5th March, Croke Park, Dublin
AI Ireland: The roadmap to creating an AI island…
8:00
Registration and coffee
8:45
Welcome from the morning Chair
Dr Abigail Ruth Freeman
Director, Science Foundation Ireland
8:50
OPENING ADDRESS:
David Hegarty
Assistant Secretary, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
HOW AI WILL SHAPE IRELAND’S FUTURE
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
9:25
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?
Mark Jordan
Chief Technologist, Skillnet Ireland
Gearoid Mooney
Divisional Manager, Research and Innovation, Enterprise Ireland
Noel O'Connor
CEO, Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Kieran McCorry
National Technology Officer, Microsoft
10:05
ModelOps:
Operationalising AI:
- When 50% of models never make it into production, what can you do to improve the odds?
- Moving from the lab, to validation, testing and production
- Ensuring the ethical FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Explainability) of AI
- Banking Use Case of AI for Credit Risk
Dr. Iain Brown
Head of Data Science for SAS UK&I and Adjunct Professor of Marketing Analytics, University of Southampton
REAL DEPLOYMENT OF AI
10:30
Morning Break
10:55
GLOBAL CASE STUDY 1:
AI at LinkedIn: connecting members with opportunity at scale
AI forms part of the essential fabric of LinkedIn. As the largest professional network on the Internet, LinkedIn has more than 675M members, 50M companies, 10s Millions of open jobs and 90K schools on its platform. In this talk, Mary will show how LinkedIn applies AI as a transformative technology to enhance all aspects of LinkedIns members’ and customers’ experiences.
Mary Hearne.
Senior Manager, AI Engineering, LinkedIn
11:15
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
Professor Barry O’Sullivan
Director, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCC, and the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence
Geraldine Larkin
CEO National Standards Association of Ireland
Professor Dave Lewis
ADAPT Centre
Laura Nolan
ex-Google Engineer
11:55
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
12:10
AI for Earth Observation – a new frontier…
Whilst satellites lead to new scientific discoveries, they also provide us with vast quantities of data, over 150 terabytes per day, which is not always processed efficiently. AI offers a crucial opportunity to solve the problem of extracting value from these observations and making use of them in terms of an ever-growing variety of applications and services.
Venkatesh Kannan
Technical Manager, Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)
12:25
Responding to the skills-shortage in AI
It is widely accepted that the effective application of AI in business will require a significant effort in up-skilling existing employees in the development, use, and exploitation of AI as well as the training of new graduates in this exciting area. Ireland has responded to this demand quickly with training offerings for existing members of, and new entrants to the workforce. In this presentation, an overview will be given of how Irish universities have responded to this challenge with a particular emphasis on the University of Limerick part-time online MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Ireland’s first industry-driven programme in this area.
Dr Pepijn van de Ven
Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Limerick
12:40
Lunch
1:40
Welcome back from the Chair
Tom Halton
CEO & Principal, HMHmmmmm Ltd. CyberConsulting Industry 4.0 Strategy, Security & Sustainability
AI MOMENTUM, MATURITY AND MODELS FOR SUCCESS
1:45
AI : The Intelligent Enterprise journey, start as you mean to continue
- The Intelligent Enterprise journey, working with your human and data, analytics and AI assets.
- What is the destination of your AI journey and what “steering wheel” do you need to get there
- Questions when AI is making or supporting the decisions
Kieran Towey
Managing Director - Data Scientist and KPMG Analytics lead
2:05
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
2:20
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Strategies to combat board room inertia
Invited panellists include:
Brian Quinn
Chief Strategy Officer, ICHEC (The Irish Centre for High-End Computing)
Prag Sharma
Senior Vice President, Citi Innovation Lab
Edward McDonnell
Centre Director, CeADAR
Colin Kane
Director of Customer Analytics, Bank of Ireland
3:00
Digital Innovation Hub in AI for the benefit of Industry and Society – Selected Projects
Dr. Ricardo Simon Carbajo
Head of Innovation & Development, CeADAR
3:15
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:
Terry Canning
Founder and CEO, CattleEye
Parsa Ghaffari
CEO and Founder, AYLIEN
Alessandro Prest
CTO and Co-Founder, LogoGrab
Dr. Amelia Kelly
Director of Speech Technology, Soapbox Labs