Speaking on a Web Summit Rio panel about how to use artificial intelligence to scale organizations, the co-founder of information technology and software development company CI&T, Bruno Guicardi, said the need to apply ‘thinking’ systems to the company’s development process already shows AI’s “huge impact” on how digital services are being built.
“We are seeing productivity gains in the range of two to six times. And this is just the beginning. We can anticipate that AI has a huge impact on software development processes, doing it in a faster and cheaper way,” he said.
The panel was moderated The Brazilian Report’s deputy editor Fabiane Ziolla Menezes, who questioned Mr. Guicardi about the practical use of generative artificial intelligence — or GenerativeAI — in his field.
According to him, generative AI is changing how his company works, eliminating the necessity of “creating codes from scratch,” for example. “Developers increase their productivity by having their own ‘co-pilots’,” he said.
Considering the challenges of AI implementation at scale, especially for corporate clients, Alex Winetzki, founder and CEO of Brazilian AI-focused platform Woopi, mentioned the possibility of using AI tools to search and summarize information for multiple uses, including helping courts organize lawsuits, assisting doctors during surgical procedures, and speeding up chatbots’ training.
“We do within hours things we once did in a day-long training. It’s a game-changing topic. In my career, I’ve never seen something with such an impact,” said the Woopi executive.
Founded in 2009, the Web Summit was held in Dublin until 2016, when it moved to Lisbon. The event helped turn the Portuguese capital into a European tech hub and “wants to do the same for Rio de Janeiro,” Artur Pereira, Web Summit’s country manager in Brazil, told our Deputy Editor Fabiane Ziolla Menezes.
The Brazilian Report will moderate another three panels in Rio, one of them also AI-related:
- AI: Future or fear? With Sarah Al-Hussaini, co-founder and COO at Ultimate, Aline Oliveira, co-founder of Traive, and Gustavo Ribeiro, editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report (May 3, 4:40 pm-5 pm).
- How UFC fought its way to the top. Fred Santarpia, president of Endeavor Streaming, MMA fighter Amanda Ribas, Brazil UFC senior VP Eduardo Galetti, and The Brazilian Report’s Deputy Editor Euan Marshall (May 3, 4:35 pm-5 pm).
- Can LatAm challenge Silicon Valley? Rodrigo Maroja, co-founder & COO of Daki, Ludmila Pontremolez, co-founder and CTO of Zippi, Brian Requarth, co-founder of Latitud, and Gustavo Ribeiro, founder and editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report (May 4, 1:05 pm-1:30 pm).
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