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Karl Redenbach, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of LiveTiles, says AI will revolutionise our working lives.
S
ome day soon, everyone will have a virtual assistant to do mundane or
repetitive tasks. So says Karl Redenbach, Co-founder and Chief Executive innovative
intelligent workplace of tech
company, LiveTiles. It’s an alluring vision for the future, where AI-enabled “co-bots” (collaborative robots) will take on the low- value
work, leaving humans more
time to focus on high-value, creative and collaborative work. “In the next 20 years a lot of skills
knowledge and advice (tax, HR, legal) can be delivered by co-bots as they learn from humans what
“People are scared there will be destruction of jobs but we look at
to do,” says Karl. it as the world
becoming a more efficient place and people will be able to spend their time doing more creative tasks. “The very first step to be an efficient
intelligent organisation is to embrace AI to do some of the administration tasks in your company. Then, phase two is learning from what your workers do, what skills they have and what
skills you can augment with
co-bots,” he continues. “When you refer to digital transformation,
we believe it has already happened,” he says. “Our 2030 vision is the concept of the intelligent organisation. Either you change to be an intelligent organisation or your company just won’t be around.” Karl is a firm believer in the importance
of AI-enabled technology to engage and enable
employees in the new digital
workplace. AI is key to the LiveTiles offering of intelligent workplace software, which streamlines productivity, collaboration and the functioning of business practices for commercial, government and education customers – among them some of the biggest organisations in the world such as PepsiCo, Nike and the US Department of Defence. “The problem we’re trying to solve is technology in companies is
that most
usually poorly adopted by workers; it’s not the same as the technology they might have in their consumer lives with phones and apps,” explains Karl. “In the enterprise space you usually don’t have that sort of enjoyment with work systems. We’re
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trying to simplify the technology and create beautiful user experiences.”
PHENOMENAL GROWTH LiveTiles is one phenomenal
tech successes,
of Australia’s most astounding
tech analysts around the world with a stunning commercial streak, more than tripling its annualised subscription revenue (ASR) with a 315 per cent increase in its year-on-year revenue figures. Since
swiftly become a global
its foundation in 2014, it has tech company,
headquartered in New York, with operations across numerous US, European and Australian cities. “We’re one of the fastest ever-growing
enterprise SaaS public companies,” reveals Karl proudly. “We are really only three years old now from the time of our first dollar of revenue; Slack actually grew faster but they’re a private company.” The company is growing seven to eight
times faster than the industry average for cloud software companies. “It’s exciting. We grow every quarter by
half so every 90-day period we’re increasing staff, and increasing customers.” A key driver of growth for LiveTiles is its
strategic partnership with key Microsoft sales and marketing vendor, N3, which has boosted its sales and marketing resources in North America. N3 is the
leading
outsourced sales and marketing execution vendor for Microsoft’s Azure and Dynamics platforms and services a global client base which includes SAP, IBM and Cisco.
into Ireland and it’s great that we’re able to be in the same
country and share our vision.”
was
Another key factor in choosing Sligo collaboration with Sligo
IT, and
LiveTiles has already set up their first office within the campus. “Sligo IT has some very specific human-centred design, and AI impacts or augments human-centred development and we hope to set up some research partnerships working with the Institute,” he reveals. Karl also reveals that the town of Sligo
trying to solve is that most technology in
companies is usually poorly adopted by workers.”
“The problem we’re
reminds him of their first development location in Hobart, Australia, and not just in terms of size or scenery, but also talent retention. “What we learned from Hobart, where we have a team dedicated to product, is that we have an extremely high retention rate. In big cities you will find a lot of developers job hop.” Recruitment has already begun, and
with a pool of talent including over 6,000 students in the local IT, he is optimistic about offering an interesting future
to
young people who may have been looking at Dublin or other cities around the world, with quality tech jobs and some of the country’s best surfing on their doorstep.
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“Microsoft has invested heavily
SHARED VISION LiveTiles recently announced it will establish an Intelligent Innovation Centre in Sligo, Ireland, to support the further development of its design and AI products. A new product solutions team based there will work on creating industry-specific digital platforms that incorporate AI. “We’re already working quite closely with Microsoft
Ireland and that has
certainly been an attraction for us,” says Karl. “Microsoft has invested heavily into Ireland and it’s great that we’re able to be in the same country and share our vision. They have a vision of being a leader in AI and we want to be a leader in intelligent user experience, merging AI and human user experience.”
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