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Accelerating Time to Solution with Modern AI Frameworks
Workshop
AI Application
AI INFRA
AI Strategy
AI Technology
AI Today & Tomorrow
AI for Society
02/09/2023
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10:00 - 10:30
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Workshop 1
Konstantin RYGOL
BOSTON
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
AI is a key technology to accelerate growth it is driven by the largest players in the tech industry. Their supreme AI lets them create cutting edge products with great scaling effects. For smaller companies especially those from a non-IT background it can be daunting to get AI to production quality.
This talk looks at freely available frameworks that allow the acceleration of the time to solution combined with a better management of the AI software stack. It will present a case study that shows the power of modern AI workflows over traditional AI development.
Why Canada continues to attract global talent and capital?
Workshop
02/09/2023
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10:00 - 10:30
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Workshop 2
AMBASSADE DU CANADA EN FRANCE
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
With over a thousand AI and machine learning companies and some of the world’s brightest minds in the field, Canada continues to attract global talent and capital. As a result, global companies are choosing to locate in AI hubs across the country to get access to the deepest and highest quality pool of AI talent. Businesses investing in Canada’s AI ecosystems also benefit from strong government support, low business costs, and access to world-class AI clusters. Come and listen why for key members of our ecosystem, and from two of our startups sharing their journey.
Speakers:
- Global Innovation Clusters: Transforming Canada’s Innovation Economy by Stephen FERTUCK, Senior Director, Global Innovation Clusters, Innovation Canada/ Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Government of Canada
- Canadian AI Ecosystem : Delivering results by Julien BILLOT, Chief Executive Officer, Scale.AI
- Technology showcase by Louis Roy, CEO of Optel and Aryan Durrani, Managing Partner of Foxfire Labs -
IN REPLAY - SMARTCOW - Building Tomorrow World with Digital Twins and ITMS solutions.
Workshop
AI Application
AI Technology
EDGE AI
EDGE COMPUTING
HARDWARE
IOT
SMART CAMERA
SMART CITY
SMART FACTORY
SOFTWARE
02/09/2023
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10:30 - 11:00
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Workshop 1
Pooja VENKATESH
SMARTCOW
This talk will cover the concept of building and scaling smart cities.
Transportation is the core of smart city development, a well managed traffic demographics can optimize the mobility of the city. At SmartCow, we used the latest NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin product with our IVA stack and management platform that performs a wide range of traffic analytics and violation detections to help customers build the next-generation smart city.
Using Omniverse and its capability to generate synthetic dataset is the entry point to solve real-world scenarios.
You’ll learn about SmartCow Omniverse work, our solution for device management and how we combine the NVIDIA and SmartCow technological stack to provide a holistic solution for smart cities and more.
Transportation is the core of smart city development, a well managed traffic demographics can optimize the mobility of the city. At SmartCow, we used the latest NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin product with our IVA stack and management platform that performs a wide range of traffic analytics and violation detections to help customers build the next-generation smart city.
Using Omniverse and its capability to generate synthetic dataset is the entry point to solve real-world scenarios.
You’ll learn about SmartCow Omniverse work, our solution for device management and how we combine the NVIDIA and SmartCow technological stack to provide a holistic solution for smart cities and more.
IN REPLAY - Ethical considerations when implementing AI
Workshop
BIG DATA
CLOUD/DATA INTEGRATION
CONVERSATIONAL AI
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DATA GOVERNANCE
DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA STRATEGY
ETHIC
EXPLAINABLE
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
SUSTAINABILITY
02/09/2023
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11:00 - 11:30
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Workshop 2
Priya KRISHNAN
Hans PETTER DALEN
IBM
Long before implementing AI technically, there are ethical considerations to be made. The risk to your company’s reputation from an ethical misstep, is arguably bigger than the risk of not being regulatory compliant. But where do you start? What are some of the possible pitfalls? Is there a framework to use? Should you have an AI Ethics board? Priya and HP will discuss some real life examples where AI implementations failed, even when the intentions and ethical considerations were made. Learn how AI implementation is so much more than a technical implementation.
Speaker Bio's
Priya Krishnan, Director, Product Management at IBM Data and AI
Priya Krishnan is the Product Management Executive for Data Governance and Data Science at IBM, managing a portfolio of products that make it easy for businesses to consume AI. Priya has been with IBM for 12 years with experience across multiple product domains in the Data management and Data science space. Prior to joining IBM, Priya was a data scientist at a startup that was acquired by IBM. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Management and a Masters in Operations Research from UT Austin.
Hans Petter (HP) Dalen, Sales Executive AI Governance at IBM EMEA
HP is leading IBM’s AI Governance business in EMEA, providing clarity on how to implement and use AInresponsibly. He has previously been leading IBM’s collaboration business as well as IBM’s business intelligence business in EMEA. With 23 years in IBM, HP has both broad and specialist knowledge in the transformational journey to become data driven and AI trustworthy.
IN REPLAY - From Data Center to Edge Solutions with NetApp AI Storage & NVIDIA Networking
Workshop
AI Application
AI Strategy
AI Technology
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD/DATA INTEGRATION
DATA CENTER
DATABASE
DEEP LEARNING
GDPR
HARDWARE
IOT
02/09/2023
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11:30 - 12:00
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Workshop 2
Martin JEZEQUEL
PNY
During this workshop, Martin Jezequel will explain how PNY mastered AI from Data Center to the Edge thanks to NetApp AI Storage, and orchestrated by NVIDIA Networking. Martin will also describe what is AI and Deep Learning, GPU in deep learning, Unified Hardware with DGX, AI Datacenter platform...
How to Easily Migrate AI models from GPUs to AMD AI Engine Architecture
Workshop
AI Application
AI Technology
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA CENTER
02/09/2023
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11:30 - 12:00
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Workshop 1
Alimul HOQUE
AMD
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
We all love to repurpose publicly available pretrained models for custom projects and demos. It saves time, work, and reduces carbon footprint. AMD’s high-level toolset made this process easy. No FPGA programing, no C++, and no hardware knowledge needed. In this workshop we will take a pretrained public model from model zoo and port it to AMD’s AI Engine devices, all with a couple of bash or python commands..
IN REPLAY - akaCAM: AI-based next generation video monitoring platform
Workshop
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
COMPUTER VISION
DECISION AUTOMATION
DEEP LEARNING
EXPLAINABLE
IDENTITY THEFT
SAAS SOLUTION
SMART BUILDINGS
SMART CAMERA
SMART CITY
SMART FACTORY
VIDEO ANALYTICS
02/09/2023
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12:00 - 12:30
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Workshop 2
Long TRAN-THANH
FPT SOFTWARE
- Introduction of real-world problem that businesses have to tackle nowadays
- How our AI-based video analytics platform (akaCam) can help solving these problems
- Main features of akaCAM
- Customer success stories
- Conclusions
- Q&A
Speaker:
- Associate Professor: Long Tran-Thanh
- Deputy Head (Director of Research), dept. of Computer Science, Warwick, UK.
- Chief Scientific Officer of Actable AI
- Principal Data Scientist at FPT Software
In the recent years, video analytics platforms have become an efficient tool for businesses as they can be used to improve business operations and decision-making processes.
In this workshop, we introduce akaCAM, our powerful platform that allows businesses to extract insights from their video data that can be fed into their operation and decision-making processes to improve their performance. Our platform offers a range of features including object recognition, facial recognition, and motion detection, which can help businesses optimize their operations and improve customer experience.
From the technological perspective, akaCam uses advanced machine learning algorithms to analyse video data and extract insights. The platform is also highly scalable and computationally fast, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes.
IN REPLAY - Leverage AI to Predict Future Outcomes and Enhance Financial and Operational Planning
Workshop
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA STRATEGY
DECISION AUTOMATION
DEMAND-SUPPLY
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
FORECAST
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
TIME SERIES
02/09/2023
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14:00 - 14:30
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Workshop 1
Joonas ALASAARI
Visa LINKIO
IBM
You can’t realize the value of your data if you rely on manual disconnected and error-prone processes. IBM Planning Analytics with Watson allows you to unify and streamline planning, budgeting, and forecasting, fueled by AI, across every part of your organization. Hear from Vaasan, a Finnish bakery, along with their Analytics Partner, Intito, on how to utilize planning technology to deliver faster, more agile integrated plans that can pivot in real time and arm you with predictive insights to enhance business workflow.
Speaker Bio's
Joonas Alasaari, Senior Business Controller at Vaasan Oy
Joonas Alasaari is a Senior Business Controller working for Vaasan Finland (Fresh bread baking Finland and Baltics.) Hailing from Pori, Finland, he has a M.Sc BA from Turku School of Business. Mr Alasaari is an experienced finance and sales professional with background on finance, controlling and key account management and is heavily focused on analytics and automation. He leads the controlling team with focus on co-piloting the business and modern and innovative reporting solutions and is a firm believer on integrated business planning. His next professional goal is to learn more about long term data management. He also has background on both multinational business (Nestlé) and local Finnish companies.
Visa Linkiö, Lead Data Scientist at Intito
Visa is a Lead Data Scientist who has developed and deployed scalable AI products in the Nordic countries. He is responsible for AI products and projects at Intito. Over the last 4 years, he has helped a dozen customers to advance on their AI journeys. His interests include forecasting, outlier detection, and mathematical optimization.
IN REPLAY - Purposeful AI in action, from saving lives, the planet and winning competitions
Workshop
AI Strategy
AI Technology
DATA ANALYSIS
SUSTAINABILITY
Sport / Gaming
02/09/2023
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14:00 - 14:30
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Workshop 2
Olivier PENEL
Federica CITTERIO
SAS INSTITUTE
The hype around AI continues, but the journey from the data science ivory tower to a fully operational AI application delivering value requires a lot more than just algorithms.
In this session, you will learn what it takes to deliver results with AI, using real-life case studies, from supporting the pre-implantation assessment of kidneys with computer vision, to informing sport strategies with a wide variety of analytical techniques or contributing to net-zero strategies with predictive maintenance and energy consumption optimization.
The keys to success: accessibility, collaboration, deployment agility, governance and transparency.
TAIPY - Groupe Les Mousquetaires
Workshop
AI Application
AI Strategy
AI Technology
API
BIG DATA
DASHBOARD
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA MANAGEMENT
GRAPH
OPEN SOURCE
PERFORMANCE/EFFICIENCY
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
02/09/2023
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14:30 - 15:00
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Workshop 2
TAIPY
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
Taipy - Bringing AI to the Business User - Retail Use Case: Cash Flow Management Groupe Les Mousquetaires
One of the biggest challenges that developers of Big Data and AI applications face is delivering a solution that can be used by businesses on a regular basis to drive decision-making. Groupe Les Mousquetaires, a leading European retail group, will showcase how they used Taipy, a development tool, to build a cash flow application that helps predict and manage stock.
The use of Taipy was central to the development of this AI application, as it allowed for fast development and provided a unique "what-if '' analysis feature through the use of scenarios, which was essential for user acceptance of the AI algorithms.
The high-speed development capabilities of Taipy facilitated seamless communication between data science teams and business users, enabling the finance department to automatically generate, script, and execute algorithms for cash-flow forecasting. The implementation of the CFM project with Taipy resulted in more active cash management, leading to gains by accurately identifying the best times and amounts to invest or borrow, as well as selecting the most suitable investment vehicles. This project generated a high return on investment, which was further increased by rising inflation.
In this talk, we will demonstrate how Taipy's low-code GUI component can be used to create visually appealing and interactive dashboards, as well as how Taipy Core can be utilized to efficiently manage complex data flows.
IN REPLAY - Building Scalable Data and AI Solutions for Industries
Workshop
AI Technology
AI Today & Tomorrow
AI for Society
AI leader voices
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
CLOUD COMPUTING
PERFORMANCE/EFFICIENCY
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
02/09/2023
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14:30 - 15:00
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Workshop 1
Fuat AYGIN
HUAWEI
Artificial intelligence will transform many companies and create completely new types of businesses. Data and AI have social, political and business effects, transforming many modern industries. With the rise of AI, businesses are figuring out how to architect their companies to leverage AI capabilities. Creating high-quality datasets is essential to successful artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Huawei Cloud and its partners can play an important role in supporting businesses to navigate shortcomings related to data practices by building scalable data-based AI solutions, considering all potential end users of AI systems, and the overall IT infrastructure.
IN REPLAY - Hybrid AI applied to NLP
Workshop
AI Strategy
AI Technology
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (NLU)
SEMANTIC
02/09/2023
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15:00 - 15:30
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Workshop 1
Mathieu DELPECH
EXPERT AI
The last few decades, advances in AI have consisted of separately improving the symbolic approach (by rules) and the statistical approach (by machine-learning). Now is the time to reconcile them. In this presentation you will discover what hybrid AI is, why hybrid AI matters, and how it is applied to NLP.
AI amplifies the reach of OCR to drive hyper automation
Workshop
COMPUTER VISION
DATA PREPARATION
DATA QUALITY
DECISION AUTOMATION
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
GDPR
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
ROBOTICS
SMART SUPPLY CHAIN
02/09/2023
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15:00 - 15:30
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Workshop 2
Mike HOBDAY
ANTWORKS
Going paperless and dealing with digital documents is often seen as getting onto the digitisation journey. Sorry to disappoint you, but capturing an image of a document and throwing the paper in the trash, is neither digitisation nor meaningful automation.
AI/ ML technologies around computer vision, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning have gone fully mainstream and making a profound impact across our personal and professional lives. It is a truism that "OCR" impacts only 20% of documents with unstructured documents being largely out of reach. It is also a reality that humans communicate in ‘unstructured formats’ that are not easily amenable to traditional document extractors. As Yoda might say, “Real life is not, in a form, summarised”.
Enter CMR+ (Cognitive Machine Reading) the smart solution to processing documents with genuine intelligence and continuous learning. The platform vision follows the lead of RPA to enable citizen developer configure algorithms and business rules to read typical documents encountered daily including emails, invoices and long-form contract documents.
This technology reaches the parts of a process that OCR and RPA cannot.
Join our session as we explore how CMR+ emulates human’s speed-reading a document, finding nuggets of data embedded in paragraphs and enriching data for usage in downstream systems. The business impacts include driving new product innovation, 10x jump in productivity, improved customer service and high compliance.
IN REPLAY - KONICA MINOLTA - AI AND THE GENIUS OF THINGS
Workshop
AI Application
AI Technology
COGNITIVE COMPUTING
COMPUTER VISION
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
SMART CAMERA
VIDEO ANALYTICS
02/09/2023
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15:30 - 16:00
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Workshop 2
KONICA MINOLTA
What’s one of the main limits for AI to be widely used in different contexts and applications?
Across many industries, there appears to be no one-fit-all AI solution as every company has its own products, processes, and problems. Therefore, every new installation requires a high level of customisation to satisfy the strict requirements of the end user and their customer.
At the WAICF23 Konica Minolta is presenting AI Studio, a solution and an approach which enables scalability and makes it easy for everyone to extend the use of machine learning tools. With an intuitive approach, even someone who is not an expert can start using AI for example to monitor a production line automatically, verify the quality of products on a conveyor belt or automatically extract information from a document.
Discover how Konica Minolta can make your work life easier.
As a provider of solutions and services for digital workplaces, Konica Minolta and its R&D teams are your partners to define and bring forward your AI use cases for Video Solutions for industrial and manufacturing contexts and for the intelligent management of your documents. We are looking for partners and new cooperation for expressing our thought leadership.
AI Studio is part of an evolving paradigm on how to expand and automate your and your partners’ offerings in AI within a wide range of applications.
Visit our booth to experience in person the applications of AI Studio for Mobotixcameras and for extracting information from digital documents.
Optimizing Machine Learning with Cloud-based IPUs: Techniques, Best Practices, and Cost-saving Strategies
Workshop
02/09/2023
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15:30 - 16:00
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Workshop 1
GRAPHCORE
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
In this workshop discusses the benefits and usage of Cloud-based Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for Machine Learning (ML) models. It may explore the various applications of Cloud IPUs, such as image classification, object detection, machine translation, language modeling, sentiment analysis, and speech recognition. It may also provide guidance on how to set up and manage IPU clusters, including information on configuring instances, creating and managing IPU clusters, and automating the deployment of ML models to the cluster. The workshop may also mention best practices for scaling IPU clusters to meet the demands of different ML workloads.
Speaker:
- Vsevolod Vayner, Product Director at Gcore
Ezmeral Unified Analytics Smart Diagnosis use case
Workshop
AI Technology
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
CLOUD DATA ANALYSIS
DATA ANALYSIS
OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE
02/09/2023
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16:00 - 16:30
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Workshop 2
Valery LOISEAU
HPE - INTEL
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
HPE Ezmeral provides software foundations to help end-users develop and deploy data and analytic applications across hybrid cloud environments. HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics provides a curated, managed set of popular open-source frameworks targeting workloads in data engineering, large scale data analytics, BI reporting and exploratory data science, AI, and ML.
While developing with open-source is growing in popularity across enterprise development teams, managing open-source frameworks introduces several operational overheads such as for harmonizing versions, patches for security and compliance.
HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics provides a fully managed, integrated and supported set of open-source frameworks freeing up the end user to focus on development while HPE manages the tools for you. Frameworks include Apache Spark, Apache Superset, Presto SQL, Apache Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, Feast and Great Expectations.
HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics provides a fully managed, integrated and supported set of open-source frameworks freeing up the end user to focus on development while HPE manages the tools for you. Frameworks include Apache Spark, Apache Superset, Presto SQL, Apache Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, Feast and Great Expectations.
The workshop explains an HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics use case from the health industry.
More information about here : HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics
Custom Approach vs. Turnkey Platform: Navigating the Industrialization of AI-
Workshop
02/09/2023
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16:30 - 17:00
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Workshop 1
SCALIAN
This session will be only accessible live in the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals de Cannes.
Are you interested in learning about the industrialization of artificial intelligence?
This workshop will provide valuable insights on how to effectively implement AI in industrial settings. Our experts will guide you through the pros and cons or key assets of adopting a custom approach versus using a turnkey platform. You will also have the opportunity to see real-world examples of successful AI industrialization and learn from industry leaders.
With our valuable knowledge and insights you could stay competitive and concrete. Join us and let's explore together the best approach for your organization or your project to industrialize AI.
Custom Approach vs. Turnkey Platform: Navigating the Industrialization of AI
Workshop
AI Strategy
AI for Society
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA GOVERNANCE
DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA QUALITY
DATA STRATEGY
DECISION AUTOMATION
DECISION MARKETING
PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
02/09/2023
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16:30 - 17:00
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Workshop 1
Mathieu DAMOUR
Enrique MOTA
SCALIAN
Are you interested in learning about the industrialization of artificial intelligence?
This workshop will provide valuable insights on how to effectively implement AI in industrial settings. Our experts will guide you through the pros and cons or key assets of adopting a custom approach versus using a turnkey platform. You will also have the opportunity to see real-world examples of successful AI industrialization and learn from industry leaders.
With our valuable knowledge and insights you could stay competitive and concrete. Join us and let's explore together the best approach for your organization or your project to industrialize AI.
IN REPLAY - AI in Computer Vision: market opportunities, trends, and challenges
Workshop
AI Strategy
AI Today & Tomorrow
COMPUTER VISION
EDGE AI
FACE RECOGNITION
Key players insights
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
PERFORMANCE/EFFICIENCY
SMART CAMERA
SMART CITY
SMART FACTORY
SOFTWARE
02/10/2023
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10:00 - 10:30
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Workshop 1
Flavio DEVIDÉ
Paul NEIL
AXELERA AI
Paul Neil, VP Product Management & Flavio Devidé, Head of Go-to-Market
From ADAS to machine vision, autonomous stores, and surveillance systems, computer vision is pervasive in many different industries, enabling a variety of use cases that can solve business challenges and create new revenue streams. The paradigm shift toward Edge Computing reduces the solution total cost of ownership, while the underlying deep learning models keep evolving.
How can you evolve your business with Edge AI?
In this workshop we will explore the market trends, opportunities and challenges of applying AI to Computer vision. We’ll see how Axelera AI is disrupting the market with a future-proof, cost-effective and user-friendly hardware and software AI platform to accelerate computer vision at the Edge.
How to scale AI teams ?
Workshop
AI Strategy
AI Technology
02/10/2023
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10:30 - 11:00
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Workshop 2
Alexis BERGES
PRELIGENS
Proud to constitute and manage at Preligens the largest team specialized in AI for defense and intelligence in Europe, Alexis Bergès - our AI Director - will give a retrospective of the company's scaling experience and share some best practices. What are the challenges associated with expanding AI teams within an organization? Are there alternatives for more effective scaling? What kind of key skills to look for when hiring your first data scientist? How do you manage and structure the scaling of your AI team? What are the main pitfalls to avoid?
If you still have questions after this workshop, we will be at booth A38 in the rotunda to answer them.
How AI Assists Broadcasters Improve Content Quality and Remain Competitive
Workshop
02/10/2023
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11:00 - 11:30
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Workshop 1
Jens STAPELFELDT
Guglielmo ZANNI
AMD
This workshop will give some details about how AI can be used to improve the quality of a Radio station and how this technology is being used today. Join this talk to learn about how AI networks analyze live Radio streams and provide Metadata that is used to improve the program as well as increasing ROI of advertising.
IN REPLAY - AI & Trust at the core with Crédit Mutuel: Let’s make it real !
Workshop
BIG DATA
CLOUD/DATA INTEGRATION
CONVERSATIONAL AI
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DATA GOVERNANCE
DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA STRATEGY
ETHIC
EXPLAINABLE
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
SUSTAINABILITY
02/10/2023
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11:00 - 11:30
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Workshop 2
Jean-Philippe DESBIOLLES
Carolina CAMACHO
Laurent PRUDHON
IBM
Ethic and trust in AI are definitively hype topics that many people are talking about but only a few are making it real and at scale within big organizations.
Crédit Mutuel and IBM created and operationalized a Cognitive Factory that manages dozens of use cases through various business domains.
Now, it is time to talk about the AI Trust Platform that this Partnership is building which will ensure transparency, explainability and fairness without forgetting human oversight.
During this session we will share what we are doing, learning and projecting for the future.
Speaker Bios
Jean-Philippe Desbiolles, Managing Director and Vice President, Financial Services, IBM
Named the "French Doctor Watson" by Forbes magazine, Jean-Philippe Desbiolles has contributed to the world's largest cognitive projects in the banking & insurance sectors. He has worked extensively in Asia, United State of America and Europe, shaping and delivering digital transformational projects combining best-of-breed technologies.
Author of the books "AI will be what you make of it : the 10 golden rules of AI"published in 2019 & “Human or AI? Who will decide the future?” which will be published in March 2023, he aims at demystifying the new rules of the game in this new Human/Machine collaboration.”
Jean-Philippe Desbiolles is also teaching AI & Data transformation in several executive education programs, as HEC Executive MBA – Major “Leading Digital Transformation”.
Carolina Camacho, AI & Transformation – Associate Partner IBM
Born in Colombia, Carolina Camacho moved to France at the age of 18 and has lived and worked in consulting firms for the past 17 years. Her blend of Latin American and European cultures has given her a unique perspective on the world, which she has used to drive transformation and the adoption of new technologies for more than 10 clients throughout her career.
For the last 2,5 years, she has been leading for IBM, jointly with her client, the Crédit Mutuel’s Cognitive Factory, a dedicated team of more than 140 talents focused on improving even more customer and bank advisors' experience.
She believes that technology can only be driven by human adoption based on trust, and has dedicated her career to helping organizations make the most of the latest technologies particularly in AI.
She is currently an Associate-Partner at IBM, where she continues to drive innovation and transformation for her clients, mainly for the Crédit Mutuel. Throughout her journey, she has proven to be a dynamic leader with a passion for driving change and empowering others.
Laurent Prud’hon, Cognitive Factory Leader, Credit Mutuel
Credit Mutuel, a leading French bank and insurance company with more than 30 million customers and 72,000 employees, realized very early that AI would be a key transformative technology to continue to provide the best services to its customers, in an always more competitive and complex digital world. In 2015, Crédit Mutuel president Nicolas Théry and Euro Information CIO Frantz Rublé decided to pioneer the use of AI at scale in the banking industry. To speed up the deployment of AI in all business lines, they created a “Cognitive Factory”in partnership with IBM : a dedicated team of AI specialists in charge of innovation, industrialization and deployment of cognitive solutions in the company. Laurent Prud’hon, previously in charge of entreprise architecture, was appointed to grow this Cognitive Factory. In 2022, the Cognitive and OCR Factory employs 200 people, with integrated teams of Crédit Mutuel and IBM resources : innovative use cases, industrial methods and tools were built and refined over the last 6 years to enable the successful deployment of dozens of cognitive and OCR solutions in production, with sizable gains in simplicity and efficiency for our customers and employees.
Disrupt or be Disrupted: Unlocking the Potential of NLP AI in Traditional Knowledge Industries
Workshop
02/10/2023
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11:30 - 12:00
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Workshop 2
GRAPHCORE
Recent advancements in NLP demonstrate AI conquering applications that use increasingly unstructured data sources. Methods of data science and machine learning have become prevalent in data-intensive fields such as insurance, natural sciences, and engineering. However, sectors where textual representation is crucial, such as legal and professional services, have been relatively unaffected. During this workshop, you'll hear three key reasons why this opportunity is so vast for both intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs, and three essential steps for innovators seeking to bust open the doors of traditional knowledge industries with NLP AI. We'll also discuss new cloud and MLOps technologies from Graphcore and GCore cloud that should be on your radar to aid in delivering these AI services to production.
Speaker:
- Luke Markham, Field Applications Engineer at Graphcore
CONFINDUSTRIA UDINE - IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION - The imminent European AI regulation and the industrial preparedness and response
Workshop
AI Strategy
CYBERSECURITY
DATA GOVERNANCE
ETHIC
RESEARCH
02/10/2023
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11:30 - 12:00
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Workshop 1
Anna MARESCHI DANIELI
Angelo MONTANARI
Konstantinos KARACHALIOS
CONFINDUSTRIA UDINE
IEEE
UNIVERSITY OF UDINE
While there is still no universal alignment on the AI and AI systems definition, the potential of AI applications across industry sectors and academia is undeniable.
Still, the operationalization and scaling up of AI systems is not a given. The upcoming AI Act aims to create a transparent and coherent framework for AI systems, but related obligations create concerns about conformity requirements and a possible slowing down of deployment of AI solutions.
The workshop brings together representatives of different stakeholders of the AI ecosystem: manufacturing industry, startups, academia and standardization to discuss about definition and applications of AI, advantages, challenges and opportunities, regional nuances, along with the expected impact of the upcoming AI Act and the role of standardization to assess conformity to the AI regulation.
SPEAKERS:
Anna Mareschi Danieli – Member of the Group Executive board Danieli & C. SPA and Vice President Confindustria Udine - Moderator
Angelo Montanari – Full professor of Computer Science at the Università degli Studi di Udine and Coordinator of the Scientifc Council of iNEST
Konstantinos Karachalios – Managing Director IEEE SA
IN REPLAY - The surprising ineffectiveness of modern generative AI for complex knowledge work and how to solve this industrial revolution. By Aleph Alpha
Workshop
AI Application
AI Technology
AI Today & Tomorrow
AI for Society
02/10/2023
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12:00 - 12:30
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Workshop 2
Markus SCHMITZ
HPE - INTEL
The abundance of information and knowledge in today's digital age has made it difficult for individuals to find accurate and reliable information. The next generation of AI, based on large language models, has the potential to aid knowledge workers, but it faces challenges in processing complex data and providing trustworthy information. Lumi, a conversational interface powered by Aleph Alpha's Luminous models, addresses these issues by referring to a knowledgebase and providing information to the user. By using an optimized search model, this allows for fast searches and content embeddings, providing a real-time solution for knowledge workers in need of accurate information.
Markus Schmitz, AI Delivery @Aleph Alpha
Aleph Alpha
Pioneer sovereign, European AI Technology to transform human-machine interaction that can find solutions for the challenges of tomorrow.
European AI value chain
We aspire to innovation leadership in AI to ensure sovereignty for our public and private sector partners. For that, we provide a complete “Made in Europe” AI value chain offering, ranging from research and development over computing to consulting.
IN REPLAY - Adding Responsible NLP to your AI Kit
Workshop
AI Strategy
EXPLAINABLE
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (NLU)
SUSTAINABILITY
02/10/2023
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14:00 - 14:30
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Workshop 1
Christophe AUBRY
EXPERT AI
Nearly 80% of enterprise data is unstructured and language-based, making it much less accessible. Join this session to learn how your data science and artificial intelligence teams can successfully turn your language assets into data to enhance analytics and inform better decisions. Start learning how to analyze complex documents, extract language data to accelerate intelligent process automation projects, and analyze the “signal through the noise” to understand market and customer insights. Increase the accuracy, ROI and explainability of NLP projects with real-life examples of three keys to natural language processing (NLP) success. Learn how to simplify, accelerate, and improve your natural language using customizable pre-built domain specific knowledge models and hear about other NLP use cases approaches that deliver quick value for any business.
IN REPLAY - DX Garage - A framework to navigate your digital transformation journey.
Workshop
BIG DATA
CLOUD COMPUTING
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
02/10/2023
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14:00 - 14:30
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Workshop 2
Fabien ROUDIER
Alexandre BUHL
FPT SOFTWARE
Digital Transformation initiatives often end up as a waste of budget because of various reasons – from planning and implementation to transition and technology adoption – all these aspects can deem the failure without the appropriate roadmap. With DX Garage – a method conceived at FPT Software – Fabien Roudier will envisage a rational roadmap to adopt Cloud Computing and Big Data, therefore speeding up the Digital Transformation journey. The DX Garage will solve the conundrum of enabling Digital Transformation, as well as operational efficiency and cost reduction.
Speaker:
- Fabien Roudier: As an expert in Design Thinking, Fabien helps with Value-driven workshops and Problem-Solving in Digital Transformation for enterprises. While most of the Digital Transformation initiatives will become a waste of budget due to various issues in planning, implementation, change management, technology adoption, etc., Fabien helps envisage the roadblocks in consideration of industry knowledge and craft the roadmap for transformation and transition. With DX Garage – a method conceived at FPT Software – Fabien delivers value-driven MVP, accelerating the journey to Digital Transformation.
AlphaWingman project introduction
Workshop
AI Application
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
DECISION AUTOMATION
DEEP LEARNING
Sport / Gaming
VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)
02/10/2023
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14:30 - 15:00
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Workshop 2
Frederic COUBARD
ARMEE DE L'AIR
Relatively recent news in Artificial Intelligence has shown this through Psybernetix's Alpha AI in 2015, up to DARPA's AlphaDogfight competition in 2020, in works ultimately exposing a confrontation between AI and the fighter pilot.
AlphaWingman is a French Air and Space Force innovation project. It aims to explore the use of the most recent technologies in AI. The approach in this project rather targets the search for performance in the duo: combat pilot and AI.
This workshop will introduce:
- The approach followed by the project, which relies on an eSport context to carry out its explorations.
- Some first achievements.
- Possible future areas of collaboration.
IN REPLAY - Presentation of a concrete case of the use of Artificial Intelligence to fight against invasive species in aquatic environments
Workshop
AI Today & Tomorrow
AI for Society
REALTIME
SMART CAMERA
SUSTAINABILITY
02/10/2023
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15:00 - 15:30
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Workshop 1
Benjamin MILLE
HUAWEI
To prevent invasive pink salmon (Pacific salmon) from entering the norwegian fjords ecosystem and protect native wild Atlantic salmon from extinction and to improve river conservation efficiency Huawei has developed the world’s first AI-based automated salmon filtering system deployed in a natural river. It has proven to be effective in the field since full pilot implementation in June 2022. In 2021, Huawei Norway and Berlevåg Hunting and Fishing Association (BJFF) began working together to develop an automated, AI-powered fish-filtering system to address the issue. As a world first, the solution had to be designed from scratch. Huawei Norway and BJFF developed a fish-recognition algorithm based on tens of thousands of images collected from underwater cameras from late June to September 2021. The algorithm can identify Atlantic salmon and pink salmon with 90% accuracy. In June 2022, the first an AI-powered fish trap was deployed in Storelva river in Norway.
Why we need algorithms to audit algorithms
Workshop
AI Application
AI REGULATION
AI Technology
DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA QUALITY
EXPERIMENT TRACKING
GDPR
RESEARCH
SOFTWARE
TRUST
02/10/2023
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15:00 - 15:30
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Workshop 2
Benoit ROTTEMBOURG
INRIA ACADEMY
Algorithmic recommendations are part of our daily lives. TikTok, Tinder, Deliveroo, Uber, Expedia, Booking.com, Spotify, Youtube, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram ... feed their algorithms from hundreds of billions of our interactions with them. We are two billion humans training them to influence us.
But who audits these algorithms, who checks that they do not cheat us, that they respect the rules of law: competition, consumer, labor, privacy and that they do not discriminate against us?
After illustrating the main families of violated rights and the evolution of the European regulatory framework, we will try to highlight the new challenges posed by the audit of these algorithms, for the authorities in charge of their supervision and regulation, and even for the companies themselves, producing user-facing AI. We will insist on the role played by artificial intelligence and the new manipulations it allows, as well as the difficulty to audit algorithms that are both personalized and multi-dimensional. We will evoke the notion of black box auditing which seems to us a key element to regain transparency.
IN REPLAY - Conversational AI and Smart Document Understanding
Workshop
BIG DATA
CLOUD/DATA INTEGRATION
CONVERSATIONAL AI
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DATA GOVERNANCE
DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA STRATEGY
ETHIC
EXPLAINABLE
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)
SUSTAINABILITY
02/10/2023
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15:30 - 16:00
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Workshop 1
Manish SAMPAT
IBM
Over the past few months, there has been an increase in the world’s focus on AI. Millions around the world have interacted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, revolutionizing the way people think about AI in practice. While advances and innovations in natural language AI modeling have met the hype, businesses today are looking for solutions that can be easily customized based on their domain and business priorities with significantly higher accuracy and reliability. In this session we will discuss how IBM meets the unique needs of its clients using AI for customer care. Join our session and learn how AI software like IBM Watson Assistant and IBM Watson Discovery can help take your customer experience to the next level, leveraging conversational AI, intelligent document understanding, and Speech transcription and analysis capabilities designed to meet your business needs.
Speaker Bios
Manish Sampat, Worldwide Sales Lead Customer Care / Watson / AI
Manish Sampat is the Worldwide Sales Leader for Customer Care and IBM Watson. In this role, Manish is responsible for driving and supporting our Customer Care and Watson practices worldwide. Manish works with customers and partners to identify and develop use cases, support local teams to drive customer success, and enable our customers, partners, and local teams on new product features / capabilities. He works with our teams on deal support and engages with local teams to ensure client success and satisfaction.
Manish joined Watson in 2015 and has served a variety of roles. Manish was a Strategic Partnership executive who delivered valuable solutions to our ISV partners using Watson AI and ML. He managed partnerships with key clients such as H&R Block, VMWare, BMC, Siemens, HCL and DXC among others. Manish also led and delivered Cognitive Value Assessments to clients. In these engagements, Manish led Design Thinking workshops to identify and prioritize use cases, built a business case and roadmap for execution. In addition, Manish worked with architects to deliver Proof of Concept of the solution.
Prior to Watson, Manish managed IBM’s Client Experience and Global Innovation Programs, which includes Innovation Discovery workshops, a program sponsored by IBM’s Chief Executive Officer. He was responsible for all aspects workshop and client experience interaction which includes working closely with senior executives to create collaborative, creative events that uncover new opportunities to innovate business models, operations, products and services.
Manish spent over ten years of his career in IBM Consulting and led engagements focusing on strategic planning, financial analyses, and business process improvement. Manish worked primarily with Consumer Packaged Goods clients but also worked in Retail, Travel & Transportation, Industrial Products, Specialty Chemicals, Petroleum and Telecommunications industries. Manish also served as the Global Value Realization leader, Consumer Products Leader for IBM’s Institute of Business Value and the Consumer Products & Retail Component Business Model (CBM) subject matter expert while in IBM Consulting.
Manish has over 25 years of experience in business development, consulting and accounting. Manish has a MBA / JD with honors from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Unlocking the power of your knowledge graphs with Web standards and the open source platform CORESE
Workshop
AI Technology
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA MANAGEMENT
DECISION AUTOMATION
GRAPH
KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH
SEMANTIC
SOFTWARE
WEB MONITORING
02/10/2023
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15:30 - 16:00
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Workshop 2
Fabien GANDON
INRIA ACADEMY
Corese is an open source software platform implementing and processing Web standards for creating, manipulating, parsing, serializing, querying, reasoning and validating knowledge graphs (RDF/S, SHACL, SPARQL, OWL, etc.). In this talk we will introduce these data standards and the basic manipulations of these knowledge graphs supported by Corese. We will give an overview of the capabilities and extensions offered by the different versions of this open-source software (library, server, stand-alone, command-line, etc) and provided to support your AI projects in consuming and producing knowledge graphs.
AI for human-like navigation in unstructured and human-populated spaces
Workshop
AI Application
AI Technology
AI for Society
COMPUTER VISION
DECISION AUTOMATION
DIGITAL HUMAN
FACE RECOGNITION
IOT
REALTIME
RESEARCH
ROBOTICS
SECURITY
SMART CAMERA
SMART CITY
SOFTWARE
VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)
02/10/2023
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16:00 - 16:30
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Workshop 2
Maria KABTOUL
INRIA ACADEMY
Navigation in unstructured and shared spaces with humans is a highly challenging task where the current autonomous systems can trip and fail. With the growing use cases for autonomous driving and autonomous mobile robots (AMR), these entities will be required to operate within dynamic spaces in proximity with humans and without any marking on the ground to lead their way. This is essential for many applications from autonomous driving in city centers, to various retail and service robotics applications.
As a result of years of research in robotics, computer vision and AI at Inria, Automatika Robotics is offering the AI for social, cooperative, and human-like navigation technologies required for robotic applications in shared and unstructured spaces.
IN REPLAY - Reach greater impact for your projects: Using MLOps to implement robust ML systems
Workshop
AI Strategy
AI Technology
BIG DATA
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD/DATA INTEGRATION
DATA STRATEGY
ETHIC
EXPERIMENT TRACKING
EXPLAINABLE
FAIR DATA
MODEL DRIFT
MODEL MONITORING
MODEL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
MODEL VALIDATION
MODELOPS
OPEN SOURCE
REALTIME
02/10/2023
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16:00 - 16:30
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Workshop 1
Cyril MARÉCHAL
Branavan SUBRAMANIAM
DEVOTEAM
As AI adoption grows, people focus more and more on a set of machine learning practices to control production quality. We help you define the different MLOps practices and their unique challenges. We deep-dive into the different components your machine learning systems should have to ensure that you can quickly, confidently, and repeatedly release your models into production. Finally, Devoteam G Cloud will show you a concrete architecture example of how MLOps is done with the help of Google Cloud.
How can readers trust media anymore ? AI in the media space, from generated content to deep fakes...where is the trust?
Workshop
TRUST
02/10/2023
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16:30 - 17:00
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Workshop 1
Faveeo Essentials
How can readers trust media anymore ? AI in the media space, from generated content to deep fakes...where is the trust?
AI is a transformative technology that has incredible opportunities in the media and the content space. From generating content in text, video and even music, "content" is now becoming easier than ever to produce. The flip side of this is that anything can now be generated as content which risks seeing a massive influx of low-value generated content flooding our online experience. We're going to discuss how to use AI to mitigate the rise of fake content, and build systems and algorithms that focus on creating a web of trust.
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