Students, researchers and entrepreneurs will showcase cutting-edge research and real-world synthetic intelligence (AI) purposes that may facilitate breakthroughs throughout healthcare, local weather, robotics and different fields, as a part of the primary UCL AI competition.
UCL Innovation & Enterprise has joined forces with NVIDIA and HPE for the four-day occasion, beginning on 28 February, which is able to function panel discussions, hackathons, and displays from thought leaders who’re growing the most recent instruments and merchandise utilizing AI. Attendees will discover the latest improvements in addition to sensible instruments and applied sciences shaping the way forward for AI.
The convention is being hosted by UCL’s strategic associate, British Land, at One Triton Square, a three way partnership with Royal London Asset Management throughout the Regent’s Place campus. UCL signed a memorandum of understanding by way of its London Office with British Land in 2023, with the intention of supporting development in science and expertise in Euston and Kings’ Cross.
Professor Geraint Rees, UCL Vice-Provost of Research, Innovation & Global Engagement stated: “The UCL AI Festival highlights the tremendous power and potential of AI to revolutionise so many areas of business and research. From developers creating innovative tools to solve persistent problems, to researchers using it to answer the unanswered questions, it’s a technology whose importance is only going to increase. UCL is a global leader in AI innovation, highlighted by its strong partnerships with NVIDIA and HPE.”
The convention will open with a two-day give attention to the theme of constructing AI. Following a panel dialogue on how entrepreneurs are creating startups within the new age of AI, greater than 150 members will delve right into a two-day hackathon competitors the place start-ups and AI practitioners will additional develop their expertise and discover the latest instruments.
Winners of the hackathon will obtain tickets and funded journey to the NVIDIA GTC AI convention in San Jose, California in March. This portion of the occasion is organised by AI Engine, supported by trade companions like Cooley, N47, Crane, Dawn Capital, powered by numerous expertise companions together with AWS and Anthropic, and main European tech corporations like Lovable, Prolific, Encord and Runware.
The following two days will emphasise research and innovation. The convention will function a sequence of displays highlighting how AI is facilitating new advances in necessary fields, and assist members higher perceive and use the expertise. Leading invited audio system embody Professor Lourdes Agapito (UCL Department of Computer Science) who co-founded the startup Synthesia, Utz-Uwe Haus, the Head of the HPE’s HPC and AI EMEA Research Lab, Andy Grant the EMEA Director for Supercomputing & AI at NVIDIA, and Professor Geraint Rees UCL Vice-Provost of Research, Innovation & Global Engagement.
They, and different trade leaders, will communicate on topics together with taking a deep dive into the UK-LLM venture that makes use of a mannequin constructed particularly for UK public providers utilizing the Isambard-AI supercomputer; how generative fashions of the human mind are being scaled from a handful of GPUs to hundreds, creating “healthcare digital twins” that remodel neurology and remedy; the methods AI is getting used to speed up polar statement and local weather modelling, offering real-time insights into the world’s most susceptible ecosystems; and the way tutorial research is being transitioned to industrial innovation and the brand new profession paths being created within the London ecosystem.
Utz-Uwe Haus of HPE stated: “AI is accelerating the pace and scale of research and innovation, unlocking unprecedented opportunities across healthcare, climate science, robotics, and beyond. The UCL AI Festival exemplifies this momentum by bringing together diverse experts and entrepreneurs, showcasing how they harness the latest AI technologies. Simultaneously, it provides a forum to explore the strategic responsibilities that come with them as the public debate is shifting from size and performance of AI supercomputers to that of sovereignty and control.”
UCL has positioned itself as a world chief in AI research and innovation. Multiple AI-based startups and companies have been spun out from UCL research, together with the video manufacturing firm Synthesia and the digicam platform builders Camera Intelligence.
In addition, UCL is on the forefront of constructing the UK’s world management on the event of, safeguards round and the way forward for synthetic intelligence. Its AI for People and Planet framework units out its dedication to exploring the potential of AI as a pressure for good and to working with companions the world over to obtain this.
Professor Alan Thompson, Pro Provost (London) at UCL “The site of the festival highlights the economic opportunity for tech-powered growth as part of the life science innovation district which spans UCL’s campus across Euston and King’s Cross – UCL sits at the heart of this ecosystem.”
The central London space is already residence to world-leading UK life science and expertise corporations comparable to Synthesia, Autolus and Google DeepMind, and a recent analysis from UCL and Public First reveals that the thriving space anchored by UCL, The Francis Crick Institute, and UCLH might add £3.5bn to the economic system and create 20,000 life science jobs.
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