Calgary has joined Toronto and Vancouver as home to a KPMG Ignition centres.
Today KPMG officially opened KPMG Ignition Calgary at the Platform Innovation Centre, creating a dedicated innovation lab to help clients solve their most-complex problems.
To mark the opening, KPMG unveiled a specially commissioned piece of AI-informed artwork by the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), one of Canada’s three centres of AI excellence, and local visual designer Natalia Resovsky.
By using software algorithms that manipulate digital images in a technique known as Neural Style Transfer (NST), Amii took over 200 images blending ‘style’ from one onto the other. Ms. Resovsky then used those images to produce a wall-sized abstract interpretation of Calgary’s skyline that captures the vibrancy and growth of Calgary as one of the country’s leading AI and tech innovation hubs.
KPMG Ignition Calgary is one of the firm’s three Ignition Centres across Canada that serve as dynamic innovation labs for clients to solve complex problems, navigate disruption in their industries, and harness technologies to improve their operations and overall customer service experience.
Globally, KPMG has Ignition hubs in 16 countries to incubate technological ideas and facilitate client-directed solutions to problems involving, among others, data and analytics, digital solutions, and technology business management.
“We help our clients reframe their problems, see beyond the now, and derive value from innovation,” says Kerry Harmer, KPMG Ignition Calgary Leader. “Leveraging design thinking methodology, analytical tools, and our ecosystem of alliances, we custom-fit solutions for specific business challenges, helping our clients to think leaner, faster and more efficiently to stay sharp and competitive.”
“KPMG Ignition Calgary is a key pillar of the experience at the Platform Innovation Centre – helping enterprise leaders collaborate and innovate,” says Terry Rock, President and CEO at Platform Calgary. “This visionary project will create more impactful collision for founders and start-ups and drive corporate innovation across the city.”
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