Delivering on Short and Long Term Goals for AI

Anju Gupta

Digital Partnership and Outreach, Monsanto Co.

November 2017DPO: Digital Partnerships & OutreachSUs: StartupsILs: Industry Leaders

GSC

R&D

DS&P

VCs

SUs

ILs

Comm

INTE

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DP&O

BRAINS VS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

TAKING ROBOTS OUT OF THE HUMANS

ERRORRATE

DEEPLEARNING

Mid 2010s

Cloud-based algorithms that make Trillions of

calculations per second

Mid 2000s

TEAM LAIRDSCAPETEAM GIZMOZE

130k images, 54 opthalmologistsCory McLean, Google

DELIVERING ON AI – SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM

WHERE IS MONSANTO IN THIS JOURNEY

OPPORTUNITY Advance digitization

Kickstart internal innovation

Build digital acumen

CHALLENGES Low risk mindset

Short-term business outlook

Investments

CURRENT PRIORITIES Artificial Intelligence

Track & Trace

Blockchain

Marketing Automation

TECHNICAL PLATFORMS Enterprise Data

IoT & B2B

Cybersecurity

Computational Genomics

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Digital Partnerships - Executive Summary

697 Startups on our radar with 150 active discussions, 25 completed POCs and

7 licensed

Accelerate digital transformation via strong partnerships, prospecting and outreach.

C O N N E C T T H E D O T S O N D R I V I N G VA L U E T H R O U G H

I N N O VAT I O N

Identify Needs

I D E N T I F Y

Find Innovating Tech

F I N D

Triage Opportunities

T R I A G E

Test & Learn

T E S T A D O P T

Business Leads

Portfolio Plans

Emerging Trends

Summits, Conf., VC trips

Inventory of startups

VMO DPO

Crowdsource Tech radar

Pitch Sessions

Business & tech validation

Passionate sponsor

Identify POC leads

ISO, VMO, P&E Review

2-3 week engagement

Adopt or drop recommendation

- Drive adoptionthrough enterprise wide trainings

- Portfolio managed

- ‘Media Blitz’

Active Adoption

(800) (175) (32) (10)

APPROACH AND PROCESS

Generate New

Growth

Opportunities

Enable Strategic

Transformation

Accelerate

Platform

Capabilities

Digital Partnerships

DOMAIN ADAPTATION

ACTIVE LEARNING

Provision Machine Learning as A

Service Engine with a partner platform

ADVANCE AI CAPABILITIES DEMOCRATIZE ANALYTICS

Data scientists collaboration platformDisease Image Recognition

Bioactivity Prediction

Millions internet Images Across 1000

Classes

50 Thousand Disease Images

Across 14 Crops & 36 Disease Classes

>96%Accuracy

Machine Learning platform for data

cleansing, data augmentation, data

discovery and data duplication

ClearStory

Value to MonsantoAgility, Automation and Fast Insights across all current and future sources

Eliminates complex data prep by

inferring semantics in data

Automates blending data

by detecting & matching dimensions

across sources

Discovers all

patterns & correlationsin data values across

sources

Machine-drivenData Inference

Machine-drivenData Harmonization

AutomatedData Discovery

Metadata &Lineage

Salesforce

EDW

NPS

Dealers

Segmentation

RADL

Adobe

Experian

Partnerships to extend our Machine Learning Capabilities

COMMERCIAL - ADOPTED

R&D PIPELINE– TESTING

FINANCE – TESTING

Test & Adopt: 2 Weeks

ACCELERATE PLATFORM CAPABILITIES

First use case of NLP @Monsanto for assessing brand reputation and consumer sentiment Sentiment analysis in seconds vs weeks

Deploying bots for automation of repetitive processes in Commercial, HR and finance

A robust pipeline of 800+ startups, 150 active discussions, 25 POCs completed with 7 cross functional licensing deals signed

Test & Adopt: 8 Weeks Test & Adopt: 3-6 Weeks

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SMART & AUTOMATED BOTS

BUILDING DIGITAL ACUMEN IS CRITICAL TO SUCCESS

PARTING THOUGHTS

CONFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY IS THE FUTURE

BREAK DOWN SILOS & COLLABORATE

PARTNERSHIPS – CRITICAL TO OUR SUCCESS- Industry- University- Startups