Agenda

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09:00 – 09:05	Welcoming Remarks by Clariden Global
09:05 – 09:35	Beyond Moonshots – Bringing Real Intelligence to Machines, Advances in the Interplay between Biology and Machines
	Dan Goldin, Former Administrator, NASA / Founder, KnuEdge, pioneering a USD130 million core supercomputer

09:35 – 10:05	AI in the Hospital: Clinical Decision Support at the Point of Care – An AI-Powered Approach to Knowledge Translation
	Anatomy of a successful clinical project that has gone through a full cycle: bedside application of knowledge, real-time collection of data and implementing new findings back into practice. Various aspects of selecting a problem, building an IT platform, implementing the solution and refining the solution will be discussed.
	Dr. Uli Chettipally, Physician, Researcher, Innovator, Kaiser Permanente

10:05 – 10:30	Future Trends of AI in Self-Driving Cars
	Dr Bibhrajit Halder, Self-Driving Software Expert, X (formerly with Faraday Future, Caterpillar & Ford)

10:30 – 10:50	Speed Match-Making and Morning Refreshments (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
10:50 – 11:10	Towards Super-Intelligence: Advances in General AI/Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

	Mounir Shita, CEO, Kimera Systems

11:10 – 11:30	Emotion Synthesis for AI and Robots
	Why emotion synthesis is very different from sentiment analysis or affective computing Why intelligent machines should possess emotional states Relation between emotion and language How emotion helps AI to make sense of the language How can we control intelligent machines with emotions Live Demo of how an intelligent machine for the first time, is able to think and feel like humans
	Patrick Levy Rosenthal, Founder & CEO, Emoshape

11:30 – 11:50	How AI is Being Merged with Personality, Emotions and Intelligence to Create Impactful Experiences
	Donald Coolidge, Co-Founder, Elemental Path

11:50 – 12:20	AI Innovations in Education
	Andrew Smith Lewis , Co-Founder & CEO, Cerego LLC

12:20 – 13:00	Panel Discussion
	What is the Future of AI? Why AI Often Gets Stuck in the R of the R & D Cycle Re-imagining Advances in AI in the US & the World in 3 Years’ Time Inclusion & Diversity in AI Whence Super-Intelligence? Investing in an AI Future Anti-evil Efforts in AI
	Panelists: Jin Zhang, Vice President, CA Technologies Luis Bitencourt-Emilio, Director of Engineering, Reddit Intelligence Group Nazanin Delam, Self-Driving Car Engineer, MyVest Shahin Farshchi, Partner, Lux Capital & Other Invited Speakers of Day One
13:00 – 14:00	Networking Luncheon (Sponsorship Opportunities Available)

14:00 – 14:20	AI in Complex Issues/ Anticipatory Intelligence
	Arun Majumdar, Chief Scientist, Co-Founder, Kyndi

14:20 – 14:40	Using Deep Learning to Extract Action Items From Conversations
	Our AI can call into your conference calls and send you automatic meeting notes. We’re using an RNN to understand how likely each sentence is to be a task, and we’ve built all of our NLP in house
	Sam Udotong, Chief Technology Officer, Fireflies.ai

14:40 – 15:00	AI in Entertainment, Films and the Media: The Communication Graph – Enabling Consumer Driven Entertainment Storytelling
	In a recent 2017 Entertainment and Media Trends report, one renowned international consultant wrote, “To survive the rapid transition to a direct-to-consumer future, companies across the E&M sector need an effective fancentric strategy – or risk decline and irrelevance.” The E&M market knows so well that the best stories are those that resonate with the most consumers. Story World Productions has built the world’s first communication focused graph, allowing content to discover where it resonates.
	Douglas Clark, Executive Producer, aiidea

15:00 – 15:30	Afternoon Refreshment & Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)


15:30 – 15:50	AI Ventures in TV, Film, Entertainment: A Hollywood Perspective
	Mariana Danilovic, CEO, Hollywood Portfolio

15:50 – 16:10	AI in Manufacturing: Optimizing Supply Chains and Maximizing Margins for Manufacturers Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
	Moataz Rashad, Founder/CEO, DeepVu

16:10 – 16:30	AI in Retailing: How AI & Big Data is Changing the Retail Landscape?
	Manindra Majumdar, Founder and CEO, Gofind.AI

16:30 – 16:50	When AI Intersects with AR/VR
	Sami Ramly, Vice President Product Management Lead, Wevr

16:50 – 17:10	A Recent Experience in Implementing AI for Future Use in AR/VR
	Tyler Lindell, AI & AR Software Engineer, Holographic Interfaces & Tesla

17:10 – 17:30	Moonshots: AI, Autonomous Spacecraft & Challenges for AI in Space
	How AI is transforming space exploration, specifically how AI enabled the EO-1 Autonomous Sciencecraft and Sensorweb to perform unprecedented monitoring of terrestrial floods, wildfires, and volcanos Ongoing efforts for missions in development by giving spacecraft and rovers increasing ability to interpret data and adjust to dynamic environments How AI is needed for future challenges of space exploration to search for life in distant, unknown environments such as under-ice oceans of Europa, crevasses of Enceladus, or even neighboring solar systems
	Dr Steve Chien, Head of Artificial Intelligence Group / Senior Research Scientist (Mission Planning and Execution), Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA

17:40 – 18:00	Robotics and AI: Principles of a Personal Robot
	Ian Bernstein, Founder & Head of Product, Misty Robotics

18:00 – 18:10	Closing Remarks

18:10 onwards	Champagne Networking Session Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

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09:00 – 09:30	Conversational AI in the Wild (Using AI, NLP and ML to Solve a Real World Business Problem At Scale) With Applications in the Healthcare, Legal and Life Science Sector
	Dr Sid J Reddy, Chief Scientist, Conversica

09:30 – 09:50	The Future Economics of AI
	Kartik Gada, Executive Director, Woodside Capital & Instructor, Stanford University

09:50 – 10:45	Strategic Investments, Finance, VC Funding, New Business Models in AI & Robotics Forum
	AI Applications, Breakthroughs, New Projects, Moonshots & Commercialization Opportunities in Silicon Valley, elsewhere in USA, Canada, Israel, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Africa Major Advances in Machine Learning & How to Escape the Black Hole of Machine Learning Major Advances in Deep Learning & Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning Deep Learning & Predictive Payments Developments in Dedicated AI Chips Nanophotonic Chips for Neural Networks? AI-as-a-Service (AI-aaS) as the Next Growth Frontier The Interplay and Interaction of AI, Machine Learning & Robotics Autonomous Robots Sentient Robots Robust Human Imitation & Navigating the Uncanny Valley Towards an AI Civilization, with Space Colony?
	Panelists: Shyam Nath, Director, GE Digital Vishy Venugopalan, Vice President, Citi Ventures/Citibank Kumar Srivastava, Vice President, Product & Strategy, BNY Mellon Nikolai Oreshkin, Investor, GVA Capital A) Current State of the AI and ML Investment and Opportunities Landscape Ed Fernandez, Investor, Naiss.io B) AI & Labour: AI and its Effect on a Changing Workforce Nathaniel Krasnoff, Investor, Wildcat VC

10:45 – 11:00	Speed Match-Making and Morning Refreshments (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)

11:00 – 11:50	AI in Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Forum:
	Augmenting Physicians with AI
	Dr Karim Galil, Founder, Mendel Health

	Data & Algo Challenges Facing Research in Applying AI to Pharmaceutical R&D
	Brandon Allgood, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Numerate Inc.

	AI in Continuous Patient Monitoring
	Adam Hanina, CEO & Co-Founder, AiCure

11:50 – 12:10	Advances in Facial Recognition
	Shaun Moore, CEO and Founder, TrueFace.ai

12:10 – 12:30	Vision AI for Human Behavior Understanding Inside Autonomous and Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs)
	Modar Alaoui, CEO, Eyeris

12:30 – 14:00	Lunch & Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)

14:00 – 14:20	When AI, 5G and IoT intersect
	Jan Geldmacher, President, Sprint Business

14:20 – 14:40	Latest Advancements in Object Detection Techniques for Autonomous/Driverless Cars: Recent advancements in mAP and speed in object detections mechanisms Talk about RCNN, fast RCNN, faster RCNN, YOLO, SSD, etc. and how things have been progressing in the past What’s next? Khalid Ashmawy, Tech Lead, Uber

14:40 – 15:00	Case Studies: Connected Vehicle Deployment in New York City for the US Department Of Transport Breakthroughs in Industrial Drone Autonomy and Self-driving Cars The revolutionary positioning capability based on UWB as well as its applications David J. Bruemmer, CTO & Co-Founder, 5D Robotics

15:00 – 15:20	Afternoon Refreshment & Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)

15:20 – 15:40	Intelligent Roads for Intelligent Cars?
	Nazanin Delam, Self-Driving Car Engineer, MyVest

15:40 – 15:50	Investments in AI by BMW
	Dr Ulrich Quay, Managing Partner, BMW i-Ventures LLC

15:50 – 17:00	Panel Discussion: Autonomous Systems, Driverless Cars, Trucks, 5G Telematics and AI Forum Self-driving cars and the future of mobility Prototypes and test drives Regulatory, Insurance and Legal Issues Safety & navigation challenges Intelligent roads for intelligent cars?
	Panelists: Dr Ulrich Quay, Managing Partner, BMW i-Ventures LLC Nazanin Delam, Self-Driving Car Engineer, MyVest Dr Sai Yagnyamurthy, Director, Global Strategy, Ford Motor Company Sunil Chintakindi, Director – Innovation, Product Engineering & Data Research, Allstate

17:00	Closing Remark by Conference Chairman
	End of Day 2

Executive Seminar Timetable: Executive Seminar A will run from 09:00 – 12.30 with mid morning and luncheon breaks. Executive Seminar B will run from 14:00 – 17:00 with a mid afternoon refreshment break. Registration begins 30 minutes before each seminar commences.

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09:00 – 12:30	Session A – Presentations (20 minutes each)

	1. IBM Watson’s Interactive Speech Interfaces and Chatbots in VR The Intersection of AI and AR: applications in science, training, therapy, rehabilitation, productivity, education and gaming
	Michael Ludden, Director of Product, IBM Watson Labs

	2. Advanced Analytics for the Intelligence and Security Communities: Why is it so Critical in This Era of Rapid Change and New Challenges?
	Anantha Bangalore, Chief Technology Officer, Percipient.AI

	3. The Tokenization of Healthcare
	Dr Walter de Brouwer, CEO, Doc.ai

	4. How to Identify & Improve User Utility in Search Domain
	Purnima Goel, Senior AI & Research Project Manager, Microsoft

	5. AI for Pets & Pet-Owners
	Will Cross, Co-Founder / CEO, GoFetch

	6. Breakthrough Findings on Wow the Brain Makes Decisions in Spatial Environments – New Bayesian Brain States Models
	Dr Alex Terrazas, Distinguished Scientist, McKnight Brain Institute

	7. Case Study: Using Neural Word Embeddings to Detect Language Similarity Based on How the AI Processes the Language
	Dr Mike Tamir, Chief Data Science Officer, Takt Machine Learning Consultant, Starbucks Professor – Data Science Faculty, UC Berkeley

	8. When AI meets KPIs
	Kris Bondi, CMO, Neura

14:00 – 17:00	Session B – Presentations (20 minutes each)
	1. Where AI is and Where It Needs to Go: The Future of AI Building AI
	Pedro Alves, CEO, Ople.ai

	2. AI Assistants in Business
	Nikki Hallgrimsdottir, Vice President, Algomus

	3. The Intersection of Design & AI
	Alex Capecelatro, Chief Executive Officer, Josh.ai

	4. Deep Learning Solutions: Taking Image Recognition to the Next Level
	Bajram Hoxha, Software Lead, Nordic Naturals

	5. Human Intelligence and Machine Intelligence: The Road to AGI
	Patrick Ehlen, Chief Scientist, Loop AI Labs

	6. The Compassionate Entrepreneur
	Matt MacBeth, Co-Founder/CEO, Edwin the Duck CEO, Planet of the Apps CEO / Co-Founder, pi Lab

	7. Data Omniscience: Enabling Systems of Systems to Dynamically and Agilely Learn and React in Real Time
	Christopher Howard, CEO & Co-Founder, Kersplody Corporation

	8. Case Study: Best Practices for Building AI Datasets
	Bradley Arsenault, Founder & CEO, Electric Brain

	9. Scalable Deep Learning with BigDL
	Sujee Maniyam, Co-Founder/Principal, Elephant Scale