Programme 2022
World Summit AI
12th – 13th October 2022
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- Wednesday 12th
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07:30 - 09:00REGISTRATION
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09:00 - 09:05WELCOME Inspired Minds Sarah Porter, CEO and Founder, Inspired Minds! UN Advisor, LAWS
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Sarah Porter, CEO and Founder, Inspired Minds! UN Advisor, LAWS
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09:05 - 09:10WELCOME Special Guest
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Special Guest
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09:10 - 09:20Chairperson's opening remarks
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09:45 - 10:10HEADLINER Where to focus with AI: Accelerating Radical Innovation for Resiliency and Competitiveness Plenary
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10:40 - 11:10REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
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TRACK 1: MOONSHOT MOTHERSHIP
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11:10 - 12:30Stage: Black Box (Hall 1) Chair: TBA
Learn how curiosity, imagination, and exponential innovation are realising a world of abundance in a generation. Moonshot Mothership is a new platform featuring radically ambitious visionaries who are innovating at breakneck speed to deliver world-defining AI applications.
“You can’t pre-business-plan a moonshot any more than you can paint a masterpiece via color-by-numbers given to you by a committee.”
– Astro Teller
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Chair: TBA
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11:10 - 11:30KEYNOTE Accelerating Estonia: Becoming The World’s Most Digitally Advanced Country - and What’s Next Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia (2016 – 2021)
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Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia (2016 – 2021)
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11:30 - 11:50KEYNOTE Two Giant Leaps for Applied AI: Protein Folding and Nuclear Fusion Colin Murdoch, Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer, DeepMind
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Colin Murdoch, Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer, DeepMind
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11:50 - 12:10KEYNOTE Taking The Wheel on Mars: Autonomous Capabilities Beyond Self-Driving Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA
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Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA
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12:10 - 12:30KEYNOTE Solving the next Pandemic before it happens Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO & Founder, XLabs
Companies want to aim for moonshots: ideas that can change everything. But landing moonshots isn’t easy. Radhika is a true expert in taking moonshots from launch to mission success.
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Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO & Founder, XLabs
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TRACK 2: HEALTHY CITIES
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11:10 - 12:30Stage: Building 43 Chair: TBA
Where Intelligent Health and Smart Cities Collide
One of the richest veins of potential for AI development and deployment in 2022 is in the nexus of ‘Healthy Cities’. This track is powered by the global smart city, Amsterdam AI4Cities, sustainable environment and InspiredMinds! own Intelligent Health communities to advance discussions on how to apply AI and drive technological collaboration that supports the development of ‘Healthy Cities’. We connect boundary-pushing innovators and decision makers who are developing and adopting innovation in this exciting emerging field of work.
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Chair: TBA
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11:10 - 11:50PANEL DISCUSSION The City as a Living Lab for AI solutions Moderator: TBA
Mark Stoevelaar, CTO Innovation Team, City of AmsterdamWith project reports from iCLEI: AI accelerating Cities’ transition to carbon neutrality
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Moderator: TBA
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Mark Stoevelaar, CTO Innovation Team, City of Amsterdam
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11:50 - 12:10PITCH PRESENTATIONS Universally Accessible Healthy Cities Moderator: Maarten Sukel, AI Lead, City of Amsterdam
Showcasing Hot Companies Operating in the Healthy Cities nexus
Co-curated with StartupAmsterdam
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Moderator: Maarten Sukel, AI Lead, City of Amsterdam
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12:10 - 12:40PANEL DISCUSSION Revolutionising Healthcare: technologies to keep patients at home and out of the hospital Moderator: Pieter Jeekel, Chairman, Dutch AI Coalition: Wellbeing + Healthcare
Rachel De Sain - CEO, Lead Advisor, codesain-
Moderator: Pieter Jeekel, Chairman, Dutch AI Coalition: Wellbeing + Healthcare
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Rachel De Sain - CEO, Lead Advisor, codesain
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TRACK 3: MONEY AI, DLTs + CYBER SECURITY
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11:10 - 12:30Stage: Building 41 Chair: TBA
Future of Fintech, Crypto and Cyber Crime
Sitting at the intersection of finance and AI technology, hear from the World’s leading banks, big tech and AI fintech startups on how they are disrupting the fibre of one of the world’s oldest industries. Groundbreaking AI redefining customer service, creating faster and more reliable credit scores, enabling trading and money management, impacting regulatory compliance, security and fraud prevention.
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Chair: TBA
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11:10 - 11:40PANEL DISCUSSION 10 years of Money AI: Mapping the direction of future AI + ML technology initiatives in the financial industry over the coming decade Moderator: TBA
Patrick Maes, Managing Director - Global Head Bank User Solutions, Credit Suisse
Frans van Bruggen, Policy officer FinTech & Artificial Intelligence, Dutch Central Bank
Seema Prem, CEO & Co-founder, FIA Global-
Moderator: TBA
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Patrick Maes, Managing Director - Global Head Bank User Solutions, Credit Suisse
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Frans van Bruggen, Policy officer FinTech & Artificial Intelligence, Dutch Central Bank
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Seema Prem, CEO & Co-founder, FIA Global
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11:40 - 12:00IN-CONVERSATION Is AI a boon or bane for cybersecurity? Money Laundering, Fraud + Financing Terrorism
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11:50 - 12:10USE CASE Fully comprehensive disruptive banking
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12:10 - 12:30KEYNOTE “It’s possible that one day, nearly everything we own will be accounted for on the blockchain”
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TRACK 4: INSPIREDMINDS! TALENT LAB
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11:10 - 12:30Stage: Hotel Wonderland
The Future of Work, Recruitment and Human Potential in AI
Across sectors, across functions, and across silos, the world of work has dramatically shifted. Companies are struggling to sustain or attain sufficient human resources to keep up with the pace of AI evolution. We explore advances in…
- the way we work + job quality
- culture, mission + purpose
- no-code and accessible AI
- Organisational and hub structure
- career development
- education + funding initiatives
- socialisation
…to help the AI community solve the dual challenges of a global talent shortage and ‘The Great Resignation’.
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11:10 - 15:40ALL-DAY DESIGN SPRINT FruitPunch! AI4Good Wicked Problem Challenges Moderator: Buster Franken, CEO, FruitPunch
Sako Arts, CTO, FruitPunchIn partnership with Dutch ai hacker collective, FruitPunch, join our brand new, hands-on #AI4Good design-sprints. Collaborate on solving ‘wicked problems’ such as biodiversity, health, water and food.
Challenges are aligned with the UN Development Goals.
Objectives may include:
- AI for Wildlife – autonomous drones that track poachers in protected wilds
- AI for Food – developing robots to feed more people, while using less land
- AI for Democracy – modelling big data to improve the quality and integrity of our democracies
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Moderator: Buster Franken, CEO, FruitPunch
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Sako Arts, CTO, FruitPunch
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11:10 - 17:30ALL-DAY INSPIRED MINDS CAREER FAIR FOR DATA SCIENCE AND AI
InspiredMinds! presents you with the opportunity to find your future career in the fields of:
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business Analytics
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Econometrics
Interact with a raft of different types of organisations participating, from startups, consultancies, tech, retail, banking and many more!
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11:10 - 15:40ALL-DAY HANDS-ON TECHNICAL CHALLENGES With Oxford Machine Learning Summer School
Grow your data science skills by competing in our exciting competitions, co-curated by the world’s leading ML summer school at Oxford University.
Designed for newcomers and experienced hands alike.
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TRACK 5: WORKSHOPS
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11:10 - 12:30Location: Building 43 - Upstairs
60-90 minute sessions in various rooms
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12:30 - 13:30LUNCH & NETWORKING
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TRACK 1: INNOVATION IN ACTION
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13:30 - 15:40Stage: Black Box (Hall 1) Chair: TBA
From manufacturing to e-commerce, smart cities to law firms, supply chain to government, hear from the world’s leading tech innovators on the big breakthroughs.
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Chair: TBA
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13:30 - 13:50USE CASE 1 Traditional Construction Turning to AI to Boost Resiliency
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13:50 - 14:10USE CASE 2 The Federated Data Factory: Cutting Edge Transnational Output (needs industry detail) Caroline Gorski, Director - R2 Data Labs, Rolls Royce
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Caroline Gorski, Director - R2 Data Labs, Rolls Royce
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14:10 - 14:30USE CASE 3 Edge Computing and How it intersects with AI workload
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14:30 - 14:50USE CASE 4 Building an AI-led country from scratch Joseph Bradley, CEO - Tech + Digital, NEOM
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Joseph Bradley, CEO - Tech + Digital, NEOM
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14:50 - 15:10USE CASE 5 Applied AI and the Future of Retail: CX, online shopping models, facial recognition, try-it-on
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15:10 - 15:40PANEL DISCUSSION Quantum and Spectrum: The Future AI Factory
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TRACK 2: THE METAVERSE
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13:30 - 15:40Stage: Building 43 Chair: Linda Bernadi, Co-Founder, XdMind
Speculation is ablaze that the Metaverse = the future. It could represent a $1T market by the end of the decade. But the metaverse is a vision, not a specific technology.
Should companies ride out the hype or get in the game early?
We look at hot technologies in this nascent space such as multimodal AI, personalised music, rapid modelling for real-world applications and synthetic senses.
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Chair: Linda Bernadi, Co-Founder, XdMind
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14:10 - 14:30USE CASE Modelling Fintech capability in the Metaverse
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14:30 - 14:50USE CASE Transportation-as-a-Service: the Metaverse and Metamobility
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14:50 - 15:10USE CASE Pioneering Personalised Music in Gameplay
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15:10 - 15:40PANEL DISCUSSION The Gaming Industry: The Key Driver of Metaverse Innovation? Moderator: Linda Bernadi, Co-founder, XdMind
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Moderator: Linda Bernadi, Co-founder, XdMind
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TRACK 3: RESPONSIBLE AI: GETTING IT RIGHT
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13:30 - 15:40Stage: Building 41 Chair: EY
Bias, Ethics, Inclusivity, Trust, Privacy + Safety
The latest guidance, developments and practical approaches for start-ups and experts creating AI solutions to integrate responsible consideration of AI and ML. Whether you are encumbered with legacy infrastructure or at the beginning of your business growth, understand what responsible AI looks like in practice and build frameworks that are safe for the future to ensure AI develops as a force for good. Attention will be focussed on the EU legislation coming down the pipe and how this might play out in your domains.
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Chair: EY
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13:30 - 13:50KEYNOTE Trustworthy AI, Digital Privacy, and the Open Internet Mark Surman, President and Chief Executive, Mozilla Foundation
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Mark Surman, President and Chief Executive, Mozilla Foundation
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13:50 - 14:10IN-CONVERSATION Waking Up to the Threat of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Verity Coyle, Senior Advisor, Amnesty International
Moderator: Katherine Templar Lewis, Co-founder, Kinda Studios-
Verity Coyle, Senior Advisor, Amnesty International
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Moderator: Katherine Templar Lewis, Co-founder, Kinda Studios
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14:10 - 14:30KEYNOTE EY
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EY
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14:30 - 14:50Machines Behaving Badly Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney
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Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney
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14:50 - 15:10Building the Right Culture for Responsible AI Linda Leopold, Head of Responsible AI & Data, H&M Group
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Linda Leopold, Head of Responsible AI & Data, H&M Group
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15:10 - 15:40PANEL DISCUSSION When is AI transparent enough? Professor Jeroen van den Hoven, Professor of Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology
Layla Li, CEO, KOSA AI
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Professor Jeroen van den Hoven, Professor of Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology
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Layla Li, CEO, KOSA AI
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Moderator: TBA
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TRACK 4: INSPIREDMINDS! TALENT LAB
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13:30 - 15:40Stage: Hotel Wonderland Chair: TBA
The Future of Work, Recruitment and Human Potential in AI
Across sectors, across functions, and across silos, the world of work has dramatically shifted. Companies are struggling to sustain or attain sufficient human resources to keep up with the pace of AI evolution. We explore advances in…
- the way we work + job quality
- culture, mission + purpose
- no-code and accessible AI
- Organisational and hub structure
- career development
- education + funding initiatives
- socialisation
…to help the AI community solve the dual challenges of a global talent shortage and ‘The Great Resignation’.
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Chair: TBA
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13:30 - 14:10PANEL DISCUSSION Enabling the disenfranchised: no-code and accessible AI Moderator: Jos Dirkx, CEO, Beenova AI
Gina Romero - CEO & Co-Founder, Connected Women
Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO & Co-Founder, Builder.ai-
Moderator: Jos Dirkx, CEO, Beenova AI
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Gina Romero - CEO & Co-Founder, Connected Women
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Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO & Co-Founder, Builder.ai
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14:10 - 14:30IN-CONVERSATION 7 powerful ways to create a better culture with mindfulness Sadie Restorick, COO + Simon Scott-Nelson, CEO, Wellity
Wellity work with some of the world’s largest tech firms to support them in their journey to healthier, happier workplace culture
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Sadie Restorick, COO + Simon Scott-Nelson, CEO, Wellity
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15:10 - 15:30KEYNOTE AI against Modern Slavery Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Project Lead - AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery), Queensland University of Technology
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Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Project Lead - AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery), Queensland University of Technology
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TRACK 5: WORKSHOPS
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13:30 - 15:40Location: Building 43 - Upstairs
60 – 90 minute sessions in various rooms
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15:40 - 16:10REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
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16:10 - 16:35HACK HIGHLIGHTS Up to 10 top picks from the days hacks will speed pitch the ground they’ve covered and the visions they have Plenary
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16:35 - 17:00IN-CONVERSATION Deploying AI to Solve the Mysteries of the Universe Interviewer: Anna Scaife, Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Manchester
Shirley Ho, Group Leader - Cosmology X Data Science, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute Plenary-
Interviewer: Anna Scaife, Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Manchester
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Shirley Ho, Group Leader - Cosmology X Data Science, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
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17:00 - 17:25CLOSING HEADLINER: IN-CONVERSATION For the past 40 years we have been programming computers; for the next 40 we'll be training them Christopher Bishop, Laboratory Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Interviewer: Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO & Publisher, MIT Technology Review Plenary-
Christopher Bishop, Laboratory Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
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Interviewer: Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO & Publisher, MIT Technology Review
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17:25 - 17:30CLOSE OF WORLD SUMMIT AI DAY ONE
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17:30 - 19:30INSPIREDMINDS! DRINKS PARTY
- Thursday 13th
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08:00 - 09:00REGISTRATION
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09:00 - 09:05WELCOME Inspired Minds Sarah Porter, CEO and Founder, Inspired Minds! UN Advisor, LAWS
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Sarah Porter, CEO and Founder, Inspired Minds! UN Advisor, LAWS
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09:10 - 09:20WELCOME and chairperson’s opening remarks
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09:20 - 09:45HEADLINER The GANfather: Giving Machines the Gift of Imagination Plenary
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09:45 - 10:10HEADLINER Overcoming economic disruption – how to use AI to turn immediate response into future advantage Plenary
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10:10 - 10:30HEADLINER Learning How to Live and Build Our Civilisations Around The Tech of Tomorrow Jamie Susskind QC, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century Plenary
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Jamie Susskind QC, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
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10:30 - 11:05PANEL DISCUSSION EU AI Regulations 2022: Anticipating - and Adapting to - the New Playing Field Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor, European Commission, Member, German Data Ethics Commission, visiting Professor of Law, College of Europe
Betsy Greytok - Vice President, Ethics & Policy, IBM
Mark Surman, President and Chief Executive, Mozilla Foundation Plenary-
Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor, European Commission, Member, German Data Ethics Commission, visiting Professor of Law, College of Europe
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Betsy Greytok - Vice President, Ethics & Policy, IBM
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Mark Surman, President and Chief Executive, Mozilla Foundation
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TRACK 1: INNOVATION IN ACTION
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11:35 - 12:55Stage: Black Box (Hall 1) Chair: TBA
Hear from the world’s leading tech innovators across industry and academia on fundamental breakthroughs in neural networks, evolutionary computation, vision, robotics, expert systems, speech processing, natural language processing, planning and machine learning. Genuinely ground-breaking new innovations in AI soon to go into full-scale application.
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Chair: TBA
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11:35 - 11:55USE CASE 6 Mastering Control Centre Programming: Surpassing Human Capability in the Aviation Industry
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11:55 - 12:15USE CASE 7 Neuro-symbolic Reasoning
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12:15 - 12:35USE CASE 8 Teaching Industrial Robots New Tricks
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12:35 - 12:55USE CASE 9 How AI and Science Are Helping Make the World’s Food Safe Sandeep Dadlani, Global Chief Digital Officer, Mars Inc
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Sandeep Dadlani, Global Chief Digital Officer, Mars Inc
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TRACK 2: DEEP DIVE TECH TALKS
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11:35 - 12:55Stage: Building 43 Chair: TBA
Hear from the world’s leading tech innovators across industry and academia on fundamental breakthroughs in neural networks, evolutionary computation, vision, robotics, expert systems, speech processing, natural language processing, planning and machine learning. Genuinely ground-breaking new innovations in AI soon to go into full-scale application.
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Chair: TBA
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11:35 - 11:55TECH TALK 1 AI in Science Yarin Gal, Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML), University of Oxford Computer Science Department (UK)
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Yarin Gal, Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML), University of Oxford Computer Science Department (UK)
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11:55 - 12:15TECH TALK 2 Shifting from model-centric to data-centric AI development
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12:15 - 12:35TECH TALK 3 How to recover Selection Bias from Sample and Survey Data?
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12:35 - 12:55TECH TALK 4
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TRACK 3: NLP, CONVERSATIONAL AI + VOICE: THE NEXT GENERATION
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11:35 - 12:55Stage: Building 41 Chair: Catherine Breslin, Founder, Kingfisher Labs
NLP + Voice have seen a big jump in performance since 2018 and now we are seeing the ultimate fruit come to bear. We investigate how new capabilities are empowering businesses to make data-informed decisions.
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Chair: Catherine Breslin, Founder, Kingfisher Labs
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11:35 - 12:15PANEL DISCUSSION Conversational AI is already transforming the world - where are we now, and what’s next? Moderator: Catherine Breslin, Founder, Kingfisher Labs
Ryan Ra Ong, Program Manager - Virtual Assistants, Google-
Moderator: Catherine Breslin, Founder, Kingfisher Labs
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Ryan Ra Ong, Program Manager - Virtual Assistants, Google
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12:15 - 12:35USE CASE Almost no data and no time? Unlocking the true potential of large language models [LLMs]
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12:35 - 12:55KEYNOTE Return of the Bot: The next generation of chatbots are making a comeback Davood Shamsi, Senior Manager, AI and Machine Learning, Apple
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Davood Shamsi, Senior Manager, AI and Machine Learning, Apple
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TRACK 4: WORKSHOPS
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11:35 - 12:55Location: Building 43 - Upstairs
60 – 90 minute sessions in various rooms
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12:55 - 14:00LUNCH & NETWORKING
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TRACK 1: DEEP DIVE TECH TALKS
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14:00 - 15:20Stage: Black Box (Hall 1) Chair: TBA
Hear from the world’s leading tech innovators across industry and academia on fundamental breakthroughs in neural networks, evolutionary computation, vision, robotics, expert systems, speech processing, natural language processing, planning and machine learning. Genuinely ground-breaking new
innovations in AI soon to go into full-scale application.-
Chair: TBA
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14:00 - 14:20TECH TALK 5 Integrating AI models directly into workflows
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14:20 - 14:40TECH TALK 6 How can we build effective relational machine learning models in the absence of annotated links or relations?
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14:40 - 15:00TECH TALK 7 Applied Quantum Algorithms (aQa)
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15:00 - 15:20TECH TALK 8
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TRACK 2: STARTUP CITY
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14:00 - 15:20Stage: Building 43 Chair: TBA
Not your average pitch-fest.
- ScaleUp Stories
- Fundraising in The New Normal
- Business Model Clinics
- Team Health Check
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Chair: TBA
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14:00 - 14:30PANEL DISCUSSION Are we heading towards an AI Winter? Or an AI Autumn? How can we adapt to protect our industries and businesses? Eamonn Carey, General Partner, Tera Ventures
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Eamonn Carey, General Partner, Tera Ventures
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14:30 - 15:20PITCHES AI Champions Driving New Industrial Solutions
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TRACK 3: T-MINUS30 Chair: Jos Dirkx, CEO, Beenova AI
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14:00 - 15:20Stage: Building 41 Chair: TBA
Featuring game-changing innovators taking on some of the World’s biggest problems facing the land, oceans, biodiversity, food, agriculture, water, climate and energy systems with AI and ML.
We dive into the details of how to maximise the gains for society and our environment by putting AI to work for people and the planet.
The goal = 10x impact on the world’s most intractable problems, not simply a 10% improvement.
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Chair: TBA
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14:00 - 14:30PANEL DISCUSSION “We won’t get to net zero without artificial intelligence” Moderator: Carl Pratt, Founder and Director, FuturePlanet
Caroline Gorski, Director - R2 Data Labs, Rolls Royce-
Moderator: Carl Pratt, Founder and Director, FuturePlanet
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Caroline Gorski, Director - R2 Data Labs, Rolls Royce
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14:30 - 15:00PANEL DISCUSSION In 100 years will everything be made to measure? Reducing Waste and Minimising Supply Chain Impact
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15:00 - 15:20IN CONVERSATION The Water Crisis + AI Interviewer: Paul O’Callaghan, Founder and CEO, BlueTech Research
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Interviewer: Paul O’Callaghan, Founder and CEO, BlueTech Research
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TRACK 4: Workshops
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14:00 - 15:20Location: Building 43 - Upstairs
60- 90 minute sessions in various rooms
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15:20 - 15:40REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING - Facilitated networking experience for founders & investors (by invitation only)
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15:40 - 16:05HEADLINER Boosts Upskilling Opportunities: Advancing Innovation in Core Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Technologies Plenary
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16:05 - 16:30HEADLINER Coding Love: The Biggest Mystery of All? Lisa Donovan, Founder, The Pattern Plenary
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Lisa Donovan, Founder, The Pattern
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16:30 - 17:00CLOSING PERFORMANCE Plenary
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17:00 - 17:05CLOSE OF WORLD SUMMIT AI 2022