5th March, Croke Park, Dublin
AI Ireland: The roadmap to creating an AI island…
8:00
Registration and coffee
8:40
Welcome from the morning Chair
Dr. Abigail Ruth Freeman
Director of Science for Society, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
HOW AI WILL SHAPE IRELAND’S FUTURE
8:45
OPENING MINISTERIAL ADDRESS:
The development of a national strategy on artificial intelligence (AI)
Heather Humphreys T.D.
Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation
9:00
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: AI – Powering Change in Our Time
- Developing an AI USP for Ireland
- Kicking off a real vision and strategy for all…
Vincent McCarthy
Co-founder & CEO, The Festival of Curiosity
9:35
PANEL DISCUSSION: How will Ireland develop its thriving AI ecosystem?
- The making of an AI Island
- Making Artificial Intelligence accessible to all
- How is Ireland doing in its push to become a major player in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) market?
- How can policy makers develop policy that will keep pace with technology advancementments?
Gearoid Mooney
Divisional Manager, Research and Innovation, Enterprise Ireland
Professor Barry O’Sullivan
University College Cork and President of the European AI Association
REAL DEPLOYMENT OF AI
10:10
GLOBAL CASE STUDY 1 :
How twitter uses Big Data and AI
Twitter is a social media platform where 328 million monthly active users microblog (share 280-character updates) with their followers. It’s a cross between instant messaging and blogging—or social messaging, but it’s also been crucial for news reporting, event promotion, marketing and business. Whether you’re a fan or not, Twitter has become the ninth largest social network in the world and Cortex, Twitter’s in-house engineering team, has turned to the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help enhance the platform’s user experience
Ben Chamberlain
Machine Learning Researcher, Twitter (TBC)
10:30
Morning Break
11:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethics and Standards for AI: Concerns and best practices
- Automated decisions – ethical and legal issues
- Moving AI ethics from debate to action
- Making AI that is trustworthy and ethical
Geraldine Larkin
CEO National Standards Association of Ireland
Professor Dave Lewis
ADAPT Centre
Laura Nolan
ex-Google Engineer
11:40
CASE STUDY 2: Retail
Fashion Forward – using deep learning at ASOS to predict customer lifetime value in online fashion retail
ASOS is using deep learning neural networks to predict customer lifetime value based on online shopping behavior.
Kallirroi Dogani
Machine Learning Scientist, ASOS
12:00
CASE STUDY 3: AI in the Public Sector
- The challenges of the public service’s ICT strategy with data
- How a more proactive use with data can improve the customer experience
- What utopia for the government would look like
- The need to make data more transparent for data sharing
- How the government apply their open data strategy
- How AI can help the government tackle a number of day-to-day problems
Barry Lowry
Government CIO, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
12:15
Responding to the skills-shortage in AI
Dr Pepijn van de Ven
Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Limerick
12:35
Lunch
1:30
Welcome back from the Chair
Dr. Abigail Ruth Freeman
Director of Science for Society, Science Foundation Ireland
AI MOMENTUM, MATURITY AND MODELS FOR SUCCESS
1:35
Operationalising AI with supporting technologies
- Support data-driven cultures and analytics-driven innovation by using AI insights
- Separating the reality from the hype
From sensors to insights: Applying AI to IOT data - A technological roadmap for AI implementation
1:50
How blockchain/distributed ledger technology can support AI through a shared and trusted data model
Dr Oisín Boydell
Principal Data Scientist and Head of the Applied Research Group at CeADAR, Ireland's centre for Applied AI at University College Dublin
ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
2:05
PANEL DISCUSSION: Strategies to combat board room inertia
Invited panellists include:
Prag Sharma
Senior Vice President, Citi Innovation Lab
Edward McDonnell
Centre Director, CeADAR
Colin Kane
Director of Customer Analytics, Bank of Ireland
2:45
Real application of AI in Energy, Manufacturing and Education
Dr. Ricardo Simon Carbajo
Head of Innovation & Development, CeADAR
3:05
CASE STUDY 4: Take pressure off your team with Robotic Process Automation
Ian Brennan
Director of IT, Laya Healthcare
3:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: Developing an AI Business
Leading Irish AI Businesses are having profound exposure to AI development. Some of the foremost Irish experts discuss their journey…
Panellists will include:
Dr. Amelia Kelly
Director of Speech Technology, Soapbox Labs