Register for free AI community meeting in Helsinki Finland March 13-14

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I will visit Finland in March, and wanted to give you a heads up about an upcoming Opentech AI Workshop related to industry-specific AI applications and therefore, smarter/wiser service systems.

We are asking a few close colleagues to register if they have an interest (we will have about 100 participants):

What: Free Opentech AI Workshop
When: March 13-14, 2018
Where: IBM Finland HQ, Laajalahdentie 23, 00330 Helsinki, Finland
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1st-international-workshop-on-opentech-ai-tickets-42648142743 (password “testai”)
Local FAQ & map:  http://www-05.ibm.com/fi/contact/ibmhelsinki.html

Note on registration page, if you would like to present a poster: Please contact Susan Malaika <malaika@us.ibm.com> by Feb 23, putting Helsinki poster in the subject line, if you would like to showcase your AI work in a poster on March 13 between 17:30-19:30.  Please include: Your name and the names & email address any other poster authors, The poster title, The poster abstract, Any relevant links

What is Opentech AI?

Opentech AI is open source communities doing great things with Artificial Intelligence.  Hundreds of communities are forming – For example, consider Mozilla’s Common Voice project for open AI voice technology, and Healthcare.ai has projects related to healthcare.  In addition, AI challenge/leaderboards are proliferating.   

Why Industry-Specific Opentech AI? Why Finland?

Finland’s national AI strategy is to be #1 in application of Artificial Intelligence to improve industry performance.

What is the Future of Opentech AI?

Some AI researchers are already envisioning one open source AI system that can perform reasonably well on all leaderboard challenges – see Video for vision to do this, and Measuring AI Progress Presentation for Roadmap, and related Article and Blog.

Summary of URLs:
Finland AI Strategy: http://www.vttresearch.com/Impulse/Pages/Finland-seeking-top-spot-in-application-of-artificial-intelligence-AI.aspx
Example Mozilla Open Voice: https://voice.mozilla.org/
Example Opentech AI for Healthcare: https://healthcare.ai/
Video – One AI to Learn It All: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpdEmySsuc
Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/leaderboards-80909263
Blog: https://opentechai.blog/
Article: I-Athlon: One AI to do Many Tasks: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/53f1/a7ac0398cce4ce049fd5e2d79e67925a492c.pdf

Questions? Contact Jim Spohrer <spohrer@us.ibm.com>