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Talks on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Speakers - Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Ibaraki, Social Entrepreneur and Futurist
With more than 100 executive roles, lifetime achievement awards and recognitions, a few of Stephen Ibaraki’s positions include: co-chair Practitioner Board Association for Computing Machinery; founding chair Global Industry Council and vice-chair board IP3 International Federation for Information Processing; top 5 blogger IDG-IT World (Canada); founding managing partner REDDS Venture Investment Partners; chairman outreach UN ITU “ICT Discovery” Journal; moderator/keynote/organizer UN ITU AI events, first UN ITU AI for Good Global Summit; keynote at the International Conference on Software Engineering (Austin USA); founding chair Technology Advisory Council Financial Services Roundtable FinTech Ideas Festival (FSR: 92.7 trillion managed assets, 1.2 trillion annual revenue); advisor of board within IEEE. There is more information as nominated founding fellow, past board chair and president government-chartered Canadian Information Processing Society http://www.cips.ca/stephen-ibaraki.

Prof Dr Thomas Wiegand, Professor, Technical University of Berlin, Executive Director, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Thomas Wiegand is a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and is jointly heading the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. Since 1995, he has been an active participant in standardiza-tion for multimedia with many successful submissions to ITU-T and ISO/IEC. In 2000, he was appointed as the Associated Rapporteur of ITU-T VCEG and from 2005-2009, he was Co-Chair of ISO/IEC MPEG Video. The projects that he co-chaired for the development of the H.264/MPEG-AVC standard have been recognized by an ATAS Primetime Em-my Engineering Award and a pair of NATAS Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named him in their list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” as one of the most cited researchers in his field. For his research in video coding and transmission, in video coding and transmission, he has received numerous awards including the ITU150 Award.

Prof Dr Mike Hinchey, Director, Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero)
Mike Hinchey is Director of Lero-the Irish Software Research Centre, a multi-location national research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland and with a footprint in all of Ireland's universities. He is also Professor of Software Engineering at University of Limerick. He holds 26 US Patents on various aspects of autonomous systems, code generation and computer hardware. In 2009 he was awarded NASA's Kerley Award as Innovator of the Year. Prior to leading Lero, Hinchey was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, MD. He is President of IFIP (International Federa-tion for Information Processing), Vice President of the Irish Computer Society and Vice Chair of IEEE UK and Ireland Section.

Neil Sahota, WW Business Development Leader & IBM Master Inventor, IBM Watson Group
Neil Sahota (萨冠军)is an IBM Master Inventor and Worldwide Business Development Leader in the IBM Watson Group. He works with Global Fortune 500 clients and high growth business partners to ideate next generation products/solutions powered by Watson. Neil's responsibilities include product incubation, developing business cases, and go-to-market strategies. Prior to this role, he was a Thought Leader Consultant and Practice Leader in IBM Global Business Services and responsible for the sales and delivery of consulting engagements spanning busi-ness strategy, new product development, revenue optimization, and process improvement. His experience spans multiple industries including healthcare, retail, travel/transportation, energy/utilities, automotive, telecommunications, media/communication, and government.