Sri Annaswamy
Founder and Director
Swamy and Associates
08:15
Registration and welcome coffee
08:50
Opening remarks from the chair
AI – BEYOND THE HYPE
09:00
Bridging the gap between science and the enterprise
- Develop insights to bridge the gap between the scientific and the enterprise worlds
- How can cutting edge research be applied within a business?
- How can data scientists provide solutions for maximum organisational benefit?
Hosein Alizadeh
Chief Data Scientist
Wesfarmers
09:30
International Keynote: Driving business value with AI
- How is AI redefining business paradigms and transforming the enterprise day-to-day
- How can artificial intelligence deliver real value to companies?
- How do you develop an AI investment plan
Rohit Adlakha
VP & Global Head, Wipro HOLMES and Automation Ecosystem
Wipro Limited
10:00
Panel Discussion: Making tomorrow’s most powerful technologies beneficial
- How to prepare for the impact of AI on business and society
- Developing ethical and open AI - building frameworks that are safe for the future
Panel Moderator:
Sri Annaswamy
Founder and Director
Swamy and Associates
Panellists:
Atul Narang
Founder/CIO/COO
HashChing
Rohit Adlakha
VP & Global Head, Wipro HOLMES and Automation Ecosystem
Wipro Limited
Hosein Alizadeh
Chief Data Scientist
Wesfarmersh
Shayne Harris
Head of Technical Sales
Lenovo
10:40
Networking break and showcase viewing
PUTTING AI AND MACHINE LEARNING TO WORK
11:10
Applied AI for scalable online marketplaces
- How is Seek using AI to improve Employment Marketplaces across the globe
- Exploring the new conversational interface and how AI can help better match candidates to employers
Thyago Liberalli
Global Director of Artificial Intelligence
SEEK
11:35
Building a future of human-AI collaboration
- What are most widely adopted AI capabilities today? How effective are they and what are their limitations?
- What does the concept of Human-AI Collaboration mean? What are the latest research advancements in this space?
- How should we look at Human-AI Collaboration as the future approach to AI for business applications?
Si Chen
Senior Manager, Strategy & Partnerships
Tencent AI Lab & Robotics X
12:00
Using AI to measure, predict and shape the right behavior
- How can AI be used to dynamically measure conduct and behavior
- Innovative real-time monitoring and reporting of risk culture driven by AI
- Insights into the methods used to calibrate and apply AI to different environments
Tim Boyle
Group Managing Partner
Blackhall & Pearl
12:25
Exploring the frontiers of machine learning and AI
- A look at the fundamental concepts and recent advances in artificial intelligence
- Research on the frontiers of deep learning and AI for data science
- What are the societal implications of this work?
Mohadeseh Ganji
Data Science Research Fellow | Lead Data Scientist
University of Melbourne
12:50
Panel discussion: Making the right decisions on what to automate
- Should you automate the whole business?
- What should be left for humans to manage?
- Considerations for making the decision to adopt AI for automation
Panel Moderator:
Sri Annaswamy
Founder and Director
Swamy and Associates
Pannelists:
Adrian Letchford
Senior Data Scientist
Airtasker
David Dean
Machine Learning Specialist
TAFE NSW
Fang Chen
Group Leader & Senior Principal Researcher Enterprise Analytics
Data61
13:20
Lunch and showcase viewing
14:20
AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS
Roundtables are interactively moderated group discussions where delegates get the chance to debate and discover common issues, challenges and solutions. Attendees will have the option of attending 3 of 5 concurrent sessions (25 min per session).
Roundtable 1: Getting customers to accept, understand and trust AI
Fang Chen
Group Leader & Senior Principal Researcher Enterprise Analytics
Data61
Roundtable 2: Practical steps on using errors to improving your chatbots
Mark Chatterton
Co-Founder
Ingenious AI
Roundtable 3: Using machine learning and AI to enhance the customer experience
David Dean
Machine Learning Specialist
TAFE NSW
Roundtable 4: AI in marketing - personalising and improving customer experience
Jon Stubley
Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand
GumGum Visual Intelligence
Roundtable 5: Executive leadership challenges in an AI-driven world
Katharine McLennan
Founder
What is Leadership
Roundtable 6: AI & Machine Learning: Keys to your Digital Transformation
Shayne Harris
Head of Technical Sales
Lenovo
15:50
Networking break and showcase viewing
16:20
How to embed AI & Machine Learning deep into your organisation
- Why machine learning?
- How does Airtasker use machine learning?
- How we have built our machine learning pipeline
Adrian Letchford
Senior Data Scientist
Airtasker
16:45
Monitoring the health of structures with AI
- Applying AI and machine learning to infrastructure and transport
- Using sensing, continuous monitoring and advanced data analysis techniques to help civil and industrial asset managers to make informed maintenance decisions
- Discovering patterns from discriminated data and building predictive capability from the derived patterns
- How to create innovative AI/ML solutions with huge versatility and international impact
Fang Chen
Group Leader & Senior Principal Researcher Enterprise Analytics
Data61
17:10
Creating your first chatbot - what not to do!
- 3 Steps to creating your first chatbot
- Fail fast with chatbots
Mark Chatterton
Co-Founder
Ingenious AI
17:35
Closing remarks and networking drinks