In Brief
The Seven Continents-View on AI: There is clearly no one-size-fits-all when it comes to anything in life. That applies to the reasons for the development, adoption, and integration of cognitive technologies as well – be that across teams, organisations, industries, countries and even continents. With the help of experts, we will feel the “AI pulse” of each continent from the North until the South Pole and see how those feed into the global AI heartbeat.
Main Focus Points
- AI from the Perspective of North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia
- AI in the private and public sectors
- Investments in AI
- The AI startup ecosystem on each continent
- Reasons for innovation and AI adaption – The AI pulse of each continent
- Challenges and opportunities
- Global collaboration for business and society
CognitiveVirtual
A global-reaching event series on AI.
No robots. No terminators. NO SALES.
Only practical AI under the magnifying glass of global AI leaders & experts.
2.4-3k Event Viewers | 80-100 Countries | 20 Speakers
Facilitated & Powered By
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
Date and Time
7. October 2021, 16:00 – 19:00 CET
Location
Virtual Conference
Agenda & Speakers
See below – more details to be announced soon
Registration
The event is open for the SwissCognitive Global AI Community & Partners. For official registration, proceed forward here, and in case of questions, contact Livia Spiesz at lspiesz@swisscognitive.com.
CognitiveVirtual Agenda
Central European Time (CET)
16:00 – 16:05
Welcome by SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
Dalith Steiger and Andy Fitze, Co-Founders of SwissCognitive
16:05 – 16:20
PERSPECTIVES ON AI IN EUROPE
Hanna Helin, Technology Innovation Executive Advisor, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
16:20 – 16:55
PERSPECTIVES ON AI IN NORTH AMERICA, AFRICA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA
Panel Chair
Ganesh Padmanabhan, Host & Founder, Stories in AI | SwissCognitive Panel Facilitator
Panelists
Amany Shousha, CTO for AI Pro Program, Information Technology Institute | The Voice for AI Egypt
Mauricio Kimura, Ph.D. Legal Researcher in Technology & Law, University of Waikato Faculty of Law | Member Working Group on Adapting to AI Effects on Law, Ethics and Society, The AI Forum of NZ
Anita Jovic, Founder, AI Serbia (AISRB) | Business Consultant & Owner, Anado.AI
Shri Santhanam, EVP & GM, Global Analytics and AI Products, Experian
16:55 – 17:10
CROSS-CONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON AI – AMERICA & CHINA
Nina Xiang, Founder, China Money Network, Book Author: US-China Tech War: What Chinese Tech History Reveals About Future Tech Rivalry
17:10 – 17:50
PERSPECTIVES ON AI IN EUROPE, ASIA, SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA
Panel Chair
Susan Omondi, VALUEADDITION, Founder | Thought-Leader Ethics & Diversity in Technology
Panelists
Tunç Acarkan, AI Thought-Leader | Technology Management Director, MESS Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries
Clara Langevin, AI and ML Platform Lead Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Brazil / C4IR Brasil (Affiliate WEF)
Fang Chen, NSW Government, AI Advisory Committee Member, University of Technology Sydney, Distinguished Professor
Pius Illah, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa
17:50 – 18:10
PERSPECTIVES ON AI IN AFRICA
Jacques Ludik, Founder & CEO, Cortex Logic & Cortex Group, Founder & President, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA)
18:10 – 18:45
PERSPECTIVES ON AI IN EUROPE, ASIA, AUSTRALIA AND AFRICA… AND IN SPACE!
Panel Chair
Tom Allen, Founder, The AI Journal | Panel Facilitator & Chair, SwissCognitive
Panelists
Khaled Alhazmi, Director of the National Center for Robotics and IoT, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
Sue Keay, CEO Queensland AI Hub Chair Robotics Australia Group
Ajay Krishnan, AI Researcher, SpaceML
Tushar Kansal, Founder & CEO Kansaltancy Ventures
18:45 – 19:00
AI IN THE ANTARCTICA
Bento Gonçalves, Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University | Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Toptal
Alex Borowicz, PhD Environmental Data Scientist, Antarctica, Stony Brook University
19:00
Event Wrap-up by SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
Dalith Steiger and Andy Fitze, Co-Founders of SwissCognitive
CognitiveVirtual Speakers’ Handouts
Susan Omondi – Creating The Real Change And Impact On Diversity
Amany Shousha ITI e-Brochure 2021
Sue Keay – Accidental robot expert supercharging Australia’s AI push
Shri Santhanam – The Evolution of the Data Business in the Age of AI – with Experian’s Shri Santhanam
Shri Santhanam – Transforming analytics into business impact
Shri Santhanam – The future of finance and AI: Shri Santhanam discusses on Stories in AI
Jacques Ludik – Democratizing Human-centric AI in Africa
Jacques Ludik – How we can make sure AI benefits everyone
Bento Gonçalves – SealNet: A fully-automated pack-ice seal detection pipeline for sub-meter satellite imagery
Bento Gonçalves – Weakly Labeling the Antarctic: The Penguin Colony Case
Bento Gonçalves – Fine-Scale Sea Ice Segmentation for High-Resolution Satellite Imagery with Weakly-Supervised CNNs
Alex Borowicz – Ph.D. Environmental Data Scientist, Antarctica – Publications
Event Speakers
Hanna Helin
Technology Innovation Executive | Advisor
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
Nina Xiang
Founder
China Money Network
Amany Shousha
CTO for AI Pro Program, Information Technology Institute
The Voice for AI in Egypt
Anita Jovic
Founder, AI Serbia (AISRB)
Business Consultant & Owner, Anado.AI
Khaled Alhazmi
Director of the National Center for Robotics and IoT
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
Alex Borowicz
Ph.D. Environmental Data Scientist, Antarctica
Stony Brook University
Susan Omondi
Founder, VALUEADDITION
Thought-Leader Ethics & Diversity in Technology
Fang Chen
NSW Government, AI Advisory Committee Member
University of Technology Sydney, Distinguishes Professor
Sue Keay
CEO Queensland AI Hub
Chair of Robotics Australia
Ajay Krishan
AI Researcher
SpaceML
Bayo (Olubayo) Adekanmbi
Chief Transformation Officer
Digital Innovation & Strategy
MTN Nigeria
Jacques Ludik
Founder & CEO, Cortex Logic & Cortex Group
Founder & President, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA)
Mauricio Kimura
Ph.D. Legal Researcher in Technology & Law, University of Waikato Faculty of Law
Member Working Group on Adapting to AI Effects on Law, Ethics and Society, The AI Forum of NZ
Clara Langevin
AI and ML Platform Lead
Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Brazil / C4IR Brasil (Affiliate WEF)
Tunç Acarkan
AI Thought-Leader | Technology Management Director
MESS Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries
Shri Santhanam
EVP & GM, Global Analytics and AI Products
Experian
Bento Gonçalves
Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University
Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Toptal
Pius Illah
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa | MIIA
Event Host & Facilitator
Tom Allen
Panel Facilitator & Chair
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
Founder
The AI Journal
Ganesh Padmanabhan
Panel Facilitator & Chair
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
Host & Founder, Stories in AI
Event Team
Livia Spiesz
Global Events & Communications
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
Valeska Hoenen
Content and Social Media Manager
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub
CognitiveVirtual
CognitiveVirtuals are regular worldwide-reaching online events bringing dozens of global AI leaders and experts together to share their views, experiences and expertise in the development of AI to the benefit of business and society. These 3 hour-long events are transparently addressing the development of cognitive technologies – including successes and challenges – while reaching and connecting a global online community of over ½ million followers.
All the sessions and formats are strictly content-driven with a non-sales approach, allowing focused and open discussions with no BS just content. These events provide not only a platform to brainstorm and network but also to position experts, leaders, organisation, research developments, the current status and future outlook of AI.
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