PANEL DISCUSSION: Banking on AI – how AI is impacting the financial services sector

January 16, 2020

PANEL DISCUSSION: Using AI to transform the retail sector

PANEL SESSION: Scaling up for success – Founders of successful startups share their challenges and experiences

STREAM 2: STARTUPS, SCALEUPS & UNICORNS

Hear from the AI startups, scaleups and unicorns making waves in 2020

PANEL DISCUSSION: The implementation of an ethical framework

We’ve seen an explosion of AI ethics principles and guidelines published in the past three years but some say that these activities are merely ethics washing, and none are really implemented or implementable. At the same time, the industry does seem to be interested in taking real action, such as hiring so-called AI ethicists. This […]

PANEL DISCUSSION: Creating AI for social good

Four teams from the $5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE discuss how they are using AI to create social good. From precision beekeeping to personalized mental health treatment, digital identity for infants to combatting sex trafficking, the teams discuss how they leverage AI to improve human performance, gather data where it does not exist, and […]

STREAM 2: AI AND HUMANITY

Examining cases where AI can be used for social good and to mitigate bias

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CLOSING HEADLINER: Using AI to Tackle Climate Change

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges society has ever faced, and its consequences are becoming increasingly present and overwhelming, as natural disasters multiply, sea levels rise, and ecosystems falter. While no silver bullet, machine learning can be an invaluable tool in fighting climate change, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. Sasha will […]

CLOSING HEADLINER: Connecting the global workforce with AI

In a world inundated with data, AI and machine learning are indispensable for making sense of the data we have at scale. LinkedIn has built the Economic Graph, a digital representation of the global economy made up of over 660 million members, 36 thousand skills, 30 million companies, 20 million open jobs, and 90 thousand […]