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Join some of the most forward-thinking AI experts for an inside peek into how we can expect ai technologies to empower and disrupt the way we live, work and play.

Bringing together expert leaders in their respective fields, be that cutting-edge startups, leading academics or large company executives, we will delve into each main area of artificial intelligence. Whether its product recommendation engines, predictive search, text and speech synthesis, computer vision, we are moving towards a world of ubiquitous technology. A world where the rate of advancements in technology impacting the way we live, work and play is accelerating at an exponential rate. How will this change you or your business in the future?

Reserve your spot and stay tuned!

Agenda 

Morning (10am – 1pm) – Technology Deep Dive 

Join us for a series of fireside chats and presentations with some of the smartest people in computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, predictive search and augmented reality. We will evaluate the status quo of these technologies within robotics, life sciences, fraud and security, financial services, advertising, and logistics.

Afternoon (2pm – 5pm) – General applications of AI for businesses & implications for wider society  

Here, we will explore the ways in which artificial intelligence is shaking up businesses as well as the downstream implications for society as a whole, from technological unemployment to singularity. 

Participating Speakers

Dr Ben Medlock, CTO of Swiftkey

Ben co-founded SwiftKey and invented an intelligent typing system for smartphones that has transformed the text input industry. The software has become the global best selling app on Android and is preinstalled on more than 250 million mobile devices worldwide. Based on advanced natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, the system adapts to individual language usage and device interaction, making touchscreen typing fast and enjoyable. SwiftKey won “most innovative mobile app” at the 2012 GSMA awards, and the company was ranked as the world’s 6th most innovative mobile business by Fast Company. Ben developed his expertise in NLP and machine learning during eight years of computer science research, which culminated in a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has reviewed for a number of prominent international journals, and his academic work is published in ACL, the leading conference for NLP research.

Jaan Tallinn, Co-Founder, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute; Founding Engineer, Skype, Kazaa 

Jaan Tallinn is a co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk in Cambridge, UK as well as the Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype.
Tallinn is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on P2P technologies and is often credited for helping to establish Estonia’s global reputation for world class software and engineering talent. As a result of Kazaa and Skype, he currently holds the world’s record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million.
In 1989, he helped create Kosmonaut, the first Estonian computer game to be published outside his country. In 1996, he graduated from the University of Tartu with a BSc in Theoretical Physics.

Dr Rand Hindi, CEO of Snips

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and data scientist. He is the founder and CEO of Snips. He has been elected as a TR35 by the MIT Technology Review, as a “30 under 30” by Forbes, received the Excellence Française award, was the founding ambassador of the Sandbox network in Paris, is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and a Kairos Society fellow. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL), as well as two graduate degrees from Singularity University in Silicon Valley and THNK in Amsterdam.

Alex Housley, CEO of Seldon

Seldon is an open source predictive analytics platform that helps some of the world’s leading media and e-commerce companies boost engagement and conversion by personalising the digital experience. The highly scalable platform presents the most relevant digital content to each individual by combining cutting edge machine learning algorithms with industry leading big data technologies to analyse vast quantities of behavioural, social, contextual, and 1st/3rd party data.

Dr Gabriel Brostrow, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UCL

Dr Brostow is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Computer Science at UCL. His research group explores problems relating to Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Previously, he held a visiting researcher appointment at ETH Zurich’s CVG Group, and a Marshall Sherfield Fellowship in the Computer Vision & Robotics Group at Cambridge University.
Dr Brostow holds a PhD with Irfan Essa at Georgia Tech and undergraduate degree at UT Austin.

Susan Walton, Chairman of CapX 

Susan Walton is a principal at London based Frost Consulting where she is a specialist consultant in semantic search and digital content management and commission management for many leading investment bank and asset managers. Susan is also the Director of CapX, the first free-market focussed digital news and commentary service from the British think tank, The Centre for Policy Studies on whose main board she serves.
CapX is a new service that brings you the best writing on politics, economics, markets and ideas, underpinned by a commitment to make the case for popular capitalism. Using cutting edge machine learning technology, our editors scour hundreds of thousands of news sources, blogs, academic papers and think tank publications.

Calum Chase, AI novelist 

Regular contributor to the Singularity weblog and author of Pandora’s brain, an AI novel: Around half the scientists researching artificial intelligence (AI) think that a conscious AI at or beyond human level will be created by 2050. If they are right, the consequence could be an intelligence explosion, in which the AI rapidly and enormously exceeds human cognitive ability.

Dr Stefan Leutenegger, Deputy Director and Lecturer in Robotics, Imperial College London

Dr Leutenegger is Deputy Director and Lecturer in Robotics at the Dyson Robotics Lab of Imperial College London. His work explores the interface of real-time computer vision, mobile robotic localisation and mapping, including application to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Dr Leutenegger holds a PhD in Unmanned Solar Airplanes from ETH Zurich, and a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering with focus on robotics.

Dr Jun Wang, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) and Founding Director of MSc/MRes Web Science and Big Data Analytics, University College London

Dr Wang is Senior Lecturer in University College London and Founding Director of MSc/MRes Web Science and Big Data Analytics. His main research interests are in the areas of information retrieval, data mining and online advertising. His research has been dedicated to building an Intelligent (text and non-textual media) System that can access, retrieve, change and design the media content and its representation in such a way that it is adapted to the environment and context, and suitable for an individual person.
Dr. Wang obtained his PhD degree in Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; MSc degree in National University of Singapore, Singapore; and Bachelor degree in Southeast University, Nanjing, China.