Thursday, October 24, 2019

Commonwealth Hall

12:00 Deep Xbox?! Implications for Enterprises’ Use of AI, and how Best to Amplify Your Experts Using AI

Ben Taylor, Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer, Zeff.AI

We see AI doing incredible things. Human expertise amplified. Unstructured data (video, audio, images, text) leveraged for business insight. Ben reports a first, AI used to play Xbox, and its implications for us enterprise users. He’ll talk practical applications, top reasons why AI projects fail, and how getting your subject matter experts amplified using on-premise AI workstations and servers avoids the pitfalls.

12:25 Boring AI: Cutting Through the Hype to Solve Real World Problems

Ben Solari, Vice President, Inside Sales, DataRobot 

Forget the hype about self-driving cars and autonomous chat-bots, AI is already delivering tens of billions of dollars of value to organizations of all sizes. Learn about ‘boring’ AI applications and how organizations are moving forward in uncovering value in a pragmatic way with the existing teams they have in place today. 

12:50 The Journey to 96%: Our 5-year Journey to Teach a Machine to Read Better than a Human

Nowell Outlaw, CEO, Vidado

How do you teach a machine to read handwriting better than a human? It doesn't hurt to start with over 1 billion verified data fields. In this talk, Nowell Outlaw, CEO of Vidado, will take listeners through the journey of creating an AI that reads more accurately than a human.

1:15 Imagination to Implementation: Practical First Steps in Conversational AI

Mike Hare, Enterprise Account Executive, Verint NEXT IT

AI carries unprecedented potential to reinvent industries, delivering transformational value to organizations that implement successfully. How do companies move at a competitive pace to market, while balancing the need for a well-informed and responsible AI strategy? Join us to learn from the success of multiple organizations over the last two decades.

1:40 AI / ML applications in Precision Health

Pavithra Shivakumar, PhD, Senior Lead Scientist, Analytics, Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen is the technology partner for several large precision health programs in the federal space.  In this presentation , we'll highlight some of our examples on how AI and ML technologies are being used with healthcare applications and biomedical data.

2:05 Conversational AI Case Studies: Using the perfect blend of AI and humans to improve CX

Priyanka Tiwari, Director, Product Marketing, Interactions

Conversational AI, when done correctly, has potential to help businesses meet their customers where they are and drive engagement like never before. Learn how Conversational AI coupled with real-time human understanding is being leveraged by leading global brands to elevate their customer experience while realizing significant and demonstrable operational savings.

2:30 AI Workflow as a Guide to Vendor Selection

Paul Hahn, AI Marketing Program Manager, Cray, Inc.

The vendor landscape for AI and machine learning technologies is getting crowded, with thousands of companies offering solutions, and new vendors emerging monthly. This session will present a comprehensive classification system for AI vendors, the various infrastructural considerations for AI projects, and a proven process for choosing the right vendor.

2:55 The Art & Science of Data Annotation

Rahul Singhal, Chief Product Officer, Innodata

Despite the promise of AI to completely transform business, most projects inevitably fail due to the scarcity of semantically enriched data. In this session, we’ll explain how to align machine learning with humans-in-the-loop to generate, capture, monitor and analyze high volumes of diverse, domain-specific datasets with greater efficiency and accuracy.

3:20 - 4:05 Networking Break in the Expo

3:20 SparkBeyond's AI-Powered Problem Solving Platform [Session 1]

Ryan Grosso, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, SparkBeyond

SparkBeyond connects AI directly to business & social impact: our Problem Solving AI platform empowers business leaders to rapidly discover deep insights and actionable intelligence in complex data, generating > $1B to date in impact across 20+ industries. SparkBeyond will give a demo to highlight the platform's capabilities around unstructured text, geospatial, and time series.

3:45 SparkBeyond's AI-Powered Problem Solving Platform [Session 2]

Amanda Pogue, PhD, Data Scientist, SparkBeyond

SparkBeyond connects AI directly to business & social impact: our Problem Solving AI platform empowers business leaders to rapidly discover deep insights and actionable intelligence in complex data, generating > $1B to date in impact across 20+ industries. SparkBeyond will give a demo to highlight the platform's capabilities around web knowledge mining and research platforms.

4:10 AWS AI/ML – The Art of Possible

Wilfred Justin, Head, AI and ML Evangelism, Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector

Friday, October 25, 2019

10:45 am Panel: BAU Global Special Session: AI & Education

Israfil Dilmec, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, BK Mobil

Burak Gencay, Education Technologies Coordinator, Bahcesehir College

Sinem Vatanartiran, President, Bay Atlantic University

James Tracy, Visiting Research Professor, Boston University School of Education

One of the greatest challenges with regards to education is that people learn differently and at different rates. Hence educational institutions try to cultivate themselves with the help of AI and how it can be used to develop a custom learning profile of each student and customize the training materials.
Bahcesehir College, as being the first K-12 educational institution in Turkey incorporated AI Literacy into its curriculum, has recently launched and AI Based Personalized Digital Learning Platform, namely Metodbox. We will demonstrate how this platform is used by students, teachers and parents, from the elementary school level onward.The panel in general will explore the use of AI in education, latest technologies and how it transforms institutions now and in the future.  

12:30 pm Hackathon Report-Outs