Schedule

8:30 AM

Breakfast and Registration

Check in and meet the colleagues you’ll be spending the day with. Grab coffee or tea and hot breakfast.

9:00 AM

Welcome Session and Opening Keynote
Knowing the Unknowable with Deep Learning

Speaker: Kalev Leetaru, GDELT Project

10:00 AM

Practical Panel
This is How We Do It:
AI/ML + Deep Learning in the Real-World

  • Machine Learning was demystified for consumers the moment we got hooked on Alexa and Siri, what does this look like in a commercial setting?

  • From Development to Design to Decision, what’s the right problem set and data set to start with?

  • Meet business leaders who are applying AI/ML and deep learning to design empathetic customer journeys and deliver responsive care that builds revenue, decreases churn, and improves customer happiness.

    Speakers:

    • Vikram Singh, West Exec Advisors

    • James Mitchell, Sky

    • Alexandra Crook, United States Department of Defense

Moderated by Alex Creswell, Graphcore

10:45 AM

Executive Case Study: Sky, a Comcast company

Speaker:

  • Alistair Smith, Sky

Moderated by Alex Creswell, Graphcore

11:30 AM

Lunch and Walking Tour of MIT
Grab your lunch to go and see MIT campus on foot

1:00 PM

101
AI/ML + Deep Learning for Leaders Who Don’t Code

  • What is Deep Learning and how is it different from Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

  • What’s necessary to implement an effective AI strategy?

  • What are emerging applications for deep learning and how can I build intuition for what will work?

  • Where might AI applications go awry and how can I address errors before they arise?

Speaker: Matt Groh, MIT Media Lab

2:00 PM

Design Thinking Panel
Engineering with Empathy; Designing for Humans

  • How NLP-powered design solves the problems you probably have.

  • When text fails to accurately capture human emotion, the outcomes are easier to spot than the root cause (processes break, biases appear, outcomes suffer, meaning is obfuscated).

  • Designing for human comprehension is central to innovation and without it, no one is able to use anything new.

Speakers:

  • Alice Baird, Hume

  • Kyle Staller, MD, MPH, Mass General Hospital

  • Alice Cheng, PhD, NC State University

Moderated by Nigel Toon, Graphcore

3:00 PM

AI for Good
Saving Lives on Social

How deep learning can deliver effective content moderation to solve the mental health crisis on social media

Speakers:

  • Barbara Van Dahlen, PhD, WeBeLife

  • Matthew Nock, PhD, Harvard University

  • Kalev Leetaru, PhD, The GDELT Project

Moderated by Brian Bergstein, The Boston Globe

4:00 PM

Dinner and Drinks
Hosted in partnership with Graphcore
Reception at The Glass House