Looking for our current Summit on Open Problems for AI? Boston, 4-6th December 2024:


October 23rd: Algorithms Day

08:00-09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:40 Introductory Remarks & Morning Keynotes: What Are the Open Problems for AI?

  • Professor Tim Rocktäschel

    Senior Staff Research Scientist & Professor of AI (Google DeepMind & UCL)

    Open-Endedness and General Intelligence

  • Dr Katja Hofmann

    Senior Principal Researcher (Microsoft)

    What can generative AI learn from human gameplay?

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee & Networking Breakouts

11:00 - 11:40 Panel: How Should We Fund AI Research?

  • Ruairidh Battleday

    Chair

    Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking

  • Carmine Ventre

    Director

    King's Institute for AI

  • Carina Namih

    Board Member

    Alan Turing Institute

  • Jakob Mökander

    Director of Science & Tech Policy

    Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

  • Isabel Thompson

    Product Leader

    Advanced Research + Invention Agency

  • David Berman

    Head of AI

    Cambridge Consultants

  • Amal Moussaoui

    CEO

    SingularityNET UK

11:40 - 12:40 Networking Breakouts

12:40 - 15:20 Afternoon Keynotes: What Are the Open Problems for AI?

  • Dr Martin Riedmiller

    Research Director (Google DeepMind)

    Why Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning is Central to AI

  • Professor Maria Liakata

    Professor of Natural Language Processing & EPSRC/UKRI Turing Institute AI fellow (Queen Mary University of London)

    Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs in medical and social computing

  • Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz

    Head of AI Research (Thomson Reuters)

    Beyond the surface: The quest to unlock the full potential of your data: Insights from Research, Entrepreneurship & Industry

  • Professor Karl Friston

    Scientific Director (UCL & Verses AI)

    The Physics of Sentience

15:20 - 16:00 Panel: What do the Next 5 Years look like for AI/ML Algorithms?

  • James Whittington

    Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Fellow

    (Stanford / Oxford)

  • Feryal Behbahani

    Staff Research Scientist

    Google DeepMind

  • Jakob Foerster

    Associate Professor

    Oxford & Meta-FAIR

  • Elena Gribovskaya

    Research Scientist

    Google DeepMind

  • David Balduzzi

    Machine Learning Researcher

    XTX Markets

  • Katie Collins

    PhD Student

    Cambridge & Alan Turing Institute


October 24th: Applications Day

08:00-09:00 Registration & Networking

09:00 - 10:40 Introductory Remarks & Morning Keynotes: How Does AI Affect Our Future?

  • Kanishka Narayan MP

    The Labour Party (MP for the Vale of Glamorgan)

    AI & the Future

  • James Donovan

    Head of Science Policy and Partnerships (OpenAI)

    AI Accelerated Discovery + Live Demo

  • Professor Sana Khareghani

    AI Policy Lead & Professor of Practice (Responsible AI UK & KCL)

    What if we get it right? How to try.

  • Dr Mounia Lalmas

    Senior Director of Research (Spotify)

    The Power of AI in Recommender and Search Systems: An Industry Perspective Through the Lens of Spotify

10:40 - 11:20 Panel: AI & Education

  • James Kuht

    Founder and CEO

    Inversity

  • Steven Connor

    Co-Director of Digital Futures Institute

    KCL

  • Rehana Al-Soltane

    AI Learning Manager

    Raspberry Pi Foundation

  • Jonny Austin

    CTPO

    Micro:bit Educational Foundation

  • Salomey Addo

    PhD Student

    Cambridge

  • Greg Detre

    Co-Founder

    Memrise

  • Marja Verbon

    Head of Innovation Acceleration

    Rothschild & Co

11:20 - 12:00 Breakout Rooms: Training Tomorrow’s Leaders in AI

  • Training Tomorrow's Leaders

    Future Leaders Fellowship Development Network

  • How organisational structures impact innovation

    Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

  • Government Hackathon

    No. 10 Data Science Team

  • Finding Tomorrow's Leaders

    Zeki

  • Transitioning from Academia to Start-up

    Octopus Ventures

  • Building Cultures of Ambition and Urgency in the UK

    Entrepreneur First

  • Building AI tools within the newsroom

    Lucas Johnston

    Financial Times Strategies

12:00 - 13:00 Networking Breakouts

13:00 - 14:20 Afternoon Keynotes - AI & Society

  • Tarig Hilal

    AI Innovation Lead (Akord AI)

    War and Peace and Artificial Intelligence: Developing the world's first Co-Pilot for Peacebuilders

  • Dr Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe

    CTO & Co-Founder (Boon Global & Beautiful Places AI)

    Navigating Cultural Diversity and Responsible AI Applications

  • Ashley Ramrachia

    Founder and CEO (Academy)

    Rewiring Britain: AI, Human Potential, and the Race to Future-Proof Our Workforce

  • Danny Gray

    Founder and CEO (Just Ask A Question)

    AI's role in Shaping the Future of Accessible Mental Health Information

14:20 - 15:00 Networking Breakouts

15:00 - 15:40 Afternoon Keynotes: AI & Medicine

  • Dr Phoebe Oldach

    Head of the Global Research Programme (Basecamp Research)

    The world’s first foundational dataset purpose built for AI in biology

  • Professor Eiman Kanjo

    tinyML (Imperial College London & Nottingham Trent University)

    Can tinyML Fit Efficiently on Your Wrist and Transform Your Life?

15:40 - 16:20 Panel: AI & Medicine

  • Dan Nicolau Jr

    Associate Professor

    Kings College of London

  • Becky Inkster

    NIHR Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, Co-Investigator

    University of Cambridge & The Alan Turing Institute

  • Phoebe Oldach

    Head of the Global Research Programme (Basecamp Research)

  • Roeland Decorte

    CEO & President

    Decorte Future Industries & Artificial Intelligence Founders Association

  • Dr Ekaterina Shatalina

    Precision Neuropsychiatry Resercher

    Kings College of London

  • Marc Moesser

    Investor

    Redalpine

16:20-18:00 Reception at Royal National Hotel.