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Event
  • Session
  • Friday, 22 September 2017
  • 11:22 - 11:22
  • Duration: 42 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

Winners & Losers, Moral framework for AI development, How to prepare for a new era & Training.

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
  • AI robot
  • Alzheimer's
  • Care-o-bot 3
  • Cognitive
  • Siri
  • algorithm
  • artificial intelligence
  • automation
  • digital
  • elderly care
  • ethics
  • investment
  • robot
  • robotics
  • robots
  • smart home
  • smart technologies
  • social robots
  • technologies
  • technology

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Speakers

  • GZ

    George Zarkadakis

    Willis Tower Watson, Digital Lead

  • AW

    Anthony Walker

    TechUK, Deputy CEO

  • Sonya Rogerson

    Sonya Rogerson

    The British standards Inst., General Council APAC

    Sonya is an experienced senior international business lawyer and board advisor delivering success for companies in-house. She has unique experience in joint ventures, strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions in emerging and developing markets where navigating complexities in compliance, business ethics and cultural differences have been increasingly critical in deal making and delivering post integration success. Sonya’s recent focus in developing strategic partnerships has been in innovation, new technologies and the Internet of Things.
  • Professor Tom  Sorell

    Professor Tom Sorell

    Warwick University

    Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group (IERG). He has published about 150 articles and eight monographs, almost all single-authored. He has worked as ethicist on many funded robotics projects, notably the EU-funded FP7 ACCOMPANY project on care-robots, and the FROG and EASEL projects. He was among the group of academics who formulated the Principles of Robot Ethics at a retreat organized by the UK Research Coun-cils in 2010, and has contributed to the BSI standard on robot ethics and a UK RAS Network White Paper on Social Care and Robotics.
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