The CogX Festival Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In a world where everyone has had to find new ways to learn, new ways to work, and new ways to connect and build relationships, CogX believes in the power of convening people. So, in true CogX style, we are working towards delivering a hybrid festival in June 2021 which gives people the option of attending sessions virtually or coming together in person in a safe and comfortable way.
Here, we'll be sharing all sessions from our 2021 festival, as well as highlights from last years festival.
Lab to Live: Creating the platform for global logistics with Scale AI and Flexport
Global trade today is largely run on offline relationships with the people who move goods. Scale AI and Flexport discuss how AI can harness unstructured data to increase efficiency and compliance across networks of global trade stakeholders. Plus, get a deep dive into real-world cases, including the future of AI/ML in the global supply chain and the implications of trade crises on logistics (like the Suez Canal obstruction in 2021).
Featuring:
James Chen - CTO - Flexport
Melisa Tokmak - GM, Document AI - Scale AI (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Reimagine the future of shopping with AI
How can we seamlessly connect online and offline shopping? Join us in this conversation between Żabka, the biggest network of convenience stores in Poland, and AiFi, a thriving innovator in the automated retail space, to explore the success story of using state-of-the-art AI to win over customers and set the new standard for the future of shopping.
Featuring:
Tomasz Blicharski - Executive Vice President (EVP), Managing Director of Żabka Future - Zabka
Ying Zheng - Co-founder, President - AiFi (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Where there’s a process, there’s an opportunity: Telus & Minit Process Mining case study
Canada’s biggest telecommunication operator Telus has embarked on an ambitious journey. Being an early adopter, they have selected innovative Process Miningtechnology as a strategic tool to optimize their processes across the organization and gain competitive advantage in the thriving telco market.
In this session we will discuss why Process Mining is the technology of choice for Telus, how they selected the right partner and what benefits they are looking to gain. You will also learn what possible pitfalls to avoid in a strategic project like this and what is the most important advice if you are considering Process Mining for your organization.
Featuring:
Rudina Holmqvist - Sr. Process Improvement Consultant - Telus
James Dening - CEO - Minit (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: The impact of AI in delivery businesses
Daniel Hulme, CEO of Satalia, and Chace Calum, the Author of “Surviving AI”, will be discussing what the problem of the travelling salesman is, what optimisation is and and how it can help the delivery businesses, and how companies like Tesco and DFS will use the digital twins model to fine tune their operations, financial performance, their working conditions, and their customer service.
Featuring:
Daniel Hulme - CEO of Satalia, Director of Business Analytics MSc - UCL
Calum Chace - author of "The Economic Singularity" - Three Cs (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Enhancing CX with Soul Machines’ Digital People: Meet Nestlé Toll House’s Cookie Coach Ruth
‘Ruth’ is Nestlé Toll House’s first Digital Person — created by Soul Machines — who acts as a cookie coach. Her job is to guide bakers through the baking process and help them troubleshoot along the way. In this curious session, Cross & Bertelson discuss the process of creating Ruth, the impact she has had so far and what the future looks like for innovation in AI and customer experience.
Featuring:
Orchid Bertelsen - Head of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Nestlé USA
Greg Cross - Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer - Soul Machines (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: How Pure Storage accelerated Folding@home’s quest for Covid-19 therapies
There’s a growing need to crunch and synthesise big data in rapid, organised systems to solve real-world problems. Join Pure Storage and Folding@Home as they look at the power of simplicity, flexibility and reliability for enterprise infrastructure. They’ll also explore how FlashBlade Technology accelerated scientists’ search for COVID therapies, and discuss the need for storage capacity and unification to solve critical problems at scale.
Featuring:
Stacie Brown - Senior Field Solutions Architect - Analytics at Pure Storage - Pure Storage
Greg Bowman - Associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics - Folding@home
Brian Carpenter - Senior Director of Unstructured Technology Strategy - Pure Storage (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Superhuman vision meets superhuman strength: Applying AI visual processing to industrial kitting – Cogniac AI and Bobcat
Manufacturing requires precision and speed at scale. Bobcat has to deliver equipment with specific kitting using pieces fitted exactly right, every time. We delve into how Cogniac’s innovative AI platform keeps watch and catches errors in real time at Bobcat’s warehouse to streamline the assembly line and reduce financial and human risk.
Featuring:
Chuck Myers - CEO - Cogniac.AI
Joel Honeyman - Vice President of Global Innovation - Doosan Bobcat North America
Amy Wang - Co-Founder & VP Systems - Cogniac.AI (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Delivering more purpose, more transparency, more inspiration with every product: Knorr and Scantrust 2021
By 2025, every Knorr product will connect consumers to online details explaining how the company is making food that’s better for them and the planet. Backed by impressive sustainability commitments, this session covers the ins and outs of this ambitious campaign and how Knorr is already making progress on such an enormously difficult task.
Featuring:
PJ Mistry - Global Transformation Manager - Unilever
Nathan Anderson - Co-founder and CEO - ScanTrust (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Data-driven marketing with AI
There’s significant value at stake from data-driven marketing and strategic audience building. Manuel Mesa, The Data Consultant at Artefact, and Guilherme Amaral, Global Digital Transformation Manager, Reckitt, will discuss the value in data-driven marketing, the main issues industry marketers face, introduce us to the Audience Engine and explain how to translate marketing segmentation into addressable digital audiences.
Featuring:
Guilherme Amaral - Global Digital Transformation Manager - Reckitt
Manuela Mesa - Senior Consultant - Artefact (Moderator)
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Lab to Live: Forget manual searches! Gain supplier discovery and insights at scale with AI
Companies need to optimize costs, protect market share, drive innovation and embrace sustainability. While many still struggle with slow methods to identify suppliers, join Scoutbee and Siemens AG to explore how AI can help build diversified and competitive supply chains, strengthen supply networks, and beat inefficiencies that limit the old style procurement.
Featuring:
Gregor Stühler - CEO - Scoutbee
Michael Klinger - Corporate Supply Chain Manager - Siemens AG
Ophelia Otto - Industry Relations Lead - Scoutbee
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Lab to Live: How the NHS is using AI to predict demand for services
The first wave of the pandemic made it tremendously difficult to predict the demand on health and care services. In response, NHS England and NHS Improvement developed the COVID-19 Early Warning System — a first-of-its-kind toolkit that forecasts vital metrics. Now, it helps to prioritise care for patients on a daily basis. We look at how such a large and complex organisation like the NHS embraced AI so quickly and successfully, and the main reasons why AI adoption can fail.
Featuring:
Laura Stevenson, Senior Manager, Health & Life Sciences, Faculty
Harrison Carter, National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow at NHS England, NHS England
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Next Gen: Future of data centre technology
Data centres are energy intensive and consume around 1% of the UK’s electricity. However, their unique characteristics position them perfectly to become energy prosumers. We look at how this sector will become an active participant in a distributed, flexible grid and how it will help enable a robust UK market for renewable technologies.
Featuring:
Sims Witherspoon - Programme Manager, DeepMind - Deeptrace
Sue Daley - Director Tech and Innovation - techUK
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: Are businesses ready for industry 4.0?
Digital adoption increased last year as companies looked to tech and digital infrastructure to keep going. Many organisations that were still thinking about what industry 4.0 meant to them stop thinking and moved forward at pace. Now those organisations are not just recovering and rebuilding but also looking at what the future now holds. This session offer advice to business leaders on where to focus and how to get ready for the next wave of digital transformation. It will explore the key technologies, including Edge, ML/AI, Cloud, Cyber Security, 5G, that will make up the next generation infrastructure that will power industry 4.0 and ask whether businesses are now ready for this future or what more we need to do to supercharge digital adoption and use.
Featuring:
Joe Baguley - VP & CTO, EMEA - VMware
Louise Öström - Global Lead AVBG – Accenture VMware Business Group - Accenture
Sue Daley - Director Tech and Innovation - techUK
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: Immersive tech and Industry 4.0
Adoption of AR and VR technologies are already driving tangible benefits and providing a clear ROI for industry 4.0. From helping to build industrial digital twins and exploring the future of an augmented workforce, immersive tech has been crucial during the pandemic to build resiliency and quicken recovery. This session showcases the power of immersive technologies, what the future holds and how to build a viable route to market for businesses.
Featuring:
Farooq Yaqub - Innovation Engineer & XR Lead - Ford Motor Company
Asha Easton - Lead at Immerse UK - Immerse UK
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: The UK’s Quantum future: Positioning the UK for success
Quantum-driven technologies will be transformational to the UK, but will these opportunities be available to businesses in the next few years? Or will it be decades before the industry is ready to make the quantum leap? Join us as we hear from Quantum experts and industry leaders on what is possible now, and what we can expect in the near future.
Featuring:
Steve Brierley - CEO & Founder - Riverlane
Roger McKinlay - Challenge Director - UKRI (Moderator)
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: Intelligent automation: Driving industry transformation
Emerging technologies like AI, robotic process automation and business process optimisation have the capacity to revolutionise business services, enhance digitisation and build resilience. This session explores how intelligent automation technologies are already being used, and how the convergence of industry 4.0 technologies is making intelligent automation a reality.
Featuring:
Eric Tyree, Head of AI, Blue Prism
Laura Foster, Programme Manager Technology & Innovation, techUK
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: High tech and hard tech and the road to net zero – fireside chat with Rolls Royce CTO Paul Stein
The road to net zero is an enormous global challenge, where the high-tech and hard tech industries must work seamlessly. The transformative and emerging technologies, together with industry 4.0 innovations being developed by the digital manufacturing industry will be part of the story and the solution. For example, digital twin technology and high-performance computing that can enable complex simulation of net zero energy solutions through to IoT sensors that monitor and control physical, hard tech. The digital infrastructure must be aligned to get this right.
This in-conversation discussion will begin by setting out and exploring the enormous challenge of the road ahead towards net zero, particularly in power generation and transportation, and explore ways that the high tech digital industry and traditional hard tech industry can and must work more closely together. The Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) will be used a case study, as will electric and hybrid electric aviation.
Featuring:
Paul Stein - Chief Technology Officer - Rolls Royce
Sue Daley - Director Tech and Innovation - techUK (Moderator)
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Next Gen: Edge computing: Why the future of business transformation is at the edge
Edge computing is entering an extraordinary new phase of capabilities. Join our panel of experts as we look at how Edge has the potential to unlock the value of data assets, as well as enabling the deployment and use of advanced digital innovations like 5G, loT and AI.
Featuring:
Kulveer Ranger, Senior Vice President, Atos
Laura Foster, Programme Manager Technology & Innovation, techUK
Caroline Gorski, Group Director, Rolls Royce
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: Cloud future: What next generation cloud infrastructure means for the industries of tomorrow
Last year highlighted the reliability, flexibility and scope of cloud — but 2021 is the year we can really showcase its role in innovation. With huge potential to drive business transformation, we look at how we can move beyond the upheaval of the pandemic and towards scalable and innovative cloud solutions for digital transformation.
Featuring:
Kate Smaje, Senior Partner and Global Leader of McKinsey Digital, McKinsey & Company
Dom Poloniecki, Vice President & General Manager, Nutanix, Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, Nutanix
Sue Daley, Director Tech and Innovation, techUK
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Next Gen Infrastructure & Industry 4.0: Blockchain and business in action: Could blockchain make a difference and if so to which industries and how?
Blockchain has been one of the most hyped technologies in the last few years, generating vast sums of venture capital and countless media headlines. This session takes a closer look at how blockchain and DLT is supporting businesses, and how this will pave the way for the future of traditional sectors.
Featuring:
Anthony Day - IBM Blockchain Partner - IBM
Genevieve Leveille - Founder and CEO - Agriledger (Moderator)
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Cyber & Defence: The moral code: Privacy, power and trust
From WhatsApp to the NSO group, should private firms be able to sell their tech to nation states for surveillance purposes? Can we trust governments not to exploit technology for nefarious ends? In this session our panel of experts look at the delicate balance between privacy, transparency and power.
Featuring:
Paul Killworth - Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security - HMG
William Dixon - Head of Centre for Cybersecurity - World Economic Forum
Chris Kubecka - Distinguished Chair - Middle East Institute
Stephanie Hare - Independent Researcher & Broadcaster
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Cyber & Defence: Down The Rabbit Hole: QAnon, conspiracists and the new threat
Gone are the days when conspiracy theories existed only in the fringes of society. From capitol riots to vaccine boycotting, they’ve become a mainstream threat with real consequences. This panel investigates how these networks grow, and what we can do to mitigate the damage.
Featuring:
Mike Wendling - Host and Editor, BBC Trending - BBC
Amarnath Amarasingam - Assistant Professor - Queen's University
Aoife Gallagher - Analyst - Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Zoe Tabary - Tech editor - Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Economy: What about China?
China is the world’s second largest economy and its second most important superpower. It has a grand strategy for itself and for the world that may just reshape the global economy. But far from “hiding its capabilities and biding its time,” in the words of Deng Xiaoping, the China of 2021 is bigger, bolder, and unafraid to fight back against what it sees as a global system of norms and institutions rigged in favor of rich nations. How can the West (especially the EU, US, and UK) work with China on shared challenges while fighting against human rights abuses and avoiding economic war, hot or cold?
Featuring:
Annabelle Timsit - Geopolitics Reporter - Quartz
Zach Seward - CEO - Quartz
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The Planet & Smart Cities: Nature and climate: How can ‘nature tech’ help scale up nature-based solutions?
The key to protecting the world’s forests, grasslands and wetlands is the tech to monitor and survey what’s going on in real time. As more companies invest in the carbon offset market, the challenge of ensuring ongoing compliance — so that carbon is durably removed — is rising in prominence. Hear from one of the most innovative and celebrated startups in carbon monitoring, along with first-hand accounts from their clients.
Featuring:
Diego Saez Gil - CEO & Founder - Pachama
Kara Hurst - Head of Global Sustainability - Amazon
Leonardo Lacerda - Head of Climate Change - The Nature Conservancy (Moderator)
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Future of Work & HR: ESG investment and good work
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing goes mainstream, with over $40 trillion of assets under management globally. Join us to explore why sustainable good work should be core to understanding and measuring ESG investment.
Featuring:
Danielle Walker Palmour - Director - Friends Provident Foundation
James Broderick - Board Member - Impact Investing Institute
Daniela Barone Soares - CEO - Snowball
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Future of Work & HR: The Amazonian era: Gigification of work
We are living through a new transformation of work. We are living in an Amazonian Era. The ethos, practices, and business models that emerged within the gig economy have been packaged up and made available for download to the furthest corners of our essential services, reshaping the lives of millions of workers across Britain. This session looks at how we can meet new challenges and seize new opportunities to make sure that the Amazonian Era works for everyone?
Featuring:
Alec MacGillis - Reporter - ProPublica
Anna Thomas - Co-founder & Director - Institute for the Future of Work
Aiha Nguyen - Programe Director, Labor Futures - Data & Society
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The Future of Work & HR: Trends for the future of work
What have we learned about the future of work trends we emerge from the global pandemic? How will we educate, reskill and upskill our workforce through new career cycles? Are new educational structures needed? This session explores what skills will be in demand and how we will develop them.
Featuring:
Rosemary Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design, Knowledge Lab, UCL
Naomi Climer CBE, Co-Chair, Institute for the Future of Work
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The Future of Work & HR: Designing technology for a better future of work
What new, disruptive technologies are on the horizon? Join us as we explore how the design process could help businesses and employees to create innovative solutions for a better future of work.
Featuring:
Jeremy Myerson - Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design - Royal College of Art
Nadia Danhash - Director InnovationRCA - Royal College of Art
Harrison Moore - Found & CEO - Earwig
Abigail Gilbert - Principal Researcher - Institute for the Future of Work
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Future Of Work & HR: Big brother and big boss: Is surveillance in the workplace the new normal?
With digital processes at the heart of our work, more and more information is saved and stored on our every single action. And with remote working on the rise, our actions get monitored and nudged non-stop. Are new digital rights needed to redress new challenges? In this session, we look at the data exchange between employees and employers - and what we should do about it.
Featuring;
Andrew Pakes, Research Director, Prospect Union
Carissa Véliz, Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford
Abigail Gilbert, Principal Researcher, Institute for the Future of Work
Ivana Bartoletti, Director, Deloitte and Visiting Policy Fellow, University of Oxford, Deloitte
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The Future of Work & HR: Good work for all
Join Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides and Kate Bell to explore the importance of ‘good work’. Good work is central to the well-being and flourishing of individuals, communities, and the country. Our research shows that good work is also central to meeting the toughest socio-economic challenges of the pandemic and rebuilding strong, resilient communities across the country. A plan for future good work is a plan for recovery.
Featuring:
Sir Christopher Pissarides, Co-Chair, Institute for the Future of Work and Nobel Laureate in Economics, Institute for the Future of Work
Kate Bell, Head of Rights, International, Social and Economics, TUC
Anna Thomas, Co-founder & Director, Institute for the Future of Work
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CreaTech: Tech vs media rules: Time for a level playing field
The media landscape is changing rapidly and new regulations and policies are coming our way in different areas. From online advertising to competition regulation and content moderation rules. In this session, we explore the changes in the TV and online video markets in relation to rules and regulation.
Featuring:
David Wheeldon - Group Director of Policy & Public Affairs - Sky
Ed Hall - Managing Partner - Expert Media Partners
Elizabeth Diaferia - Senior Advisor Creative Industries Trade and Investment Board - Department for International Trade (DIT) (Moderator)
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CreaTech: Storytelling reinvented
How has technology transformed storytelling and immersive content creation? What opportunities does it open up to innovative creators? In this session, we see examples of storytelling reimagined and hear a discussion on emerging trends in content creation unlocked by advanced digital technologies.
Featuring:
Karl Woolley - Global Real-Time Director at Immersive & IA - Framestore
Jessica Driscoll - Head of Immersive Technology - Digital Catapult (Moderator)
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CreaTech: Around the world in 1800 seconds
Investment in digital media, martech, media-tech and related areas has experienced significant change over the last year. As we all look forward to hopefully a safer and more stable economy, we look at the world’s investor community’s focuses, as well as the Covid fallout. Our panel of investment specialists and investors take you on a whistle stop tour of the world to hear what’s at the forefront of investors’ minds in order to give you an unfair advantage when it comes to planning the sale of your business, or preparing for a round of growth capital.
Featuring:
Damian Ryan - Partner - Moore Kingston Smith
Patrick Rozario - Managing Director - Moore Hong Kong
Olivier Barbeau - Managing Partner - Moore Johannesburg
Jennifer Mailhes - Managing Director - Doeren Mayhew Capital Advisors
Esther Carder - Partner - Moore Kingston Smith (Moderator)
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CreaTech: Portals into the metaverse
We’re on the edge of an exciting transition in entertainment where the lines between gaming, music, fashion, art and technology are being blurred. In this session we look at a few new head-turning ventures that offer a portal into the metaverse, by developing collectible goods for use in gaming and virtual worlds.
Featuring:
Inder Phull - CEO/Founder - Pixelynx LLC
Robby Yung - CEO - Animoca Brands
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CreaTech: UK CreaTech R&D: The network effect
Advanced creative technologies including AI stand to transform the value chain of the UK’s creative industries, from content production to distribution and dissemination. Using open research and startup data with data science methods, this session delves into new research — commissioned by ARHC and conducted by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre — that identifies the research trends, actors and networks at the technological cutting edge of the UK’s creative industries.
Featuring:
Andrew Chitty - Challenge Director - Innovate UK
Juan Mateos-Garcia - Director, Data Analytics - Nesta
Martha Bloom - Research Fellow in Innovation and the Creative Industries, Sussex University and researcher at the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre - University of Sussex
Maria Tanjala - Co-founder, FilmChain and Industry Champion, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre - FilmChain
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CreaTech Stage: Creative industries on 5G
The high-bandwidth low-latency technologies promised by 5G are likely to radically disrupt the Creative Industries, transforming the production, distribution and consumption models as well as the content creation. In this session we explore the potential of 5G and hear about innovative trials, exciting projects and ideas for the future.
Featuring;
Emily Savage, Commercial Product Lead - Immersive, Digital Catapult
Jamie Gosney, Creative Director, Sonosphere Ltd.
Sam Field, Director of Creative Technology, RYOT / Verizon Media
Debbie Bandara, CEO, Forest Tribe Theatre
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CreaTech Stage: Creative industries on 5G
The high-bandwidth low-latency technologies promised by 5G are likely to radically disrupt the Creative Industries, transforming the production, distribution and consumption models as well as the content creation. In this session we explore the potential of 5G and hear about innovative trials, exciting projects and ideas for the future.
Featuring;
Emily Savage, Commercial Product Lead - Immersive, Digital Catapult
Jamie Gosney, Creative Director, Sonosphere Ltd.
Sam Field, Director of Creative Technology, RYOT / Verizon Media
Debbie Bandara, CEO, Forest Tribe Theatre
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Cutting Edge: 10x our future: Processing power in an AI world with Will Summerlin, ARK Investment Management
Join leading analyst Will Summerlin as he delves into how neural networks can help society overcome limits to computing capacity, and the shortcuts from it that can give large corporations a sharper competitive edge.
Featuring:
Will Summerlin - Analyst - ARK Investment Management
Jennifer Schenker - Founder & Editor-in-Chief - The Innovator (Moderator)
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Cutting Edge: The next wave: Probabilistic programming with Stuart Russell
Why is probabilistic programming so powerful? AI pioneer Stuart Russell joins us to discuss the game-changing potential of probabilistic programming, what makes it so different from deep learning and why it could help propel programming culture forward.
Featuring:
Stuart Russell - Professor of Computer Science - UC Berkeley
Gemma Milne - Writer, Broadcaster & Researcher - UCL (Moderator)
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Cutting Edge: Where will the next $100bn deep tech company come from?
Featuring:
Ian Hogarth - Angel Investor
Kate Kallot - Head of Emerging Areas - Nvidia
Gemma Milne - Writer, Broadcaster & Researcher - UCL (Moderator)
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Cutting Edge: AI Skunkworks in the NHS: Innovating through rapid co-production
The NHS AI Lab Skunkworks programme focuses on finding new ways of using AI to drive forward the early adoption of technology to support health, in both clinical and business contexts. In this session, Giuseppe Sollazzo illustrates how AI Skunkworks helps the health and social care community take AI projects from ideas to proof-of-concepts, and shares real-world applications alongside the organisations it supports.
Featuring:
Niamh McKenna - Chief Information Officer (CIO) - NHS Resolution
Ian Roddis - Digital Director - NHS Foundation Trust
Giuseppe Sollazzo - Deputy Director, Head of AI Skunkworks and Deployment - NHSX (Moderator)
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Economy: When private investment fears to tread: The role of public development banks
Build back better has been the mantra of the past year, but where are we really on the plan to remake our economies? Will we seize on the opportunity to create a new and better society? Western economies have taken on staggering amounts of public debt and we’re exploring what this means going forward. The impact of Brexit on the economy is also under the spotlight as we investigate what indices and data tell us. And, we’ll look beyond our borders to the Global South and the crucial role of public development institutions.
Featuring:
Rémy Rioux, CEO, Agence Française de Développement and IDFC Chairperson, France’s Public Development Bank
Matt Reed, Global Director of Institutional Partnerships and CEO (UK), Aga Khan Foundation
Silvia Pavoni, Editor, Sustainable Views, Financial Times (Moderator)
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CreaTech: Marketing reimagined: Liberating creativity through tech
The collision of tech and creativity has transformed the way in which WPP is partnering with its clients. Harnessing the power of AI and other innovative technologies has allowed WPP to transform every step of the creative process. In this conversation, Stephan Pretorius will be joined by clients and technology partners to discuss how they are re-imagining connecting brands with their customers — while maximising speed, optimising impact and minimising their carbon footprint.
Featuring:
Mattias Wilken Wikenmalm - Wikenmalm - Volvo
Perry Nightingale - SVP, Creative AI - WPP
Ruth Bacci - Cloud Solutions Architect - Microsoft
Stephan Pretorius - Chief Technology Officer - WPP (Moderator)
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Cutting Edge: Why the future of AI is in Asia
AI has expanded rapidly in Asia over the last decade. China now leads the world in annual R&D spending with nearly $275 billion. We speak with thought leader Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, about some of the most exciting AI developments emerging from this dynamic area of the world — and why AI’s future goes beyond China to other parts of Asia.
Featuring:
Parag Khanna - Managing Partner - Futuremap
Serena Chaudhry - Associate Director - Dataminr (Moderator)
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Open Web: The Evolution of Ethereum: Eth 2.0
The platform's purposeful evolution
Featuring:
Vitalik Buterin - Chief Scientist and Researcher - Ethereum Foundation
Tom Walton-Pocock - Research Partner - Fabric Ventures
Richard Waters - West Coast Editor - The Financial Times (Moderator)
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Ethics: Getting to ‘good outcomes’ from AI-generated decisions: What are they and who decides?
Curated with: VISA
It’s widely agreed that automated decisions generated using AI should be underpinned by ethics and responsible good practice. It’s also a strongly held view that decisions should yield ‘good’ outcomes for the people on the receiving end — and for society as a whole. But ‘good outcomes’ are difficult to define. Do we mean good for individuals, or the wider good? Good in all situations or just this one? Whose version of good are we using and how do we measure it? Who gets to decide – individuals, companies, policymakers? Join this session to learn the answers.
Melissa McSherry - SVP Global Head of Data, Security, and Identity Products - VISA
Ziad Obermeyer - Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor - UC Berkeley
Ashleigh Ainsley - Co-Founder - Colorintech
Mark Durkee - Head of Tech, Assurance & Good Practice - Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Ivana Bartoletti - Director, Deloitte and Visiting Policy Fellow, University of Oxford - Deloitte (Moderator)
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The Planet & Smart Cities: Winning hearts and minds: Participatory futures and behaviour change
To hit our climate goals we need to change behaviours, bring people together and avoid polarisation. As the world struggles with growing complexity and uncertainty, this panel gathers artists and the latest research from the field of collective intelligence to explore how we can engage people to imagine — and create — more sustainable and inclusive futures. They’ll discuss methods and ideas that can bring communities and the wider public together to build collective visions for a better world. We’ll also hear about the big data x art helping us visualise climate change, explore new worlds through games where people collaborate with AI and learn about AI agents that help to avoid disaster in group decisions about collective risk scenarios — like environmental crises.
Featuring:
Beatie Wolfe - Musician & Artist
Janet Rafner - Director of Learning - Aarhus University
Elías Fernández Domingos - Post-doctoral researcher
Aleks Berditchevskaia - Principal Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design - Nesta (Moderator)
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CreaTech: How is fast fashion becoming slow fashion?
Since 2000 clothing production has doubled, but 85% of textiles end up in landfill, and fashion production itself contributes to 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions. This session explores the radical new technology bringing sustainability to textile development, changing consumer habits and bringing accountability to the sector.
Arizona Muse - Sustainability Consultant, Model & Activist
Jane Harris - Director of Research & Innovation (Stratford), Professor of Digital Design & Innovation - University of the Arts London
Sojin Lee - Founder & CEO - TOSHI
Frankie Phillips - Founder, Creative and Sustainability Director - TOBEFRANK
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Cutting Edge: Measuring our future: Why quantum sensing is set to change everything
Quantum computers get a lot of hype, but what about quantum sensors? From perfecting underwater navigation and sharpening earthquake warning systems to Star-Trek-like portable scanners that monitor brain activity, this session explores an incredible new way of measuring the world around us and how it could reshape industries everywhere.
Featuring;
Dr. Lia Li, Royal Academy of Engineering Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL
Hannah Williams, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut d'Optique
Jessica Wade, Imperial College Research Fellow, Imperial College London
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Economy: Using the power of Anthro-Vision to understand human behaviour and drive change
Anthropology, the scientific study of human behavioural patterns and underlying meaning, has found new domains of research in business and economy. Bestselling author and Anthropology PhD Gillian Tett shares how Anthro-Vision reveals new and intriguing insights in the ‘webs of meaning’ that underpin our choices, and explains how it can drive change towards a more sustainable economy.
Featuring:
Gillian Tett - Editor at large, Financial Times
Stephanie Hare - Independent Researcher & Broadcaster
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Research: A Thousand Brains: A new theory of intelligence
For all of neuroscience’s advances, we’ve made little progress on its biggest question: how do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? In his latest book, neuroscientist and computer pioneer Jeff Hawkins unveils a theory of intelligence that completely flips our understanding of the brain — and sheds light on how we sense the world, ourselves, and the origins of high-level thought. Join him and Azeem Azhar as they discuss this incredible theory of intelligence, and what it means for the future of AI.
Featuring:
Jeff Hawkins - Co-Founder and Chief Scientist - Numenta
Azeem Azhar - Founder - Exponential View
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Cutting Edge: Stealing thoughts from our head - exploring neurorights
What if technology had the right to our thoughts in the future? What if our own minds could be hacked? Two notable minds in neurotechnology link their expertise to discuss whether technology is inherently unethical, and what rights we have to protect our minds now and in the future.
Featuring:
Rafael Yuste, Director Neurotechnology Center, Columbia University
Lone Frank, Senior Science Correspondent, author, Ph.D., Weekendavisen
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CreaTech: AI Poetry and performative architecture
The UK Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai is a performative structure that uses artificial intelligence to create poetry. The Pavilion will feature an illuminated “message to space” made up of a continuous AI-generated poem, which builds on the word contributions from visitors. In this session we’ll dive into the potential role of AI technologies on the creative process, from architecture to the written and spoken word.
Featuring:
Steve Austen-Brown, Creative director, Avantgarde
Guy Gadney, CEO, Charisma.ai
Judith Palmer, Director, The Poetry Society
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Cutting Edge Stage: Mixed realities for all industries: Let the spatial computing revolution begin
This past year has blended our digital and physical worlds more than ever before. But what’s the emerging technology driving this revolution? Three leading minds in this field pool their expertise to take a closer look at the status of spatial computing today and how it’s redefining the way we interact — both online and offline.
Featuring;
Tom Carter, CTO and Co-Founder, Ultraleap
Cathy Hackl, CEO & Futurist, Futures Intelligence Group
Urho Konttori, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Varjo
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The Planet & Smart Cities: Energy futures: AI, hydrogen and carbon reducing tech
Tackling climate change, and at the same time meeting the world’s energy needs, is one of the greatest challenges faced. What is the future of energy? How can technology accelerate the planet’s move towards cleaner energy? This session looks at AI, hydrogen and carbon reducing tech as ways to transform the energy sector.
Featuring:
Ana Quelhas - Managing Director, Hydrogen Business Unit - EDP Renewables
Syrie Crouch - VP CCS - Shell
Jessica Fan - Principle Product Manager - Mckinsey QuantumBlack (Moderator)
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The Planet & Smart Cities: Can digitalisation and AI accelerate the energy transition?
Can digitalisation and AI accelerate the energy transition? The energy industry is going through a double transformation: one is decarbonization, the other is digital transformation. We now know that the energy system will need to change substantially in the coming decades. But what role will digital technology and AI play? And how do we get there faster?
Featuring:
Dan Jeavons - VP Digitalisation and Computational Science - Shell
Bernard Marr - CEO & Co-Founder - Bernard Marr & Co. (Moderator)
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The Planet & Smart Cities: Raising climate ambition: The COP26 opportunity
It’s all hands on deck when it comes to preserving our planet. With the COP26 climate talks in November, great headwinds are building for real progress. How can we be at the forefront of change and what can we do in our lifetime to avert the climate crisis? We bring together the brightest leaders in their fields to discuss the road to COP, asking what success looks like and what it means to them. Hosted by Edie Lush.
Featuring:
Nigel Topping, UK High Level Climate Action Champion, COP26 Unit
Anjali Raman-Middleton, Co-founder, Choked Up
Kate Hampton, CEO, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Edie Lush, Executive Editor, Hub Culture
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Christina Koch - Astronaut - NASA
Isobel Hamilton - Tech Reporter - Business Insider Inc.
Our planet is a complex system, and its health is integral to ours. COVID-19 has shown us that in the face of imminent threat, radical action is possible. In the long term, climate change represents one of the biggest threats to the planet, but also the greatest business opportunity of the last 200 years. This year at CogX we will explore the approaches AI and other emerging technologies offer in the fight against climate change and environmental degradation. We will discuss the future of our cities, and the intersection of smart, sustainable and key advances in mobility.
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Karim Jalbout - Partner Digital & Tech - Egon Zehnder
Melinda Ferguson - Vice-President - VMware
Dr. Joanna Abeyie MBE - Managing Director - Blue Moon
Brita Fernandez Schmidt - Executive Director and Vice President for Europe & External Relations - Women for Women International UK
The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC - The Secretary General - The Commonwealth of Nations
Sara Vaughan - Global Chief Purpose & Sustainability Advisor Marie Claire - Marie Claire
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Grace Cassy - Co-Founder - CyLon
Peter Watkins - Visiting Professor - King's College London
Anthony Finkelstein CBE - Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security - HM Government
Tristram Riley-Smith - Director of Research in Politics and International Studies - University of Cambrid
Detecting and preventing criminal activities is now business critical. From money laundering to fraud, cyber-crime and terrorism, machine learning and AI tools and applications are at the core of efforts keeping companies online and operating. At the same time, new privacy enhancing technologies including homomorphic encryption and two-factor authentication are opening up new possibilities for safety.
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Nicola Mendelsohn CBE - Vice President, Facebook EMEA - Facebook
Dame Vivian Hunt - Managing Partner, UK & Ireland - McKinsey & Company
There’s never been a greater need to explore the role that technology will play in helping us rebuild, reconstruct and get the next 10 years right. How do we embed resilience into our organisations, harness technology for good and address the current health crisis whilst not forgetting the climate and importance of a strong economy?
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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John Kerry - 68th United States Secretary of State, Founder World War Zero -
Mary Robinson - Former President of Ireland
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Azeem Azhar - Founder - Exponential View
Tom Glocer - Executive Chairman & Co-Founder - BlueVoyant
There’s never been a greater need to explore the role that technology will play in helping us rebuild, reconstruct and get the next 10 years right. How do we embed resilience into our organisations, harness technology for good and address the current health crisis whilst not forgetting the climate and importance of a strong economy?
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Play 3.0: what is the future of play
Tarun Varma - Experience Implementation Specialist - The LEGO Foundation
Jude Ower MBE - CEO & Founder - Playmob
Roberta Lucca - Co-Founder & CMO - Bossa Studios Ltd.
Alex Beard - Senior Director, Global Learning Lab - Teach for All
AI is powering a revolution in both HR and learning. The recent lockdown has driven widespread adoption of education technology. We will be looking at best practice remote learning courses, digital versus hybrid tools and how the classroom is transforming. From hiring, to people management to performance, AI tools have the power to fundamentally change the way the HR function operates. Learn how here.
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE - Founder - the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace - The Jane Goodall Institute
Will Marshall - CEO - Planet Labs
There’s never been a greater need to explore the role that technology will play in helping us rebuild, reconstruct and get the next 10 years right. How do we embed resilience into our organisations, harness technology for good and address the current health crisis whilst not forgetting the climate and importance of a strong economy?
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Ruby Wax OBE - Entertainer, Mental Health Advocate & Author -
Julia Hobsbawm OBE - Writer, Speaker, Strategist -
Joy Lo Dico - Writer & Journalist -
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
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Betsy Cooper - Director - Aspen Tech Policy Hub
Misha Glenny - Research Fellow - Berggruen Institute
Grace Cassy - Co-Founder - CyLon
Mariarosaria Taddeo - Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute - University of Oxford
Robert Hannigan - Chairman - BlueVoyant
Detecting and preventing criminal activities is now business critical. From money laundering to fraud, cyber-crime and terrorism, machine learning and AI tools and applications are at the core of efforts keeping companies online and operating. At the same time, new privacy enhancing technologies including homomorphic encryption and two-factor authentication are opening up new possibilities for safety.
CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.
Find out more at: cogx.live