World Summit AI: Agendas, Schedules, and other Details

World Summit AI is kicking off today in Amsterdam with sold out tickets!

World Summit AI is considered as one of the tech industry’s biggest summits for the entire applied AI ecosystem. The event was organized by The Summit AI and produced by InspiredMinds! It will run for two days starting today, October 11th.

The conference will be held at Gashouder Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.

The World Summit AI will bring together over 2000 active foreign and local attendees from different fields of AI research and study. The Summit exists to serve the three pillars of AI System: Enterprise, Startups and Investors, and Deep Tech.

It will give attendees the opportunity to share their knowledge with each other and expand their network through collaboration. The event guarantees “fast-paced innovation and safe progress in machine and deep learning while sparking new partnerships, investment projects, and tech collaborations.”

World Summit AI: Speakers

The World Summit AI will be bringing together the brightest minds in the field of artificial intelligence such as Yann LeCunn, Director of AI Research at Facebook. Other notable speakers include:

• Stuart Russel, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
• Rob High, VP, IBM & CTO, IBM Watson
• Ralf Herbrich, Director of Machine Learning, Amazon
• Xian-Sheng Hua, Distinguished Engineer/VP & Deputy MD of AI, Alibaba
• Meredith Whittaker, Co-Founder, AI Now Institute, New York University
• Zhang Tong, Executive Director of AI Lab, Tencent
• Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton
• Gayle Sheppard, VP and General Manager, Saffron AI Group, Intel
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Director of AI Research & Associate Professor in Machine Learning, Apple & Carnegie Mellon University
• Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist & Professor, Uber & University of Cambridge
• Dr. Steve Chien, Head of Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL, NASA
• Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University
• Marco Vernocchi, Senior MD – Applied Intelligence Lead – Europe, Africa & LatAm,
  Accenture
• Yuri van Geest, Founder, Singularity University, The Netherlands
• Joanna J. Bryson, Associate Professor, University of Bath
• Prof. Dr. Max Welling, VP Technologies & Research Chair, Qualcomm & University of Amsterdam
• Kay Firth-Butterfield, Project Head, AI and ML, World Economic Forum

For the complete list of the World Summit AI’s over 130 speakers, you may go here.

World Summit AI: Agenda

October 11th

• Registration
• WELCOME FROM INSPIRED MINDS, CITY.AI & ACCENTURE
• Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
• Keynote Panel Discussion: How we’re pushing the frontiers with AI – smarter, better, faster
• Headliner: Hangzhou City Brain – using video and image recognition technologies to create the world’s most advanced smart traffic management system
• Headliner: How to get to artificial general intelligence
• Headliner: Innovating in the New by unlocking the power of AI to amplify your organization: right here, right now
• Presentation
• Headliner: AI moonshots – self-replicating robots, harpooning comets and autonomous systems for space exploration
• Headliner: How Google Cloud is taking machine learning to the next level 
• Headliner: From node to network: transforming our relationship with clients by AI
• Headliner: Everything is personal, including AI
• Lunch and Networking
• Stream 1-5: Enterprise Stories/ Startup Stories/ Tech Talks/ Tech Demo/ Panel Discussions/ Workshops
• Headliner: AI and quantum computing – how can organisations adapt and thrive by leveraging exponential technologies?
• Headliner: Applying deep learning models to multimodal learning, transfer learning and learning from unstructured data: latest findings (remotely)
• Headliner: How would a privacy preserving, collaborative distributed deep learning system look in the future?
• Talent Showcase
• Official WSAI After-Party with DJ Sleeper

October 12th

• Registration
• Welcome Note
• Headliner: Making tomorrow’s most powerful technologies beneficial – human compatible AI
• Keynote Panel Discussion: The internet of ethics – developing an industry code of conduct to manage the evolution of AI
• In Conversation: From biased AI to algorithmic equity
• Headliner: How eBay applies deep science to everyday commerce
• Stream 1-5: Enterprise Stories/ Startup Stories/ Tech Talks/ Tech Demo/ Panel Discussions/ Workshops
• Lunch and Networking
• Keynote Panel Discussion: Humanitarian AI – collaboration for good to benefit all segments of society
• Closing Headliner: Future directions in AI and machine learning
• Closing Headliner (remotely): The power and limits of deep learning
• Closed of World Summit AI

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