Event Speakers

Hanna Helin
Technology Innovation Executive | Advisor
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

 

Nina Xiang
Founder
China Money Network

 

Amany Shousha
CTO for AI Pro Program, Information Technology Institute
The Voice for AI in Egypt

Anita Jovic
Founder, AI Serbia (AISRB)
Business Consultant & Owner, Anado.AI

Khaled Alhazmi
Director of the National Center for Robotics and IoT
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)

 

Alex Borowicz
Ph.D. Environmental Data Scientist, Antarctica
Stony Brook University

Susan Omondi
Founder, VALUEADDITION
Thought-Leader Ethics & Diversity in Technology

 

Fang Chen
NSW Government, AI Advisory Committee Member
University of Technology Sydney, Distinguishes Professor

 

Sue Keay
CEO Queensland AI Hub
Chair of Robotics Australia

Ajay Krishan
AI Researcher
SpaceML

 

Bayo (Olubayo) Adekanmbi
Chief Transformation Officer
Digital Innovation & Strategy
MTN Nigeria

 

Jacques Ludik
Founder & CEO, Cortex Logic & Cortex Group
Founder & President, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA)

 

Mauricio Kimura
Ph.D. Legal Researcher in Technology & Law, University of Waikato Faculty of Law
Member Working Group on Adapting to AI Effects on Law, Ethics and Society, The AI Forum of NZ

 

Clara Langevin
AI and ML Platform Lead
Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Brazil / C4IR Brasil (Affiliate WEF)

Tunç Acarkan
AI Thought-Leader | Technology Management Director
MESS Turkish Employers’​ Association of Metal Industries

Shri Santhanam
EVP & GM, Global Analytics and AI Products
Experian

 

Bento Gonçalves
Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University
Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Toptal

Pius Illah
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa | MIIA

Tushar Kansal
Founder & CEO
Kansaltancy Ventures

 

Event Host & Facilitator

Dalith Steiger

Co-Founder, Global AI Thought Leader
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub

 

Andy Fitze

Co-Founder, Digital Transformation Strategist
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub

 

Tom Allen 
Panel Facilitator & Chair
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub

Founder
The AI Journal

Ganesh Padmanabhan
Panel Facilitator & Chair
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub

Host & Founder, Stories in AI

Event Team

Livia Spiesz

Global Events & Communications
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub

Valeska Hoenen

Content and Social Media Manager
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub

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Der Beitrag The Seven Continents-View on AI erschien zuerst auf SwissCognitive | AI Ventures, Advisory & Research.

Der Beitrag CognitiveVirtual | The Seven Continents View on AI erschien zuerst auf SwissCognitive | AI Ventures, Advisory & Research.

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From the melting glaciers in the Arctic Circle to algae blooms in the previously pristine Lake Atitlan to ecosystem change around Murchison Falls to penguin tracking in Antarctica, the need for greater knowledge about the world around us and how it’s changing is both apparent and acute. Today, in partnership with the National Geographic Society, we’re excited to announce the winners in the Microsoft and National Geographic Society AI for Earth Innovation Grant program , announced in July.

These 11 changemakers will, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), uncover new insights to better monitor, model and ultimately manage the world’s natural resources more effectively and sustainably. These grantees, like our 200-plus AI for Earth grantees globally, are testing innovative applications of AI in scientific exploration and research to help solve critical environmental challenges. We introduce you to these innovative leaders and their inspiring work below, in four categories — climate change, biodiversity conservation, agriculture and water.

Climate change

The data is clear — climate change is real and demands a global response. But what actions will be most effective? And how can progress be measured? These two grantees are helping answer these questions with AI.

Melting glaciers provide some of the clearest visual evidence of the Earth’s warming temperatures. Unfortunately, collecting data and measuring these changes can only be done crudely, making it tricky to measure glacier surface change and melt rates, never mind project those changes into the future.

This is a frustration Joseph Cook knows all too well. In the last decade, he has conducted more than 12 Arctic field expeditions, mostly in field camps on the Greenland Ice Sheet, and pumped out findings and research insights in scientific journals, documentaries and conferences around the globe.

These experiences led Cook to machine learning, specifically applying it to optical data from drones and satellites to explore the changing cryosphere. The key is capturing the complexity of ice surface evolution, from pristine snow to dust-covered, algae-covered and waterlogged ice. By training the algorithms to recognize how the different surfaces reflect certain wavelengths of light — wavelengths that can be measured by satellites as well as by drones — precision study of vast areas becomes feasible. After testing the algorithms on imagery from custom-built drones, Cook’s team will then apply them to satellite remote-sensing data, enabling them to scale up to entire glaciers.[…]

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