{"id":2489,"date":"2013-08-14T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2013-08-14T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:49:47","slug":"hr-technology-conference-calling-all-slackers-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"HR Technology Conference &#8211; Calling All Slackers (like me!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Jeopardy! and tend to watch when I get a chance to. \u00a0I was distraught a few years ago when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/blog\/jennings-explains-his-jeopardy-loss-watson\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Jennings lost to Watson<\/a>, the IBM supercomputer. \u00a0I personally felt like there was no chance for Ken to win against this highly quantitative, calculating machine unless they gave Watson a 0.1 second pause before buzzing in for an &#8220;answer.&#8221; \u00a0In many cases, Watson is technology that is filtering into many of our organizations, especially in marketing and operations, less so in HR &#8211; but it&#8217;s coming our way just as we all doubted social 8 years ago but it arrived in the enterprise anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a slacker (like me) and have not registered yet, there is more good reason to do so now. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrtechnologyconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watson is coming to the HR Technology Conference<\/a>. \u00a0I for one will have to decide if I&#8217;m going to cover the conference at all, or if I just geek out (actually a normal state for me) and cover Watson and analytics instead!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just use the Promo Code SYSTEMATIC\u00a0(all caps)<\/strong> when you register online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrtechconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.HRTechConference.com<\/a>\u00a0to get $500 off the rack rate of $1,895. The discount does not expire until the conference ends on\u00a0Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Be there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Jeopardy! and tend to watch when I get a chance to. \u00a0I was distraught a few years ago when Ken Jennings lost to Watson, the IBM supercomputer. \u00a0I personally felt like there was no chance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[388,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}