World Summit AI 2017 - Agenda

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Top 30 of 120 speakers1
JASON FURMAN
Former Chief Economist
Obama Adminstration & Senior
Fellow, PIIE
IRAKLI BERIDZE
Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor
UNICRI, United Nations
ZOUBIN GHAHRAMANI
Chief Scientist, Uber & Professor
University of Cambridge
RUSLAN SALAKHUTDINOV
Director of AI Research, Apple and
Associate Professor in Machine
Learning, Carnegie Mellon University
RALF HERBRICH
Director of Machine
Learning, Amazon
GAYLE SHEPPARD
VP and General Manager
Saffron AI Group
Intel
TONY JEBARA
Director of Machine
Learning, Netflix
STEVE CHIEN
Senior Research Scientist and Head
of Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL
NASA
PROFESSOR MAX WELLING
Co-Founder, Scyfer & Research
Chair, University of Amsterdam
ROB HIGH
VP, IBM & CTO, IBM
Watson

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Top 30 of 120 speakers
NAGRAJ KASHYAP
Corporate Vice President
Global Head of Early Stage Investments
Microsoft Ventures
OMAR TAYEB
Co-Founder and CTO,
Blippar
PATRICK VAN DER SMAGT
Head of AI Research Lab and CTO
Volkswagen
KELLY GARCIA
VP of Ecommerce and Innovation
Domino’s Pizza
LAURENS VAN DER MAATEN
Research Scientist, Facebook
RONNY FEHLING
VP, Head of Data Driven Technologies &
Data Science, Airbus Group
JAPJIT TULSI
VP Engineering, eBay
MICHAEL WEI
Director of AI Research
Samsung America
PROF. JOANNA BRYSON
Sabbatical Fellow and Affiliate, Center
for Information Technology Policy
Princeton University
DMITRY KISLYUK
Engineering Manager of Visual
Search, Pinterest

3
ONNO ZOETER
Principal Data Scientist
Booking.com
Top 30 of 120 speakers
EAMONN CAREY
MD, New York, Techstars
CHRISTOPH AUER WELSBACH
Partner, IBM Ventures
TAK LO
Managing Director, Zeroth
CHRIS BROAD
Angel Investor and Mentor
Future Worlds
VIRGINIE VAST
Head of Cognitive Procurement and
Digital Sourcing, Vodafone
JOHANNES HERMANN
Director, Machine Learning &
Advanced Algorithms
Johnson & Johnson
SARVAPALI (GOPAL) RAMCHURN
Associate Professor in AIC, Electronics and
Computer Science
University of Southampton
JOHN SPINDLER
CEO, Capital Enterprise
LUCA VERRE
CEO and Co-Founder
Chronocam

Agenda Themes at World Summit AI
ETHICAL AI AND EXISTENTIAL RISK
Public policies, development frameworks and making tomorrow’s
technologies beneficial for society
OPEN AI
Addressing roadblocks standing in the way of making AI as widely
and evenly distributed as possible
THE FUTURE OF AI
Exploring the unknown of AI - what’s coming in the next decade
and beyond
TECHNOLOGY SYNERGIES
How quantum computing and other technologies are
accelerating the frontiers of AI capability
STARTUP, SCALEUPS & UNICORNS
Editorial picks of the agile creatives who are innovating at pace and
creating entirely new models for AI application
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DISRUPTORS
The tech giants making leaps and bounds to set the tone for
AI game change
GETTING INTO THE HEADS OF INVESTORS
What investors are looking for and how to get a share of the AI
investment pie
MIND-BLOWING ADVANCES IN AI
Genuinely groundbreaking new innovations in AI soon to go into
full-scale application
AI APPLICATION
How AI is redefining business paradigms and transforming the
enterprise day-to-day
ACADEMIA TO BUSINESS
How the latest scientific discoveries in AI are propelling enterprise

Selection of Agenda Features5
“YOU’RE DOING WHAT WITH AI?”
A stream demonstrating the latest mind-blowing applications of AI
“GETTING ACQUIRED” PANEL
Experiences of founders who went from startup to buy-out
EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS & PRODUCT LAUNCHES
Be the first to hear about developments in some of the biggest and most
innovative AI companies globally
STARTUP COMPETITION
Hear a carefully selected shortlist of 6 early-stage startups pitch to our inves-
tors panel to gain support kick-starting their business
“AI UNDER THE HOOD” WORKSHOPS
Learn hands-on, implementable AI practices that can be applied in areas
such as marketing and business operations
AI TALENT SHOWCASE
Hear from and meet the winners of AI competitions and hacks across
the world
STARTUP AND ENTERPRISE MATCHMAKING SESSION
Curated meetups to drive partnerships between enterprises seeking unique
solutions and startups seeking enterprise-scale influence
UNICORN PANEL
“How we became billion dollar startups”

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Outcomes: What you’ll leave with
STARTUP CONNECTIONS
Partner with the agile startups that could turbo-boost innovation within
your business
Outcomes for E N T E R P R I S E Outcomes for T E C H G I A N T S
FIND CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS
by showcasing your innovations to the worlds AI elite
ACQUISITIONS
Find the startups and scaleups that could revolutionize your
innovation lab
FIND AI TALENT
Connect with the brightest minds in AI from graduates to highly
accomplished data scientists and engineers
LESSONS IN AI APPLICATION
Transferable lessons on how your cross-sector peers have applied AI to
excel within their verticals
Outcomes for E V E RYO N E !
AI INSIGHTS Learn from the tech elite that are literally shaping
the future with AI
HOT OFF THE PRESS UPDATES Be the first to hear about
the latest product launches and announcements in AI
Outcomes for I N V E S T O R S
FIND THE UNICORNS OF TOMORROW Identify startups and
scaleups worthy of your dollars
Outcomes for S TA R T U P S & S C A L E U P S
FIND FUNDING Connect and showcase your business case
to the world’s most prolific investors and accelerators
STARTUP TO UNICORN Lessons on how to scale up
and go global
PARTNER WITH ENTERPRISE Get infrastructure support from
enterprise-scale business via curated meetups

CLOSE OF SUMMIT AI
7
Programme Structure
C ENTRE STAGE SESSIONS
LUNCH & NETWORKING
S T R E A M T W OS T R E A M O N E S T R E A M T H R E E S T R E A M F O U R
A I I N AC T I O N - E N T E R P R I S E STO R I E S
How AI has transformed our business
STA RT U P S STAG E
How to get a share of the AI pie
D E V E LO P I N G E T H I C A L A N D O P E N A I
Building frameworks that are safe for the
future
A I U N D E R T H E H O O D : WO R KS H O P S
S T R E A M T W OS T R E A M O N E S T R E A M T H R E E S T R E A M F O U R
A I I N AC T I O N - E N T E R P R I S E STO R I E S
STA RT U P S STAG E : CO M P E T I T I O N D E E P D I V E T EC H TA L KS &
A N N O U N C E M E N T S
Mind blowing future applications of AI
D AY O N E Wednesday 11th October 2017
D AY T W O Thursday 12th October 2017
S T R E A M O N E S T R E A M T H R E E S T R E A M F O U R
AI IN ACTION - ENTERPRISE STORIES
D E E P D I V E T EC H TA L KS
CLOSE OF SUMMIT DAY ONE & AFTER-PARTY
STARTUPS, SCALEUPS AND UNICORNS
Hear from the AI startups, scaleups and
unicorns making waves in 2017
S T R E A M T W O

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11TH - 12TH OCTOBER 2017!

Wednesday 11th
October 2017ONE
DAY
Registration08:00
11:10
12:40
10:05
10:40
11:40
12:00
12:20
09:00
WELCOME Inspired Minds: Sarah Porter, CEO and Founder, InspiredMinds
WELCOME City.AI: Mike Reiner, Co-Initiator, City.AI Christoph Auer Welsbach, Partner, IBM Ventures
Chairperson’s opening remarks: Babita Sharma, Journalist and Television Presenter, BBC
Welcome
09:10
How we’re pushing the frontiers with AI - smarter, better, faster
Robert High, VP IBM & CTO, IBM Watson | Ralf Herbrich, Director of Machine Learning, Amazon
Moderator:
Professor Max Welling, Co-Founder, Scyfer & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam
09:45
How can AI work for people and society more broadly - public policies and practices
Jason Furman, Former Chief Economist, Obama Administration & Senior Fellow, PIIE
AI moonshots - self-replicating robots, harpooning comets and autonomous systems for space exploration
Steve Chien, Senior Research Scientist and Head of Artificial Intelligence Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Panel Discussion
Headliner
Headliner
Blue Sky Thinking - In Conversation
Everything is personal, including AI
Gayle Sheppard, Vice President, New Technology Group and General Manager, Saffron AI Group, Intel
From node to network: transforming our relationship with clients by AI
Bolke de Bruin, Head of Advanced Analytics Technology, ING | Frank Derks, Head of Advanced Analytics, ING Wholesale Banking
How eBay applies deep science to everyday commerce
Japjit Tulsi, VP Engineering, eBay
Refreshments & Networking
Lunch & Networking
Headliner
Headliner
Headliner

Wednesday 11th
October 2017
STREAM ONE STREAM TWO STREAM THREE STREAM FOUR
14:20
14:45
13:40
14:00
AI IN ACTION - ENTERPRISE
STORIES
Chair: Babita Sharma, Journalist and Television
Presenter, BBC
START-UP, SCALE-UPS AND
UNICORNS
Hear from the AI start-ups, scale-ups
and unicorns making waves in 2017
DEEP DIVE TECH TALKS
Mind blowing future applications
of AI
AI UNDER THE HOOD:
WORKSHOPS
Enterprise Story 1
How Netflix optimises customer
recommendation, personalisation and search
Tony Jabara, Head of Machine Learning, Netflix
Tech Demo Talk 1
Let’s get physical - self-reproducing robots
Professor A.E. (“Gusz”) Eiben, Head of
Computational Intelligence Group, VU,
University of Amsterdam
Workshop 1 (1 hr 30)
50 delegates
Start your own AI experiment today
Many companies are looking to start with AI,
but are struggling to find a good way. In this
workshop, we will help you set up your own
AI experiment using the AI experiment canvas.
Discover what it takes to start with AI and walk
away with the first concept of your own AI
experiment.
Joop Snijder, Agile Coach/AI Expert,
Info Support
Willem Meints, Technical Evangelist,
Info Support
Enterprise Story 2
Transforming Airbus with industrial scale AI
and cognitive computing
Ronny Fehling, VP, Head of Cognitive Computing
and AI, Airbus
Startup Stories: Starship (14:15 - 14:25)
Hear from World Summit AI’s pick of the
best AI startups making waves in 2017.
Kristjan Korjus, Head of Computer Vision and
Perception, Starship
Tech Talk 2
The first FDA approval for a deep learning
and cloud-based application to be used
in a clinical setting
Dan Golden, Director of Machine Learning, Arterys
Quickfire Enterprise Stories 3, 4, 5
How we use AI to create more meaningful
relationships with customers
Everyone says they listen to their customers -
here’s how we use an algorithm to really do it
(Dorchester Collection)
How AI powered marketing is making big brands
more money (Phrasee)
Virtual Nina - humanising the customer experience
with natural language understanding (Swedbank)
Ana Brant, Director Global Guest Experience and
Innovation, Dorchester Collection
Parry Malm, CEO, Phrasee
Martin Kedback, Head of Channel Management,
Swedbank
Presentation (14:25 - 14:35)
How the internet of eyes will allow
objects to see
Evan Nisselson, General Partner, LDV Capital
Tech Talk 3
Profiling a mind-blowing future
application of AI
Panel Discussion (13:40 - 14:15)
Founders who went from startup to
buyout - how to build a successful AI startup
Founders of startups that have been acquired share
their challenges and experiences
Moderator:
John Spindler, CEO, Capital Enterprise
Tech Talk 4
application of AI
Workshop 2 (1 hr 30)
10 delegates
Bart Fussel, CEO & Co-Founder, aFrogleap
Visual stepping stones - 4 startups/scaleups
transforming the way we see the world
Luca Verre, CEO and Co-Founder, Chronocam
Moderator:
Evan Nisselson, General Partner, LDV Capital
ONE
DAY

15:50
15:10
15:30
Enterprise Story 6 Startup Stories: Funderbeam (15:10 - 15:20)
Hear from World Summit AI’s pick of the
best AI startups making waves in 2017.
Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder and CEO, Funderbeam
Nicholas Vandrey, Head of Data Product, Funderbeam
Tech Talk 5
From visual recognition to visual reasoning
Laurens van der Maaten, Research Scientist,
Facebook
Deep Dive Roundtables 1 (1 hour)
Roundtable 1
Roundtable 2
Roundtable 3
12 delegates maximum per table
Hot pick of AI disruptors - profiling startups,
scaleups and acquired companies making an
impact
Wednesday 11th
October 2017
Tech Demo Talk 6
Building a metaverse - unveiling the first
operating system for autonomous agents
Rod Furlan, Founder, Lucidscape Technologies
Enterprise Story 8
New technologies taking the toil out of
travel at Bookings.com
Onno Zoeter, Principal Data Scientist, booking.com
In Conversation
Over the edge AI - 2 startups making break-
throughs for the benefit of humanity
Moderator:
Amir Banifatemi, AI Lead, XPrize
Tech Talk 7
Finding a temporal process from machine
learning- underlying dynamics and
predicting outcomes
Patrick van der Smagt, Head of AI Research Lab,
Volkswagen
Close Of Summit Day One
World Summit AI After-Party
16:10
18:00
21:00
Headliner
AI and quantum computing - how can organisations adapt and thrive by leveraging exponential technologies?
Headliner
Applying deep learning models to multimodal learning, transfer learning and teaching machines to learn from unstructured data: latest findings
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Director of AI Research, Apple and Associate Professor in Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University
Headliner
How would a privacy preserving, collaborative distributed deep learning system look in the future?
Professor Max Welling, Co-Founder, Scyfer & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam
16:40
17:05
17:30
Enterprise Story 7
Michael Wei, Director of AI Research, Samsung
America
Profiling an enterprise where AI has
transformed their business
ONE
DAY

Thursday 12th
October 2017
Registration08:00
09:00
09:05
09:35
Welcome
Chair: Babita Sharma, Journalist and Television Presenter, BBC
In Conversation
Making tomorrow’s most powerful technologies beneficial - AI for societal good and change
Panel Discussion
The internet of ethics - developing an industry code of conduct to Imanage the evolution of AI
Eric Sears, Trustee, Partnership on AI and Senior Program Officer, John D and Catherine T MaCarthur Foundation
Professor Joanna Bryson, Sabbatical Fellow and Affiliate, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Irakli Beridze, Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor, Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), United Nations
Moderator:
Arnoud Cohen Stuart, Head of Business Ethics, ING
10:05 Refreshments & Networking
TWO
DAY

10:35
STORIES
Chair: Babita Sharma, Journalist and Television
Presenter, BBC
STARTUP, SCALEUPS AND
UNICORNS
How to get a share of the AI pie
DEVELOPING ETHICAL, SAFE
AND OPEN AI
Building frameworks that are safe
for the future
Chair: Eric Sears, Trustee, Partnership on AI and
Senior Program Officer, John D and Catherine
T MaCarthur Foundation
AI UNDER THE HOOD:
WORKSHOPS
Enterprise Story 9
How we use Natural Language
Interaction to speak your customer’s
language
Lawrence Flynn, CEO, Artificial Solutions
Presentation
United Nations efforts to keep pace with AI
Irakli Beridze, Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor,
Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
(UNICRI), United Nations
Workshop 3 (40 mins)
Develop an AI implementation
programme that fits with your business
strategy
50 delegates
10:55
11:15
Enterprise Story 10
Building the next generation of
recommendation systems linking visual
search
Dmitry Kislyuk, Engineering Manager of Visual
Search, Pinterest
Keynote Presentation (11:05 - 11:25)
Winning together - creating successful
corporate-startup collaborations
Nagraj Kashyap, Corporate Vice President, Global
Head of Early Stage Investments, Microsoft Ventures
Presentation
Impact of computational Intelligence and
language bias on AI
Professor Joanna Bryson, Sabbatical Fellow and
Affiliate, Center for Information Technology Policy,
Princeton University
Panel Discussion
Quickfire Enterprise Stories 11, 12, 13, 14
Increasing the value of digital content with AI (The
New York Times)
How Deutsche Telekom built it’s own cognitive
computing platform and increased performance
levels (Deutsche Telekom)
Nick Rockwell, CTO, The New York Times
Jan Morgenthal, Chief Product Owner - Artificial
Intelligence, Deutsche Telekom
Bastiaan Janmaat, CEO, DataFox
Jop Ekering, Principal Consultant, Synechron
Business Consulting
Presentation
How to prepare for the impact of AI on
business and society - setting standards
for AI
Kay Firth-Butterfield, Executive Director, AI-Austin,
University of Texas
Deep Dive Roundtables 2 (40 mins)
Roundtable 1
Roundtable 2
Roundtable 3
12 delegates maximum per table
Presentation
AI safety research - value learning, robust
self-modification, anomaly detection
and governance
Thursday 12th
October 2017
High flying disruptors - overcoming the
challenges of bringing great technologies
to market
Omar Tayeb, Co-Founder and CTO, Blippar
Daniel Gebler, CTO, Picnic
AI and access to health for children and
adolescent – a vision for a global
public good
Stefan Germann, CEO, Fondation Botnar
11:35
11:55 Lunch & Networking
TWO
DAY

STREAM ONE STREAM THREE STREAM FOUR
STORIES
Chair: ING
DEEP DIVE TECH TALKS &
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AI UNDER THE HOOD:
WORKSHOPS
STREAM TWO
STARTUPS STAGE:
COMPETITION
Enterprise Story 15
Using AI to design an intuitive mobile user
experience
Bart Fussel, CEO & Co-Founder, aFrogleap
Tech Talk 8
application of AI’
Leading business transformation for the
success of your AI journey
50 delegates
Richard Sargeant, Director, ASI Data Science
13:00
13:20
13:30
Enterprise Story 16
Time is the enemy of food - using AI to
revolutionise the customer experience
Kelly Garcia, VP E-Commerce & Innovation,
Domino’s Pizza
Tech Talk 9
The world’s most scalable AI platform -
created by evolutionary intelligence and
deep learning
Antoine Blondeau, Co-Founder and Chairman,
Sentient
Panel Discussion Quickfire Enterprise
Stories 17, 18, 19, 20
Profiling enterprises where AI has
transformed their businesses
Tech Talk 10 (13:40 - 14:00)
Teneo - connecting devices to the most
advanced, automated natural language
development platform
Lawrence Flynn, CEO, Artificial Solutions
13:40
14:00
Thursday 12th
October 2017
How can entrepreneurs build great businesses
and drive disruptive AI innovations
What are the best ways to market your startup?
What are the different incubation/acceleration models?
How can you increase the value and success rates
derived from these initiatives?
When and how to scale up?
Eamonn Carey, MD, New York, Techstars
Ruben Nieuwenhuis, Director, StartupAmsterdam &
Founder, Startup Delta
Erik Boer, Founder & Director, ACE Venture Lab
Jim Stolze, CEO, Aigency.co
Moderator:
Jose Iglesias, Director EMEA, Startup Programs, Techstars
Put your money where your mouth is
Hear honest views on the direction of the AI invest-
ment landscape
What are the trends you are looking at?
Top 5 tips on what investors are looking for when
deciding to part with their cash
Christoph Auer Welsbach, Partner, IBM Ventures
Michiel Kotting, Partner, Northzone
Tak Lo, Managing Director, Zeroth
TWO
DAY
Tech Talk 11 (14:00 - 14:20)
AI for smart energy systems
Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn, Associate Professor in
AIC, Electronics and Computer Science, University
of Southampton
Enterprise Story 21
Profiling an enterprise where AI has
transformed their business
14:10 Startups Competition (14:00 - 15:10)
Six AI startups short-listed from the competition get
5 minutes to pitch their business idea to five inves-
tors who are willing to invest their time to help the
winner kick-start their business.
After each pitch, judges get 5 minutes to ask
questions about the venture.
Growth Hacking Power Session
50 delegates
David Arnoux, Co-Founder & Head of Growth,
Growth Tribe

15:40
16:05
16:30
15:10
17:00
STREAM ONE STREAM THREE STREAM FOUR
Announcing Winner of Startup Competition
Closing Headliner
How we’re pushing the frontiers of AI capabilities
Closing Headliner
Uber’s latest advancements in AI
Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist, Uber & Professor, University of Cambridge
Closing Headliner
Next steps in shaping the future of AI
17:10 Close of World Summit AI
Thursday 12th
October 2017TWO
DAY
14:50
14:30
Enterprise Story 23
The new frontiers for AI in healthcare
Johannes Hermann, Director, Machine Learning &
Advanced Algorithms, Johnson & Johnson
In Conversation: Tech Talk 13 (14:45 - 15:10)
Using autonomic problem solving AI to retain
and apply knowledge to different issues in
dynamic environments
Chris Boos, CEO and Founder, Arago
Enterprise Story 22
Self disruption: Vodafone’s roadmap for
cognitive procurement - augmenting the
Category Manager role
Virginie Vast, Head of Cognitive Procurement and
Digital Sourcing, Vodafone
Pedro Barata, Principal Programme Manager -
Cognitive Procurement, Vodafone
Tech Talk 12 (14:20 - 14:45)
Towards general Artificial Intelligence: Goo-
dAI and the General AI Challenge
Sungmin Aum, Head of Asia-Pacific Operation and
Senior Research Scientist, GoodAI
Daria Hvizdalova, Project Coordinator, GoodAI
STREAM TWO
Startups Competition Continued Workshop 5 Continued

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