HEADLINER: How to Know

This talk will discuss research about the core cognitive systems people use to guide their learning about the world—including attention, curiosity, and metacognition (thinking about thinking). It will also discuss why people sometimes hold beliefs that are inconsistent with evidence available in the world, and how we might leverage our knowledge of human curiosity and […]

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 […]