Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

How can Britain leverage AI research breakthroughs safely to drive productivity and growth?

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Programme

Day 1: Oct 28th

AI Research Breakthroughs & Infrastructure

08:00-08:40 Registration

Session 1: AI x Research Breakthroughs

08:40-09:00 Introductory Remarks

Dr Ruairidh Battleday

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Thinking About Thinking & Stanford
Dr James Whittington

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Thinking About Thinking & Oxford

09:00-10:00 Opening Keynotes

Dr Raia Hadsell

Vice-President of Research at Google DeepMind
Beyond Chatbots: Using AI to model the unknowns
Prof. Csaba Szepesvari

Foundations Team Lead at Google DeepMind
The challenge of building logical, language instructible AI systems

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Keynotes: AI Research Breakthroughs

Prof. Jakob Foerster

Associate Professor at Oxford
Prof. Andrew Saxe

Henry Dale Fellow and Joint Group Leader at UCL
The Neural Race Reduction: Dynamics of feature learning in deep architectures

11:30-12:00 Panel: “AI Algorithms: the Next Set of Challenges?”

Dr James Whittington

Chair
Thinking About Thinking & Oxford
Prof. Csaba Szepesvari

Foundations Team Lead
Google DeepMind
Prof. Emine Yilmaz

Professor
UCL
Prof. Jakob Foerster

Associate Professor
Oxford
Prof. Oana-Maria Camburu

Assistant Professor
Imperial College London
Dr Sarah Parisot

Principal Researcher
Microsoft
Dr Zhengyao Jiang

Co-Founder & CEO
Weco

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:30 Main Keynote: “Era of Experience”

Prof. David Silver

Principal Research Scientist at Google DeepMind & UCL

Session 2: AI x Breakthroughs in Industry

13:30-14:10 Panel: “Does Industry Now Do AI Research Better?”

Dr Felix Sosa

Research Scientist
Harvard & NTT
Vassia Simaiaki

Head of AI: Vision & Graphics
Wayve
Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz

Head of AI Research
Thomson Reuters
Dr Lion Schulz

Head of Machine Learning
Bertelsmann
Dr Rachel Wagner-Kaiser

Director, Data Scientist
KPMG
Dr Leon Chlon

Founder
Hassana Labs

14:30-15:00 Keynote: “Making Government more Human with AI”

Dr Laura Gilbert

Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute

Session 3: AI x Infrastructure

15:00-15:40 Panel: “Getting the UK Ahead on AI Infrastructure”

Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday

Chair
Thinking About Thinking
Max Beverton-Palmer

Head of Public Policy
NVIDIA
Karl Havard

Chief Commercial Officer
Nscale
Mark Bjornsgaard

Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer
DeepGreen
Dr Joshua Tan

Co-founder
Metagov & Public AI
Mike Mattacola

GM
CoreWeave

Day 2: Oct 29th

AI Safety, Enterprise, & Society

08:00-08:40 Registration

Session 1: AI x Safety

08:40-10:00 Opening Remarks and Keynotes

Prof. Skyler Wang

Chief Ethical Officer
Thinking About Thinking
McGill & Meta
Prof. Richard Susskind

President of the Society for Computers and Law
What if AGI?
Prof. Chris Summerfield

Professor & Research Director at Oxford & The AI Security Institute
AI, cognition and society

10:00-10:40 Panel: “AI Safety: An Insider’s Perspective”

Prof. Skyler Wang

Assistant Professor & Research Scientist
McGill & Meta
Dr Marc Warner

Chief Executive Officer
Faculty
Dr Artemis Seaford

AI Safety Team Lead
ElevenLabs
Dr Marius Hobbhahn

Director & Co-Founder
Apollo Research
David Sully

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
ADVAI
David ‘davidad’ Dalrymple

Director
ARIA

10:40-11:00 Break

Session 2: AI x Enterprise

11:00-12:00 Opening Remarks and Keynote: AI x Enterprise

Nicolay Hagen

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Main Quest
Session Chair
Ashley Ramrachia

Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Academy

12:00-14:00 Lunch and Breakout Sessions: “Strategies for the AI Tech Transformation”

Technology Roundtable

Tony Blair Institute
Hilda Clark Room
How to fix sovereign AI

Public AI
George Bradshaw Room
The AI Skill Set

Multiverse
Marjorie Sykes Room
The AI Skills Hub

Innovate UK
Kathleen Lonsdale Room
The transition to AGI

BlueDot Impact
Abraham Darby Room
Governance Blueprint

Holistic AI
Elizabeth Fry Room

14:00-14:30 Keynote: “The Invisible Industrial Revolution: AI’s Biggest Impact Is Happening Where You Can’t See It.”

Kriti Sharma

Chief Executive Officer of IFS Nexus Black
In this talk, we'll cover case studies from applying AI in the physical world: manufacturing, energy, aerospace, defence and more.

14:30-15:10 Panel on “How to Maximise AI-Driven Value Within Your Business”

Dr Dara Sosulski

Managing Director & Head of AI
HSBC
Dr Jakob Mökander

Director
Tony Blair Institute
Dr James Kuht

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
PAIR
Julian Von Nehammer

Strategy & Partnerships
Arondite
Dr Mark Moerdler

Managing Director
Bernstein Insights

Session 3: AI x Society

15:30-16:00 Keynote

Dex Hunter-Torricke

Board Member
HM Treasury. Former Google, Meta, SpaceX, United Nations

16:00-16:40 AI x Human Flourishing

Prof. Kevin Loi-Heng

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Avalon Insights
Dr Brent Clickard

Global Head of Growth AI and Data Science
HSBC
Steve Mould

Content Creator & Science Communicator
Sue Daley OBE

Director Tech and Innovation
TechUK
Antonia Kerle

Chief Technical Advisor
BBC
Maria Axente

Founder
Responsible Intelligence

Day 3: Oct 30th

Al Entrepreneurship & Applications

08:00-09:00 Registration

Session 1: AI x Entrepreneurship

09:00-10:00 Opening Remarks and Fireside Chat: Winning in the UK’s AI Start-up Ecosystem

Dr Ruairidh Battleday

President
Thinking About Thinking
Minister Kanishka Narayan

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety)
Harry Stebbings

Founder
20VC