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China - Britain AI Summit Welcome Speech

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  • Session
  • Friday, 22 September 2017
  • 09:22 - 09:22
  • Duration: 5 mins
  • Publication date: 05 Feb 2018
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event China - Britain AI Summit

About the session

The Aim

An Industry 4.0 led platform to showcase Chinese and British techs, catalyse investment activity, business opportunities and talent acquisition in the China-UK AI space

An Industry 4.0 led platform to showcase Chinese and British techs, catalyse investment activity, business opportunities and talent acquisition in the China-UK AI space

To explore smart technology & other opportunities for involvement in China’s $1tn Belt & Road initiative

To bring together Chinese and UK AI talent, start-ups, angels, VCs and application destinations with invest-ment interests

To build a roadmap for new partnership, co-investment in the set up of new ecosystems and harness a new breed of technologies in Big Data, active machine-learning


The Value

1. The only platform dedicated to wedding British AI technology with the demand of the Chinese economy
2. To expose Chinese AI companies to the growth potentials found through British market access
3. To expose British AI companies to the growth potentials found through Chinese market access
4. To explore partnerships between British and Chinese incubators, accelerators and entrepreneurship platforms
5. To prepare companies for the adoption and integration of AI technologies and transformation of work-force roles
6. To explore the UK’s access points to the Belt & Road initiative
7. To identify and introduce British distributors and software developers to Chinese parties
8. Delivered through CBBF’s Target+ matchmaking services Bringing

 

 

 

 

Keywords:
  • AI
  • artificial intelligence
  • smart technologies
  • technologies

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  • Professor Jeremy  Watson

    Professor Jeremy Watson

    The IET President

    Jeremy Watson is Vice-Dean for Engineering Mission and Professor of Engineering Systems in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at UCL.Concurrently, he is Chief Scientist and Engineer at the Building Research Establishment (BRE). Jeremy was previously Arup’s Global Research Director, and Chief Scientific Advisor in the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG).An electronics and control engineer by training and practice, he has senior experience of research and technical direction in industry and universities, governing board membership at Innovate UK and EPSRC, plus service with NERC and HEFCE.He has served on two government SAGE panels (Flooding and Pandemics) and a Blackett Review on Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things. Jeremy is Deputy President of the Institution for Engineering and Technology and Chair of BuildingSMART UK.He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the ICE and the IET. His specialities include research strategy, systems thinking, innovation processes, and emerging technology identification.Jeremy is Director of a £9.8m research hub funded by EPSRC. This is composed of nine universities collaborating research on Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things. The hub has been pledged a further £13m by its partners for on-going research
  • Professor Jeremy  Watson

    Professor Jeremy Watson

    The IET President

    Jeremy Watson is Vice-Dean for Engineering Mission and Professor of Engineering Systems in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at UCL.Concurrently, he is Chief Scientist and Engineer at the Building Research Establishment (BRE). Jeremy was previously Arup’s Global Research Director, and Chief Scientific Advisor in the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG).An electronics and control engineer by training and practice, he has senior experience of research and technical direction in industry and universities, governing board membership at Innovate UK and EPSRC, plus service with NERC and HEFCE.He has served on two government SAGE panels (Flooding and Pandemics) and a Blackett Review on Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things. Jeremy is Deputy President of the Institution for Engineering and Technology and Chair of BuildingSMART UK.He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the ICE and the IET. His specialities include research strategy, systems thinking, innovation processes, and emerging technology identification.Jeremy is Director of a £9.8m research hub funded by EPSRC. This is composed of nine universities collaborating research on Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things. The hub has been pledged a further £13m by its partners for on-going research
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