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  • Join the global forum for AI progress at AI House Davos

    Join the global forum for AI progress at AI House Davos

    • AI House Davos will bring together leaders in industry, civil society, government, the investing community, and academics to drive the global conversation on artificial intelligence.

    • Confirmed speakers include: Yann LeCun (VP of Meta), Kay Firth-Butterfield (CEO of Good Tech Advisory), Amy Webb (CEO of Future Today Institute), Arvind Krishna (CEO of IBM), Jonas Andrulis (CEO of Aleph Alpha), Theresa May (former Prime Minister of the UK), and Christian Lindner (Germany’s Finance Minister). 

    • Cyber Valley, contributor to the AI House program, invites you to its sessions. 

    Davos, Switzerland. We are pleased to announce the upcoming opening of AI House Davos during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting from January 15-19, 2024. Registration for a packed calendar of events is now open on the AI House website.

    Understanding AI’s current and future capabilities has never been more important. AI will undoubtedly be the dominant discussion at this year’s WEF Annual Meeting, and AI House Davos will be a crucial global forum to bring the deepest discussions on AI to life, from how AI can benefit humankind to how world economies can provide a catalyst for sustainable innovation. 

    The AI House will bring together leaders across diverse sectors — from academics to industry, as well as government, and entrepreneurship — to facilitate deep discussions and collaboration geared toward safeguarding the future of artificial intelligence. The AI House is a dedicated platform with a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach working to address the challenges and opportunities facing the artificial intelligence ecosyste. This includes conversations surrounding responsible growth, scaling, and regulation. 

    Speakers at AI House include Yann LeCun (VP of Meta), Kay Firth-Butterfield (CEO of Good Tech Advisory), Amy Webb (CEO of Future Today Institute), Arvind Krishna (CEO of IBM), Jonas Andrulis (CEO of Aleph Alpha), Theresa May (former Prime Minister of the UK), Christian Lindner (Germany’s Finance Minister), and many more. Confirmed speakers can be found on the website.

     

    Cyber Valley events at AI House Davos

    AI House Davos events with Cyber Valley contributions

    Five major themes will be covered throughout the week. Monday will focus on the current state of AI. An Opening Ceremony will take place where the AI House initiators will discuss the activities planned for the week. On Tuesday, a dive into AI’s opportunities and risks will take place. Wednesday will focus on applications of AI. Thursday will look toward the next frontier. On Friday, the program will conclude with a review of the week and a look ahead to the future.

    Members of the press should join the waitlists for the specific sessions at AI House they wish to attend. Invitations are at the discretion of the session organizer. Press inquiries about AI House should be sent to steven.perlberg@merantix.com. 

    AI House is a joint initiative led by Merantix, ETH AI Center, Swisscom, UTokyo Institute for AI and Beyond, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and G42. AI House partners and sponsors include the European Commission, European Innovation Council, European AI Forum, Automation Anywhere, EPFL, EY, TÜV AI Lab, Cyber Valley and many more. Forbes, Handelsblatt, and Devex are the media partners. 

    The AI House is perfectly positioned in the heart of the Davos promenade. Just 750 meters from the congress center, this central location ensures seamless access to all the key events in Davos. Find AI House on Promenade 68, Davos Platz.

    Faheem Ahamed, Group CMO of G42, said: “At G42, we embrace a global, inclusive approach to the future of AI. As the Initiator Partner of AI House Davos, we eagerly anticipate engaging with organizations and individuals who share our dedication to leading-edge scientific research, transformative AI applications, and effective regulation. Together, we can accelerate AI's positive impact on society and the global economy, cultivating an ecosystem that fuels innovation while steadfastly upholding ethical standards in the advancement and integration of this transformative technology.”

    Masami Hagiya, Director of UTokyo Institute for AI and Beyond, said: “As AI technologies spread, all aspects of human society are affected and need to change to build a better world. The multi-stakeholder approach of AI House is a suitable framework for discussing issues from different perspectives of human society. The panel on ‘AI Governance and Safety: G7 Hiroshima AI process’ is a typical topic involving multiple stakeholders. Also, UTokyo Institute for AI and Beyond will host ‘AI and Higher Education,’ focusing on how higher education should evolve as generative AI gradually replaces many aspects of human intelligence. ‘Harmony of Coexistence’ will touch on human intelligence and AI from various perspectives.”

    Dr. Rasmus Rothe, CTO and Co-Founder of Merantix, said: “What the AI landscape really needs now in order to thrive is a vibrant community bringing together all the different stakeholders, from investors, startups, academics, regulators, government leaders, and corporates, to discuss AI’s future, learn about AI’s current application in the real world, and create some meaningful new collaborations leveraging AI’s potential. That’s why we initiated AI House, and it’s why Davos is the perfect venue for these discussions.”

    Evan Sparks, Vice President and General Manager for AI Solutions and Supercomputing Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, said: “AI will have a transformative societal impact. As a fundamental technology, AI will solve complex scientific challenges and make breakthroughs in drug discovery, provide accurate medical diagnosis faster, predict and prevent catastrophic weather events, and advance renewable energy to help us transition to a net-zero world. However, to make AI beneficial to humanity, we must make it accessible, sustainable, and responsible, and the power of collaboration will help us get there. As co-initiators of AI House Davos, we look forward to being a part of an important initiative that will bring together stakeholders across private and public sectors to design, develop, and deliver efficient and ethical AI solutions to benefit the greater good.”

    Dr. Alexander Ilic, Founder and Executive Director of ETH AI Center, said: “In the imminent future, we anticipate many breakthroughs in AI research to catalyze significant advancements towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals – marking a new era of progress and innovation. From education to healthcare to sustainability, AI is a technology that should be accessible, trustworthy, and safe for everybody. The AI House Davos therefore serves as a central hub, fostering and expediting collaboration between global key stakeholders from academia, industry, NGOs, start-ups, and civil society, all dedicated to realizing our shared vision.”

    Laure Willemin, Executive Vice President of Data, Analytics & AI at Swisscom, said: “The AI House Davos is the start of a joint journey towards a common understanding of AI. Switzerland is the right place to host the AI pioneers from all over the world to meet, connect and shape AI. As one of the most competitive and innovative countries, with its renowned universities, Switzerland plays a leading role in AI research and AI development. Swisscom is excited to be part of this journey and committed to develop trusted AI solutions to the benefit of Switzerland.”

    More information about the AI House and its initiators, partners, and sponsors can be found here. 

    Media contact:
    Steven Perlberg
    Head of Communications at Merantix
    steven.perlberg@merantix.com 

    Media contact for Cyber Valley at AI House Davos:
    Hazel Rowland
    Cyber Valley Media Manager
    Hazel.Rowland@cyber-valley.de

  • EuroEAP 2024 comes to Stuttgart

    EuroEAP 2024 comes to Stuttgart

    What is the topic of this conference?

    The 21st century is experiencing a paradigm change from the age of passive synthetic materials to the age of stimuli-responsive and multi-functional materials. Among them, soft transducers and electromechanically active materials represent a fast growing scientific field of research and development. Soft transducers consist of soft polymeric materials, devices, or systems that react or adapt to external stimulus, such as electrical, magnetic, and mechanical forces. This leads to changes in shape, size, force, stiffness, surface texture, or even colour.

    These transducers can be used for various needs, including actuation, sensing and energy harvesting. These applications make this research field inherently and highly interdisciplinary, bridging the gap between chemistry and physics of materials, electrical and mechanical engineering, user interface science, and intelligent systems.

    These technologies will play an increasingly important role in the future, thanks to their unique combination of stimuli-responsiveness and soft structure. They are already opening numerous possibilities of application in various fields, such as soft robotics, biomedical devices, human-machine interaction, wearables, and smart textiles, to name a few. 

    What is EuroEAP?

    The EuroEAP international conference, organized by the EuroEAP Society with a not-for-profit distinctive character and always held in Europe, primarily aims to share the latest advances and findings in this emerging field. It gathers experts from all over the world in a highly multidisciplinary event driven by scientific quality and industrial impact, with an organization that enables significant opportunities for one-to-one discussions in a friendly atmosphere. Since 2011, the conference has been focused on electromechanically active polymers. Today, the event expands its scope to the larger international and diverse research community of soft smart materials and soft transducers.

    About the venue

    The goal of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is to investigate and understand the organizing principles of intelligent systems and the underlying perception-action-learning loop. The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems combines – within one center – theory, software, and hardware expertise in the research field of intelligent systems. Research at the Stuttgart campus of the institute covers small-scale robotics, self-organization, haptic perception, bio-inspired systems, medical robotics, robotic materials, and physical intelligence; that is, the embodiment of intelligent behavior in physical, rather than computational, systems. 

    The program will be released closer to the conference.

  • AI House Davos: Open Source

    AI House Davos: Open Source

     

    Open-source practices have been foundational in the development of today’s digital technologies. Rapid advances in capabilities of frontier AI models have brought new attention to these practices, as policymakers grapple with open source’s role in AI safety. These debates highlight tensions between open source as a tool for innovation and scrutiny, and concerns about unconstrained proliferation of powerful dual-use technologies. The question that follows is how to leverage open-source development to enable innovation without enabling harm; how can we use these approaches for safe and socially beneficial technology development, while also reducing AI risks?

     

    When?

    Tuesday January 16, 2024, 12:30-13:30 CET

     

    Where?

    Valley Stage, AI House Davos, Promenade 68, 7270 Davos Platz

     

    Format

    • Networking lunch with panel discussion

     

    Moderator and session coordinator: 

    • Jessica Montgomery, Director AI@Cam, University of Cambridge

     

    Speakers

    • Bernhard Schölkopf, Professor – Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & ETH
    • Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge – Professor of Machine Learning
    • Yann LeCun, Meta – VP & Chief AI Scientist


    Further information

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  • AI House Davos

    AI House Davos

     

    Join the launch of an international computation and AI network of excellence initiative. We're embarking on an initiative to balance AI development globally, focusing on computing, data, and AI research, aligned with the UN SDGs. Discover use cases and our incubation phase roadmap in an interactive session with Q&A.

     

    When?

    Wednesday January 17, 2024, 13:40-14:00 CET

     

    Where?

    Mountain Stage, AI House Davos, Promenade 68, 7270 Davos Platz

     

    Format

    • Announcement

     

    Moderator and session coordinator: 

    • Katharina Frey, Deputy Head Digitalisation Division, Swiss Foreign Ministry of Federal Affairs

     

    Speakers

    • Alexandre Fasel, State Secretary – Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Switzerland FDFA
    • Andreas Krause, Academic Chair – ETH AI Center
    • Bernhard Schölkopf, Professor – Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & ETH
    • Ciira Maina, Director Data Science Africa – Dedan Kimathi University of Technology
    • Thomas Schulthess, Director – Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS)


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  • AI House Davos: Catalyzing AI tech transfer in Europe

    AI House Davos: Catalyzing AI tech transfer in Europe

     

    It will address the facilitation of cross-sector AI innovation (like ELLIS), discussing the synergy between academia, industry, and government to accelerate tech transfer, drive economic growth, and meet societal needs with cutting-edge AI solutions.

     

    When?

    Wed, 17. January 2024, 10:30 – 10:55

     

    Format

    • Round table
    • Open to the press

     

    Speakers

    • Bernhard Schölkopf, Professor – Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & ETH
    • Alexander Diehl, Investor & Entrepreneur
    • Rebecca C. Reisch, CEO Cyber Valley

     

    Moderator

    • Julian Enz, Chief Innovation Office, Cyber Valley


    Further information

     

  • AI House Davos: From lab to market

    AI House Davos: From lab to market

     

    The roundtable will center on the transition of AI from scientific discovery to economic implementation. We'll dissect the mechanisms that enable scientific AI innovations to be adapted for economic use, including intellectual property, licensing, and market strategy. The conversation will highlight collaborative models between research institutions and industry partners that facilitate the transfer of AI technologies into commercial ventures.

     

    When?

    Thursday January 18, 2024, 10:00-10:55 CET

     

    Where?

    Partner Room 2, AI House Davos, Promenade 68, 7270 Davos Platz

     

    Format

    • Round table
    • Open to the press

     

    Speakers

    • Evan Sparks, Vice President of AI and High Performance Computing at HP

    • Max-Frederik Gerken, CEO of Optocycle

    • Alexander Diehl, Investor & Entrepreneur, Cyber Valley

     

    Moderator

    • Julian Enz, Chief Innovation Office, Cyber Valley


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  • AI House Davos: AI & Sustainability

    AI House Davos: AI & Sustainability

     

    This roundtable will explore how AI technologies are being applied to tackle critical sustainability challenges. Discussions will examine real-world AI innovations in areas such as renewable energy, resource conservation, and climate change mitigation. Emphasizing actionable solutions, we'll consider the role of AI in driving environmental progress, enhancing global sustainability efforts, and the partnerships propelling this mission forward.

     

    When?

    Wednesday, January 17 2024, 11:30-12:00 CET

     

    Where?

    Partner Room 2, AI House Davos, Promenade 68, 7270 Davos Platz

     

    Format

    • Roundtable
    • Open to the press
    • Interactive panel discussion
    • Audience Q&A

     

    Speakers

    • Christoph Kellenberger, Sustainable Architect
    • Max Gercken, CEO Optocycle
    • Dieter Gerdemann, MD & Partner Sustainability, A.T. Kearney
    • Samuel Widmann, Entrepreneur and ex-Google Maps CEO
       

    Moderators

    • Julian Enz, Director Innovation & Economy (CIO), Cyber Valley
    • Rebecca Beiter, Director Communications & Society (CCO), Cyber Valley


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  • AI House Davos: Frontiers of AI & ML

    AI House Davos: Frontiers of AI & ML

     

    Exploring cutting-edge developments in machine learning and AI, this discussion delves into recent research breakthroughs including related fields like computational neuroscience. Focused on advanced algorithms, neural network innovations, and deep learning techniques, we'll address challenges and future directions in AI, with insights from leading European AI researchers. Emphasis will be on scientific depth, practical applications, and ethical considerations. 

     

    When?

    Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 16:15-16:45

     

    Where?

    Partner Room 3, AI House Davos, Promenade 68, 7270 Davos Platz

     

    Format

    • Round table
    • Open to the press

     

    Speakers

    • Bernhard Schölkopf, Director of the ELLIS-Institute, Director Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & Cyber Valley Speaker
    • Tobias Bonhoeffer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
    • Auguste von Bayern, Group Leader Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
    • Evan Sparks, Vice President of AI and High Performance Computing at HPI

     

    Moderator

    • Alexander Diehl, Investor & Entrepreneur, Cyber Valley 


    Further information

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