在爱达荷州太阳谷举行的Allen & Co.年度峰会上，Flowcode的首席执行官Tim Armstrong分享了他的观察。今年的会议聚焦于人工智能和体育两大主题。与会者热烈讨论了如何快速实施AI技术，Armstrong在Flowcode推行“TuesdAIs”，鼓励各部门在每周二专注于AI工具的实施和流程更新。此外，体育产业也成为焦点，因其仍能聚集大量观众进行现场活动。会议汇集了来自媒体、科技、金融和体育界的重要人物，共同探讨行业发展趋势。

🤖人工智能成为焦点：与会者普遍关注AI，认为其重要性堪比“千斤重的大猩猩”。Armstrong观察到，AI正以比互联网更快的速度被采用，成为继媒体和互联网之后的第三大支柱。

🗓️Flowcode的AI实践：Armstrong在Flowcode推行“TuesdAIs”制度，要求每个部门每周二专注于通过实施新工具和更新流程来整合AI，以此加速AI技术的应用。

🏀体育产业的突出地位：体育被视为能够聚集大量观众进行现场活动的领域，成为媒体领域讨论的焦点。会议吸引了来自NBA、NFL和MLB的代表，以及体育界的企业家。

The annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference took place this week.The summit brought together executives from all corners of the business world.We caught up with Flowcode CEO Tim Armstrong to discuss.

For 16 summers in a row, Tim Armstrong has flown to Sun Valley, Idaho, following the July 4th holiday to attend the annual Allen & Co. Conference. The event brings together some of the most powerful and wealthiest leaders in media, technology, and finance.

The longtime tech and advertising executive brokered one of the most famous deals to come out of the summit — the $4.4 billion sale of AOL to Verizon, which began over a casual lunch in 2014.

Armstrong is now the CEO of Flowcode, a platform he founded that uses QR codes to fuel customer engagement.

Business Insider caught up with Armstrong to discuss some of the hot topics of this year's conference, which kicked off on Tuesday.

Artificial intelligence, unsurprisingly, was top of mind for attendees.

It was the "1,000-pound gorilla" in "every conversation, every meeting," Armstrong said.

"It used to be about media and technology, media and the internet," he said. "There's a third leg of the stool now: media, the internet, and AI."

AI is being adopted at a much faster pace than the internet was, he said, and executives and investors swapped ideas about how to best implement the technology.

Armstrong, for example, has enforced "TuesdAIs" at Flowcode. On Tuesdays, each department must focus on the technology by implementing new tools and updating processes to incorporate AI.

It's "time to paddle out to the next wave," he said. "Paddle hard."

Among the media set, sports dominated conversation. It's the "place that can still collect humans together in big audiences for live events," Armstrong said, adding that a similar takeaway had emerged from Cannes earlier this summer.

The conference drew attendees from all over the sports world, including the NBA, NFL, and MLB commissioners, team owners like Robert Kraft and Jimmy Haslam, and entrepreneurs like Jeb Terry of venue operator Cosm.

Armstrong ended the conference with a somewhat extreme sport of his own: bridge jumping in one of Idaho's many swimming holes.