October 23rd: Algorithms Day
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:40 Introductory Remarks & Morning Keynotes: What Are the Open Problems for AI?
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Professor Tim Rocktäschel
Senior Staff Research Scientist & Professor of AI (Google DeepMind & UCL)
Open-Endedness and General Intelligence
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Dr Katja Hofmann
Senior Principal Researcher (Microsoft)
What can generative AI learn from human gameplay?
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee & Networking Breakouts
11:00 - 11:40 Panel: How Should We Fund AI Research?
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Ruairidh Battleday
Chair
Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking
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Carmine Ventre
Director
King's Institute for AI
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Carina Namih
Board Member
Alan Turing Institute
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Jakob Mökander
Director of Science & Tech Policy
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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Isabel Thompson
Product Leader
Advanced Research + Invention Agency
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David Berman
Head of AI
Cambridge Consultants
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Amal Moussaoui
CEO
SingularityNET UK
11:40 - 12:40 Networking Breakouts
12:40 - 15:20 Afternoon Keynotes: What Are the Open Problems for AI?
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Dr Martin Riedmiller
Research Director (Google DeepMind)
Why Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning is Central to AI
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Professor Maria Liakata
Professor of Natural Language Processing & EPSRC/UKRI Turing Institute AI fellow (Queen Mary University of London)
Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs in medical and social computing
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Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz
Head of AI Research (Thomson Reuters)
Beyond the surface: The quest to unlock the full potential of your data: Insights from Research, Entrepreneurship & Industry
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Professor Karl Friston
Scientific Director (UCL & Verses AI)
The Physics of Sentience
15:20 - 16:00 Panel: What do the Next 5 Years look like for AI/ML Algorithms?
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James Whittington
Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Fellow
(Stanford / Oxford)
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Feryal Behbahani
Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
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Jakob Foerster
Associate Professor
Oxford & Meta-FAIR
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Elena Gribovskaya
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
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David Balduzzi
Machine Learning Researcher
XTX Markets
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Katie Collins
PhD Student
Cambridge & Alan Turing Institute
October 24th: Applications Day
08:00-09:00 Registration & Networking
09:00 - 10:40 Introductory Remarks & Morning Keynotes: How Does AI Affect Our Future?
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Kanishka Narayan MP
The Labour Party (MP for the Vale of Glamorgan)
AI & the Future
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James Donovan
Head of Science Policy and Partnerships (OpenAI)
AI Accelerated Discovery + Live Demo
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Professor Sana Khareghani
AI Policy Lead & Professor of Practice (Responsible AI UK & KCL)
What if we get it right? How to try.
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Dr Mounia Lalmas
Senior Director of Research (Spotify)
The Power of AI in Recommender and Search Systems: An Industry Perspective Through the Lens of Spotify