Demystifying Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

How does business plan for this, and how will society cope with the results?

While AI is projected to have a pervasive potential for disruption across most industry and business sectors, it is nevertheless important to distinguish the hype from real expectations for such a technology, particularly for practitioners and professionals within our society. We must heed the cautions expressed by the preeminent minds of our times - never before in the history of humans has there been the availability of hardware and software that will enable humans to contrast ‘intelligent machines’.

What will be the new jobs in this new world and how will these kinds of new technology help to create new jobs? What will be the balance, given that in some manner given that the distribution of work and wealth will change drastically in the next few decades? Pursuing laissez-faire economic policies with minimal intervention on people’s rights and wellbeing may need to be rethought as changes are brought upon the very mechanisms of wealth creation and sharing are integrated, and even controlled, by machine automation.

Join us for a panel of industry specialists who will introduce their own perspective, and discuss the below points, as well as audience questions:

How do we see past the Hollywood myths of the rise of machine intelligence?
What are the key practical terminology and meanings behind concepts of Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and reasoning?
How are industries that are emerging as first impacts in AI seeing its impact in greater insights, new experience and potential?
What are the future consequences of this new race in intelligence?

With

Mark Skilton, Global Head of Digital Strategy, Enzen

A WBS Professor of Practice, Mark is an Experienced Professional Consultant with a track record in top 1000 Companies in over 20 countries and across multi public, private and start-up sectors. Having direct Industrial experience of commercial practice leadership, boardroom and investor strategy to program team and transformation management at scale. A recognized International thought leader in Digital, company strategy, Telecoms, Digital markets and M&A strategies, CxO practices and author of books and international papers. Mark’s work and views have been published in the FT, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Bloomberg, AP, Mail, NewScientist, Nature, Scientific American and many channels around the world, TV and Radio including BBC, Sky, ITV, Al Jazeera and many others.

Mark supports Warwick with industrial best practice through interests and expertise areas. In 2017 Mark is due to publish - The 4th Industrial Revolution: responding to the impact of artificial intelligence on business.

Andy Pardoe, Technologist & Entrepreneur. Founder of Informed.AI

Andy is a Top 30 AI Influencer as listed by IBM Watson, and founder of the Informed.AI network of websites which supports the Artificial Intelligence community.

An IT professional having 20 years experience with a solid academic foundation (BEng in Computer Systems Engineering, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and an MBA specialising in Business Transformation and Mergers & Acquisitions from Warwick and WBS) combined with an extensive business and management experience across multiple industries (Investment Banking, Retail Ecommerce and Supply Chain, Multi-media Asset Protection / Network Security). An experienced Global Development Manager, delivering multiple projects with a multi-region development team. A keen understanding of business transformation and change management, and how it effects the whole IT organization.

Andy is a keen entrepreneurial spirit, having worked with start-ups in the past as either IT director or managing director. Previous owner & chairman of Pardoe & Wood, a chain of coffee shops, formed in 2009 and gold winner of the Independent Sandwich Bar of the Year 2012 awarded by the British Sandwich Association.

Andy is an Associate Fellow at the Warwick Business School working closely with the University of Warwick to facilitate collaborations especially with regards to IT graduate recruitment. Also a Committee Member of the British Computer Society Special Group for Artificial Intelligence.

Jas Chana, Business Developer, Technologist, MBA, Founders of The Future

Jas is Head of understanding at Upstart, an outfit which uses lean methods and startup tools to help clients to achieve breakthrough strategies. We’re lean, moving at the speed of a startup, taking companies from fear to action in weeks. In recent years she and the team have collaborated with pharma, government, life sciences, digital startups and wearables clients on solving business challenges.

Prior to this, Jas has spent a decade commercialising and scaling emerging technology ventures with an exit to Tesco under her belt. She is guided by purpose, anarchy, and making this world a better place through design and technology. Jas holds an MBA in Innovation from Imperial College Business School.

Felix Hovsepian, CTO, Technology Advisor

Felix Hovsepian holds a PhD in Computer Science and a BSc in Pure Mathematics from University of Warwick, as well as Masters’ Degrees in Systems Engineering and Mathematics. He is a consulting CTO and a mentor with many years’ experience in software engineering, technology R&D and technology strategy. Having started his academic career as an AI researcher, he reached the position of Professor of Informatics before moving back into the commercial sector. Felix has designed and built enterprise-level document imaging systems for multi-national companies (such as BP); dental x-ray and intra-oral video imaging systems for a company with a global client-base; a fingerprint recognition system (which won an award from the British Government) and various other systems including an enterprise-level system for a Fortune 500 educational conglomerate.