A financial executive with a decade of experience with JPMorgan in San Francisco, Curt Sigfstead heads the firm’s West Coast technology investment banking efforts. Curt Sigfstead has a strong interest in trends in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, which are increasingly used to apply reasoning to repetitive tasks and exert major time and cost savings. A recent McKinsey Global Institute Study encompassed interviews with approximately 3,000 senior executives on areas such as AI technologies and their market impact and deployment potential. The backdrop is a world in which AI investment is accelerating quickly, with major companies such as Google and Baidu investing between $20 billion and $30 billion in 2016 alone on related R&D. With a “race for patents” at the fore, a number of major auto manufacturers, such as Tesla and BMW, are investing heavily in the machine learning and robotics interfaces that will enable driverless cars to become a commonplace reality. Toyota is currently working toward the launch of a $1 billion-funded research institute focused on driverless vehicles and the AI-underpinned robotics capacities required. Early adopters of AI also include growth companies within the financial services and communications spheres.
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Curt Sigfstead serves as head of West Coast technology investment banking with JPMorgan and engages with diverse corporate clients in revenue and account planning capacities. Among the areas in which Curt Sigfstead has extensive knowledge are software as a service (SaaS) and cloud and mobile technologies. With the iPhone having pioneered the concept of the apps powered by cloud connectivity a decade ago, enterprise-grade applications are now a part of many workers’ daily life. Featuring simple, user-centric interfaces, mobile apps feature ever-increasing power under the hood. The cloud is an ideal environment for hosting mobile apps for a number of reasons, including a distributed infrastructure that incorporates localized data centers that cache content in as close a proximity to on-the-move physical devices as possible. Cloud platforms also are advantageous for the way they employ lightweight APIs and XML and JSON formats, which are geared toward smaller data bursts than traditional applications and are ideal for mobile devices. In addition, because of the way mobile users transition between network connections, the traditional session-based security model is becoming outmoded. OAuth and other token-based authentication models that fill that security gap are designed specifically for cloud-based architectures. |
AuthorA longtime resident of the San Francisco area, Curt Sigfstead contributes to numerous charitable and nonprofit institutions throughout the country. Archives
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