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Francesco Marconi

Manager of Strategy and Corporate Development
The Associated Press

Francesco Marconi works at the Associated Press in New York City, where he focuses on media strategy in Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Data as manager of strategy and corporate development. Also a Tow Fellow at Columbia University, Marconi explores how journalists and entrepreneurs can adopt tomorrow’s technologies to tell powerful stories today. His ideas have been featured on Inc. Magazine, Huffington Post, PBS Media Shift, Quartz and MIT Media. Francesco studied management and journalism at the University of Missouri and did his post graduate work at Harvard University and Columbia Business School.

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It’s raining bots: Four best practices to make the most of automation

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Automated news was just the opening act when it appeared in 2014, but now it’s time for the main show: machine learning will allow the development of very sophisticated personalisation tools, turning mass media into personalised media, and therefore changing the way we produce journalism. Noriko Takiguchi will be moderating this session.

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