Join the live stream here.

Presentation on Future of AI here. Perspective 1: David Cox (IBM-MIT Partnership) – Narrow AI, Broad AI, General AI, and Perspective 2: Jim Spohrer (IBM) – Better Building Blocks

Highlights include keynotes from European Commission, Business Finland, VTT projects, and IBM on AI & Ethics, Future of AI. Please consider attending, and/or submitting a poster or tutorial.
Name: AI Workshop (2019 Finland #OpenTechAI)
Date: May 6-7, 2019
Location: IBM Finland HQ, Laajalahdentie 23, Helsinki
Size: 120+ Attendees, 1/3 industry, 1/3 academic, 1/3 government and other
For Invitation Contact: Jim Spohrer <spohrer@us.ibm.com>
Registration: http://ibm.biz/IBMOpentechAI2019
Sponsors: IBM Finland and VTT Finland (~3000 Researchers)
Focus: Open Data and AI Technologies
Note: Finland is a leader in open data, and aspires to be the world leader in “applying” artificial intelligence in real use cases to benefit society.

Agenda
Day 1 (Monday May 6)
1:00 pm-4:00 Tutorials (multiple tracks)
4:00-5:00 Free time
5:00-7:00 Reception and Poster session

,Day 2 (Tuesday May 7) – will be live streamed
7:30am Breakfast
8:30 Welcome from Mirva Antila (IBM Finland Country Manager) and Antti Vasara (President and CEO VTT Finland)
9:00 Morning keynotes
Keynote: EC: Data for AI and related EU policies and programmes, Speaker: Kimmo Rossi (Head Research & Innovation Sector, European Commission)
Keynote: Finland: Finnish AI Landscape and Roadmap, Speaker: Mika Klemettinen (Director, Digitalisation, Business Finland)
Keynote: IBM: Put AI to Work for Business, Trust and Transparency, Co-speaker: Ann-Elise Delbec (IBM), Dr. Jean-Francois Puget (IBM DE, Kaggle Grand Master)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Afternoon three panels (each with one moderator, three panelists)
Panel 1: AI and Healthcare Projects
Miikka Kiiski, Janne Huttunen, Mikael von und zu Fraunberg, Aleksi Kopponen,
Panel 2: AI and Industry/Energy Projects
Laura Sutinen, Shuli Goodman (Linux Foundation), Caj Södergård, Juho Korpela, Juha Rokka,Samuli Savo (Stora Enso)
Panel 3: AI and Open Source Projects
Haddad (Linux Foundation), Swirtun (FOSSID), Pakkala (VTT), Peret (Nokia), Roter (Mozilla)
4:00 Closing keynote – Future of AI, Jim Spohrer (IBM)
5:00 Closing thank-you

Program Committee
    Daniel Pakkala (VTT) and Jim Spohrer (IBM)
    Päivi Cederberg and Teppo Seesto (IBM Finland)
    Susan Malaika (IBM) and Tuomo Tuikka (VTT)
    Ibrahim Haddad (Linux Foundation)
    Eveliina Paljärvi (IBM) – publicity

How to Participate

Just to emphasize we’d love posters too – or even a small tutorial? Please submit proposals here https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=otai2019

You can see photos from last year’s successful poster session here https://twitter.com/sumalaika/status/1113606625942806533

Link to last year’s event: https://developer.ibm.com/opentech/2018/01/29/helsinki-march-2018-opentech-ai-workshop/

Link to this year’s call for tutorials and posters: https://developer.ibm.com/opentech/2019/03/25/helsinki-may-2019-opentech-ai-workshop/

For Invitation Contact: Jim Spohrer <spohrer@us.ibm.com>
 Registration: http://ibm.biz/IBMOpentechAI2019