AI World Conference & Expo 2018 | Cambridge Innovation | 3 December 2018 | Seaport Hotel, 1 Seaport Ln, Boston, MA 02210, USA

AI World Conference and Expo is focused on the state of the practice of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. Now in our third year, the 3-day conference and expo are designed for business and technology executives who want to learn about innovative implementations of AI in the enterprise. Enterprise organizations face conflicting priorities. Where do they turn to cut through the hype and determine how to prioritize AI strategies and technologies for their business? AI World is organized around this singular goal, enabling business leaders to learn how to use AI to build a competitive advantage, drive new business models and opportunities, reduce operational costs and accelerate your innovation efforts.

2018 Speakers

Ed Addison
CEO, Cloud Pharmaceuticals

Navid Alipour
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Analytics Ventures

Slava Akmaev
Senior Vice President & Chief Analytics Officer, BERG

Heather Ames Versace, PhD
COO and Co-Founder, Neurala

Katherine Andriole, PhD
Director, Research Strategy and Operations, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science; Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Steve Ardire
AI Startup Advisor & ‘Merchant of Light’

Sandy Aronson
Executive Director, IT, Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine

Upal Basu
Partner, NGP Capital

Amélie Boichard, PharmD, PhD
Project Scientist, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, UCSD Moores Cancer Center

John Baldoni, PhD
Senior Vice President, Insilico Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline

Amir Banifatemi, PhD
AI Lead, Xprize

Bryan Bell
Executive Vice President, Expert System

Jay Bellissimo
Managing Partner, Cognitive Process Transformation, IBM Services

Dimitris Bertsimas, PhD
Operations Research Center and Sloan School of Management, MIT

Ashley Blake
Director, Digital Product Management - Conversational Platform & Virtual Agent (Chatbot), USAA

Russell Blattner
CEO and Co-Founder, Lucd

Paul Bleicher
CEO, OptumLabs

Isaac Bogoch, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Consultant and General Internist at the Toronto General Hospital

Robert Bogucki
Chief Technology Officer, deepsense.ai

Karim Botros
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, The MetroHealth System

Chris Bouton
CEO, Vyasa Analytics

Jim Brase
Chief Technical Officer & Interim Co-Lead, ATOM; Deputy Associate Director for Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

David Bray, PhD
Faculty, Singularity University & Senior Fellow, Institute for Human-Machine Cognition

Nick Brestoff
CEO, Intraspexion

Ed Burns
Editor, TechTarget

Christopher Carothers, PhD
Technology & Academic Advisor, Research & Development, Lucd

Matthew Carroll
CEO, Immuta

Jie Cheng, PhD
Associate Director, Data & Statistical Sciences, AbbVie

Wei-Yi Cheng, PhD
Senior Data Scientist, Roche

Carolyn Cho
Director, Immunology Therapeutic Area Pharmacometrics Lead, Merck

Danielle Ciofani
Director of Data Strategy and Alliances, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

David Colarusso, PhD
Professor, Suffolk University

Jonathan Dahlberg
Data Scientist, DataRobot

Mark Davies
Vice President, Biomedical Informatics, Benevolent AI

Boyd Davis
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence, Accenture

John Desmond
Editor, AI Trends

Adam Devine
SVP Marketing, Chief Evangelist, WorkFusion

Wael William Diab
Steering Committee, Industrial Internet Consortium; Huawei

Matt Doherty
Founder and CTO, RESOLUTE.AI

Jonathan Dry
Director of Bioinformatics, Oncology, AstraZeneca

Lynn Dunbrack
Research Vice President, IDC Health Insights

Lance Eliot, PhD
CEO, Techbrium, Inc.

Susan Feldman
Co-Founder, Cognitive Computing Consortium

Sheldon Fernandez
CEO, DarwinAI

Sanjeeva L Fernando
Vice President and Head of the OptumLabs Center for Applied Data Science (CADS), OptumLabs

Balazs Flink, MD
Clinical Trial Analytics Lead, R&D Business Insights and Analytics, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Walter Frick
Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review

Tsvi Gal
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Dany De Grave
Senior Director, Innovation Programs and External Networks, Sanofi

Inmar Givoni, PhD
Machine Learning at University of Toronto, Autonomy Engineering Manager, Uber ATG

Pawel Godula
Director of Customer Analytics, deepsense.ai

Jonathan Gordon
Director, NYP Ventures at New York-Presbyterian

Francis Govers
Autonomy Lead, Bell Helicopter

Russ Grenier, PhD
Professor, University of Alberta

Steve Grobman
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, McAfee

Jeremy Gu
Senior Data Scientist, Uber

Basker Gummadi
Digital Innovation Lead, Bayer

Anju Gupta
Head of Sustainability Campaign, Syngenta

Sharad Gupta
Director of Enterprise Architecture, Blue Shield of California

Wayne Haubner
Chief Innovation Officer, Synergi Partners

John Harrsen
VP Cloud Product Management at Graphcore

Peter Henstock, PhD
AI & Machine Learning Lead, Pfizer

Sara Holoubek
CEO, Luminary Labs

Carl Horton
Associate Partner, IBM

Philip Hunter
Research Fellow, Rethink

Judith Hurwitz
President, Hurwitz & Associates

Mary Margaret Jacobs
Director, Capacity Management, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Seth Jamison
Principal Solutions Architect, FlashBlade, Pure Storage

Kamal Jethwani, MD
Senior Director, Connected Health Innovation, Partners HealthCare (PHS), Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical
School (HMS)

Deeksha Joshi
Managing Director Corporate Strategy and Research, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Natalija Jovanovic
Head, Digital Catalyst, Sanofi

Krishna Kallakuri
President, Founder, diwo

Dan Kara
Executive Editor, The Robot Report

Matt Karlyn
Co-Chair Technology Industry Team, Foley & Lardner LLP

Aditya Kaul
Research Director, Tractica

Josh Kellar, PhD
Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Chida Khatua
CEO, Equbot

Keith Kirkpatrick
Principal Analyst, Tractica

David Kiron, PhD
Executive Editor, MIT Sloan Management Review

Srinivas Krovvidy
Director, Technology, Fannie Mae

Kashyap Kompella
CEO, RPA2ai

Lalitha Kompella
VP & CTO, Global Head of Intelligent Automation, Genpact

Benn Konsynski
Prof of Information Systems & Operations Mgmt, Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Vishal Kumar
CEO, AnalyticsWEEK

Tolga Kurtoglu, PhD
CEO, PARC

Jason Kurtz
Executive Director, Analytics, Harte Hanks

Dale Kutnick
Senior Vice President, Emeritus, and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

Adam Landman, MD
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Danny Lange, PhD
Vice President, AI and Machine Learning, Unity Technologies

David Ledbetter
Data Scientist, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Michelle Li
Director, MIT Master of Business Analytics Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ser-Nam Lim, PhD
Research Scientist Manager, Facebook Applied Machine Learning

Craig Lipset
Head, Clinical Innovation, Pfizer

Andrew W. Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris
Professor, Professor of Finance, Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management

Scott Lundstrom
Group Vice President & General Manager, IDC

Jai Malhotra
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence, Accenture

Marc Mancher
US Government and Public Services Robotics & Intelligent Automation Lead, Deloitte Consulting LLP

William Mark, PhD
President, Information & Computing Sciences, SRI

Albine Martin, PhD
Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Johns Hopkins University

John Mattison
CIO, Kaiser Permanente

Jelani Akil McLean
Managing Director, Clinical Platforms, BlueCross BlueShield Association

Dipa Talati Mehta
Managing Director, Sandbox Industries

William Meisel, PhD
President, TMA Associates

Laurie Menoud
Investment Manager, BASF Venture Capital

Jan Kanty Milczek
Senior Data Scientist, deepsense.ai

Raj Minhas, PhD
VP and Director of the Interactions and Analytics Lab (IAL), PARC

Norbert Monfort
Vice President, IT Transformation & Innovation, Assurant

Kwame Monthrope
Global CRM Executive, Accenture

Henry Morris, Ph.D.
Former Senior VP of Software and Services Research at IDC, Consultant, Analytics, Henry Morris Analytics

James D. Murray, MS
Vice President, Clinical Informatics and Interoperability, CVS Health

Vivian K. Mushahwar, PhD
Professor, University of Alberta

Eric Neumann, PhD
CEO & Founder, Aidaka

Barry Olafson, PhD
CEO, Protabit LLC

Jeff Orr
Conference Content Director, AI World

Pawel Osterreicher
Director of Strategy & Business Development, deepsense.ai

Scott Parker
Director of Product Marketing, Sinequa

Aalpen A. Patel, MD
Chair, Department of Radiology, Geisinger Health

Nick Patience
Co-Founder & CRO, 451 Research

Brian Pearce
Senior Vice President, AI Enterprise Solutions, Wells Fargo

Karl Pfeiffer
Principal Scientist, Function (AI)

Tom Plasterer
US Cross-Science Director, R&D Information, AstraZeneca

Tulia Plummettaz
Associate Director, Data Science, Wayfair

Mia Puzo
Security SME Manager Security Product Management, Nuance Communications, Inc.

Shriram Ramanathan, PhD
Senior Analyst, Lux Research

Sam Ransbotham, PhD
Guest Editor, MIT Sloan Management Review

Hadley Reynolds
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Cognitive Computing Consortium

Michael Ringel, PhD
Senior Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Larry Ross
Sr. Operations Manager Global Service Support, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)

Tom Ryden
Executive Director, MassRobotics

Manish Sainani
Director - Product Management, Splunk

Parna Sarkar-Basu
CEO, Brand and Buzz Marketing

Curt Savoie
Chief Analytics Officer, Massachusetts Department of Revenue

Drew Scarano
Vice President, Head, North American Sales, WorkFusion

Dave Schubmehl
Research Director Cognitive/AI Systems, IDC

Anthony Scriffignano
SVP, Chief Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet

Ganesan Shankar, PhD
Associate Professor of Technology, Operations, and Information Management, Babson College

Yichen Shen, PhD
CEO, co-founder, Lightelligence

Erica S. Shenoy, MD, PhD
Associate Chief, Infection Control Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Hyunjin (Gene) Shin, PhD
Senior Scientist, Translational Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Group, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Ted Slater
Global Head, Scientific AI & Analytics, Cray

Richard Soley, PhD
Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group (OMG) and Industrial Internet Consortium

Shankar Srinivasan
Head of Engineering, Adobe Cloud Platform, AI and ML, Adobe

Chad Steelberg
Chairman & CEO, Veritone

Andrew Stein
Principal Product Manager, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics, Splunk

Manoj Suvarna
HPC & AI Category Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Krish Swamy
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Analytics and Data Science, Wells Fargo

David Sweenor
Global Analytics & Industry Marketing Leader, TIBCO Software Inc

Said Tabet
Lead Technologist for IoT Strategy and OMG Board Member, DellEMC

Lolita Taub
Principal, Backstage Capital

Gary Tyreman
CEO, Univa

Denise Valentine
Sr Analyst, Aite Group

John Walker
Head, Core Data and Analytics, NIBR Informatics, Novartis

Yiqing Wang, PhD
Data Scientist, Microsoft

Eliot Weinman
Founder and Conference Chair, AI World

James Wester
Research Director, Global Payments, IDC

Scot Whigham
CEO, Function (AI)

Kesha Williams
Senior Software Engineer, Chick-fil-A Corporate

Kazuo Yano, PhD
Fellow, Hitachi Ltd

Les Yeamans
Founder & Executive Editor, RTInsights

Mike Zalis
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, QPID Health

Litao Zhang, PhD
Vice President, Leads Discovery and Optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Shanrong Zhao, PhD
Director, Computational Biology, Pfizer

Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD
Founder, Insilico Medicine

2018 Sponsors

INTERNATIONAL:
• Consulate General of Canada in Boston
• The Michael Dukakis

CORPORATE:
• Veritone
• AntWorks
• IBM Watson

PLATINUM:
• Accenture
• Dell EMC
• Nuance Communications, Inc.
• Protabit
• WorkFusion Intelligent Automation

PARTICIPATING SPONSOR:
• CSAIL

PREMIER BUSINESS MEDIA:
• Fortune

VISION SPONSOR:
• AI XPRIZE

PREMIER MEDIA:
• MIT Sloan Management Review
• AnalyticsWeek

GOLD:
• BERG
• DataRobot
• DDN’s
• diwo
• Immuta
• Mintz
• Optum
• Pure Storage
• Sinequa
• Univa
• Vyasa Analytics

CONFERENCE BREAKFAST:
• Alegion
• Interactions

SILVER:
• Aspera’s
• Dataiku DSS
• Expert System
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• NCI
• NetApp
• Splunk
• UiPath

STRATEGIC:
• deepsense.ai

PREMIER RESEARCH:
• 451 Research
• IDC
• Lux Research
• Rethink
• rpa2ai Research

AI STRATEGY & TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS:
• DataRobot
• Dell EMC
• Nuance Communications, Inc.
• Origenis
• Splunk
• UiPath
• WorkFusion Intelligent Automation

ENTERPRISE AI STRATEGIES:
• Lucd
• Pegasystems Inc.
• Tractica
• Univa

INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANT/BOT WORKSHOP:
• Interactions
• TMA Associates

ASSOCIATION SPONSORS:
• The Applied Voice Input Output Society
• The Cognitive Computing Consortium
• Mass Robotics
• The Object Management Group
• WITI

RESEARCH SPONSORS:
• Function AI
• Hurwitz & Associates
• Juniper Research
• Mobile ID World
• Tractica
• ZK Research

MEDIA SPONSORS:
• AIDL Weekly
• Analytics Ventures
• Fintech Weekly
• Insight Pharma Reports
• LUI News
• KDnuggets
• Inventions
• RTInsights
• Tech Target
• TOP500

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
• Boston New Technology
• StartHub.org