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Salim Ismail

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1. Salim Ismail is a keynote speaker on artificial intelligence who is in high demand and gives over 150 brilliant keynote addresses every year.

2. He is the founding Executive Director of Singularity University, focused on “Exponential Growth”.

3. Ismail is Co-founder and Chairman of OpenExO, worldwide consultants with global influence on the spread of Exponential Thinking.

4. He headed PubSub Concepts and Angstro, which are powerful exponents of technological strategy and entrepreneurship. Both have been acquired by Google in 2010.

5. Salim is also the Co-founder of Fastrack Institute for solving pressing problems of cities with latest technologies.

Lital Marom

1. Lital Marom is the Founder of UNFOLD, a global consulting firm, which guides entrepreneurs, startups, and even corporations.

2. She is also Founder of the Academy of Tomorrow, where young professionals are educated and trained in the latest technologies, strategies and skills.

3. She has International Clients across the board: like eBay, Nestle, TD Bank, the European Commission, and Johnson & Johnson.

4. If you are looking to book an AI conference speaker, Lital  covers such topics as iOT, Blockchain, Platform Business Models, and the new high impact technologies.

Demis Hassabis

1. Demis Hassabis is a celebrated British Neuroscientist and AI Expert who has several highly cited papers already.

2. He is also a renowned video game designer, and a five time winner of the Pentamind Board Games Championships.

3. He is the Founder and CEO of Deep Mind, which seeks to combine the latest Computing Hardware with AI, Neuroscience and Machine Learning in order to create algorithms that replicate AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

4. Demis is an experienced Artificial Intelligence guest speaker  who is listened to avidly by people from all classes who are interested in the future.

Nick Bostrom

1. A true man of letters, Bostrom is presently Professor at Oxford University, and founding Director of the future of Humanity Institute here.

2. His vast multi-field expertise covers Theoretical Physics with Polymath, computational Neuroscience with Logic and AI with Philosophy.

3. Author of over 200 publications, he has also written a New York Times Bestseller (Super Intelligence, 2014) that sparked interest in AI around the World.

4. Recipient of Eugene R. Gannon Award, he is also on several lists of the top Global Thinkers.

5. If you are looking to hire a popular AI event speaker for your trade show or conference, then Nick has the experience and qualifications. He has done more than 2000 interviews on TV, Radio and Print Media, and is a successful TED speaker.

Ayesha Khanna

1. She is a leading entrepreneur of Singapore spearheading many technology innovations.

2. In 2017, ADDO AI, for which Ayesha Khanna is Co-Founder and CEO, was featured as one of the four top AI companies in Asia by Forbes Magazine.

3. Not just Fyntec Companies, like Yes Bank in India, but Transport companies like SMRT in Singapore, and smart cities like Dubai (Smart Dubai), is taking the help of Ayesha Khanna’s AI Company, to guide them into the future.

4. An Internationally renowned author, her two books – ‘Hybrid Reality’ and ‘Straight Through Processing’ – have been bestsellers.

5. Her charity 21C GIRLS gives free training to under-privileged girls in Singapore.

6. She is the author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization who is considered an inspirational AI public speaker that is passionate about sharing her ideas on how technology will revolutionize the human experience.

Danielle Dean

1. Danielle Dean, PhD, is currently the Technical Director of Machine Learning at iRobot

2. She is also leading the Intelligence Revolution for Robots, at the University of North Carolina, Chapelhill Massachusetts.

3. Previously, she was the Principal Data Scientist lead at Microsoft Corp in Azure CAT Engineering within the Cloud AI Platform Division. Here an international team, led by her, probed into creating Predictive Analytical Solutions, using MS’s Cloud AI Platform.

4. Even before this, Danielle was a Data Scientist at Nokia, where Data Mining was used to produce business insights from big data.

Andreas Dengel

1. Professor Andreas Dengel is presently the Scientific Director at the DFKI GmbH (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) at Kaiserslautern.

2. He also holds the chair ‘Knowledge-based Systems’ at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern, since 1993.

3. Since 2009 he is also the Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University (OPU).

4. In 2008, he Co-founded the Institute for Document Analysis and Knowledge Science (IDAKS), again at OPU, Japan.

5. He is a Board Member of a number of pioneering laboratories and research organizations.

Vasant Dhar

1. To the question, “When do we trust the answers and solutions provided by Artificial Intelligence or AI?”, Professor Vasant Dhar has provided well researched answers that peer Scientists in this field have applauded. This information is particularly relevant to the field of automated machine learning. By moving across domains, Prof. Dhar demonstrated the commonality of his research across domains.

2. His research at Pittsburgh University has uncovered the first automated Hedge Fund predictor ever.

3. Multiple industries have benefited from his pioneering work including Healthcare, Sports, Education, and Business.

Dr. Fei-Fei Lei

1. Born in 1976 in Beijing, Dr. Fei-Fei Lei is an American Computer Scientist, and presently Professor at Stanford University.

2. She is the Director of Stanfords Human-Centered AI Institute, as well as the Director of Stanford Vision and Learning Lab.

3. Previously, from 2013 to 2018, she served as the Director of SAIL (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory).

4. She also Co-Founded ‘AI4ALL’, which is an NPO (Non Profit Organization), working to distribute knowledge on AI.

5. She is the Leading Scientist and Investigator of ImageNet.

6. Her many awards include the Sloan Fellowship (2011), ACM Fellow, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship (1999) and The Carnegie Foundation Top 40 Immigrants Award

7. Her lucid and simple explanations of difficult concepts have endeared her to her audiences worldwide.

Susan Etlinger

1. Susan Etlinger is a renowned Industry Analyst with Altimeter Group, with her area of focus being Analytics, Data Strategy and Ethical Data Use.

2. She is the Author of several research reports based on these topics, and which are all available for download online.

3. Etlinger works with Global 2000 Organizations, to distribute and incorporate Strategic and Ethical Data Usage to help large organizations.

4. The Wall Street Journal, The BBC, The New York Times and similar famous outlets quote her Strategic opinions regularly.

5. Her TED Talk on Big Data has been viewed nearly 1 million times.

6. She is Member of the Board of The Big Boulder Initiative.

Janelle Shane

1. She is a Research Scientist at Boulder Nonlinear Systems, University of California, San Diego.

2. She has a Cross-Disciplinary background in Imaging, Macro-scale Free-Space Optics and Nano-Scale Optics.

3. She is an expert at Data Analysis, Matlab, C++ and Labview for Lab Automation and Data Analysis.

4. She is also a famous Humorist and Author, and her book ‘You Look Like A Thing, And I Love You’, based on the sometimes weird behavior of AI-empowered Devices, has become an international Bestseller.

Jerry Kaplan

1. Samuel Jerrold ‘Jerry’ Kaplan is a renowned American Computer Scientist, Serial Entrepreneur, Author and Futurist, with a 35 year career.

2. He is best known as a pioneering Scientist in the field of Pen Computing and Tablet Computers.

3. He created and Co-founded four Silicon Valley Startups, half of which have been traded in public.

4. His latest bestseller is titled ‘Humans Need Not Apply….’ (Published on August 2015).

5. Jerry Kaplan is the Board Member and Co-founder of GO Corporation, Onsale Inc., Winster Inc.

6. He has received the Audie Award for Business/Personal Development.

Severence MacLaughlin

1. As a leader of the world of AI, Dr. Maclaughlin has helped Fortune 500 companies across a vast range of activities, such as, Life Sciences, Energy, Financial Services, Fintech etc.

2. Currently serving as Chief of Intelligence, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences at Capgemini Invent, he has launched over 40 new innovative technologies and AI solutions, which have saved over US$1.8 billion to his client companies, with an ROI of US$8 billion.

3. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner, DeLorean AI.

4. He has also advised several governments on policy development like the US, Australia, and Europe, as well as UNO and WHO.

Eric Mahlstedt

1. Eric Mahlstedt, as NASA Human Factors Researcher, at NASA AMES Research Center, has co-authored five journal papers and three NASA Technical Reports for the
NextGen Air Transportation Initiative.

2. He is at present the Global Head of User Research at IBM Cloud, Data & AI, at the San Jose State University.

3. He is one of the technical thought leaders focused on a high level of design practice, within IBM.

4. He has also led Usability Research (UX) at Oracle.

5. In his spare time he acted as a Project Outreach Liaison Assistant Team Leader of Disaster Relief for AmeriCorps.

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