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What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a component of artificial intelligence and provides a computer program the ability to understand human language as it is spoken and written. Among many examples, it’s how smart assistants can perform tasks using voice commands (Siri and Alexa) or text (chatbots); it’s how apps can easily translate languages with amazing accuracy; and it’s how your email account can successfully identify, categorize, and label emails. In addition to these and other rapidly maturating NLP capabilities that are competing with humans on more complex qualitative tasks, NLP is also surprisingly practical and a viable technology for Hawaii’s organizations to implement.

Join TRUE on October 13 for an enlightening session with Ed Barnabas, Director/CTO, and Summer Rankin and Ka’imi Kahihikolo, lead Data Scientists, for Booz Allen Hamilton – US leading IT consulting firm. All three are based locally in Hawaii and represent Booz Allen’s Chief Technology Office. They are committed to providing modern technology services to Hawaii’s public and private sectors and help them thrive.

Sharing some compelling use cases, the Booz Allen team will show attendees how NLP has evolved very rapidly in the past few years and how it has been a gamechanger for the Department of Defense. More broadly, they will discuss how NLP is now more accessible and can be applied to Hawaii’s industries such as: government, tourism, health, banking, etc. By understanding your text data sets, new AI-based language technologies, and where to begin adoption with “lightweight” and feasible approaches, your organization will be more efficient and making better decisions. Seats are limited at this in-demand event, please register now!

Date: Thursday, October 13
Time: 3 pm HST

Agenda:
3 pm: Check in
3:30 pm: Presentation
5 pm: Pau hana networking drinks & pupus

Document AI for Finance & Accounting

Join this hands-on, lab focused session where attendees build document AI solutions on Google Cloud. Google Solutions Architect – Sugandha Choudhary – will be on hand to guide the journey.

This session will be particularly useful for accounting and finance teams who process financial documents like invoices, purchase orders, or other related financial documents. The session will familiarize attendees with the end to end workflow of intelligent document processing (i.e ingestion, extraction, insights).

Date: Wednesday, September 28
Time: 8 am – 11:30 am HST

Leverage Oracle Cloud for Public Sector

Pacxa and Oracle present “Leverage Oracle Cloud for Public Sector”, an overview of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and how it helps transform Hawaiʻi organizations. In this session, Oracle’s John Lang will provide an overview of OCI’s Gen2 design goals which allow us to deliver these innovations with a focus on built-in foundational security, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures, and OCI’s Autonomous services.

Date: Wednesday, September 28
Time: 10-11 am HST

Congratulations to TRUE’s advisory board member, Deena Tearney!

We are thrilled to announce Deena—Founder and CEO of Pacific Point—and her team were included in the Inc. 5000. Not for the first time, but for the third time! The Inc. 5000 list represents the fastest-growing private companies in America, and Pacific Point ranked 3331 on the most recent list.

Congratulations to TRUE’s Vice Chairman, Peter Dames!

Community Innovation Mentorship Program (CIMP) 4.0 – TRUE Member Org DataHouse Mentors UH Students to Develop the Future of LumiSight App

A big congrats to UH students Alyssa Mencel, Alvin Edrada, Taylor Gabatino and Timothy Huo and for successfully creating a hoteling app which will be used by the ‘Ike family of companies: ‘Ike, DataHouse and Team Praxis. Through the leadership and mentorship of TRUE member organization DataHouse, the future of the LumiSight platform has been developed to provide a useful tool for today’s hybrid work environments, with capability to manage office spaces allowing users to book desks, offices and conference rooms. See the team present their project here:

Contract Lifecycle Management Use Case with DCCA and Docusign

Thank you to Hawaii’s organizational leaders and their teams who attending our Contract Lifecycle Management event on September 1. We hope that by hearing about the State of Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) journey into CLM we were able to highlight in real and relevant ways how this technology can benefit your organization.