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T H E WO R L D ’ S
NUMBER ONE
AI EVENT
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BUSINESS
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When AIBusiness.com launched as the world’s first AI news portal back in 2014,
Thoroughly researched Unrivalled seniority of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was not yet immediately associated with the business world. Fast
conference programmes audience with the most forward to 2017 and AI is dominating conversations as corporate leaders realise
with the most inspiring senior decision makers its true potential. Most Fortune 1000 organisations have now embarked on an exciting
CxO speakers and representing the world’s journey to a business world of unprecedented efficiencies.
exclusive case studies largest businesses
In 2016,The AI Summit was the first conference globally dedicated to the
impact of Artificial Intelligence in business. The event is now part of the only truly
global AI event series, with shows in Cape Town, London, Singapore, San Francisco,
New York, Hong Kong and Zurich. The AI Summit San Francisco, showcases America’s
pioneers in AI - both the corporates that are putting AI to work every day and their
solution provider partners that help them on their transformation journey. Over 120+
Tailor-made
INIMITABLE
speakers will be sharing unique, strategic, technical insights and know-how; every session
AI-powered networking offers a plurality of views, examples, and tools for maximising the opportunity of AI.
tools enhanced by our VIP
Concierge services that Our interactive exhibition features 50+ of the most innovative solution providers
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showcasing everything from chat-bots and ML applications, to AR/VR. Major tech giants
help to forge lasting are joined by enthusiastic start-ups, all in the race to create the next ground-breaking AI
relationships and product to transform the world of work.
business partnerships
Launching in 2018, the AI Business Academy offers training courses and certification
from expert teams around the world; the VisionAIres community of VIP leaders is also
making its presence felt in London, New York, San Francisco, Zurich, Cape Town, Hong Kong
and beyond...
Comprehensive
Unique event
exhibitions with all of Join us also on the evening of the 27th as we celebrate excellence in AI for business, at The
experiences with live
the industry’s technology AIconics awards with live entertainment, drinks and canapes.
entertainment throughout
leaders launching and
and VIP invitation-only The AI Summit aims to inspire its 2000+ attendees from all over America and the world
showcasing their latest AI
dinners at some of the to embrace AI by understanding its true potential for enhancing human productivity. The
developments and 4th Industrial revolution is happening now and transforming the future of business:
world’s most famous
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Conference Welcome | Intro & Chair’s opening remarks Chair’s Opening Remarks
STREAM A
STREAM I
9:00AM Georgios Kipouros, Daniel Pitchford, Directors, AI Business 9:25AM Jessica Groopman, Principal Analyst, Tractica
Clint Wheelock, MD, Tractica, The Official Research Partner for The AI Summit
Exploration or Value Creation? How enterprises can reap The Profitable Collision of Real and Virtual Worlds
the benefits of AI & Emerging Tech
9:05AM 9:30AM Steve Eglash, Executive Director, Strategic Research Initiatives, Computer
Chris Curran, Chief Technologist, US, PwC
Science, Stanford University
Amplifying Human Ingenuity with AI Making AI Walk The Talk
9:30AM David M Smith,VP, Microsoft AI & Research 9:55AM Jegannathan Kannan, Global Solutions and Practice Leader, HCL DRYiCE
AI and the future of healthcare Knowledge Representation and Reasoning into Machine/
Deep Learning
9:55AM 10:20AM David Newman, SVP Innovation Group, Wells Fargo
Stuart McGuigan,VP and CIO, Johnson & Johnson
Practical AI Applications “Can she sit next to me on the flight?” How to rapidly build
an AI-based conversational experience
10:20AM Bryan Catanzaro,VP Applied Deep Learning, NVIDIA 10:45AM
Andy Peart, Chief Strategy Officer, Artificial Solutions
Fireside Chat: Getting C-Suite buy-in & engagement for your Panel Debate: AI beyond the hype: Pragmatic, Practical,
AI projects Measurable ROI from artificial intelligence today
11:10AM Gianni Giacomelli, SVP & Business Leader, Digital Solutions, Genpact
10:45AM
Pegah Ebrahimi, COO, Global Technology Banking, Morgan Stanley Jay Klein, CTO,Voyager Labs
Ian Collins, Founder and CEO, Wysdom.AI
Abhijit Kakhandiki,VP, Products, Automation Anywhere
Suhit Gupta, CIO, Solutions, The Carlyle Group
11:10AM Refreshments & Networking Break Anand Rao, Partner & Global Artificial Intelligence Lead, PwC
Jean-François Gagné, CEO, Element AI
Becoming Cognitive: How to Transform Your Business Chaired by Jessica Groopman, Principal Analyst, Tractica
11:55AM Josh Sutton, Global Head of Data & AI, Sapient Razorfirsh
12:00PM Refreshments & Networking Break
Using machine learning to improve matching in
AI and the Customer marketplaces
12:30PM
12:20PM Pawan Verma, CIO & CTO, Footlocker Surabhi Gupta, Director of Engineering, Airbnb
Putting AI to Work – Lessons Learned Towards an Intelligence-Based User Experience
12:55PM Kal Mos,Vice President, Mercedes-Benz R&D NA
12:40PM Sanjay Srivastava, SVP, Chief Digital Officer, Genpact
AI and the Why of Energy The Workforce of the Future
1:05PM Chris Shelton, Chief Technology Officer, AES 1:20PM
Jonathan Crane, Chief Commercial Officer, IPsoft
1:25PM LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS | Served between 12.30 and 2.30 1:45PM LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS | Served between 12.30 and 2.30
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Why Complementary Learning is the Future of AI The AI Trust Fall: Better Decisions Through Human/AI
STREAM A
STREAM I
Partnerships
2:00PM Bruce Horn, CTO, Intel Saffron 2:25PM Clayton Clouse, Data Scientist, FedEx
Personalizing product recommendations to billions
of people Looking to China to See How AI is Driving the Future of
2:25PM Global Retail
Dinkar Jain, Lead Product Manager - Optimisation Teams/Ads, Facebook
2:50PM Hui Cheng, Head of Robotics R&D, JD.com
AI for Business: Handling Complexity, Diversity,Variability
and Reality
2:50PM Swami Sivasubramanian,VP of Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services AI Infrastructure: Deep Learning Training and Inference
3:15PM Kari Ann Briski, Director Accelerated Computing Software
Product Management, NVIDIA
Probabilistic inference for unsupervised time
series modelling
3:15PM
Patrick van der Smagt, Director of AI Research,VW Group
An ethical compass for automation
3:40PM Todd Lohr, Principal - Automation Practice Leader, KPMG
3:40PM Refreshments & Networking Break
AI at Enterprise Scale
4:05PM Refreshments & Networking Break
4:05PM Thomas M. Siebel, CEO, C3 IoT
Artificial Intelligence transforming defence and aeronautics
Beyond Bag Of Words: Rebooting Search @ Walmart 4:30PM Denis Garagic, Chief Scientist, BAE Systems
4:30PM
Pankaj Rajan, ML Architect, Walmart
Machine Learning Reimagined
How Automation is a force multiplier for the Fourth 4:55PM Rix Ryskamp, CEO, UseAIble
Industrial Revolution
4:55PM
Abhijit Kakhandiki,VP of products, Automation Anywhere
Journey of a Drilling Engineer to the Future:
The Ethics of AI Towards Blueprinting Driller’s Brain
5:20PM
5:20PM Mike Duke, SVP & Chief Innovation Architect, Wells Fargo Robello Samuel, Chief Technical Advisor, Halliburton
Fireside chat: How American is looking at AI, AR and P.A.I. (Personal A.I.): A new paradigm of Artificial
Quantum Computing Intelligence
5:45PM 5:45PM
Phil Easter, Group Head of Mobile & Wearables, American Airlines Nguyen Tuan Duc, Senior AI Researcher, alt Inc.
6:05PM THE AICONICS AWARDS CEREMONY, 6:05PM THE AICONICS AWARDS CEREMONY,
DRINKS & HORS D’ OEUVRES RECEPTION AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT DRINKS & HORS D’ OEUVRES RECEPTION AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
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Pioneering AI for all Disruptive technology in the AI space and IoT
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STREAM I
9:00AM Danny Lange,VP of AI and Machine Learning, Unity 9:00AM Kathy Ball, EVP Analytics & Data Science, Devon Energy
How the Capital Markets and AI Can Profitably Save the Planet
Making Artificial Intelligence Work with Human Intuition
9:25AM Graham Macmillan, Programm Officer - Inclusive Economics, Ford Foundation
9:25AM Marco Casalaina,VP of Product, Salesforce Einstein
Discovering the Principles for Good Narrow AI
AI powering the new workforce 9:50AM Jean Francois Gagne, CEO, Element AI
9:50AM Marcus Sawyerr, President, Adecco Group X
The Transformative Impact of AI in the Transport Industry
10:15AM Demetrio Aiello, Head of the AI & Robotics Labs, Continental
AI for Business:Tackling Enterprise Challenges
10:15AM Beth Smith, General Manager, IBM Watson Computational Linguistics in Business Processes
10:40AM Vikram Mahidhar,Vice President, AI Solutions, Genpact
The promise of AI
10:40AM The next generation of e-commerce
Frank Chen, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
11:00AM Japjit Tulsi,VP of Engineering, Ebay
Pushing the boundaries of machine learning:
Making AI for Consumer Engagement Real
A case of simplification & scale
11:00AM
Magnus Hyttsten, Senior Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, Google 11:25AM Yann Motte,Vice President, Strategy and Business Development -
Cognitive Innovation Group, Nuance
11:25AM Refreshments & Networking Break
11:50AM Refreshments & Networking Break
AI Powered Ads: A Step-by-Step Guide to
Extreme Personalization
11:55AM Automatic Estimation of Mobile Video QoE and the Future
Mark Torrance, Chief Technology Officer, Rocketfuel of Visual Entertainment
12:20PM
Dr. Eric Petajan Principal Systems Engineer- Video,CV,AI SME, AT&T
Machine Learning for Recomendation and personalisation
12:20PM Accelerate AI with a Data Pipeline Strategy
Professor Tony Jebara, Director of Machine Learning, Netflix
12:40PM Brian Schwarz,Vice President, Product Management & Development,
Pure Storage
The 7 Myths of AI
12:40PM Robin Bordoli, CEO, CrowdFlower
Verizon’s AI Platform and data applications
1:05PM Ganesh Harinath, Director, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence,Verizon Labs
The future of work – How Cognitive Automation is shaping
the Digital Operations landscape
1:05PM AI Solutions and Use Cases Up Close
Vinay Mummigatti, SVP - Enterprise Head, Robotic Process Automation &
BPM, Bank of America 1:25PM Dolly Wu, GM of Datacenter/Cloud, USA Division, Inspur
Alfie Lew, Senior Solutions Architect, Inspur
1:25PM LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS | Served between 12.30 and 2.30
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1:50PM LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS | Served between 12.30 and 2.30
Projects that will fundamentally change the world!
STREAM A
STREAM I
2:00PM Luming Wang, Head of Deep Learning, Uber Panel: What makes an AI business project successful? From
planning and strategy through to vendor partners, delivery and
2:25PM measuring ROI > a comprehensive debate on what success
means like in AI for business
Modern Relationships:The Ups and Downs of Marrying
Jan Neumann, Director, Technical Research and Development, Comcast
Machine Learning and Customer Experiences
Dave Parsin,VP Strategic Sales, Artificial Solutions
Adrian McDermott, SVP Product Development, Zendesk Jordi Torras, Founder and CEO, Inbenta
2:25PM Jason Maynard, GM & Vice President of Guide, Zendesk Jane Nemcova,VP & GM for Global Services for Machine Intelligence, Lionbridge
Brian Crumpley, Analytics Manager of Member Services, Dollar Shave Club Daniel Tapias, CEO and Founder, Sigma Technologies
Jegannathan Kannan, Global Solutions and Practice Leader, HCL DRYiCE
Of Mice and Men Chaired by Larry Lefkowitz, Chief Scientist – AI Practice, Sapient Consulting
2:50PM Roy Smythe, Chief Medical Officer - Health Informatics, Philips
Science that keep PayPal running
Using AI to Transform Business Documents into 3:15PM Vadim Kutsyy, Distinguished Architect, Data Science, PayPal
Business Value
3:15PM
Bruce Orcutt, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing, ABBYY
Refreshments & Networking Break | Served between 3.30 and 4.15
Refreshments & Networking Break | Served between 3.30 and 4.15
Financial Services + AI: who’s got your wallet?
Industrial Machine Learning
3:40PM Kyle Thomas, Global Head of Sales and Business Development, Intel Saffron
3:40PM
Josh Bloom,VP of Data and Analytics, GE
E-commerce tech executive’s guide to bootstrapping
Leveraging AI to Improve Operational Efficiencies, Improve
an AI capability
Care, and Create Healthy Communities 4:05PM
4:05PM Presenting for Konica Minolta: Ben Clark, Chief Architect, Wayfair
Keith Kirkpatrick, Principal Analyst, Tractica
The impact of AI in healthcare and health insurance: A time Perfect API Storm for Chatbots
for adoption 4:30PM
4:30PM Chris Keenan, Head, Worldwide Medical Customer Engagement, Medical Farzin Shahidi, Founder, Intrprtr, Inc.
Capabilities, Bristol-Myers Squibb David Mario Smith, Founder and Principal Analyst, InFlow Analysis
Transfer Learning: Applications for natural language The Human perspective of AI
understanding
4:55PM 4:55PM Beena Ammanath, Founder, Humans For AI
Catherine Havasi, CEO, Luminoso
Into the future: what are the main challenges in implement- Build AI for Next Generation Cyber Security
ing AI; how to overcome them and maximise your ROI
5:20PM 5:20PM Bill Yue Chen, Chief Security Architect,VISA
Kumar Srivastava,VP, Products & Strategy, BNY Mellon
5:40PM Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of 5:40PM Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of
The AI Summit San Francisco 2017 The AI Summit San Francisco 2017
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This year, we’re introducing the high-intensity, interactive, training ses-
sions-stream geared for developers, technical staff, engineers and tech-savvy
business executives of major corporates. Longer, deep-dive sessions will look
at the actual how-to, in a wide range of topics and themes covering everything
from the latest ML innovations to live NLP efficiency training sessions.
WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER, 2017
Full session descriptions available on the AI Summit networking app
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THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER, 2017
Full session descriptions available on the AI Summit networking app
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Developing Your AI Commercialization Approach Why the future of AI requires designing for
human-computer collaboration
10:00AM Jean Marc Momessin, New Ventures Lead, Konica Minolta 9:30AM
STREAM S
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Belmer Negrillo, UX Design Lead, facebook
Benjamin Reinhardt, Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Susa Ventures
Technology Leadership Roundtable - Architecting Disruption
How to Use AI for Impact
11:00AM Adam Kocoloski, IBM Fellow and CTO, Cloud Data Services, IBM
11:00AM Amir Banifatemi, AI Lead, XPRIZE
How to manage knowledge systems in-life - Virtual agents need
to be managed and run by subject matter experts not AI
12:00PM scientists or programmers An Introduction to Deep Learning Concepts
Edward Smith, Chief Product Officer, Humley In this session, we will highlight key concepts behinds deep learning’s success. The lecture
12:00PM starts with an overview of the key ingredients in deep learning while live training a mini
network. We then take a tour through successful deep learning architectures and discuss
why they work with examples in retail, IoT, and recommendation engines. We will explore
the model building lifecycle and the role of parallel training using cloud-based
GPU hardware.
Genpact Lunch (Invited VIPs Only)
Sunil Mallya, Deep Learning Solutions Architect, AWS
1:00PM Patrick Donnelly, Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
Broad AI for Business
Scaling AI Across the Enterprise: A Model Driven Architecture
Michael Witbrock, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM
2:00PM
3:00PM Murray Campbell, Distinguished Research Staff Member & AI Foundations
Ed Abbo, President & CTO, C3 IoT Lab Manager, IBM
Applied AI Disruption: Investment Framework
Powering up massively parallel Deep Learning Applications on
Epyc Radeon servers 3:00PM Benjamin Levy, Co-Founder, BootstrapLabs
4:00PM Mike Schmit, Director Software Engineering, AMD
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of what is a wholly transformative outreach and publicity will soon be
journey, a significant number of practical the new norm in customer-focused
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to enterprises across the globe. This
sales & marketing operations. Service
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award winners flagship award category recognises
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Samiron Ray Derong Lui Neville Teagarden AREA HEALTHCARE
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the healthcare industry by improving front, a comprehensive set of hardware
BEST INTELLIGENT diagnostics, predicting outcomes, and support is essential in making the most of
Luigi Congedo Andy Simpson Clint Wheelock changing the way doctors think about the AI revolution. With processing power
ASSISTANT INNOVATION
Principal Deep Learning Managing Director providing care. Major organisations a prerequisite of any AI advancement, it
Bootstrap Labs Research Fellow Tractica Virtual assistants and advanced voice/ such as IBM are focusing their efforts is imperative to recognise the framework
University of Surrey text recognition capabilities are on this industry, while new start- on which nearly all AI functionality
Sylvester Kaczmarek Amir Banifatemi changing the enterprise landscape at ups are forming frequently with is conducted. If your company is
an exponential rate. They can enable the purpose of solving complicated involved with the production, supply
Product Evangelist Innovator healthcare problems. If your company or distribution of hardware which is
Paw Project XPRIZE greater productivity, accuracy, and
even a more personal ‘human’ touch is developing AI that revolutionises enabling the advancement of AI then this
for Awesome to communications which otherwise the way in which humans can care award is to celebrate your achievement
would not get the desired attention. for each other, this award is for you. in making an AI-powered world possible.
This award reveals the brilliance in
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focuses on the business itself as well as the technology and Is your software-robot solution sufficiently mature, resilient, end-to-end process itself – there world businesses, in analysing data regulatory tasks, but AI is fast on its way to
is designed to raise the profile of those leading the field in scalable and reliable? With huge cost and efficiency savings is a great amount of potential for across image, text, and sound. This is augmenting and automating every corner
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and effectiveness of business processes. This award will be organization, and this award champions and why you’re the driving force or service that is set to transform the
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AI Business
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centre for business and technology leaders interested in furthering their
understanding of the application of AI in business.
THE In collaboration with our Industry partners, we will be delivering a series of online
and live training courses, masterclasses and certification sessions with a
VisionAIres CLUB focus on AI applications for business. The courses will have two different focus
groups in mind:
Bringing together the most senior and influential members of our global community, The VisionAIres
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Club will be limited to 1000 leaders globally that will be selected by our advisory board and reader the business side of AI, from investment and ROI through to
recommendations on AIBusiness.com. workforce implications and change management.
Engaged throughout the year, our elite community is the first global membership forum and Think-tank 2.Technical training courses for developers and engineers working in leading
to share ideas, policy and best practice in advancing practical AI for corporate organisations. In tight
partnership with our press & media sponsors, the VisionAIres club will be a year-round go-to-resource corporations who are looking to enhance their knowledge of the underlying
for news & commentary on the latest AI initiatives with touch points in London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, technologies under the AI umbrella including Deep Learning, NLP, Machine Learning,
San Francisco, Singapore, Cape Town, and New York. RPA, Image/Voice Recognition – different courses delivered by experts that include
best practice and practical, interactive sessions.
Benefits of The VisionAIres Club membership include:
Online members-only digital platform with extensive research reports, knowledge databases, and video
Certification courses running in conjunction with our Industry Partners to coincide
content with AI Summit events around the globe.
Participation in the Top 100 of ‘AI for Business’ report
Complimentary access to all AI Summit events globally with dedicated VIP lounge access and priority
seating in keynote theatres Around the globe, major enterprises across all industries are investing in and
adopting artificial intelligence to improve many facets of their organisations.
The world’s first full-length book
dedicated to the practical application
AI is changing the way business is conducted: from boosting overall efficiency
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and productivity, through to increasing sales and marketing potential, enhancing
customer service and ultimately reducing costs.
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Written by business executives from world-leading organizations,
Business provides unique insights into the practical applications
The authors share a passion for the opportunity presented by AI,
of AI in business was published earlier this
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experience in implementing the still-nascent technology and a strong vision
on how AI will reshape the future of work.
Guest article contributions published on AIBusiness.com AI Transforming Business aims to inspire the reader to get involved with AI by
copies already in the hands of business
AI
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Now preparing the second edition, to be
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Kimberly Powell BUSINESS
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CORPORATE CxO PERSPECTIVES
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Josh Sutton
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published in December 2017, now is the time
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transforming business documents and content into busi- AWS offers over 70 fully featured services for compute, stor-
ness value. By providing digital transformation solutions to age, databases, analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT)
financial services, insurance, transportation, healthcare and and enterprise applications from 33 Availability Zones (AZs)
other industries, we help organizations achieve the next across 12 geographic regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil,
wave of growth by understanding customers and deliver- China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. AWS
ing responsive real-time intelligent systems. services are trusted by more than a million active customers
around the world -- including the fastest growing startups,
The flexibility of ABBYY AI solutions enables customers to largest enterprises, and leading government agencies -- to
utilize a diverse range of advanced technologies, platforms power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and
and solutions for classification, text analytics, data and en- lower costs.
tity extraction, and data validation via any communication
channel and in any format.
action.ai solves the biggest problem in Intelligent Chat-
bot creation – understanding the true meaning of users’
requests. action.ai’s Language as a Service (LaaS) provides
businesses with fully configured and populated natural For more than 45 years, AMD has driven innovation in
language AI instances to ensure your chatbot is intelli- high-performance computing, graphics and visualization
gent from Day One. Users are understood however they technologies ― the building blocks for gaming, immersive
express themselves and benefit from truly intuitive user platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of con-
experiences. sumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge
Action.ai provides the natural language components of scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD
your chatbot to save you time and resource. Your chatbot technology daily to improve how they live, work and
engine calls our simple API to understand users’ request play. AMD employees around the world are focused on
for your specialist domain. This award-winning platform building great products that push the boundaries of what
provides the most accurate results in the market. We ensure is possible.
your chatbot keeps learning through our AI platform with
every customer interaction.
alt Inc. is developing an A.I. called the “Personal A.I. (P.A.I)”. Appen is a global leader in the development of high-qual-
ity, human annotated datasets for machine learning and
P.A.I is a digital clone that copies the person’s “intent” and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of ex-
“personality”, and aims to do all digital work on behalf of perience enriching a wide variety of data types including
this person. speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more
than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over
We are an A.I. development venture representing Japan 400,000 skilled contractors, Appen partners with leading
that engages in the development of advanced natural lan- technology, automotive and eCommerce companies – as
guage processing research technology and voice synthesis
generation technology through industry collaboration for well as governments worldwide – to help them develop,
realization of its user’s likeliness. enhance and use products that rely on natural languages
and machine learning.
Artificial Solutions is the leading specialist in Natural
Language Interaction (NLI). The company’s patented tech-
AMAX is an award-winning global provider of cutting-edge nology enables people to converse with applications and
Cloud, Data Center, Deep Learning and next generation services running on computers, mobiles, wearables and
computing technologies designed towards highest efficien- other electronic devices in a humanlike, intelligent manner.
cy and optimal performance. As a full service technology Called Teneo, it is the first complete platform to enable
partner, AMAX tailors both solutions and programs to meet enterprises to rapidly develop and analyze artificially intel-
ligent, natural language applications through the use of
specific customer requirements. Whether you are a Fortune machine learning and implicit personalization. Teneo allows
1000 company seeking significant cost savings through business users and developers to collaborate on creating
better efficiency for your global data centers, or you’re a sophisticated natural language applications in record time
software startup seeking an experienced manufacturing that run on any operating system, across multiple channels
partner to design and launch your flagship product, AMAX and in 35 languages, without the need for specialist linguis-
is your trusted solutions provider, delivering the results you tic skills. Teneo unlocks the knowledge held in immense
need to meet your specific metrics for success. volumes of natural language conversations, delivering
unprecedented levels of big data insight and true ‘voice of
your customer’ understanding.Automation Anywhere is the global leader in delivering CrowdFlower is the essential human-in-the-loop platform
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the most advanced, enterprise-grade, cognitive Robotic for data science teams. CrowdFlower is focused on making
Process Automation (RPA) platform capable of automating data useful by helping data teams collect, clean, and label
any business process. The platform enables enterprises their data at scale. The CrowdFlower platform combines hu-
throughout the world to create digital workforces that man-labeled training data, easy to deploy machine learning
manage and scale business processes faster, with near-zero models, and human-in-the-loop capabilities to help compa-
error rates, while dramatically reducing operational costs. nies create value from their unstructured data. Headquar-
We believe that people who have more time to create, tered in San Francisco and backed by Canvas Venture Fund,
think, and discover build great companies. It’s why we’ve Trinity Ventures, and Microsoft Ventures, CrowdFlower
dedicated more than a decade to providing the world’s best serves data science teams at Fortune 500 and fast-growing
RPA technology to leading financial services, BPO, health- data-driven organizations across a wide variety of indus-
care, technology, and insurance companies—to name a tries. For more information, visit www.crowdflower.com.
few—across more than 90 countries.
Daisy Intelligence is an artificial intelligence (A.I.) soft-
Since 2009 — before the phrase Internet of Things (IoT) was ware-as-a-service (SaaS) company that analyzes very large
coined — C3 IoT (formerly C3 Energy) developed and deliv- quantities of our clients’ transaction and operational data
ered enterprise IoT software solutions for one of the largest in order to make automated operational decision recom-
IoT domains: the energy sector. With hundreds of millions mendations which our clients can immediately action to
of smart meters and sensors deployed across the smart improve their business. Using our proprietary mathematical
grid, the energy industry generates massive amounts of solutions and the Daisy A.I. based simulation platform,
real-time data—data that are valuable only when yielding Daisy Intelligence analyzes 100% of the trade-offs inherent
meaningful, actionable business insights. The company’s in any complex business question and provides weekly,
big data, predictive analytics, and machine learning soft- specific recommendations to help our corporate clients
ware solutions deliver unprecedented business outcomes grow total sales, improve margins, reduce fraud and delight
for the global energy industry. customers.
www.daisyintelligence.com
We help companies achieve extremely high levels of accu-
racy in transcribing speech to text, even in difficult settings
(phone calls, voicemail, natural conversations, and more).
We also provide excellent text to speech conversion. That DeepMotion is developing physical intelligence in digital
means we create full featured natural language interfaces agents. They are leveraging deep learning and physics
for your specific application - robots, heads-up displays, simulations to teach virtual characters and robots the rules
toys, personal assistants, smartphone apps, or anything of the natural world. DeepMotion’s work represents a future
else you can dream up. We’re able to do everything from at the nexus of machine learning, VR and AR, robotics, and
identifying the source of different sounds in a mixed audio interactive virtual actors. The company was founded in
sample (dogs barking, water running, gunshots, and more) 2014 and is headquartered in Redwood City. Their team
to using voice analysis to identify the early onset of various comes from Blizzard, Pixar, Disney, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Zyn-
diseases (dementia, stroke, depression or other diseases). ga, Stanford, CMU, and Tsinghua, with an average 10+ years
Our technology can help you identify what people are talk- of experience.
ing about by drawing out important snippets like phone
numbers, dates, and relationships. It can also tell you about
who they are by identifying the gender, age, regional ac-
cents, and level of education.
DigitalGenius brings leading practical applications of deep
learning and artificial intelligence into customer service
operations of leading companies. Its Human+AITM Cus-
Compliance.ai is led by technology veterans, with a mission tomer Service Platform combines the best of human and
to empower professionals with the smartest regulatory and machine intelligence enabling over 30 contact centers of
compliance change management platform. The company companies like KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Unilever, Eurostar,
benefits from a strong group of financial industry advisers and GoFundMe.
and board members. At its core are deep-learning algorithms, which are trained
on historical customer service transcripts and integrated
Designed to distill regulatory content into tangible intelli- directly into the contact center’s existing software (like
gence, Compliance.ai is powered by dynamically adaptive Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk, and others). When
machine learning models. Compliance.ai offers the fastest new messages come in via channels like email, live chat,
and most comprehensive collection of curated, financial social media, and mobile messaging, the DigitalGenius
services focused regulatory information. neural network takes the following 3 actions: predicts
and auto-fills meta-data, predicts best response, and can
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The UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) has over- Facebook, Inc. engages in the development of social media
all responsibility for promoting UK trade across the world applications for people to connect through mobile devices,
and attracting foreign investment to our economy. We personal computers, and other surfaces. It enables users to
are a specialised government body with responsibility for share opinions, ideas, photos, videos, and other activities
negotiating international trade policy, supporting business, online. Its products include Facebook, Instagram, Messen-
as well as delivering an outward-looking trade diplomacy ger, WhatsApp, and Oculus. The company was founded by
strategy. To find out more about how DIT may be able to Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris R. Hughes,
help your business grow, please contact DITUSA@mobile. Andrew McCollum and Eduardo P. Saverin on February 4,
trade.gov.uk or visit www.great.gov.uk. 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.
Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm
focused on delivering digital transformation for our clients,
DRYiCE is HCL’s third-generation autonomics & orches- putting digital and data to work to create competitive
tration platform, providing the most comprehensive advantage. We do this by integrating lean principles, design
automation platform currently deployed in more than 100 thinking, analytics and digital technologies with our do-
organizations across four continents. DRYiCE combines the main and industry expertise to deliver disruptive business
power of analytics, automation, orchestration and AI to outcomes – an approach we call Lean DigitalSM. We deliver
fundamentally transform the way IT is run, while enabling value to our clients in two ways – through digital-led,
“sensory functionality” that acts as the “brain” of the agile domain-enabled solutions that drive innovation, and
and lean enterprise. At the heart of DRYiCE is HCL’s proprie- through intelligent operations enabled by digital that de-
tary AI-infused Robotic Process Automation (RPA) module, sign, transform, and run clients’ operations. Our approach
which enables simplified IT operations through self-healing is continually refined in one of the world’s largest digital
and preventive actions. DRYiCE also comes with more than process sandboxes, where we test and improve thousands
40 additional interconnected modules to handle different of processes. For two decades we have been passionately
monitoring, reporting, visualization, service orchestration, generating impact for clients from the Fortune Global 500
machine learning, and cognitive computing tasks. and beyond, employing over 77,000 people in more than
20 countries, with key offices in New York City, Palo Alto,
London, and Delhi.
Enlitic Inc. is a pioneer in medical deep learning that lev-
erages its proprietary algorithms to quickly and accurately
improve healthcare diagnosis. With a platform developed
by renowned data scientists, machine learning practition- Google Cloud Platform lets you focus on what’s next for
ers, and medical experts, Enlitic is able to analyze a wide
variety of healthcare data sources, including billions of your business. Google Cloud Platform frees you from the
clinical cases, to improve diagnostic accuracy, speed and overhead of managing infrastructure, provisioning servers
patient outcomes, as well as accelerate pharmaceutical and configuring networks. To let innovators innovate and
research and drug trials. Named one of the world’s “50 let coders, well, just code.
Smartest Companies” by MIT Tech Review, Enlitic is based
San Francisco and serves customers around the world. For
more information, visit www.enlitic.com.
GRID is a Japanese AI technology company offers in-house
developed machine learning/ deep learning framework
ReNom, specially designed for the business application;
infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, plants and
any businesses. Under the mission “INFRASTRUCTURE +
Exxact Corporation is a global, value-added supplier of LIFE + INNOVATION”, we have been working for more than
computing products and solutions. We provide services in 60 projects to analyze actual dataset collected by IoT and
IT distribution and system integration for HPC, Big Data, deploy AI models for infrastructure such as operation opti-
mization of plant, operational improvement of power plant,
Cloud, and AV applications and markets, while servicing failure detection for manufacturing line in various business
many of world’s top national labs, research universities, on- verticals including natural resources, traffic management,
line retailers, and Fortune 100 & 1000 companies.
manufacture, medical and finance. Our in-house framework
ReNom supports cutting-edge algorithms including Rein-
forcement Learning and Topological Data Analysis and also
provides a variety of tutorials customized to each industries
so that developers can relatively be easily developing AI
model with short amount of timeframe.Inbenta is a pioneer in online customer support, success
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and experience. Using Natural Language Processing and
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s mission is to make AI real for Artificial Intelligence, we specialize in online self-service,
customers. We make AI real by helping customers use Arti- support ticketing and e-commerce search. Some of our
ficial Intelligence (AI) as a competitive advantage on busi- key functionalities include multilingual Natural Language
ness use cases—doing things better than ever before, and search of knowledge base content and FAQs, conversation-
al chatbots, and a performance-monitoring dashboard.
doing new things which were impossible to do before. With Our platform provides answers to questions based on the
the industry’s most comprehensive AI portfolio of servers, meaning, not just keywords. We integrate with Zendesk,
storage, and networking, coupled with AI specific solutions Salesforce, Facebook Messenger, Skype and many more.
and services, HPE is a trusted leader in the AI revolution. Discover how Inbenta can make a difference for your cus-
tomer’s online and mobile experience, while deflecting a
huge amount of calls, emails and live chats.
At Ingage we are taking pragmatic approach to AI for mass
market adoption with our broad based AI Automation IDE
to enable any Marketing practitioner, IT Manager/Software
Humley are a cloud-based platform provider, specialising developer to build smart AI conversational services for
in the rapid deployment of enterprise grade customer en- Marketing, e-Commerce and Enterprise Applications/
gagement solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Workflows.
Humley are focussed on improving the end-user experience
of technology and build this into positive commercially Transform your Email/Social Marketing campaigns from
viable deployable AI solutions. Humley is for businesses static Ads, into interactive Dialog-driven, conversational
who are information rich and want to allow their end-users engagement with your customers. Create loyalty and
to engage with them in natural language. This allows them Improve customer satisfaction using AI automation with
to truly identify and understand the end-users wants and your marketing, ecommerce and service cloud flows across
needs. Humley are able to link end-users to the knowledge Messaging, Web, and Voice/Alexa.
they really want.
Ingage’s broad-based horizontal approach presents a
unique opportunity to mass-enable AI interfaces and
training for all Enterprise software.
Inspur is a leading datacenter and cloud computing solu-
IBM is a global technology and innovation company. No tions provider, and is ranked by Gartner as the top 5 server
longer a “hardware, software, services” company, IBM is manufacturer in the world. Inspur is the global leader in
helping to shape the future of information technology. We providing AI solutions end-to-end and has deployed AI
deliver a cloud platform and leading cognitive solutions solutions across multiple industries and use cases. Inspur
that allows CIOs and CTOs to reshape the IT and architect can provide total solutions at IaaS, PaaS and SaaS level with
the future, accelerate insights and inspire smarter applica- high-end servers, mass storage systems, cloud operating
tions and services to take their companies competitively
into the next evolution of digital business. system and information security technology. To learn more,
please visit http://www.inspursystems.com.
At Intel® Saffron™, we believe software and computers
Watson is the first commercially available cognitive com- should adapt to humans, not the other way around. The
puting technology platform and represents a new era in rigid models of most data analytics solutions don’t factor
computing. Watson analyses high volumes of data and in the natural intelligence of human thought processes. Al-
processes information more like a human than a computer though these solutions may be able to ingest large volumes
— by understanding natural language, generating hypoth- of data, their ability to find what really matters in the data
eses based on evidence, and learning as it goes. Since its is limited. Intel® Saffron™ Cognitive Solutions were inspired
triumph on the US television quiz show Jeopardy! IBM has by human reasoning. The human brain is expert at recalling
advanced Watson’s capabilities and made it available via past experiences to make sense of the world, see similari-
the cloud. Watson now powers new consumer and enter- ties, recognize when something new and different is occur-
prise services in the healthcare, financial services, retail ring and automatically use this information to anticipate
and education markets. IBM has also opened the Watson what will happen next and how to prepare for it. Saffron
platform to developers and entrepreneurs, enabling them Cognitive Solutions extend these abilities at scales that far
to build and market their own powered by Watson applica- exceed human memory to provide a comprehensive land-
tions for a variety of industries. scape of actionable knowledge for faster, more informed
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Lionbridge provides the human component to comple-
ment and augment our customers’ AI efforts by providing
Intrprtr is the only company able to deliver a conversation scalable and complete global coverage. As customers move
platform, which seamlessly and easily allows unification quickly to solve data problems, they can rely on Lionbridge
of disparate applications and messaging solutions to to offload the program management and operational re-
communicate and collaborate productive exchanges of quirements to execute solutions. We align fully with our cli-
information between users and applications irrespective of ents’ organizational structures, processes, and systems and
their chosen device. have over a decade of exceptional performance working on
the most sensitive client programs.
Luminoso is a text analytics enterprise software company
that empowers Fortune 1000 companies to understand
their customers’ feedback and take action to maximize
IPsoft makes it possible to transform business performance customer satisfaction and loyalty. Luminoso applies cut-
through the employment of digital labor. Every day we ting-edge methodologies, initially developed at the MIT
apply ourselves to transforming our clients’ IT and business Media Labs, to rapidly process and measure large amounts
operations for competitive advantage. Through a combi- of consumer feedback from sources like open-ended survey
nation of our technology platforms and our services, IPsoft responses, product reviews, and call center transcripts. The
guarantees predictable business outcomes that maximize intuitive user interface makes it easy for analysts and ex-
the benefits of intelligent automation. Whether your prima- ecutives alike to identify key topics, track trends over time,
ry goal is to increase quality and speed of service, drive up and create dashboards to disseminate insights across the
productivity, enable profitable growth, reduce risk or rap- organization. Multi-lingual capabilities, including Chinese,
idly reduce operational costs, IPsoft can ensure you attain Spanish, and Arabic, give global companies the ability to
industry-leading benchmarks of performance. understand their customers worldwide. Clients include
Autodesk, Staples, Target Australia, Publicis.Sapient, and
Scotts. Luminoso is privately held with headquarters in
Cambridge, MA.
The Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center (BIC)
incubates and builds new businesses for Konica Minolta,
a global technology enterprise with expertise in imaging,
sensing, optics, and hardware. At the BIC, we apply AI to
new solutions in the fields of security, entertainment/ Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading plat-
marketing, healthcare, and business software. We partner form and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-
with emerging companies, academics, tech leaders, and first world, and its mission is to empower every person and
investors to launch new businesses driven by applied AI. every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Recent commercializations include facial recognition for
access control, machine learning for improved value-based
healthcare, predictive maintenance for decreased opera-
tional downtime.
A U.S. member firm of the global cooperative KPMG Inter-
national with 34,000 professionals and partners in Audit, Created in 1996, Montréal International (MI) is the result of
Tax and Advisory. Using a cross-functional and collaborative a private-public partnership. Its mission is to contribute to
approach, we help propel the world’s leading organizations the economic development of Greater Montréal and en-
toward a successful future while optimizing current perfor- hance its international status. Its mandates include attract-
mance. KPMG has embarked on its own transformational
journey by investing in advanced artificial intelligence ing foreign direct investments, international organizations
including a partnership with IBM Watson and others in the and international strategic workers as well as promoting
evolving intelligent automation ecosystem. We are helping the competitive and international environment of Greater
our clients and ourselves understand how these emerging Montréal. Montréal International—a non-profit organiza-
tion—is funded by the private sector, the governments of
and potentially disruptive technologies can demonstrate Canada and Québec, the Communauté métropolitaine de
customers’ new expectations, signal where the next com- Montréal (Montréal Metropolitan Community) and the City
petitor will come from, and revolutionize the way every
industry does business to lead what some call the fourth of Montréal.
industrial revolution.Piggiebank is an AI startup that helps new employees get
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up to speed by summarizing years’ of corporate emails
and messages from ALL former employees previously in a
similar role into single repository using artificial intelligence
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm while automatically filtering out private communications.
providing investment banking, securities, wealth manage- When an employee quits or is terminated, new employees
ment and investment management services. may not be given direct access of previous communications
because of privacy concerns for the minority of personal
communications. Piggiebank is developing the world’s best
AI algorithm to detect and filter these private communica-
tions while making the remaining corporate emails useful
to new employees.
Nuance Communications is the pioneer and leader in
conversational and cognitive AI innovations that bring
intelligence to everyday work and life. The company de-
livers solutions that can understand, analyze and respond
to human language to increase productivity and amplify Pure Storage offers the first data platform purpose-built for
human intelligence. With decades of domain and artificial AI, deep learning and modern analytics. Our all-flash, mas-
sively parallel architecture was engineered to deliver max-
intelligence expertise, Nuance works with thousands of imum performance in any deep learning training environ-
organizations – in global industries that include healthcare, ment, reducing data processing time from days to hours.
telecommunications, automotive, financial services, and re-
tail – to create stronger relationships and better experienc-
es for their customers and workforce. For more information,
please visit www.nuance.com
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve
important problems. We’re a network of firms in 157 coun-
NVIDIA awakened the world to computer graphics when tries with more than 223,000 people, committed to deliv-
it invented the GPU in 1999. Researchers utilize GPUs to ering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. PwC
advance the frontiers of science with high performance advises on how best to integrate artificial intelligence into
computing. Industry and academia leverage them for deep business strategy, to deliver new insights and extraordinary
learning to make groundbreaking improvements across a results. We help businesses create responsible AI strategies
variety of applications including image classification, video and are working with regulators and with industry to set
analytics and speech recognition. GPUs perform many out how to accelerate adoption whilst maintaining trust
calculations at once, speeding up processes that could oth- and transparency. We provide robust, broad and deep
erwise take a year or more to just weeks or days. machine learning and AI expertise and have delivered AI
solutions across industries, technical domains and business
problems around the world.
Onfido builds trust in an online world by helping business-
es digitally verify people’s identities. Vedia.ai from Raw Shorts is an artificial intelligence pow-
Using machine learning technology, Onfido validates a us- ered video maker that enables business users to instantly
er’s identity document and compares it with their facial bi- create and customize professional looking explainer videos.
ometrics. The identity can then be cross-referenced against Just upload your text and Vedia builds a polished video in
international credit and watchlist databases. minutes. Our platform does the work of transforming your
Founded by three entrepreneurs from Oxford University, ideas into video by generating narration, sourcing media
Onfido has received over $30m in funding from investors and assembling your scenes, freeing you from hours of frus-
tration. Vedia harnesses the power of over one million users
including Salesforce Ventures and Idinvest Partners. We and artificial intelligence to transform your story into a
carry out checks in 195 countries for global customers in- stunning explainer video. It’s like having your own personal
cluding Thumbtack, Couchsurfing and Uber.
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