Why are we valuable? How are we intelligent? What constitutes progress for us? And how might we fail to progress? Having spent the last couple of years traveling around the world discussing these questions with world leaders, Amir joins us once again to provide a global outlook on the urgency and implications of AI, as well as share what he has learned. About Amir: Amir Husain is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and inventor based in Austin, TX. He is the founder and CEO of SparkCognition, a company building artificial intelligence systems to advance the most important interests of our society, and also the CEO of SkyGrid, a SparkCognition and Boeing company focused on building the aerial operation system for next-generation travel and transport. His work has been featured in world-leading outlets such as Foreign Policy, Fox Business News, and Wired. Moderated by Jaka Jaksic. Get a copy of the book here: https://goo.gle/2lvz0Ni

MIT 15.071 The Analytics Edge, Spring 2017 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/15-071S17 Instructor: Dimitris Bertsimas YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61Q_FSXJUGkDJs1SMj5teGq How analytics redefines the meaning of intelligence and contributes to personal happiness and health. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu

The Future of Intelligence, Artificial and Natural https://www.creativeinnovationglobal.com.au Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” PBS selected him as one of the “sixteen revolutionaries who made America.” Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Among Ray’s many honors, he received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near (2005) and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding. Ci2019 featured over 40 global leaders including Chief Technology Officer of Google Ray Kurzweil (USA), CEO of NESTA Geoff Mulgan CBE (UK), Chief Data and Transformation Officer at DBS Bank Paul Cobban (Singapore), A.I. Experts Professor Toby Walsh and Liesl Yearsley (USA), Co-founder of Oxford Insights Emma Martinho-Truswell (UK), Ethics leader Professor Simon Longstaff, Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI Professor Kathleen Richardson (UK), brain performance neuroscientist Dr Etienne Van Der Walt (South Africa), transdisciplinary Behavioural Scientist Dr Richard Claydon (Hong Kong), Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre Carl Smith (UK), Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel AO, Deakin University Vice Chancellor Professor Jane Den Hollander, ATO’s Jane King, Innovation & Science Australia CEO Dr Charles Day, CEDA CEO Melinda Cilento, Jobs for NSW CEO Nicole Cook, Behaviour Innovation founder & CEO John Pickering, People and Performance expert Andrew Horsfield, TEDx Melbourne’s Jon Yeo and many more to be announced. The theme for Creative Innovation 2019 Asia Pacific was “Human Intelligence 2.0 – A Collective Future? How will we manage the transition?” . The event showcased world changing innovators, disruptors, futurists, scientist, inspired thinkers and curious souls gathered together in an interactive community. Creative Innovation Global is the premiere conference for anyone who cares about creativity, innovation, leadership and transformation. Creative Innovation Global delivers world class creative and exponential thinking, innovation leadership and pragmatic solutions. The event offers credible forecasts, strategies and practices to help transform you and prepare the leadership of organisations for disruption in all its forms. A place to imagine the future, inspire your leadership and achieve business success. Creative Innovation Global has received two global awards and numerous Australian Awards winning the title of best corporate event in the world. Creative Universe and Creative Innovation Global have just been ranked among the top 20 event organizers and agencies from around the world as part of the newly released Eventex All-Stars Index: https://eventex.co/all-stars/ We work on engaging hearts and minds and building leadership and innovation capability with teams through custom designing Creative Innovation half and full day workshops for organisations on a regular basis. To see more about our inspirational leadership programs and other events and offerings, please visit http://creativeinnovationglobal.com.au To watch over 300 talks and videos from past Creative Innovation Global events visit: http://creativeinnovation.tv Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CInnovation Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/creative.innovati... Join the discussions on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3397423 Watch more videos and comment on our youtube channel to join the discussion: http://youtube.com/CInnovationGlobal

Professor Andrew Ng is the former chief scientist at Baidu, where he led the company's Artificial Intelligence Group. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. In 2011 he led the development of Stanford University’s main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform and also taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera. November 7, 2017

Artificial intelligence will change lives in many ways. Already, AI solutions are being deployed and having significant impact in healthcare. Daniel Kraft, MD, Chair for Medicine, Singularity University, shares his expert views on how significant this technology will be in finding the right diagnosis and therapies and shifting the ‘practice’ of medicine to the real ‘science’ of medicine. http://xprize.org --------------------------------------- ABOUT XPRIZE XPRIZE is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. XPRIZE addresses the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.

Just as every picture tells a story, so does every data point. The all-new IBM Cognos Analytics provides a new, powerful personal analytics experience, driven by AI. It’s built to help you find and share compelling stories that lie hidden in your data. Unlike analytics solutions that only show what’s happening across your business, IBM Cognos Analytics goes further, using AI to get to why it happened. Learn more about the all-new IBM Cognos Analytics, now built to fit virtually any budget by clicking here: https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics