Schedule
Day 1 - Oct 23rd
09:00: Introductory Remarks - Open Problems for AI
09:20: Professor Tim Rocktäschel - Senior Staff Research Scientist & Professor of AI (Google DeepMind & UCL)
10:00: Dr Katja Hofmann - Senior Principal Researcher (Microsoft)
10:40: Break & Networking
11:00: Panel & Breakouts: New Types of AI Institution
Professor Carmine Ventre - Director (King's Institute for AI)
Carina Namih - Board Member (Alan Turing Institute)
Isabel Thompson - Product Leader (Advanced Research + Invention Agency)
Dr Jakob Mökander - Director of Science & Tech Policy (Tony Blair Institute)
Professor David Berman - Head of AI for WDS (Cambridge Consultants)
11:40: Break & Networking
12:40: Dr Martin Riedmiller - Research Director (Google DeepMind)
13:20: Professor Claudia Clopath - Principal Investigator & Head of Comp Neuroscience Laboratory (Imperial)
14:00: Break & Networking
14:40: Professor Karl Friston - Wellcome Principal Research Fellow & Scientific Director (UCL & Verses AI)
15:20-16:00: Panel: Open Problems for AI/ML Algorithms
Chair - Dr James Whittington - Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Fellow (Stanford / Oxford / Zyphra)
Dr Jakob Foerster - Associate Professor (Oxford / Meta-FAIR)
Dr Feryal Behbahani - Research Scientist (DeepMind)
Katie Collins - PhD Student (Cambridge & Alan Turing Institute)
Dr Elena Gribovskaya - Research Scientist (Google DeepMind)
Dr David Balduzzi - Machine Learning Researcher (XTX Markets)
Day 2 - Oct 24th
Morning Keynotes: The Future of AI
09:00: James Donovan - Head of Science Policy and Partnerships (Open AI)
09:40: Professor Sana Khareghani - AI Policy Lead & Professor of Practice (Responsible AI UK & KCL)
10:00: Dr Mounia Lalmas - Senior Director of Research (Spotify)
10:20: Break & Networking
10:40 - 11:20: Panel: AI & Education
Rehana Al-Soltane - AI Learning Manager (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Salomey Addo - PhD Student (Cambridge)
Dr James Kuht MBE - Founder and CEO (Inversity)
Jonny Austin - CTPO (micro:bit)
Dr Greg Detre - Co-Founder (Memrise)
Marja Verbon - Head of Innovation Acceleration (Rothschild & Co)
11:20 - 12:00: Breakout Rooms: The UK’s Next AI Leaders
URKI Future Leaders Development Network - Training Tomorrow’s Leaders
Number 10 Downing Street Data Team - Government Hackathon
Tony Blair Institute - How organisational structures impact innovation
Zeki - Finding Tomorrow’s Leaders
Entrepreneur First - Building Cultures of Ambition and Urgency in the UK
Octopus Ventures - Transitioning from Academia to Start-up
12:00: Break & Networking
Afternoon Keynotes: AI & Society
13:00: Ashley Ramrachia - Founder and CEO (Academy)
13:20: Tarig Hilal - AI Innovation Lead (Akord AI)
13:40: Dr Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe - CTO; Co-Founder (Boon; beautifulplaces.ai)
14:00: Danny Gray - Founder (Just Ask A Question)
14:20: Break & Networking
Afternoon Keynotes: AI & Medicine
15:00: Dr Oliver Vince - Co-Founder (Basecamp Research)
15:20: Professor Eiman Kanjo - tinyML (Imperial College London & Nottingham Trent University)
15:40-16:20: Panel: AI & Medicine
Chair - Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr (King’s College London)
Professor Maria Liakata - Professor of Natural Language Processing & AI fellow (Queen Mary's & Alan Turing Institute)
Dr Roeland Decorte - CEO & President (Decorte Future Industries & Artificial Intelligence Founders Association)
Basecamp Research Team
Dr Marc Moesser - Investor (Redalpine)