Sofia AI Summit | Vol.2

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<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-2e11984f">Sofia’s AI summit for applied Artificial Intelligence is covering all topics around the best use of Machine Learning – Deep Learning – Cognitive – Augmented Intelligence – Natural Language Processing – Neural Networks – computer vision – and more. Our goal is to bring international speakers who have domain expertise in AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision who will show us the benefits and the future of technology.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-2e11984f">Sofia AI community is bringing startups, corporates and academics in the AI sphere together to understand the current state of these technologies, its value add for businesses and what we can expect in the near future. Our events aim to reveal new trends, industry insights and practicable approaches of applying technologies around the analysis of text, audio, image, video, and structured data.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-2e11984f">For our second edition our first speaker is Norman Winarsky! </P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-2e11984f">Norman works with entrepreneurs, startups, research institutes, and major companies to create breakthrough ventures or products, and advises them on the framework and practice for successful innovation. Norman is past President of SRI Ventures at SRI International, a world-leading research institute founded by Stanford University in 1946. He has been a founder and leader of SRI’s venture strategy and process, which has resulted in more than sixty ventures worth over $20 billion. Norman helped create and build companies ranging from artificial intelligence, natural language, and computer vision, to medical devices, robotics, and nanotechnology.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">He was a co-founder and board member of Siri, which was spun out from SRI in January 2008 and acquired by Apple in April 2010. Siri has become a worldwide phenomenon, establishing the breakthrough market category of virtual personal assistant.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">He is currently a lecturer at Stanford University, and co-author of “If You Really Want to Change the World; A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures”, published by Harvard Business Review Press.</P>
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<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Our second speaker is Anish Mohammed:</P>
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<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Anish is multi disciplinarian who in the past has worked as a medical doctor, bioinformatician, security expert and most recently as strategy consultant. Someone who is passionate about technology, especially big data, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, AI, cryptography and security. He is also an avid robotics enthusiast who is actively involved in Open Source Unmanned Aerial Vehicle projects. His interests mostly focused on navigation algorithms for unmanned vehicles.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">He has spent half his career researching cryptographic algorithms and protocols. He has also worked as a strategy consultant. He is also an alumnus of Singularity University. He is also on the advisory board for Ripple Labs , Adjoint, Arteia, Chain of Things, IEET , Privacyshell and EAVentures. He also happens have significant interests in ethics of AI and one of the folks behind Obol and OpenEth.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Our third speaker is: Adrian Blackwood</P>
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<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Adrian Blackwood is passionately focused on: Ambient Intelligence, Spatial Design, Intelligent Environments, Speaking Engagements, Product Design, Spatial Relativity, Ami Architecture, Start-ups/Scale-ups, Ambient Content & Data Design.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Adrian has built a career working on ways to understand the world like never before possible. With Spatial Relativity and Ambient Intelligence, Adrian has led product development on over 200 smart & intelligent products, while building a growing patent portfolio, Adrian will cover the pitfalls of embedding decision support, predictions’ and prescription into the world around us.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Based in Amsterdam and San Fransisco, Adrian is responsible for leading Innovation and information value creation across the AMI brands, where he currently leads innovation for the AMI Ambient Intelligence Group, a company specialized at commercializing Ambient Intelligence Technology, helping to shape the future of the industry.</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">Adrian is amongst a small group globally progressing Articulated Spatial Relativity, a science of relationships between people, places and objects. It digitally encodes behaviour though profiled behaviour, preferences, actions, interactions, communication paths, & more.</P>
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<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a">UNCONFERENCE:</P>
<P CLASS="luv_dynamic-5c1e7c4a"><SPAN>Sunday, 30th of April, will be a small, practical unconference. We'll be able to go in depth, with longer sessions that explore different AI applications and technical challenges. You'll be able to bring your projects and questions to the experts and community, and leave having made progress. Save your seta, block your calendar and stay tuned. </SPAN></P>
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<DIV>We are starting at 11:00 AM at Enhancv's office, ul. "Midzhur" 12, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria. <BR></DIV>
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