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Keynotes

Hear inspiring and enlightening presentations from innovators and executives at the AI Conference.

Jonathan Ballon

Jonathan Ballon
Vice President, Internet of Things Group, Intel

Jonathan Ballon is vice president of the Internet of Things Group at Intel, where he is responsible for a global team chartered with driving and accelerating innovation and growth in various market segments. His team is a pioneer in artificial... Read More.

9:05 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Artificial intelligence in the future, at least represented in science fiction, can learn, interpret, and take action based on data analysis. AI in production is the present, a present that feels decidedly futuristic. Jonathan Ballon explains why Intel’s leading portfolio of AI and computer vision edge technology will drive advances that improve how we work and live. Full Details
Louis Barson

Louis Barson
Deputy Director, Future Sectors , BEIS

Louis Barson is Deputy Director of the Future Sectors team in the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. The Future Sectors team lead the Industrial Strategy approach to new and emerging sectors, such as Robotics, Quantum Technologies and Drones,... Read More.

9:15 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Fireside chat with Marc Warner and Louis Barson Full Details
Roger Chen

Roger Chen
CEO, Computable

Roger Chen is cofounder and CEO of Computable and program chair for the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference. Previously, he was a principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where he invested in and worked with early-stage startups primarily in... Read More.

10:30 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Program cochairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen close the second day of keynotes. Full Details
9:20 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
What technologies are ready for adoption, and how should companies and organizations evaluate automation technologies? Ben Lorica and Roger Chen highlight recent trends in data, compute, and machine learning. Full Details
9:00 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Program cochairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen open the second day of keynotes. Full Details
9:00 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Program cochairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen open the first day of keynotes. Full Details
Michael Chui

Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute

Michael Chui is a San Francisco-based partner in the McKinsey Global Institute, where he directs research on the impact of disruptive technologies, such as big data, social media, and the internet of things, on business and the economy. Previously, as... Read More.

10:15 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Drawing on the McKinsey Global Institute's groundbreaking research, Michael Chui explores commonly asked questions relating to AI and its impact on work. Michael also previews new research showing that despite the rapid pace of AI adoption, much foundational work in enterprises remains to be done to capture value at scale. Full Details
Amy Heineike

Amy Heineike
Vice President, Product Engineering, Primer

Amy Heineike is the vice president of product engineering at Primer, where she leads teams to build machines that read and write text leveraging natural language processing (NLP), natural language generation (NLG_, and a host of other algorithms to... Read More.

9:35 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Human-generated knowledge bases like Wikipedia have excellent precision but poor recall. Amy Heineike explains how Primer created a self-updating knowledge base that can track factual claims in unstructured text and describe what it learns in human-readable text. Full Details
Yangqing Jia

Yangqing Jia
VP, Engineering, Alibaba Group

Yangqing Jia leads Alibaba’s AI and Big Data org, supporting the large-scale applications both inside the company and on Aliyun, the number one cloud provider in China and a market leader globally. The org provides advanced AI systems and service... Read More.

10:20 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Yangqing Jia shares a series of examples to illustrate the uniqueness of AI software and its connections to conventional computer science wisdom. Yangqing then discusses future software engineering principles for AI compute. Full Details
Jason Knight

Jason Knight
Senior Technology Officer, Intel

Jason Knight is senior technology officer at Intel, where he advances what is possible with machine learning using Intel Nervana. Jason holds a PhD in computational biology. His research included developing hierarchical Bayesian statistical models for classification of cancer tumor... Read More.

9:30 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Jason Knight offers an overview of the state of the field for scaling training and inference across distributed systems from a practitioner's point of view. Along the way, Jason dives deep into available tools, resources, and venues for getting started without having to go it alone. Full Details
Cassie Kozyrkov

Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist, Google

Cassie Kozyrkov is Google Cloud’s chief decision scientist. Cassie is passionate about helping everyone make better decisions through harnessing the beauty and power of data. She speaks at conferences and meets with leadership teams to empower decision makers to transform... Read More.

9:55 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Why do businesses fail at machine learning despite its tremendous potential and the excitement it generates? Is the answer always in data, algorithms, and infrastructure, or is there a subtler problem? Will things improve in the near future? Cassie Kozyrkov shares lessons learned at Google and explains what they mean for applied data science. Full Details
Ben Lorica

Ben Lorica
Chief Data Scientist, O'Reilly

Ben Lorica is the chief data scientist at O’Reilly. Ben has applied business intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis in a variety of settings, including direct marketing, consumer and market research, targeted advertising, text mining, and financial engineering.... Read More.

10:30 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Program cochairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen close the second day of keynotes. Full Details
9:20 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
What technologies are ready for adoption, and how should companies and organizations evaluate automation technologies? Ben Lorica and Roger Chen highlight recent trends in data, compute, and machine learning. Full Details
9:00 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Program cochairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen open the second day of keynotes. Full Details
9:00 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Program cochairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen open the first day of keynotes. Full Details
Ian Massingham

Ian Massingham
Developer Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Ian Massingham is a developer evangelist and is part of the technical leadership team at Amazon Web Services, where he draws on over two decades of expertise in internet technologies, technology operations leadership, architecture, and software engineering to help customers... Read More.

9:30 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Ian Massingham discusses the application of ML and AI within Amazon, from retail product recommendations to the latest in natural language understanding, and explains how you can use easily accessible services from AWS to include AI features within your applications or build your own custom ML models for your own specific AI use cases. Full Details
Ruchir Puri

Ruchir Puri
CTO and Chief Architect, IBM Watson, IBM

Ruchir Puri is the chief scientist of IBM Research and an IBM Fellow. Previously, he led IBM Watson as its CTO and chief architect and has held various technical, research, and engineering leadership roles across IBM’s AI and Research businesses... Read More.

Ashok Srivastava

Ashok Srivastava
Chief Data Officer, Intuit

Ashok N. Srivastava is the senior vice president and chief data officer at Intuit, where he is responsible for setting the vision and direction for large-scale machine learning and AI across the enterprise to help power prosperity across the... Read More.

10:00 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Industry buzz sometimes focuses on an AI future with dire unintended consequences for humanity. Ashok Srivastava draws on his cross-industry experience to paint an encouraging picture of how AI can solve big problems with people, data, and technology to benefit society. Full Details
Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Supasorn Suwajanakorn
VISTEC (Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology)

Supasorn Suwajanakorn is a computer vision researcher who recently developed a technique that can synthesize a speech video of President Obama by learning from existing video footage. His earlier work includes a novel method to reconstruct a 3D face model... Read More.

9:40 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Supasorn Suwajanakorn discusses the possibilities and the dark side of building artificial people. Full Details
Marc Warner

Marc Warner
CEO, ASI

Marc Warner is the cofounder and CEO of ASI Data Science. He founded ASI in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone and has shaped the company so that it can support organizations... Read More.

9:15 Thursday, 11 October 2018
Fireside chat with Marc Warner and Louis Barson Full Details