*Invitation only
A limited number of seats is available for the audience of this math-heavy, expert-level workshop. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to ai@itu.int. You need to be a knowledgeable and active researcher in the field. Please submit a short justification.
Klaus-Robert Müller, Professor, Machine Learning Group, TU Berlin
Recent Advances in Weakly-Supervised and Robust Machine Learning
Masashi Sugiyama, Professor, Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo; Director RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Connectomics: AI for large-scale brain circuit reconstruction
Moritz Helmstaedter, Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
Automatic Understanding of the Visual World
Cordelia Schmid, INRIA Research Director
Graph Representation Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Systems
Jian Tang, Assistant Professor at HEC Montreal and Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)
Synergies between physics and machine learning from the atomistic modeling perspective
Alex Tkatchenko, Professor and Head of Theoretical Chemical Physics Group, University of Luxembourg
Learning with prior knowledge
Klaus-Robert Müller, Professor, Machine Learning Group, TU Berlin
Reward Redistribution to Speed Up Reinforcement Learning
Sepp Hochreiter, Computer Scientist and head of Institute of Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
On the Global Convergence of Gradient Descent for Over-parameterized Models
Francis Bach, Research faculty at INRIA – ENS
Intriguing results from two experiments on representation learning
Samy Bengio, Research scientist, Google Brain Team
Robust Generalization
Matthias Bethge, Professor, University of Tuebingen ; Co-founder of Layer7 AI
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LJ Rich, Inventor, BBC Click Presenter
Our AI Opportunity
Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive VP and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations
Why don’t we use AI to solve the right problems?
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman of the Board of Siemens
Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, ITU
Amir Banifatemi, General Manager Innovation, XPRIZE
Society is demanding for understanding and at a critical juncture in examining AI impact on humanity. To succeed, these efforts requires developing a holistic and inclusive perspective to help us make considerate decisions on how we integrate AI solutions in the world. Join us for this forward-thinking session and discover insights, stories and perspectives on how we can harness its potential to meet humanity’s greatest challenges.
Stories from the Frontlines: insights on the use of digital technologies in armed conflicts
Yves Daccord, Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Towards transparency in AI: methods and challenges
Timnit Gebru, Lead Ethical Artificial Intelligence, Google & Co-founder, Black in AI
Frederic Werner, Head, Strategic Engagement Division, ITU
AI is a transformative exponential technology that is rapidly shaping major industries and all aspects of our lives. We have barely scratched the surface of how these transformations will reinvent our lives and what their implications will be. Explore new ideas that will challenge existing narratives and bridge our understanding of AI and unlimited possibilities that will shape the future of society in this enlightening session.
Anja Kaspersen, Director, UN Disarmament Affairs
Integrating AI as a public good is a global challenge that impacts the ability of governments and global institutions to safeguard the interests of their constituents. Creating effective AI strategies to improve societal well-being requires frameworks for understanding AI impacts and design policies to serve and address these needs. Learn more about how these select key decision makers envision the role of AI to uplift their countries, and the opportunities and challenges that may arise in the process of doing so.
LJ Rich, Inventor, BBC Click Presenter
AI and Data science are unlocking the revolutionary potential in enabling progress towards SDGs. Join us for a rousing discussion on the latest high-impact applications that are being used today. Discover how these technologies will redefine the ways in which we gain and act on insights about the world, each other and ourselves in the near future.
Frits Bussemaker, Chairman, Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age
AI will introduce changes that will reverberate for generations to come, and we can leverage these technologies to ensure that today’s youth will fully benefit from what AI has to offer. It is important to offer an equitable and quality access to resources to enable their education, skill development and overall well-being. Learn the latest perspectives, applications and innovations in AI that empower these goals and help facilitate a deeper, more meaningful engagement for life-long learning.
Maria Axente, AI Programme Driver, PwC United Kingdom
Data is the key driving force in unlocking the revolutionary potential of AI today. Leveraging data at scale is a critical factor towards using AI effectively for global impact projects. In order to harness the unlimited potential of AI, it is important to understand how we define equitable data access, sharing, portability, and interoperability. Having a framework of understanding these needs allows AI to be more effectively used for actionable outcomes, better policies and improved quality of life for all. Discover how to maximize the potential of data and AI for large-scale projects and learn the safeguards and principles necessary to avoid their misuse in this engaging session.
Alpesh Shah, Senior Director of Global Business Strategy & Intelligence at the IEEE Standards Association
Non-inclusive AI can hurt others by perpetuating misconstruction and discrimination at scale. This in turn hinders ability to address real unmet needs. This exciting session discusses the necessary action steps towards developing socially inclusive applications that recognizes digital identity as a human right, promotes gender, age, and racial equity, and is inclusive. AI will have the maximum and real impact in people’s lives when the technology is accurately representative and equitable for all, and allow future generations be ready to participate in the transformations ahead.
Nancy Nemes, Founder & Chief Enthusiasm Officer of Ms. AI – Artificial Intelligence for and with women
AI has become a game-changing tool for earth stewardship and to understand our planet’s ecosystem. At the same time as we pursue new avenues to explore our humanity and potentials, life on this earth and on other planets, we have begun a journey with unprecedented discoveries that is expanding our minds and aspirations. Join for the first time this year a session that covers many viewpoints tracing how we explore further with AI.
Marie-José Bahnam, Vice President, Partnerships, XPRIZE
Explainable AI – Demystifying the ‘Black Box’
Klaus-Robert Müller, Professor, Machine Learning Group, TU Berlin
The world is changing dramatically as AI integrates into our society and work. To keep pace, it’s imperative we reimagine education for adults and youth of all backgrounds and cultures using the transformative power of AI responsibly. Read a full description of the AI Education track.
Community, Workplace, Media, Lifelong Learning, Psychology
Tara Chklovski, Founder and CEO of Iridescent
Last year’s health breakthrough inspired the creation of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on AI 4 Health, this years’ track will expand upon this work and beyond, looking at the role that AI can play in achieving Universal Health Coverage
Community, Workplace, Media, Lifelong Learning, Psychology
The track brings together actors from around the world to ensure that AI is deployed in ways that promote peaceful inclusive societies, protect human rights, and enhance human dignity
Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University
The track will create a “funnel”, which will help projects be 1. Defined, 2. Prototyped, 3. Deployed once, and finally 4. Deployed N times, for impact
The track will identify projects that could be developed using AI and Space to help address issues on a local and global scale, such as predicting, preparing for, and mitigating the effects of climate change.
Identify areas where there is a high potential for impact for AI in Space, for collective benefit and the potential partnerships and models that might enable progress.
Facilitate an open discussion on the barriers to deployment of AI tools, and begin thinking about what is needed to overcome them
Find common agreement on requirements for data to enable beneficial AI in the Space sector
Take the first steps towards agreeing broad principles around governance for AI and Space
Identify selected projects or efforts that will spin-out of the track and begin to be realised.
Anousheh Ansari, CEO, XPRIZE
The Future is better than you think
Ray Kurzweil, Best-selling author of the ‘Singularity is near’, futurist, inventor
*Live presentation from California, followed by Q&A. This presentation will not be webcast.
Artists around the world have taken up the topic of Artificial Intelligence to explore and reflect our very own identity in the face of the coming change. As part ofthe AI for Good Global Summit 2019, the cultural event AI pushing the limits of Artistic intelligence will present leading international artists working at the intersection of performance arts and AI.
LJ Rich, Inventor, BBC Click Presenter, the evening explores how man and machine could come together to augment the boundaries of human creativity and genius.
We want your arguments on the motion “Social media brings more harm than good.” Submit your arguments here pro or con this motion in the weeks prior to the Summit and during the Summit. After collecting your arguments, with the help of IBM’s “Speech by Crowd”, the final narratives will be presented in this session.
An overview of the projects selected on May 29 to move forward with will be presented along with discussions revolving around tangible next steps and committed supporters (time and resources).
Jojo Mayer began playing drums as an autodidact, and had his first public performance at 2. Today, he is regarded as one of the leading performers and innovators on the instrument and included in the list of the 50 Greatest Drummers of All Time by Modern Drummer Magazine. Jojo will give a brief synopsis on the emergence of rhythm culture and its relationship to technology and communication. He shares his thoughts on interacting with digital culture and cross examines the relevance of a human performance in the digital age.
Ken MacLeod is an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer of 10+ novels, including the Star Fraction and Newton’s Wake: A Space Opera. His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker and teacher. She is a member of the XPRIZE Science Fiction Advisory Council and the AI Policy Futures Group at ASU CSI. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels. Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reads finalist.
Dr. S. Ama Wray, based in the USA is the creator of Embodiology – an African approach to the performance of improvisation.
Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU
Simon Pierro, World’s Leading AI & iPad magician
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