Rachel Lasebikan and Martin Malii-Karlsson from BLaO, Co-Curated a National AI Conference on Creativity enabled by new emerging technologies together with Sam Smith-Steele Managing Director of Cebai.
Case studies and panel discussions covered research and commercial development in AI technology. Themes of the day were ethics, culture and human-computer interaction, the 4.0 future, diffusion of products, monetising creativity and knowledge exchange activities.
The full day event was streamed on Zoom 14th of October 2021.
Professor of Digital Creativity at the Bayes Business School, and CebAI Director Professor Neil Maiden hosted the session.
Co-creation of Themes:
1. How to Collaborate Industry X Academia
2. How to Monetise Creativity
3. Ethics, AI & the 4th Industrial Era
4. Inspiring a Future Vision
Speakers included:
Professor Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng, President of City, University of London and former Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security, Dr Dyaa Albakour, Alice Hu Wagner – Managing Director of London & Partners and formerly headed up Strategy, Economics and Business Development at the British Business Bank, Ioannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Ex Google, Founder and CEO of Altered, Maria Diaz, Head of Fellowship at Faculty, an applied AI company, Geo Martin, Founder WR1, NYC, Stephen Thompson, heads of the Data Science team at Grant Thornton. Holly Lidbury, The National Digital Exploitation Centre (NDEC), Ghislaine Boddington, Creative Director body>data>space, Bunmi Durowoju Snr Business Development Manager in Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Cloud (AIIC), Dr Christopher Gibson, Senior Policy Advisor, Research England UKRI, Dr Sara Jones, Director of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City, University of London, Irini Papadimitriou, Creative Director at innovation lab and cultural agency, Future Everything.
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