Accenture officials led by JP Palpallatoc, managing director, open the firm’s Liquid Studio.
Systems that detect whether mining vehicles are overloaded or its drivers are exhausted or an augmented reality platform to train people how to operate machinery or decorate a house were put on display as Accenture launched yesterday its rapid innovation center in the Philippines.
The Liquid Studio is an “open center where clients co-innovate with Accenture engineers to turn concepts into applications and solutions with speed and agility,” the company said.
While the studio is a venue where Accenture clients can work on innovation to stay ahead in business, it is also a place where the company’s workers can be trained or work on the latest technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, said Ambe Tierro, senior managing director and technology lead, Accenture in the Philippines.
It will also serve as a hub in the technology ecosystem in the Philippines, she said.
JP Palpallatoc, managing director and Accenture digital lead in the Philippines, said the Liquid Studio would be a place where the company could co-innovate with universities and schools as well as startups.
The center will help answer the question “how do you use technology to create business value?” said Accenture Technology Services group chief executive Bhaskar Ghosh.
During Thursday’s launch at the facility, which occupies an entire floor with about 2,000 square meters in the Uptown Place 3 at the Bonifacio Global City in Manila, Accenture showcased technologies on the connected home, artificial intelligence, internet of things, drones, analytics, robotics, and augmented reality.
The rapid innovation approach with agile methodologies can hasten development time from months to a matter of days or weeks, Palpallatoc said.
Among those they put on demo for journalists who covered the launch was a system that is able to scan faces and identify the person, take note of personal characteristics, and determine the mood: whether he or she is happy. It can be deployed in advertising displays that can tailor the marketing material based on data generated by the system.
The Liquid Studio is part of a network of facilities throughout the world. This makes sure innovation is available to clients in its various facilities globally, said Ghosh.
During the launch, Ghosh highlighted the social benefits of technology by showing how an employee in Manila with hearing and speech impairment would be able to work with colleagues in India by tapping AI to facilitate video communication.
This, Ghosh said, would enable more people to join the workforce and enable managers to have a more diverse employee pool.
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