WORKSHOPS & ROUNDTABLES AT WSAI19
WORKSHOP 1 - Discover the AI advantages of Canada
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, Wednesday 9th October Room: Yada Yada Cathedral Speaker: Layla El Asri, Research Team Lead, Borealis A With a highly skilled talent pool, a thriving start-up scene, significant multinational investment, and stimulating government incentives, Canada is at the forefront of artificial intelligence. Join us at the World Summit AI on October 9, 2019 to find out what Canada has to offer your organization in the AI ecosystem! Our feature speaker, Dr. Layla El Asri, will provide an overview of the AI landscape in Canada. Layla leads a research team at Borealis AI working on machine learning for dialogue systems. She will highlight the opportunities in Canadian AI research and the start-up environment. You will also hear case studies on the advantages of AI in Canada from other Canadian organizations. We look forward to an active dialogue session with moderation from Dutch entrepreneur and AI-specialist Jim Stolze.
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WORKSHOP 2 - 890 by Capgemini: the fast track catalog of AI in action
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, Wednesday 9th October Room: Yada Yada Marketplace Speakers: Sergey Patsko, Vice President, Custom AI Solutions, Capgemini Marc Chemin, Expert in Big Data and Data Science, Capgemini Join us to learn about Capgemini’s brand new AI & Analytics marketplace: 890 by Capgemini – A Data, Insights and Outcomes exchange. Let us show you what’s in the carefully curated catalog of ready-to-implement AI and analytics solutions and algorithms that will kickstart your journey towards thriving on insights. Have a good look at the catalog of selected datasets, the fast track to optimally trained AI and analytics models. Above all, be inspired by the unique Outcomes catalog, that demonstrates how to create measurable business value on top of data, AI and analytics. Then, discover our Custom AI services to develop unique and differentiating AI-powered solutions. We’ll showcase several of them too, such as an AI Demand Planning tool which helps retail chains to cut inventory levels by 25% while increasing availability and sales by 0.5%.
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WORKSHOP 3 - Barriers to scale data & analytics initiatives
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 43 Speakers: Maurice Fransen, Public Sector, Deloitte Naser Bakhshi, Director, Artificial Intelligence Deloitte Many organizations want to succeed in embedding analysis, data and reasoning into its decision making processes. Yet the required capabilities go far beyond technology considerations – strategic alignment, talent and leadership, business processes and the entire information lifecycle and systems need to be considered to reap the full potential of analytics. In this interactive workshop we discuss barriers to scale analytics initiatives and explore options to tackle these.
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ROUNDTABLE 4 - Growth Hack Your Startup Through Corporate Partnerships
Time: 11:00 – 11:45, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 43 Speaker: Tiffany Thompson, Global Marketing, Oracle for Start Ups You know your startup deserves a seat at the enterprise table. Join us to learn how to make the right impression on enterprise clients, from nailing the initial pitch to nurturing a lasting partnership. Followed by mentor hours
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WORKSHOP 5 - AI Renaissance: Reshaping Cities to Implement AI Responsibly
Time: 12:10 – 13:10, Wednesday 9th October Room: Yada Yada Cathedral Hosted by: City of Pittsburgh The city of Pittsburgh was once a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, pioneering manufacturing and automation technologies that helped build the world. Following a period of post-industrial decline in the late 20th Century, the city rebuilt itself around the innovation prowess of its leading universities, investing in leading edge research around life sciences, AI, and robotics. Now, as a leading global hub for self-driving cars, autonomous manufacturing, medical robotics, and smart cities infrastructure, Pittsburgh is poised to play a significant role in helping to shape Industry 4.0. However, the city’s cross-sector leadership recognizes the risks of recklessly deploying AI systems, and has committed to ensuring that AI implementation is as ethical as it is effective, under the mantra, “If it’s not for all, it’s not for us.” To that end, Pittsburgh is engaging in a wide range of local, regional, and international partnerships. You are invited to learn from the city’s lessons, and explore opportunities to work together.
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WORKSHOP 6 - Perform AI for CPR: AI as the new Servant for Consumer Brands, Retailers, and Customers
Time: 14:15 – 15:00, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 43 Speakers: Kees Jacobs, Vice President for Global Consumer Products and Retail, Capgemini Nick Farrington-Darby, Managing Consultant, Capgemini The consumer products and retail business landscape is virtually unrecognizable from that of just one or two decades ago. Companies cannot rely on the tactics that brought them success in the past. This new environment calls for a radically new approach – one that is pragmatic yet innovative, rigorous but efficient, swift and sustainable. Insights-based decisioning, which leverages data, AI and advanced analytics to improve organizational decision-making, holds great promise for helping businesses more accurately anticipate market shifts, better understand business dynamics, predict customer behaviors, and manage risk. In this session we will demonstrate real-life examples of the added value of AI to truly understand the consumer’ needs and occasions, to deliver seamless cross-channel experiences, to engage via human-like dialogues and to drive consumer-driven supply chains.
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Meetup of the British AI Ecosystem, hosted by the UK Government
Time: 14.30 – 16:00, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 43 Speakers: Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary, UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Skills Peter Wilson, UK Ambassador to the Netherlands With 1 new AI related company launched every seven days, the UK is a hotbed of innovation with a market that is forecast to grow significantly in the coming years, to roughly £650 billion by 2025. London is already Europe’s number 1 hub for AI companies, and 50% of European AI companies are from the UK. Leading corporates, investors, universities and entrepreneurs have already made significant investments in the UK to scale their AI activities. Meet them at our side-event, where you’ll be able to connect with the main movers and shakers from both sides of the channel! This side-event will be hosted by the Permanent Secretary of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Skills, Mr. Alex Chisholm, and the UK Ambassador to the Netherlands, Mr. Peter Wilson.
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WORKSHOP 7 - Trusted AI in Action
Time: 15:20 – 16:10, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 43 Speakers: Moez Draief, Vice President & Chief Scientist, Capgemini Isabelle Budor, Consultant, Capgemini How do you build and deliver trusted and respectful AI for employees, clients, and a better society? Come discover our techniques! The need of the hour Positive impact on society: AI is a new industrial revolution, strongly impacting business models, technologies, and society. This most recent revolution must now be particularly considered when envisioning business transformation (to avoid reproducing the negative outcomes of the past) Stop Discrimination: Beyond well-known challenges (such as skills, data usages, scale-up, and so on), AI has no choice but to be—by design—trusted (that is, fair, reliable, governed), to face the main ethical issues of discrimination / bias, explicability, privacy, and environment impact among others. See trusted AI in Action Capgemini has developed concrete solutions to make your AI trusted with our: Operational set-up (including governance, oversight framework, risk/impact analysis, cultural shift), and Technical assets (such as bias analysis, models explicability, and data set anonymization. Empower your AI strategy Trusted AI is a cornerstone for Capgemini when helping organizations Activate AI to improve their existing business, through new propositions, markets, and services. Come explore trusted AI in action with us!
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WORKSHOP 8 - Perform AI for Public Sector
Time: 16:30 – 17:15, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 43 Speaker: Pierre-Adrien Hanania, Global Offer Leader, AI in Public Sector, Capgemini At the crossroads of citizenship, political action, and technology, artificial intelligence is hiding great treasures for the Public Sector. Be it detecting tax evasion, predicting crimes, or accelerating the attribution of social benefits, artificial intelligence is a powerful companion across the whole spectrum of public services. What is at stake and how can AI lead to better governmental action towards society and its citizens? Let’s explore these questions in a session that focuses on the unleashed power of an AI-enabled Public Sector.
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WORKSHOP 10 - Using machine learning models
Time: 14:15 – 15:45, Wednesday 9th October Room: Yada Yada Cathedral Speakers: Damiaan Zwietering, Developer Advocate Machine Learning IBM The Model Asset Exchange on IBM Developer is a place for developers to find and use free, open source, state-of-the-art deep learning models for common application domains, such as text, image, audio, and video processing. The curated list includes deployable models that you can run as a microservice locally or in the cloud on Docker or Kubernetes, and trainable models where you can use your own data to train the models. In the workshop we will explore the available models and implement using Python or Node.js and find out how to experiment and deploy using Node-RED in IBM Cloud. Bring your own laptop and see what you can achieve!
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Workshop: Breaking the boundaries of Space with AI
Time: 14:15 – 16:00, Wednesday 9th October Room: Yada Yada Marketplace Hosted by: Experts focused on AI, Sustainability, Space Technologies and Astronomy As humanity further moves into the final frontier of space exploration. AI will become a more cooperative, protective and ethical subject in the development of sustainable space technologies. Nowadays the use of satellite technologies and other spacecraft not only monitors our Earth, strengthens communications and navigation systems, but also provides a glimpse of the ever-expanding universe. Awaiting to be understood by us, with AI.
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WORKSHOP 11 - Run AI
Time: 15:55 – 16:25, Wednesday 9th October Speakers: Dr. Christoph Windheuser – Global Head of Intelligent Empowerment Dr. Arif Wider – Technical Lead / Head of AI Germany, Thoughtworks Your Data Scientists or Machine Learning experts have developed a machine learning model which runs perfectly in your notebook? Now you want to deploy it into corporate IT to let it run “in the wild”. And a bunch of new problems comes up: How to integrate the work of your data scientists and machine learning experts into the development processes like CI/CD of your corporate IT? How to prevent a “throw-it-over-the-fence” mentality? How to test, monitor and continuously improve your machine learning application “in the wild”? In a compact workshop, we will discuss the new challenges of integrating machine learning approaches in modern IT development processes and demonstrate our “Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning” (CD4ML) methodology with some live coding examples.
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WORKSHOP 12 (in Leadership track) - AI Applied Now: how to successfully implement AI transformations
Time: 14:55 – 16:15, Wednesday 9th October Room: Building 41 Speakers: Cyrille Bataller, Managing Director, Applied Intelligence, Accenture Professor Dr. Svenja Falk, Managing Director, Accenture Research AI offers many opportunities to change the way we work and live, but getting from prototype to production is hard work. That’s where Applied Intelligence comes in: It’s a unique approach, combining AI with data, analytics and automation under a bold strategic vision to transform businesses—not in silos, but across every function and every process, at scale. It enables organizations to do things differently and do different things. It’s about embedding intelligence at the core of business to drive transformative outcomes.
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WORKSHOP 13 - Responsible AI: How AI model choices impact your entire business
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, Thursday 10th October Room: Yada Yada Marketplace Speakers: Mona de Boer, Responsible AI Leader, PWC & Jeroen Goudsmit, Manager Cyber, Forensics & Privacy, PWC Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the next big thing in almost any market sector. Organizations strive to incorporate these techniques as much as possible. However, AI and ML models pose new risks, for example to reputation, and performance is not always as expected. When developing and incorporating AI within your organization, several model choices have to be made that can directly impact your reputation and profitability. Within this workshop, we will discuss several aspects of responsible AI, a platform and toolkit that allows organizations to improve transparency, explainability, and performance. Participants will experience during this workshop what possible impact their model choices can have.
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ROUNDTABLE 14 - Startups Can Sell into Enterprise: Here’s How
Time: 11.00 – 11.45, Thursday 10th October Room: Building 43 Speakers: Lars Vestergaard, EMEA Market Connect, Oracle for Startups You know your startup deserves a seat at the enterprise table. Join us to learn how to make the right impression on enterprise clients, from nailing the initial pitch to nurturing a lasting partnership.
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WORKSHOP 15 - Talk of the Geeks: Geeks of the World, Unite!
Time: 11:00 – 12:00, Thursday 10th October Room: Yada Yada Cathedral Moderator: Jos van Dongen, Principal Consultant, SAS Geeks of the World: Unite! Join the SAS Talk of the Geeks workshop at World Summit AI on October 10 in Taets Zaandam. During 5 minute talks SAS Geeks will deep dive into the technical details on how to go from image data to a full working web application driven by an image classification model. As a cherry on the cake, the app is available to find out how much effort is required to become the world’s uber-geek: a need to know for every (wanna-be) geek! Agenda: Pixel-perfect AI using image Restoration Techniques Pasi Helenius, Principal Data Scientist, SAS Image Processing Matteo Landro, Associate Systems Engineer, SAS Intelligent Decisioning Joran Roor, Data Scientist, SAS Legal Doping for your AI Model Training Jos van Dongen, Principal Consultant, SAS Lime & ICE, the secret ingredients of your AI cocktail Véronique van Vlasselaer, Customer Advisor Decision Science, SAS Geek/No Geek App Peter Tobac, Customer Advisor Platform, SAS Object Detection with DLPy Jaimy van Dijk, Data Scientist, SAS First Aid Kit: Keeping AI Alive Kaat Tastenhoye, SAS Custom visualizations in Visual Analytics Rik de Ruiter, Sr. Analytical Consultant, SAS
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WORKSHOP 16 - Leading an AI-powered organisation: stop talking, start doing
Time: 13:40 – 14:40, Thursday 10th October Room: Yada Yada Cathedral Speakers: Adam Salter, Global Head of Advisory, Futurice Eeva Raita, Head of Culture Advisory, Futurice Are you tired of all talk, but no action with AI? Are you ready to transform your organisation beyond the buzzwords to _be_ data-driven? This session will help you to start harnessing the power of AI for your whole organisation. There is a difference between organisations using AI applications and those that are actually powered by AI. When AI powers your organisation everything from the operations, leadership and HR to R&D and sales, will change. AI can help you to better identify and tap into organisational knowledge, improve your strategy insight and implementation, support bursting silos and fostering collaboration, help to maximise idea flows, uncover hidden facts, and speed up organisational change. To reclaim these hidden powers you need concrete tools that help you start creating the change. This workshop will share inspirational real-life examples of how AI is already being used to re-shape organisations, and then invite the participants to start co-creating their own AI powered organisation with the well-established Lean Service Creation tool set. (Lean Service Creation is Futurice’s open-sourced approach and toolkit for co-creating the future. It consists of ways-of-workings, workshop techniques and canvases that help crystallize the change. LSC is taught by 11 universities, several books have been written and countless real-world applications within organisations.)
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WORKSHOP 17 - Data Science in a Day
Time: 13:40 – 14:40, Thursday 10th October Room: Building 43 Speakers: Dario Raffaele, Data Science Manager, Accenture Laury van Bedaf, Data Scientist, Accenture Data science in a day is an introduction for business leaders without previous technical and programming experience. Participants will build in Python data science models and apply them in a concrete and fun way. During the course we’ll help a successful retired business leader to build his wine cultivation business leveraging a data driven approach. At the end you’ll have good insights in several data science techniques, how to use them in your business, and how to ask the right questions to get value out of your Data Science investment. For the WSAI we are presenting a teaser of the course covering part of the first module. It will help you get acquainted with the more basic techniques and demystify the complex world of data science.
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WORKSHOP 18 - AI in Education: from personalized programs to interconnected campuses
Time: 14:50 – 15:50, Thursday 10th October Room: Yada Yada Marketplace Hosted by: Women in AI Moderator: Dr. Cara Antoine, CMO & COO, Microsoft Netherlands Panelists: Linda Frietman, Founder and CEO, IamProgrez Hanan Salam, PhD, Co-founder, Women in AI, Assistant Professor, Sorbonne Universit Anna Nordell-Westling, Co-Founder and CEO, Sana Labs Tamar Neter-Gans, Founder, Robowise Maggie Feng, CEO, Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences Through the history of times, education has always been the underlying foundation for economic growth, innovation, and societal advancements. What used to be a norm – filling a classroom with students who would follow a lecture and try to catch in their notebooks everything the professor would present – is not working anymore. To have the maximum outcome of the educational efforts, content needs not only to reflect the modern reality but also be personalized and tailored to the learning capabilities for students with all abilities. With the application of Artificial Intelligence, educational institutions now can analyze the learning patterns among their students – their level of knowledge, the ways they learn best, and the triggers of disruption in processing content. Join Women in AI on the 10th of October at World Summit AI for a panel discussion about innovative practices in the field of Education and how AI is changing the industry.