2016 AGENDA
Applied AI Conference
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 from 8:00 AM to 8:30 PM (PDT)
San Francisco, CA
Discussion topics
How Applied Artificial Intelligence is changing…
SOCIETY
Transportation | Smart Cities | Logistics | Legal | eHealth
ENTERPRISE
FinTech | Future of Work | HR | Sales | Marketing | Security | Retail
PEOPLE
Virtual Assistants | Connected Home | Safety | Entertainment | Lifestyle
Presented by
8:00 – 9:00am | Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 9:05am | Welcome Address |
09:05 – 9:35am | Keynote – Exponential Disruption
Speaker: Rob Nail, CEO & Associate Founder, Singularity University |
09:35 – 10:05am | Panel – How AI is Changing our Society
Moderator: Benjamin Levy, Co-Founder, BootstrapLabs Speaker: Gregory Renard, Co-Founder & CTO, XBrain Speaker: Robert Seidi, Managing Partner, Motus Ventures Speaker: Doug Maughan, Division Director, Department of Homeland Security Speaker: Uwe Higgen, Head of BMW Group Tech Office USA |
10:05 – 10:25am | Keynote – Refugee Crisis: AI to the Rescue
Speaker: Eugene Bann, Founder X2AI Keynote – Predicting Poverty with Deep Learning & Satellite Imagery Speaker: Neal Jean, PhD Student, Stanford University |
10:25 – 10:50am | Keynote – Bring ML to every corner of your Organization
Speaker: Danny Lange, Head of Machine Learning, Uber |
10:50 – 11:05am | Coffee Break & Networking
11:05 – 11:35am | Panel – How AI is Changing the Enterprise
Moderator: Alexy Khrabrov, Chief Scientist, Nitro Speaker: Matt Sanchez, Founder & CTO, CognitiveScale Speaker: Josh Neland, Sr. Manager, AI Technology R&D, Accenture Speaker: Han Shu, Data Science Manager, AirBnB Speaker: Chris Farmer, Founder & CEO, SignalFire |
11:35 – 12:05pm | Panel – Applied AI Startups for the Enterprise
Moderator: Zak Murase, Venture Partner, Global Brains Speaker: Chris Nicholson, Founder & CEO, Skymind.io Speaker: Dan Rubins, Co-Founder & CEO, Legal Robot Speaker: Joseph Kumph, Founder, Forkable Speaker: Sabrina Atienza, Founder, Qurious.io |
12:05-12:30pm | Fireside Chat – Chatbots in the Physical World
Interviewer: Jack Clark, Reporter, Bloomberg Speaker: Oren Jacob, Co-Founder & CEO, PullString |
12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch & Networking
01:30 – 01:55pm | Keynote – Ingredients for Successful AI Platforms
Speaker: Hussein Mehanna, Director, Core Machine Learning, Facebook |
01:55 – 02:25pm | Panel – Conversational Commerce
Moderator: Jon Corshen, Co-Founder, Pilot44 Labs Speaker: Puneet Mehta, Founder & CEO, MSG.AI Speaker: Snehal Shinde, Co-Founder & COO, Mezi Speaker: Michael Perry, Director of Kit, Shopify |
02:25 – 02:50pm | Keynote – Are Bots poised to eat the world?
Speaker: Josh Jacobs, President, Kik Interactive |
02:50 – 03:20pm | VC Panel – The Rise of AI Investing
Moderator: Jordan Novet, Staff Writer, VentureBeat Speaker: Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, BootstrapLabs Speaker: Shivon Zilis, Partner, Bloomberg Beta Speaker: Bilal Zuberi, Partner, Lux Capital Speaker: Abhi Arunachalam, Vice President, Battery Ventures |
03:20 – 3:35pm | Coffee Break & Networking
03:35 – 04:00pm | Fireside Chat – Meet Amy, your new Personal Assistant
Moderator: Josh Constine, Editor-At-Large, TechCrunch Speaker: Dennis R. Mortensen, Founder & CEO, x.ai |
04:00 – 04:30pm | Keynote – Fully Autonomous Agents – The Next Big Thing in AI
Speaker: Nigel Duffy, CTO, Sentient |
04:30 – 04:55pm | Panel – The Future of AI
Moderator: Amit Pradhan, Co-Founder & CEO, Zero Labs Speaker: Davide Venturelli, Quantum AI Lab, NASA Speaker: Riva-Melissa Tez, Co-Founder, Permutation Speaker: Mohamed Musbah, Vice President Product, Maluuba Speaker: Noelle LaCharite, Solutions Architect & Evangelist, Amazon Alexa and Echo |
04:55 – 05:20pm | Keynote – Innovation and Inspiration through Cognitive Computing
Speaker: Swami Chandrasekaran, Chief Technologist, IBM Watson CTO |
05:20 – 05:50pm | Fireside Chat – The Next Trillion Dollars AI Market
Moderator: Benjamin Levy, Co-Founder, BootstrapLabs Speaker: Dr. Long Phan, CEO & CTO, TopFlight Technologies Speaker: Luis Dussan, Founder & CEO, Aeye |
05:50 – 06:00pm | Closing Remarks |
06:00 – 08:30pm | Closing Party & Networking Reception