World Summit AI: Amsterdam 2018 | WorldSummitAI | 10 October 2018 | Gashouder, Amsterdam, Klönneplein 1, 1014 DD Amsterdam, Netherlands

World Summit AI is the world’s leading and most important summit for the entire AI ecosystem from Enterprise to Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science. From applied solutions for enterprise, to mind-boggling innovation, to heated discussions on AI ethics and AI4good, World Summit AI will tackle head-on the most burning AI issues for 2018 and beyond.

2018 Event Speakers:

Yoshua Bengio
Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal

Steve Chien
Head of Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL, NASA

Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist, Google

Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Director of AI Research and Professor in Machine Learning, Apple and Carnegie Mellon University

Zhou Bowen
Vice President, AI Platform and Research, JD.com

Verity Harding
Co-Lead, Ethics and Society Team, Google DeepMind

Danny Lange
VP of AI and Machine Learning, Unity Technologies

Tony Jebara
Director of Machine Learning Research, Netflix

Baroness Martha Lane Fox
Founder and Executive Chair & Co-Founder, Doteveryone and Lastminute.com

Jan Denecke
CEO, KodakOne

Dr. Patricia Florissi
VP & Global CTO, Dell

Oscar Celma
Head of AI, Pandora

Gilad Lotan
VP – Head of Data Science, BuzzFeed

Corinne Avelines
Global Head of Digital & eCommerce, AkzoNobel

Dr. Lucian Gheorghe
Senior Innovation Researcher, Nissan Research Centre, Nissan

Huw Price
Academic Director and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Adrien Gaidon
Machine Learning Lead, Toyota Research Institute

Ciaran Jetten
Head of the Insights Lab, Heineken International

Raj Rajkumar
Co-Director, General Motors-CMU Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab & George Westinghouse Professor, General Motors & Carnegie Mellon University

Pascal Weinberger
AI Lead, Telefonica’s Alpha

Bing Song
Director, The Berggruen Institute China Center

Jonnie Penn
Policy Fellow & AI Researcher, Google Technology & University of Cambridge

Kay Firth-Butterfield
Project Head, AI and ML, World Economic Forum

Nicole Hu
Co-Founder and CTO, One Concern

Arnaud Cohen Stuart
Head of Business Ethics, ING

Dr. Evert Haasdijk
Senior Manager and AI Expert, Deloitte

Babita Sharma
Television Presenter, BBC

Amandeep Singh Gill
Ambassador of India & Chair, Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), United Nations

Sidharth Balakrishna
Executive Board Director, Essel Group

Kati Mcmahon
General Manager and Vice President, SoundHound Inc.

Douglas Hansen-Luke
Executive Chairman, Future Planet Capital

John Spindler
CEO, Capital Enterprise

Christoph Auer Welsbach
Partner, IBM Ventures

Anja Kaspersen
Director, Office for Disarmament Affairs, United
Nations

Joanna Bryson
Associate Professor, University of Bath

Robert Van Geffen
Chairman of DDMA and Global Head of B2B Digital, Philips

Sam Warnaars
Head of Innovation, aFrogleap, a Merkle company

Tijmen Blankevoort
Senior Deep Learning Engineer, Qualcomm

Virginia Dignum
Associate Professor Social Artificial Intelligence, Delft University of Technology

Kate Devlin
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

Sarah Porter
CEO and Founder, InspiredMinds

Amir Banifatemi
AI Lead, XPRIZE

Kathleen Lawand
Head Arms Unit – Legal Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross

Dr. Christopher Markou
Faculty of Law, The University of Cambridge

Dr. Stephen Cave
Executive Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos
Senior Researcher – AI in Disruptive Technologies, Digital Society Institute

Dr . Kanta Dihal
Postdoctoral Researcher, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Stefan Germann
CEO, Fondation Botnar

Mike Reiner
Co-Founder, City.AI

Kumardev Chatterjee
CEO, Unmanned Life

Andy Peart
Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Artificial Solutions

Thomas Lidy
Head of Machine Learning, Musimap

Moly Connolly
Director, Industry Strategy and Partner Marketing, Dell EMC

Bas Rookhuijzen
Head of Marketing Benelux, Google Cloud

Christine Taylor
Senior Partner, Creaholic

Michiel Kotting
Partner, Northzone

Nicolas Brien
Managing Director, France Digitale

Dr. Christoph Windheuser
Market Maker Intelligent Empowerment, Thoughtworks

Erik Pfannmoller
CEO, Solvemate

Ilse Verdiesen
Staff Officer, Dutch Armed Forces

2018 Event Sponsors:

• Accenture
• Microsoft
• ING
• Dell EMC
• Google Cloud
• IBM Watson
• BBVA
• Deloitte
• Fondation Botnar
• Merkle
• Yandex
• Artificial Solutions
• ThoughtWorks
• Daimler
• Naspers
• AAEON
• BrainCreators
• UIPATH
• Dataiku
• GoDateDriven
• Musimap
• SOLVEMATE
• BIOS IT
• ML6
• Oxygen Digital
• UNMANNED LIFE
• 360AI
• TERRALOUPE