After OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Bard, it was only a matter of time before Amazon followed suit. Now the company’s AWS division has unveiled its own AI-based chatbot, “Q”. The most important difference: it is not aimed at private individuals, but is designed to provide targeted support to corporate customers in IT and development, administration and project management. This could also benefit online print shops.
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The Online Print Symposium on 14 and 15 March 2024 at the Science Congress Center Munich is already eagerly awaited. It is therefore high time to reveal the first names. We have already announced one of the keynote speakers: None other than Henrik Müller-Hansen, CEO of Gelato.
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The Initiative Online Print (IOP) welcomed three new members to its ranks at its autumn meeting at the end of September, which took place at Kalfany Süße Werbung GmbH & Co. KG in Herbolzheim and afterwards in Freiburg. The focus was on robotics and automation in the onlineprint industry.
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Because the team of the online printing and e-commerce platform Helloprint found the previous automation solutions for the customer experience in e-commerce too standardised, too inflexible and too cost-intensive, they took matters into their own hands without further ado – and developed their own AI-supported automation software with Engaige.
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Those who run an online store are often also represented within online marketplaces such as Amazon, Ebay or Etsy in order to expand their own reach – and thus their sales. Luxembourg-based startup MarketLeap has developed an AI-enabled e-commerce system that addresses this very point.
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On 14 and 15 March 2024, the Online Print Symposium will enter its 11th round at the Science Congress Center Munich with more than 300 participants from all over the world! After a brilliant anniversary event, the Online Print Symposium now presents itself in a new look. The new logo and design can already be seen on the website: https://online-print-symposium.de/en/
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Artificial intelligence not only brings new technical possibilities, but also redefines the requirements for companies. For example, security concepts must be rethought and redeveloped. The Initiative Online Print (IOP) regularly deals with the topic of cybersecurity, among other things. Current legal issues raised by artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in e-commerce are much more closely linked than one might think at first glance.
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Is artificial intelligence more of an opportunity or a threat? The market and opinion research institute YouGov and Statista have just dealt with this question – and to put it in a nutshell: Germans are divided in their opinion. But no matter what your personal answer to this question may be: AI is changing the way we work – and is not stopping at the C-level, i.e. the management level. It’s high time to get to grips with the topic.
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Since the end of last year, ChatGPT, Midjourney and Dall-E have not only filled what felt like every media channel but have also turned learned truths about what is created by people and what is created by technology on their heads. It was only logical that artificial intelligence should also be part of the Online Print Symposium 2023. For the keynote, the organizers brought journalist and author, Jörg Schieb, a real digital expert, on stage.
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Actually, online print shops can look to the future with confidence. Because they can print anything, as they have internalized the “online” sales channel, and because they deliver high quality at high speed – and at low prices, too. What’s more, the last three years have shown how extremely flexible they can be, even in volatile markets.
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