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Pioneering change and innovation with next gen AI - Professor Ronjon Nag

Session
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
13:00
Duration: 59 mins
Publication date: 23 Nov 2023
Location: Turing Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
Part of event Pioneering change and innovation with next gen AI

About the session

Introduction from IET President Dr Gopichand Katragadda

Welcome form Dr Deepak Gupta and Kirsten McCormick.

Presentaion from Professor Ronjon Nag

While AI has quietly been a part of our lives for years, its recent surge has led to both transformative opportunities and unprecedented challenges.

From enhancing productivity and disrupting every industry, to its ethical minefields and regulatory challenges, join us in this event where we’ll delve into the deep-seated roots of AI, explore its escalating trends, and demystify its role in managing innovation.

Industry-leading experts will guide us through this intricate journey where you will learn and discuss how to harness AI responsibly for a successful future.

Keywords:: AI

Industry-leading experts

demystifing artificial intelligence

harness AI responsibly

next generation AI

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Speakers

Professor Ronjon Nag

IET Trustee - R42 Group

Professor Ronjon Nag is an inventor and entrepreneur. He is Adjunct Professor in Genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine and Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center for Language and Information, teaching courses in artificial intelligence, healthcare venture capital aging science and longevity technology. He is the founder of the R42 Group which invents, informs and invests.He has won the 2021 IEEE-SCV Outstanding Engineer award, the IET Mountbatten Medal, and the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award (for Bounce Imaging where he is Chairman). He is a founder and advisor/board member and part owner of some 80 AI and Biotech start-ups. His companies have been sold to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola.Ronjon pioneered text prediction, voice and handwriting recognition, including Chinese, for mobile devices. In 1999, he invented the first mobile app stores, deploying at Orange, Vodafone, SprintNextel, AT&T, Airtel, Telstra and many others, resulting in billions of downloads and presaging an industry employing millions of engineers.He has historically been involved in numerous product firsts. More recently Ronjon has been applying concepts of computer science and mathematics to biology. Active in the IET, he gave the 2020 AI in Healthcare lecture series, created the IET Introduction to AI Online Course, and served on the Knowledge Services and Solutions Board and Council
Kirsten Mccormick

Systems Engineer, Artificial Intelligence Lead
Dr Gopichand Katragadda

IET President

Dr Gopi Katragadda is the Founder and CEO of Myelin Foundry, an AI company with a vision to transform human experiences and industry outcomes. He is an Independent Director of Bosch India Limited and ICICI Securities. He is also a member of the NASSCOM governing council for the Centre of Excellence for Data Science & AI.Until January 2019, Gopi was the Group Chief Technology Officer and Innovation Head of Tata Sons. At Tata Sons, he facilitated the development of pioneering products and services, strategic technology collaboration, and innovation across the $100 Billion Tata Group.Previously, as the Chairman and Managing Director of GE India Technology Centre, he helped grow GE’s largest R&D Centre – the John F. Welch Technology Centre, to be amongst the world’s leaders in intellectual property generation.Gopi is the past Chairman of the CII National Technology Committee and the CII Western Region Innovation Taskforce.He is a GE Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Gopi helped establish the Advanced Materials CoE at IIT-Madras and the Advanced Manufacturing CoE at IIT-Kharagpur.He has framed the CII-Tata Communications Digital Transformation CoE. Gopi also set up and managed the ongoing Tata research collaborations with Harvard and Yale.Gopi has authored a book on innovation titled “SMASH,” currently in its second edition. He has over 30 journal publications, five patents, several invited presentations, and citations of his research work.Gopi holds a BE degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University and MS, PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Iowa State University.
Professor Ronjon Nag

IET Trustee - R42 Group

Professor Ronjon Nag is an inventor and entrepreneur. He is Adjunct Professor in Genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine and Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center for Language and Information, teaching courses in artificial intelligence, healthcare venture capital aging science and longevity technology. He is the founder of the R42 Group which invents, informs and invests.He has won the 2021 IEEE-SCV Outstanding Engineer award, the IET Mountbatten Medal, and the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award (for Bounce Imaging where he is Chairman). He is a founder and advisor/board member and part owner of some 80 AI and Biotech start-ups. His companies have been sold to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola.Ronjon pioneered text prediction, voice and handwriting recognition, including Chinese, for mobile devices. In 1999, he invented the first mobile app stores, deploying at Orange, Vodafone, SprintNextel, AT&T, Airtel, Telstra and many others, resulting in billions of downloads and presaging an industry employing millions of engineers.He has historically been involved in numerous product firsts. More recently Ronjon has been applying concepts of computer science and mathematics to biology. Active in the IET, he gave the 2020 AI in Healthcare lecture series, created the IET Introduction to AI Online Course, and served on the Knowledge Services and Solutions Board and Council
Kirsten McCormick

Systems Engineer, Artificial Intelligence Lead
Kirsten Mccormick

Systems Engineer, Artificial Intelligence Lead