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?
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Professor Tim Rocktäschel
Senior Staff Research Scientist & Professor of AI (Google DeepMind & UCL)
Open-Endedness and General Intelligence
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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?
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Ruairidh Battleday
Chair
Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking
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Carmine Ventre
Director
King's Institute for AI
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Carina Namih
Board Member
Alan Turing Institute
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Jakob Mökander
Director of Science & Tech Policy
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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Isabel Thompson
Product Leader
Advanced Research + Invention Agency
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David Berman
Head of AI
Cambridge Consultants
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Amal Moussaoui
CEO
SingularityNET UK
11:40 - 12:40 Networking Breakouts
12:40 - 15:20 Afternoon Keynotes: What Are the Open Problems for AI?
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Dr Martin Riedmiller
Research Director (Google DeepMind)
Why Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning is Central to AI
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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
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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
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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?
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James Whittington
Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Fellow
(Stanford / Oxford)
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Feryal Behbahani
Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
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Jakob Foerster
Associate Professor
Oxford & Meta-FAIR
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Elena Gribovskaya
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
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David Balduzzi
Machine Learning Researcher
XTX Markets
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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?
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Kanishka Narayan MP
The Labour Party (MP for the Vale of Glamorgan)
AI & the Future
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James Donovan
Head of Science Policy and Partnerships (OpenAI)
AI Accelerated Discovery + Live Demo
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Professor Sana Khareghani
AI Policy Lead & Professor of Practice (Responsible AI UK & KCL)
What if we get it right? How to try.
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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
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James Kuht
Founder and CEO
Inversity
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Steven Connor
Co-Director of Digital Futures Institute
KCL
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Rehana Al-Soltane
AI Learning Manager
Raspberry Pi Foundation
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Jonny Austin
CTPO
Micro:bit Educational Foundation
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Salomey Addo
PhD Student
Cambridge
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Greg Detre
Co-Founder
Memrise
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Marja Verbon
Head of Innovation Acceleration
Rothschild & Co
11:20 - 12:00 Breakout Rooms: Training Tomorrow’s Leaders in AI
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Training Tomorrow's Leaders
Future Leaders Fellowship Development Network
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How organisational structures impact innovation
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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Government Hackathon
No. 10 Data Science Team
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Finding Tomorrow's Leaders
Zeki
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Transitioning from Academia to Start-up
Octopus Ventures
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Building Cultures of Ambition and Urgency in the UK
Entrepreneur First
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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
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Tarig Hilal
AI Innovation Lead (Akord AI)
War and Peace and Artificial Intelligence: Developing the world's first Co-Pilot for Peacebuilders
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Dr Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe
CTO & Co-Founder (Boon Global & Beautiful Places AI)
Navigating Cultural Diversity and Responsible AI Applications
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Ashley Ramrachia
Founder and CEO (Academy)
Rewiring Britain: AI, Human Potential, and the Race to Future-Proof Our Workforce
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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
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Dr Phoebe Oldach
Head of the Global Research Programme (Basecamp Research)
The world’s first foundational dataset purpose built for AI in biology
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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
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Dan Nicolau Jr
Associate Professor
Kings College of London
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Becky Inkster
NIHR Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, Co-Investigator
University of Cambridge & The Alan Turing Institute
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Phoebe Oldach
Head of the Global Research Programme (Basecamp Research)
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Roeland Decorte
CEO & President
Decorte Future Industries & Artificial Intelligence Founders Association
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Dr Ekaterina Shatalina
Precision Neuropsychiatry Resercher
Kings College of London
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Marc Moesser
Investor
Redalpine