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Keynote Speech - AI Impact on our way of life

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  • Session
  • Friday, 22 September 2017
  • 09:22 - 09:22
  • Duration: 22 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

Co-existence of human & intelligent machines, impact on work, Solving automation paradox by rethinking politics.

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
  • Alexa
  • Cognitive
  • Siri
  • artificial intelligence
  • automation
  • digital
  • human
  • machine learning
  • robot
  • smart technologies
  • technologies

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