The World’s Leading AI Summit
12th – 13th October 2022
Taets Art and Event Park | Amsterdam Noord
“A global force for good, focusing the attention of the data science and business communities on how our most cutting edge tools can deliver a brighter future for us all’’ Forbes
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What’s World Summit AI?
The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle head-on the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.
Get ready for two-day of mind-boggling innovation, heated discussions on AI ethics and AI4good, applied solutions for enterprise, hands-on workshops, knowledge-sharing, networking and entertainment with our famous DJ!

What’s On?
Plenary sessions: live with mind-blowing speakers and world leaders. Table-talks: curated, board room style meetings to find peer-to-peer solutions to your current challenges. Masterclass sessions: workshops with a difference, world-leading speakers giving private masterclasses to small groups. Workshops: nobody likes wasting time. Learn from experts in a structured, hands-on session that will keep you engaged and make the learning stick. Curated 121 meetings: using our AI-powered matchmaking tool – physically, there will be managed meeting points.
Who’s coming?
The full AI ecosystem, startups, academics, investors, business leaders, all the big tech companies, and the brightest AI brains as speakers.
Founders, CEOs, CTOs, COOs, CDOs, CFOs, CMOs, CIOs
EVPs, SVP, VP’s, Directors and Heads of AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Cognitive Computing, Data Science, Data Analytics, Technology, Innovation
Professors, Ph.D. candidates, students, interns
Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Software Engineers, Developers and more…
2
Days
200+
Speakers
11
Tracks
Meet the 2022 AI Brains


PETER NORVIG
Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow
Google and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

PETER NORVIG
Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow
Google and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and a researcher at Google Inc; previously he directed Google’s core search algorithms group and Google’s Research group.
He was head of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, where he was NASA’s senior computer scientist and a recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006.
He was co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Data Science in Context (to appear in 2022), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world’s longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.


MICHAEL KAGAN
CTO
NVIDIA

MICHAEL KAGAN
CTO
NVIDIA


COLIN MURDOCH
Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer
DeepMind

COLIN MURDOCH
Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer
DeepMind


VANDI VERMA
Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA

VANDI VERMA
Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA
Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations – Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA (USA)
Vandi Verma is the Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, and the Assistant Section Manager for Mobility and Robotics Systems at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She specializes in space robotics, autonomous robots and robotic operations. She has worked on a number of Space Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research and technology development tasks and has designed, developed, and operated rovers on Mars, the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Atacama Desert.
She has been working at NASA since graduating with a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. She works on new capabilities from early design, through development, testing and launch, to landing and surface operations. Since 2008 she has been driving rovers on Mars (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance) and operating the robotic arm and sampling system as a Rover Planner. She enjoys coding and has written flight software that runs onboard Curiosity and Perseverance, and simulation software used in operations.


BLAISE AGUERA Y ARCAS
VP Fellow
Google Research

BLAISE AGUERA Y ARCAS
VP Fellow
Google Research
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP and Fellow at Google Research, where he leads an organization working on both basic research and new products in AI. His focus is on augmentative, privacy-first, and collectively beneficial applications, including on-device ML for Android phones, wearables, and the Internet of Things.
One of the team’s technical contributions is Federated Learning, an approach to training neural networks in a distributed setting that avoids sharing user data. Blaise also founded the Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and has been an active participant in cross-disciplinary dialogs about AI and ethics, fairness and bias, policy, and risk. Until 2014 he was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. Outside the tech world, Blaise has worked on computational humanities projects including the digital reconstruction of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii’s color photography at the Library of Congress, and the use of computer vision techniques to shed new light on Gutenberg’s printing technology. Blaise has given TED talks on Seadragon and Photosynth (2007, 2012), Bing Maps (2010), and machine creativity (2016), and gave a keynote at NeurIPS on social intelligence (2019). In 2008, he was awarded MIT’s TR35 prize. In 2018 and 2019 he taught the course “Intelligent Machinery, Identity, and Ethics” at the University of Washington, placing computing and AI in a broader historical and philosophical context.


JOELLE PINEAU
Co-Managing Director | Meta AI Research
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science | McGill University

JOELLE PINEAU
Co-Managing Director | Meta AI Research
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science | McGill University


MICKY ADRIAANSENS
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of the Netherlands

MICKY ADRIAANSENS
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of the Netherlands


PAUL NEMITZ
Principal Advisor | European Commission
Member | German Data Ethics Commission
Visiting Professor of Law | College of Europe

PAUL NEMITZ
Principal Advisor | European Commission
Member | German Data Ethics Commission
Visiting Professor of Law | College of Europe
Paul NEMITZ is the Principal Adviser on Justice Policy in the European Commission.
He was appointed in April 2017, following a 6-year appointment as Director for Fundamental Rights and Citizen’s Rights in the EU Commission. As Director, Nemitz led the reform of Data Protection legislation in the EU, the negotiations of the EU – US Privacy Shield and the negotiations with major US Internet Companies of the EU Code of Conduct against incitement to violence and hate speech on the Internet. He is a Member of the Global Council on Extended Intelligence of the IEEE and the MIT in Boston.
His 2018 Article “Constitutional democracy and technology in the age of artificial intelligence”, downloaded more than 20000 times from the UK Royal Society Website, and his 2020 book “Prinzip Mensch – Macht, Freiheit und Demokratie im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligence“ (www.PrinzipMensch.EU), co-authored with Philospher and Journalist Matthias Pfeffer, lay the ground for a global approach to Tech regulation based on Democracy, Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law.
Follow him on Twitter @PaulNemitz. #1 TECH #EUInfluencer in the 2020 ZN Consulting #EUInfluencer survey.


MARK SURMAN
President and Chief Executive
Mozilla Foundation

MARK SURMAN
President and Chief Executive
Mozilla Foundation


KERSTI KALJULAID
Former President (2016-2021)
Estonia

KERSTI KALJULAID
Former President (2016-2021)
Estonia
Kersti Kaljulaid
- President of Estonia 2016-2021
- United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Advocate for Every Woman Every Child since 2021
- Mother of four and grandmother of four
- Speaks Estonian, English, French, Russian, Finnish
- Born in 1969 in Estonia
Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016-2021. During her time in office, she made her presence felt in both her homeland and the international arena.
Previously she had been serving as a Member of the European Court of Auditors, advising Prime Minister Mart Laar and holding diferent top level positions in energy, investment banking and telecom sector. Genetic engineer and economist by education, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center and the Council Chair of the University of Tartu from 2012 to 2016.
In summer 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid to the position of Global Advocate for the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy on the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world for the next two years. She was also the first Estonian to be featured in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
Kersti Kaljulaid has become a sought-after speaker at high-level forums on digital, security and foreign-policy topics and more broadly for analysing and interpreting societal and economic change.
President Kaljulaid is a vocal advocate of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech and democracy. One of the principles in the in office of president has been the one she set out upon her inauguration: “I am never silent when our security is in question, when our freedoms are at stake or when those weaker than us are treated unjustly.


PROFESSOR FRANCESCA ROSSI
President | AAAI
Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader | IBM

PROFESSOR FRANCESCA ROSSI
President | AAAI
Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader | IBM
Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects.
Before joining IBM, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of Padova, Italy, for 20 years.
Her research interest span various areas of AI, from constraints to preferences, from graphical models to social choice, to neuro-symbolic AI.
She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Global Partnership on AI, of which both US and France are members.
She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.


ORLANDO MACHADO
Chief Data Officer and Vice President
The LEGO Group

ORLANDO MACHADO
Chief Data Officer and Vice President
The LEGO Group
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