report that has been released by Orange Silicon Valley. The report is organized into four “stories”, each reflecting insights gained from our...
View ArticleDeep learning GPU arrays with Orange and CocoLink
Orange Silicon Valley recently announced its work with South Korean high performance computing company CocoLink on scaling deep learning algorithms across a cluster of 20 GPUs. Using Nvidia K40 GPUs,...
View ArticleChatbots & Intelligent Agents – What Is the Future of the Customer?
An exploration of Chatbots with Orange, AXA, Uber, Hipmunk, Layer, and more. Last week we brought together Chatbot enthusiasts to talk about where the industry is, where it is heading, and the design...
View ArticleDrones Connected Conference – 9/22/2016
Looking over the Horizon, together From our President, Georges Nahon: At Orange Silicon Valley, we explore how connectivity is shaping our lives. As the innovation center of Orange in the Bay Area, we...
View ArticleFrom Calories to KwH, Food Info is getting complex
VC Marc Andreessen famously has said “software is eating the world” – well it turns out the hottest trend in software these days is in fact eating – more specifically, food production. California...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Drones Connected 9/22 @ Orange Silicon Valley
On September 22nd, Orange Silicon Valley hosted the “Drones Connected Conference”, a full-day event that was designed to unlock the business acumen, technologies and the financial and legal aspects...
View ArticleRecap: Sharing data for smart cities and the Internet of Things
Rockstar data analysts may be huge assets in decision-making processes, but they’re useless without good data. The nature of unused datasets, however, can often mean that government agencies don’t know...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Where AI and the future of corporate finance will meet
The history of robots taking over human jobs is long and littered with doomsday predictions. Just last May, mega-manufacturer Foxconn reportedly replaced 60,000 workers with automated technology....
View ArticleHow everyday objects will connect and teach us about our world
Wireless communications across the world are no longer confined to traditional devices such as phones and PCs. We now have the ability to harvest data from appliances, plants, cars, and other everyday...
View ArticleInterview: Fresh Box Farms’ Dave Vosburg on Indoor Ag’s Potential
As consumers increasingly demand food that is both locally sourced and more nutritious, Controlled Environment Indoor Agriculture (CEIA) has an important role to play in our future food system. By...
View Article10 Ways Indoor Farming Will Change the World
Few topics are as important to the world’s population as the future of its food supply, and agricultural production offers tremendous possibilities for bridging the Earth’s transition into a new era...
View ArticleEvent Recap: The Carrier Connected Device Summit
Orange Silicon Valley welcomed participants to the Carrier Connected Devices Summit at OSV’s Spear Street event space on Nov. 16. The summit, which was hosted in partnernship with the Comcast service...
View ArticleBlockchain’s Future is more than Payments: How can we use Blockchain for...
Blockchain technology has already changed the world with its use to power the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Its applications extend far beyond payments, however, into other fintech software and beyond. One...
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