AI World Conference & Expo 2019 | Cambridge Innovation Institute | 23 October 2019 | Seaport World Trade Center, Seaport Ln, Boston, MA 02210, USA

AI World Conference and Expo is the industry’s largest independent AI business event and is focused on the state of the practice of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. This year’s event brought together thousands of attendees from 35 countries and nearly 1,000 organizations of which 37% were Global 2000 and 48% with revenues exceeding $100M. More than 65% of the attendees were decision-makers, 42% at the Executive or Director level, and 22% were Scientists or Technologists.

The conference provided a blend of coverage on important topics including implementing enterprise AI, moving from big data to AI, real-time IoT, cognitive robotics, intelligent assistants & chatbots, natural language solutions, practical AI ethics, business model transformation, cognitive computing, deep learning, cybersecurity, AI in healthcare and pharma, plus much more including a Startup Pavilion and Technology Solutions Theater.

AI World offered dedicated networking opportunities with Business Executives from Global 2000 Companies, CXOs, Innovation Executives, Founders & CEOs of Venture-Backed Tech Companies, VCs, Angel Investors, Press & Media, Key Connectors, Corporate Development Officers, Business Development Staff, Enterprise Technologists, Product Managers, Marketing Leaders, and Early Stage Entrepreneurs. The Expo once again delivered with thousands of participants and a sold-out exhibit hall.

Why attend?
• The AI World conference program is unsurpassed. We are collaborating with independent industry experts to deliver the most comprehensive program in the industry, including IDC, IBM Research, deepsense.ai, Cognilytica, SRI, PARC, and TMA Associates
• The AI World Executive Summit, hosted by IDC, provides business executives with a strategic look at the state of the practice in enterprise AI across multiple vertical industries,
• Making AI Trustworthy is a dedicated program focused on helping attendees understand best practices in developing your AI models to be fair, robust, trustworthy, and explainable.
• Emerging AI Technologies and Cutting-Edge Research – AI World features two dedicated programs that look at emerging technologies likely to have an immediate impact on enterprises and cutting-edge research that will have an impact in 12-18 months.
• AI & Cybersecurity – Led by Bob Gourley of OODA, who was formerly the CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency, this half day program focuses on the state of today’s AI cybersecurity technology and how it can address adversarial attacks.
• AI in Customer Analytics – In the future, most customer interactions will be managed by AI technologies. This ½ day dedicated program provides an in-depth strategy for your enterprise to follow to develop the right AI-enabled customer journey.
• AI 101 for Business Leaders – One of the biggest challenges facing enterprises in their efforts to successfully deploy AI technologies is the overall inexperience that their colleagues have in understanding what is AI and how it can be used to help businesses. Bring your non-technical business colleagues to this special ½ day program and AI World will provide a solid educational platform for helping them understand the many benefits that these exciting technologies can bring to bear at your company led by our experts.
• Unparalleled Vertical Industry Coverage
• Industry Visionaries
• More than 250 industry AI speakers
• Building Conversational, Customer-Driven Applications
• Networking Opportunities
• AI World Table Topic Roundtables
• Meetups
• Access to AI research produced by AI World program partners
• Attend the AI World Expo, featuring exhibits from the leading AI software and solution providers and several expo floor educational programs including the AI World Technology Solutions Theater and the AI World Startup Pavilion and Theater.
• Hackathon, new at AI World, the AI Data Science Hackathon will bring together innovative data scientists and developers from across the ecosystem to solve real world data challenges in applying artificial intelligence and machine learning.

2019 Speakers

Scott Lundstrom
Group Vice President and General Manager, IDC Government and Health Insights, IDC

Sam Ransbotham, PhD
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Mickey North Rizza
Research Vice President, Enterprise Applications, IDC

David Castillo, PhD
Managing Vice President of Machine Learning, Capital One

Madhumita Bhattacharyya
Managing Director – Enterprise Data & Analytics, Protiviti

Mukesh Dalal, PhD
Chief Analytics Officer & Chief Data Scientist, Bose Corporation

Anju Gupta
Vice President, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Enterprise Holdings

Reenita Malhotra Hora
Director of Marketing & Communications, SRI International

William Mark, PhD
President, SRI

Karen Myers
Lab Director, SRI International’s AI Center

Sasha Caskey
CTO & Co-Founder, Kasisto

Ritu Jyoti
Program Vice President, IDC

Devin Krotman
Director, Global Learning XPRIZE, XPRIZE Foundation

Eleni Miltsakaki, PhD
Founder and CEO, Choosito

Ellie Gordon
Founder, CEO, Behaivior AI

Daniel Fortin
President, AITera Inc.

Ben Schneider
Vice President, Product, Alegion

Eliot Weinman
Founder & Conference Chair, AI World; Executive Editor, AI Trends

Alex Sandy Pentland, PhD
Professor, Engineering, Business, Media Lab, MIT

Charles Elkan
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Franziska Bell, PhD
Director, Data Science, Data Science Platforms, Uber

Khalid Al-Kofahi, PhD
Vice President, Research and Development. Head - Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Thomson Reuters

Michael Krigsman
Industry Analyst, CXOTalk

Pablo Breuer
Director of US Special Operations Command Donovan Group and Senior Military Advisor and Innovation Officer, Sofwerx

Sara-Jayne Terp
Data Scientist, Bodacea Light Industries LLC

Bob Gourley
Co-Founder and CTO, OODA LLC

Anthony Scriffignano, PhD
SVP, Chief Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet

Jim Freeze
Chief Marketing Officer, Interactions

Ben Bauks
Sr. Business Systems Analyst, Constant Contact

Ed Burns
Site Editor, TechTarget

Professor David Silbersweig
Board Member of BGF, Harvard Medical School

Enver Yucel
Chairman, Bahçeşehir University

Julie Shah
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Paul F. Nemitz
Principal Advisor in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission

Natalija Jovanovic, PhD
Chief Digital Officer, Sanofi Pasteur

John Desmond
Principal at JD Content Services, Editor AI Trends

Nick Patience
Founder & Research Vice President, Software, 451 Research

Norbert Monfort
Vice President, IT Transformation and Innovation, Assurant Global Technology

Rudina Seseri
Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures

Dawn Fitzgerald
Director of Digital Transformation Data Center Operations, Schneider Electric

Vishal Gossain
Vice President, Global Risk Management, ScotiaBank

Robert Ames
Senior Director, National Technology Strategy, VMware Research, VMware

2019 Sponsors and Partners

INTERNATIONAL HOST:
• The Consulate General of Canada

STRATEGIC RESEARCH PARTNER:
• IDC

PARTICIPATING SPONSOR:
• CSAIL Alliances

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE HOST:
• The Michael Dukakis Institute

VISION SPONSOR:
• AI XPrize

INNOVATION SPONSOR:
• SRI International

CONFERENCE BREAKFAST KEYNOTE SPONSOR:
• Alegion

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPONSORS:
• Interactions
• VMWare

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Change Healthcare
• Dell Technologies
• Kyndi

AI EXECUTIVE SUMMIT PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Humana

GOLD SPONSORS:
• 24 Notion
• ABBYY
• Atos Syntel
• Brighterion
• DataRobot
• Darktrace
• JDA Software
• PerceptiMed
• Qlik
• SAS
• Speechmatics
• Zinier

AI WORLD EXECUTIVE SUMMIT GOLD SPONSOR:
• Protiviti

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• The BAU Global Education Network
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Cray
• Innodata
• OntoForce
• Russell Reynolds Associates
• SparkBeyond'
• Verint Next IT
• Vidado

SPECIAL EVENT SPONSOR:
• Industrial Technology Research Institute

VENTURE CAPITAL SPONSOR:
• SignalFire

STRATEGIC SEMINAR SPONSORS:
• Cognilytica
• deepsense.ai
• IBM
• OODA

PREMIER RESEARCH SPONSORS:
• 451 Research
• Hurwitz & Associates
• PARCRethink Research

PROGRAM SPONSOR:
• Wireless 20/20

EDUCATION SPONSOR:
• Babson College

ASSOCIATION SPONSORS:
• Alliance For Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
• The Applied Voice Input Output Society
• Object Management Group
• Deep1
• MassRobotics
• New England-Israel Business Council

AI WORLD EXHIBITORS:
• ABBYY
• The AI Network
• AInfinity
• AI.Reverie
• Alegion
• The BAU Global Education Network
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Brighterion
• CampTek Software
• CapeStart
• Capice
• Cibao Cloud Technologies
• Cobalt
• The Consulate General of Canada
• Cray
• Daivergent
• Darktrace
• DataRobot
• deFacto Global
• Dell Technologies
• eXalt
• Firefly.ai
• iMerit
• Axon.AI
• JDA Software
• Kyndi
• Lazarus
• LiquidTechnology
• Luminoso
• MILL5
• Nexsan
• One Stop Systems
• OntoForce
• PerceptiMed
• Presco Engineering
• Protiviti
• Qlik
• Roborus
• SAS
• SparkBeyond
• Speechmatics
• TalentSeer
• Thomson Reuters
• UNH Online
• Verint Next IT
• Vidado
• Wayfair
• Zinier

RESEARCH SPONSORS:
• ABI Research
• Mobile ID World
• rpa2ai Research
• Tractica

COMMUNITY SPONSOR:
• StartHub Boston

SPECIAL MEETINGS & MEET-UP GROUP PARTNERS:
• Boston New Technology
• Coalesce.ai
• WITI (Women in Technology International)

JOB FAIR SPONSOR:
• Robots.Jobs