Announcing the digital agenda for VentureBeat's AI event of the year for enterprise executives, Transform 2020.
Transform 2020 will be held online on July 15-17. Each day is dedicated to a central theme in AI, spanning the Technology & Automation Summit, Conversational AI Summit, IoT & AI at the Edge, and Computer Vision Summit. VentureBeat is providing a way for the AI business community to experience virtually the same engaging experiences offered by in-person events. To foster personal connections, we’re adding digital equivalents for networking, one-to-one meetings, matchmaking, and live Q&As with speakers.
Transform features keynote speakers from heavy hitters like Google, Walmart, Uber, Pinterest, Salesforce, Adobe, AWS, Intuit, Chase, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, Visa, Slack, Disney, Commonspirit Health, & GE Healthcare — and from a growing list of sponsors, including Intel, Dataiku, Capital One, Dell, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Two Hat Security. Other speakers include leading AI professors from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley and more.
Transform will also host its popular Women in AI Breakfast, presented by Intel and Capital One. The AI event will explore diversity and inclusion, reflect on the importance of ethics in AI practice, and feature our 2nd annual AI Innovation Awards.
Interested executives can register here to join the event online. We’re offering a limited 30% discount through Friday, May 15th. Interested readers can also register for access to the free three-day livestream.
For companies interested in partnerships, we have innovative and high-impact custom solutions in place for all the components for our strategic sponsors.
VB Transform 2020 - Digital Agenda
Day 1: Technology & Automation Summit
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 (all times Pacific time)
Presented by Dataiku
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM PT | Main Stage
Women in AI Breakfast | Presented by Capital One and IntelHow Women are advancing AI and leading the trend of AI fairness, ethics & human centered AI
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PT | Main StageWelcome from EmceeMatt Marshall, CEO, VentureBeat, Opening Remarks, Kurt Muehmel, Chief Customer Officer, Dataiku, Summit Chair Opening Remarks
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Marianna Tessel, Chief Technology Officer, IntuitExplainable/White-box, AI-First App Development; How Intuit is leveraging AI in transforming App Creation
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Sandra Nudelman, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chase, Moderated by Rajeev Chand, Partner and Head of Research, Wing Venture CapitalBanking on AI; How Chase invested early and big in AI & ML to enhance customer experiences
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM PT | Main StageKurt Muehmel, Chief Customer Officer, DataikuFrom Raw Data to Business Impact: How Dataiku is helping organizations put their data to work in building Human-Centric AI models'
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PT | 45 Minute BreakoutExecutive Roundtable Breakout Never again; How can AI & ML help the world prevent another pandemic like Covid-19?
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Fiona Tan, Senior Vice President, Walmart U.S. Technology Intelligent, Actionable Insights from Al; How Walmart is implementing AI & ML algorithms to make shopping easier
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM PT | Main Stage FIRESIDE CHAT Charles Elkan, Global Head of ML, Goldman Sachs; Dimitris Tsementsiz, Quantitative Researcher, Goldman Sachs, Moderated by Rajeev Chand, Partner and Head of Research, Wing Venture CapitalBuild v/s Buy in AI; How an organization the size and scale of Goldman Sachs is scaling up its AI/ML org
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM PT | Main StageRich Roth, SVP, Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, CommonSpirit HealthHow AI's ability to glean patterns from large volumes of data is enabling better patient outcomes for CommonSpirit
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM PT | Main StageMelissa McSherry, SVP Global Head of Credit and Data Products, VisaAI for Good: How Visa is using Data & AI for good
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM PT | Tech Showcase
- SingularityNET foundation: Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO & Founder; Democratizing access to AI using Blockchain
- Fiddler.ai: Krishna Gade, CEO & Co-founder; Making AI trustworthy and explainable for all enterprises
12:55 PM - 1:40 PM PT | Executive ForumExecutive Roundtable Breakout - How AI & ML is transforming the banking, financial services & insurance industry and what are some of the most impactful use cases coming out of the industry.
1:40 PM - 2:25 PM PT | Tech & AutomationPANEL Jaime Delange, Director of Product, Slack; Hui Wang, VP of Data Science, PayPal; Moderated by Jed Dougherty, VP of Field Engineering, DataikuBig trends on how Companies are identifying the right data to train AI & ML algorithms accurately to tackle various issues such as customer service, personalization, risk & fraud with increased speed and agility
2:25 PM - 2:55 PM PT | Tech & AutomationFIRESIDE CHAT Justin Norman, VP of Data Science, YelpThe rewards and challenges of building and scaling custom AI, experimentation and analytics systems across your entire business
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM PT | Executive ForumExecutive Roundtable Breakout - Back to the future: How the use of AI is leading advances in the transportation & aviation industry.
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM PT | Tech & AutomationPRESENTATION Deepak Agarwal, VP of Engineering, AI, LinkedInPutting AI to Work ; How LinkedIn built an Accurate, Ethical & Explainable AI network to connect talent with opportunity at scale
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM PT | Tech & AutomationPRESENTATION Ameen Kazerouni, Head of ML/AI Research, Zappos Case-study: The software and hardware stack of a Retail company with modern AI applications at work
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM PT | Tech & AutomationPRESENTATION Case study of AI implementation, moderated by Kurt Muehmel, CCO, Dataiku
4:25 PM - 4:50 PM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Ion Stoica, Co-founder, Rise Labs (UC Berkeley), Moderated by Jed Dougherty, VP of Field Engineering, DataikuDemystifying AI Interpretability; Improving Accuracy. & Predictability of AI Models using Reinforcement Learning
4:50 PM - 5:35 PM PT | VIP OnlyVentureBeat AI Innovation Awards & Dinner Private Chatroom
Day 2: Conversational AI Summit
Thursday, July 16, 2020 (all times Pacific time)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PT | Main StageWelcome from Emcee
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM PT | Main StageTo Be Announced
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Cynthia Stoddard, CIO & Senior Vice President, AdobeHow Adobe is scaling internally through implementing AI into its business processes. Best practices for companies scaling AI across its IT infrastructure
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Ken Dodelin, VP Conversational AI Products, Capital OneTopic TBA
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PT | Executive ForumExecutive Roundtable Breakout - How AI is transforming retail & e-commerce, from personalized shopping to customer delight.
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM PT | Main StageBarak Turovsky, Director of Product, Google AICan we Trust a Machine to be Fair? How Google is addressing the challenges associated with ML Fairness and eliminating bias in its Conversational AI algorithms
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM PT | Main StageRichard Socher, Chief Scientist and EVP, SalesforceThe Power & Responsibility of AI: How Salesforce is helping create Impactful Business Innovation leveraging AI
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM PT | Main StageTo Be Announced
12:00 PM - 12:25 PM PT | Main StageTo Be Announced
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM PT | Tech Showcase
- Igor Jablokov, CEO & Founder, Pryon; Augmented Intelligence: Automating AI model deployment
- Mady Mantha, Senior AI Evangelist, Rasa.com; Empowering citizen developers in NLP & democratizing it for all makers in developer-friendly workflows
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM PT | Conversational AIPANEL Barak Turovsky, Director of Product, Google AI; and more to be announced Titan Panel: Big trends in Conversational AI & Virtual Agents
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM PT | Conversational AIPRESENTATION Lilian Rincon, Senior Director of Product Management, Google AssistantHow to make sure your AI agent can 'Hold the Conversation'. The importance of data, design, and deployment
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM PT | 15 Minute BreakExecutive Roundtable Breakout More power to AI: How Energy & Utility companies are leveraging AI to solve challenges such as safety and conservation of resources.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM PT | Conversational AIPRESENTATION Brett Butterfield, Director of Software Development, Adobe - Sensei & Search; Dr. Alan Nichol, CTO & co-founder, Rasa.comCase Study: How to build a state-of-the-art enterprise-grade virtual agent (beyond rules-based, and understanding intent), what should be the enterprise data-lake strategy, that allows a virtual agent to pull data from across systems to delight customers and employees across silos.
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM PT | Conversational AITo Be Announced
Day 3: IoT & AI at the Edge, and Computer Vision Summit
Friday, July 17, 2020 (all times Pacific time)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PT | Main StageWelcome from Emcee
9:15 AM -9:40 AM PT | Main StageZoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist, UberHow Uber is leveraging AI on the edge and Computer Vision to deliver a better product to its users with greater privacy and lower latency
9:40 AM - 10:05 AM PT | Main StageFIRESIDE CHAT Jeremy King, SVP of Technology, PinterestThe New Intelligent Avatar of the Catalog; How Pinterest is leveraging computer vision to create inspirational shopping journeys
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM PT | Main StagePRESENTATION with Intel AI
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PT | Executive ForumExecutive Roundtable Breakout - How industrial and manufacturing are making products faster, better, and cheaper leveraging AI technologies such as robotics, computer vision, and IoT at the edge.
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM PT | Main StageTo Be Announced
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM PT | Main StageTo Be Announced
11:35 AM - 11:55 AM PT | Tech Showcase
- LatentAI, Inc.; Co-Founder and CEO, Jags Kandaswamy; LEIP Platform; Deploying Deep Learning models on the Edge
- Streamlit; CEO & Co-Founder, Adrien Treuille; A minimal framework for powerful CV apps such as real time object detection, & face-GAN explorer
12:40 PM - 1:25 PM PT | IoT & AI at the Edge / Computer VisionPANEL The big technology trends in IOT/ AI at the Edge & Computer Vision and what the convergence of various technologies mean for business applications
1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PT | IoT & AI at the Edge / Computer VisionPRESENTATION Kunle Olukotun, Chief Technologist & Co-Founder, SambaNova Systems and Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford UniversityHow edge compute, IOT and AI are giving companies better, real-time intelligence and helping with digital transformation
1:55 PM - 2:40 PM PT | Executive ForumExecutive Roundtable Breakout - The building blocks; How the construction industry is leveraging AI along with robotics and drones to build better, faster and safer.
2:10 PM - 2:35 PM PT | IoT & AI at the Edge / Computer VisionPRESENTATION Vaibhav Vavilala, Technical Director, Pixar Animation StudiosHow convolutional neural nets can deliver high-quality UHD content using less than half the datacenter footprint in animated films
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM PT | IoT & AI at the Edge / Computer VisionPRESENTATION Amit Phadnis, Chief Digital Officer, GE HealthcareA customer case about getting ROI from investing in computer vision (Healthcare)
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM PT | IoT & AI at the Edge / Computer VisionPRESENTATION Cesar Romeo, Principal ML Engineer, Unity TechnologiesHow Synthetic Datasets Generated by a Game Engine Can Help Train Real-World Computer Vision Models
3:25 PM - 3:40 PM PT | Main StageClosing remarks Matt Marshall, CEO, VentureBeat
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