IBM and VTT Opentech AI Workshop

1. Jim Spohrer (IBM), Daniel Pakkala (VTT), Susan Malaika (IBM)
IBM Finland HQ, Tue-Wed March 13-14, 2018
http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/helsinki-20180314-v6
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Opentech AI Workshop Helsinki

2. Finland and Linus Torvald changed the
world with Linux and later GitHub;
IBM always strong in patents, embraced
open technologies as well
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3. Day 1: Tuesday March 13
• 3:00 Tutorials
– (please use this URL https://ibm.biz/BdZYZx to get
a cloud account if there is a hands-on element for
the tutorial that you will attend)
• 17:00 Break & poster set-up
• 17:30 Welcome receptions, posters,
refreshments
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4. Day 1: Tutorials
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Tutorials

5. Day 1: Posters
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Posters

6. Day 2 – Wed March 14 (3.14 Pi-Day)
• 8:00 Registration
• 8:30 Welcome; Mirva Antila (General Manager, IBM Finland) & Antti Vasara (CEO, VTT)
• 9:00 Keynote 1 – Introduction, Tuomo Tuikka (Research Manager Intelligent Systems, VTT) ; Finland AI Strategy;
Pekka Sivonen (Director of Digitization, Business Finland)
• 10:00 Break 1
• 10:30 Keynote 2 – Introduction, Tuomo Tuikka (Research Manager Intelligent Systems, VTT) ; EU AI Strategy; Juha
Heikkilä (Head of Robotics and AI unit, European Commission)
• 11:30 Lunch
• (optional: Birds of a Feather 1 in Room N202: PowerAI from Ganesan Narayanasamy ; Birds of a Feather 2 in Room
N203: UNESCO award from Maarit Palo)
• 12:30 Panel 1 – AI and Applications; Moderator: Jim Spohrer (Director of Open Source AI, IBM) ; Panelists include
Kalle Kantola (VP Research Smart Industry, VTT), Robin Burgener (Inventor, President 20Q.net Inc), Michael Richey
(Chief Learning Scientist, Boeing)
• 13:30 Panel 2 – AI & Healthcare; Moderator : Niina Levo (Global Services Partner, IBM) ; Panelists include Mike
Dusenberry (Machine Learning Engineer, IBM Spark Technology Center), Mark van Gils (Principal Scientist
Healthcare Applications, VTT), Pekka Neittaanmäki (Dean of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä)
• 14:30 Break 2
• 15:00 Panel 3 – Open AI and Data, Models; Moderator : Teppo Seesto (Solution Architect, IBM) ; Panelists include
Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts (Program Director, Forum Virium Helsinki), Mikko Rusama (Chief Digital Officer, Yle), Petri
Sysilahti (Solution Architect, Elinar)
• 16:00 Next Steps; Jim Spohrer (IBM Director of Open Source AI), Daniel Pakkala (VTT Principal Scientists
Intelligence Industry Applications)
• 16:30 Depart
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7. Welcome
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Jim Spohrer
IBM
(agenda review)
Mirva Antila
IBM Finland GM
Antti Vasara
VTT CEO

8. Some VTT-IBM Collaborations
• VTT and IBM Research - Haifa/Zurich interact in these
groups:
– http://www.nessi-europe.com/default.aspx?page=home
– http://www.bdva.eu/
• VTT and IBM Research - Haifa/Zurich in H2020 funded
projects:
– DATABIO - lead by VTT in which IBM participates
– BigMedilytics - IBM leads a sub-project in which VTT participates
• VTT - IBM IRELAND
– http://www.midasproject.eu
• VTT – IBM Research – Almaden
– Opentech AI https://opentechai.blog/
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9. Keynotes
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Tuomo Tuikka
VTT
(moderator)
Pekka Sivonen
Business Finland
“Finland AI Strategy”
Juha Heikkila
European Commission
Robotics & AI
“EU AI Strategy”

10. Lunch Time: Birds Of A Feather (BOAF)
• Room N202
– Lead: PowerAI (Ganesan Narayanasamy)
– AI + Hardware theme
• Room N203
– Lead: UNESCO Award (Maarit Palo)
– AI + Education theme
• BOAF: Network over lunch with people with
similar interests (room space limited)
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11. PowerAI
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12. ** IBM Internal Use Only ** 12
Award
Session
7.3.2018
Meet us in N203 on Wed in IBM Helsinki over lunch to hear more

13. Panel 1: AI and Applications
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Jim Spohrer
IBM
(moderator)
Kalle Kantola
VTT
Robin Burgener
20Q.net
Michael Richey
Boeing

14. Panel 2: AI and Healthcare
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Niina Levo
IBM
(moderator)
Mike Dusenberry
IBM
Martin van Gils
VTT
Pekka Neittaanmaki
JYU

15. Panel 3: Open AI Data and Models
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Teppo Seesto
IBM
(moderator)
Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts
Forum Virium Helsinki
Mikko Rusama
Yle
Petri Sysilahti
Elinar

16. Next Steps: Opentech AI
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Jim SpohrerDaniel Pakkala
Silicon Valley Collaboration
at IBM Research - Almaden
(March 09, 2018)

17. Thank-you to all!
• Executive Sponsors
– Antti Vasara, VTT (CEO)
– Mirva Antila, IBM Finland (GM)
• Program Committee
– Jim Spohrer, IBM (Co-chair)
– Daniel Pakkala, VTT (Co-chair)
– Susan Malaika, IBM (Tutorials and Posters)
– Tuomo Tuikka, VTT (Keynotes)
– Teppo Seesto, IBM (Panels)
– Maarit Palo, IBM (University Programs)
– Sergey Belov, IBM (University Programs)
– Ganesan Narayanasamy, IBM (PowerAI)
• Local Arrangements
– Saara Vilokkinen, IBM Finland
– Vertti Sinisalo, IBM Finland
• And of course our Keynoters, Panelists,
Moderators, Tutorial Leads, Poster
Presenters, and wonderful Participants!
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Special thanks to
Tekes/Business Finland for
supporting the research
co-operation of IBM and
VTT on Opentech AI by
enabling Research Visit to
IBM Research - Almaden.
…and to ectalent.global
for local arrangements in
San Jose, CA USA.

18. Original 20Q Ball
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19. Opentech AI Inspiration
• Danko Nicolic (EU Science)
• Lukasz Kaiser (Google)
• Fei-Fei Li (Stanford/Google)
• Francesca Rossi (IBM)
• Jose Orello (Spain)
• ???? (Mendix)
• Ben Goertzel (Hong Kong)
• INDEX Event
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20. Lukasz Kaiser (Google)
Resources URL
Tensor2Tensor: Model Library https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor
iPython Notebook https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/externa
l/notebooks/t2t/hello_t2t.ipynb
One Model To Learn Them All Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05137
AI Frontiers 2017 Video: One Model to Learn It All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpdEmySsuc
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“We present a single model that yields good results on a number of problems spanning
multiple domains. In particular, this single model is trained concurrently on ImageNet,
multiple translation tasks, image captioning (COCO dataset), a speech recognition corpus,
and an English parsing task.”

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22. Helsinki
• IBM, Saaga, and main hotels
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Saaga
IBM
HolidayInn CityCenter
Hilton Strand

23. IBM Finland HQ
• A: Saaga Restaurant
• B: Holiday Inn City Center
• C: Hilton Strand
• D. Radisson Blue Royale
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