Day 1 - 6 September 2021
08:30AM
Registration Opens
10:00AM
Pete Trainor
CEO
Vala Health
10:00AM - Day 2
View AI & Big Data Technologies: Chairs Welcome and Opening Comments
AI & Big Data Technologies: Chairs Welcome and Opening Comments
An analyst will give an overview of the current status of industry markets & where innovations are disrupting the landscape
10:20AM
Heather Gorr, PhD
MATLAB Product Manager, Data Science
Mathworks
10:20AM - Day 1
View AI for High Frequency Streaming Data
AI for High Frequency Streaming Data
AI is becoming more prevalent for applications like smart medical devices, robotics, and financial trading, where predictions are made in near real-time. However, there are many complexities associated with managing high-frequency data, the AI modelling approach, and integrating the models in a streaming architecture.
This talk will focus on building a system to address these challenges through:
- Using a stream processing framework that incorporates time-windowing and manages out-of-order data with Apache Kafka
- Synchronizing data and managing mathematical assumptions with signal processing techniques
- Incorporating time requirements when choosing and implementing AI models
- Updating and caching the models in the system
During the session, we will walk through the process of performing signal processing and time-alignment and designing and deploying a machine learning algorithm for streaming data.
10:50AM
Matthew Bayfield
Chief Executive Officer
Parity Group PLC
10:50AM - Day 1
View Why human factors are the biggest opportunity in AI.
Why human factors are the biggest opportunity in AI.
11:10AM
Alex Duffy
Corporate Finance Director
Menzies LLP
11:10AM - Day 1
View Fundraising for Growth
12:10PM - Day 2
View Panel: David v Goliath: How Start-ups are Breaking Boundaries
Fundraising for Growth
A Presentation which highlights potential avenues for growth capital and funding for fast growth tech companies. In this world of ever growing financial products this presentation takes a high level view of giving Founders and C-Suite individuals some insight on what may be available and the best option for them
11:30AM
Networking Break
11:50AM
William Sachiti
Founder
Institute Of Robotics
11:50AM - Day 1
View Teaching an autonomous vehicle to navigate better than a human
Teaching an autonomous vehicle to navigate better than a human
This session will look at the work of the Academy of Robotics in addressing the challenge of understanding the many shades of grey in autonomous navigation on unmarked roads. William will explain how they have approached the challenge of seeing not just the markings that are actually present on the roads, but also the markings that should be there. How designing for a single-minded focus on last-mile delivery has in fact opened up a variety of new industrial use-cases including building predictive models for road surface analysis and hazard prevention.
12:20PM
Kenan Mujkic
VP Product Management Data Services
Wirecard
12:20PM - Day 1
View How AI pays: Smarter commerce with Wirecard
10:20AM - Day 2
View Panel: AI in retail and ecommerce
How AI pays: Smarter commerce with Wirecard
The presentation provides an overview of artificial intelligence used at Wirecard. The audience will gain insight into traditional payment methods, customer analytics, and digital marketing use cases.
12:40PM
Dr Karol Przystalski
CTO
Codete
12:40PM - Day 1
View Explainable AI explained
Explainable AI explained
In the days where we have autonomous cars, drones, and automated medical diagnostics, we want to learn more about how to interpret the decisions made by the machine learning models. Having such information we are able to debug the models and retrain it in the most efficient way.
This talk is dedicated to managers, developers and data scientists that want to learn how to interpret the decisions made by machine learning models. We explain the difference between white and black box models, the taxonomy of explainable models and approaches to XAI. Knowing XAI methods is especially useful in any regulated company.
We go through the basic methods like the regression methods, decision trees, ensemble methods, and end with more complex methods based on neural networks. In each example, we use a different data set for each example. Finally, we show how to use model agnostic methods to interpret it and the complexity of the interpretability of many neural networks.
01:00PM
Tomas Navarro
Space Segment Engineer
ESA (European Space Agency)
01:00PM - Day 1
View A Cognitive Future for Space Exploration
12:00PM - Day 2
View Panel: Conversational AI
A Cognitive Future for Space Exploration
Artificial Intelligence is on the verge of transforming man-controlled spacecraft into cognitive machines that will soon drastically change the way we used to do space exploration. For decades, the European Space Agency has been actively researching and making use of Artificial Intelligence to allow us to go further and provide our spacecraft and robots with the capacity to adapt under unpredictable environments.
In this talk we will discuss the impact of some of the key Artificial Intelligence-based technologies used by the European Space Agency in Space Communications and will give an overview of the use of AI in Space Mission Operations, Earth Observation, Space Exploration and Space Science.
01:30PM
Networking Break
02:30PM
Ashish Sharma
Director of Business Development
RavenPack
02:30PM - Day 1
View Beyond the Hype: Can Big Data and NLP add value for Investors
10:20AM - Day 2
View Panel: Creating a data-driven culture
10:00AM - Day 1
View Keynote: The daily business of AI
Beyond the Hype: Can Big Data and NLP add value for Investors
Beyond the hype, what can AI, Big Data, NLP, and Machine Learning actually deliver? From a data science perspective, the evidence shows it can generate orthogonal alpha across all major asset classes. In other words, Big Data works. In this presentation, Ashish Sharma, Managing Director at RavenPack, shows how clients are finding ways of using its Platform to enhance returns, reduce risk and increase operational efficiency
03:00PM
Steve Caughey
Director
National Innovation Centre for Data at Newcastle Helix
03:00PM - Day 1
View Working alongside the National Innovation Centre for Data
Working alongside the National Innovation Centre for Data
The National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) addresses the market gap in data science skills. NICD provides practical expertise to organisations working with data, exploring business questions in creative and entrepreneurial ways. NICD has worked with the likes of the NHS BSA, Procter & Gamble and others to deliver an immediate return on investment through agile processes.
There are many advantages to working alongside NICD at Newcastle Helix – Join Steve in this session to find out more.
03:20PM
Ilya Feige
Director of AI
Faculty
03:20PM - Day 1
View Making AI predictions more impactful
Making AI predictions more impactful
The field of AI Safety has provided technology for explaining AI predictions, as well as quantifying how much any given prediction should be trusted. In this talk, Ilya will introduce some of that technology, and show how it can be used to improve the way AI predictions are consumed to enhance their impact.
03:50PM
NETWORKING BREAK
04:20PM
Parvez Alam Kazi
Head of Product
Smartia
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View Smartia
04:20PM - Day 1
View Supercharging Industry 4.0 using Industrial AI
Supercharging Industry 4.0 using Industrial AI
For Industry 4.0 to work, being able to connect to industrial machinery and collect data is a crucial enabler. Once that’s sorted, being able to transform all that Big Data into meaningful actionable insights could be the key differentiator for your business and the 3X, 5X, …, 10X multiplier that you might have been looking for. Industrial AI makes it possible.
During this presentation, we would be shedding light upon
- Key challenges around Industry 4.0
- How to drive customer value by using AI in an industrial setting
- Making AI work with Big Data
- How Smartia makes Industry 4.0 easy for you
04:30PM
Brad Cordova
CEO
Canotic
04:30PM - Day 1
View Machine Learning is not the software you know
Machine Learning is not the software you know
Everyone talks about artificial intelligence revolutionizing the world as we know it. Yet all we seem to see are fairly basic bots: an Alexa that only understands half of what you say and computer vision applications that can’t tell basic things apart .
Why is this?
To answer this question, let’s look at what makes machine learning different from software. The latter is—in essence—a set of very clever rules, that exist independent of the inputs, written on top of assemblers and compilers. None of these features exist for ML: What matters is the training data, and the quality of how it is structured and labeled. The labelling of the data is the programming, and right now it is the single biggest bottleneck to making AI deliver on its promise.
04:40PM
Dr Eric Topham
Data Science Director and CEO
The Data Analysis Bureau
04:40PM - Day 1
View Breaking the PoC Cycle: Taking ML from Idea to Production
Breaking the PoC Cycle: Taking ML from Idea to Production
Machine Learning and AI are beginning to show value across multiple industries for those organisations actively deploying them at scale. However, many are often trapped carrying out Proof of Concept projects, experimenting and developing models with teams struggling to implement solutions and reach production.
During this talk from The Data Analysis Bureau, we’ll explore the value of breaking the PoC cycle and how to retain the services in demand and deploy them through a development pipeline to reduce the costs of innovation. We’ll address how you move between R&D, get out of the PoC loop, the criteria, tools and timescales should you apply, and how you assess value to achieve rapid deployment. We’ll share our lessons and a case study from working with academia and industry to move machine learning and deep learning models from R&D into production.