Name: NYAI #15: Reinventing Businesses with AI (Ruchir Puri)
Start: 2017-10-24T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-10-24T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Rise New York

NYAI #15: Reinventing Businesses with AI (Ruchir Puri)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

RUCHIR PURI

IBM Fellow & Chief Architect of IBM Watson

Ruchir Puri is an IBM Fellow and the Chief Architect of IBM Watson. Dr. Puri led the Deep Learning and Machine Learning Platform Initiative at IBM
Research and also led IBM's efforts in software-hardware acceleration for cognitive and analytic workloads and drove strategy for differentiated
cognitive computing infrastructure. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and was awarded 2014 Asian American Engineer of the Year.

Ruchir has been a visiting faculty at Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, and an adjunct professor at Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, NY. He was honored with John Von-Neumann Chair at Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Bonn University, Germany. Ruchir is an inventor of over 50 United States patents and has authored over 120 publications and a book on Analytics.

DENNIS MORTENSEN

CEO/Founder, x.ai

Dennis is the CEO and Founder of x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in leveraging Data and a serial entrepreneur who has successfully delivered a number of company exits on that theme. Dennis’s long term vision of killing the inbox triggered the formation of x.ai and the creation of an artificial intelligence personal assistant to schedule meetings. He’s an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of AI, intelligent agents, and the future of work. A native of Denmark, Mortensen currently calls New York City his home.

In this talk, x.ai CEO and Founder, Dennis Mortensen, will discuss some of the important factors and decisions that need to be made in building an AI autonomous agent. As x.ai developed its AI assistants—Amy & Andrew—who take over meeting scheduling entirely, they encountered quite a few unexpected challenges.

This talk will cover the key questions and challenges to consider if you’re involved in designing artificially intelligent agents, based on those faced by x.ai in building their AI assistants (more details below).

ABOUT THE EVENT

AGENDA:

[6:30 - 7:00 PM] Networking (Wine & Beer)

[7:00 PM] Welcome Introduction
Maryam Farooq (Organizer, NYAI)

[7:10 PM] Keynote Speaker: "CONCEPTNET: Teaching Machines Common Sense"

Dr. Catherine Havasi (CEO/Co-Founder, Luminoso)

[8:00 PM] Rapid Q&A

[8:15 PM] Closing Remarks

[8:25 - 9:00 PM] Continued Networking

DESCRIPTION:
Join us for what's sure to be an awesome night in AI! This month's event will focus on NLP. We'll hear from Dr. Catherine Havasi (CEO/Co-Founder, Luminoso) who will talk about "CONCEPTNET: Teaching Machines Common Sense".

Wine + Beer + AI + Networking = The Best Tuesday ever!

ABSTRACT:

Computer systems can understand the language that people use better if they share the background knowledge, the “common sense,” that people use when they communicate. Machine learning can be more effective and require less training data if it starts from this background of “common sense,” understanding what people are talking about in general when they use language, before learning from its input data.

We discuss the long-running open-data project ConceptNet, a multilingual knowledge graph that connects words and phrases of natural language with labeled relationships, providing background knowledge and common sense about what words mean in many languages. We then discuss how to use ConceptNet in modern machine learning and show how ConceptNet is used in a commercial setting at the enterprise feedback management company Luminoso.

ANNOUCEMENTS:

1) O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | June 26–29, 2017 | New York, NY
Learn how to implement AI in real projects. Delve into the latest research to learn how AI is changing the business landscape. Uncover AI's limitations and untapped opportunities. Join with practitioners and innovators in AI to explore what the future holds—and how to get there from here. Save 20% HERE on most passes with code UGNYAI.

2) The NYC Open Data team (powered by the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications) are providing a few updates and announcements, hosted by Civic Hall on Wednesday, May 24th. Register here!

3) The Global AI Hackathon | June 23-25, 2017 | New York, NY
Want to learn & work with Artificial Intelligence? You're in luck! The Global AI Hackathon will be taking place in multiple cities around the world on on incredible weekend! This Series is focused on AI, Machine learning, and Deep learning; all skills & abilities are encouraged to participate. Join your local community of innovators to create solutions! Register for the NYC Hackathon!

NYAI #15

Join us for what's sure to be an exciting night in AI! We have an exciting guest for this month's event! We'll hear from Ruchir Puri (IBM Fellow & Chief Architect of IBM Watson) who will talk about "Reinventing Businesses with AI: Present and Future"

We'll also be giving away a few tickets to the Future Labs AI Summit on Mon, 10/30 & Tues, 10/31! ENTER THE GIVEAWAY HERE!

Pizza + AI + Networking = The Best Tuesday ever!

agenda

6:30 PM

DOORS OPEN

Sign in, grab a drink, introduce yourself to a stranger.

7:05 PM

WELCOME ADDRESS

Maryam Farooq (Director, NYAI)

7:15 PM

"Reinventing Businesses with AI: Present and Future" w/ Ruchir Puri

7:50 PM

RAPID Q&A

Live & open questions and responses

8:15 PM

Closing Remarks

Maryam Farooq (Community Director, NYAI)

8:30 - 9:00 PM

Continued Networking

Drop your business card in the bowl on your way out for a chance to win tickets to the next NYAI event!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1) The Future Labs AI Summit is on Mon, 10/30 & Tues, 10/31 in NYC! Get your TRAINING & SUMMIT TIX here, and SUMMIT ONLY TIX here. Use the code NYAI25 for 25% off!

2) The NYVR EXPO is Thurs, 10/26-Sat, 10/28 at the Javits Center in NYC! See the very latest in VR/AR technology and attend seminars touching on a broad range of VR and AR topics. Get your FREE EXPO-ONLY PASS here with code NYAI

3) Interested in knowing what it takes to become a data scientist? Curious how predictive analytics is changing the face of Wall Street? Check out this great article featuring esteemed past speaker Dr. Anasse Bari!

4) Save the Date for NYAI #16 on Tues, 11/28 with Arthur Tisi (Founder/CEO, MeaningBot)

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