Generative AI: Turbo-charging Creativity

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Get ready to explore the cutting-edge world of Generative AI at our highly anticipated Anglo-Swiss event! Discover how this revolutionary technology is changing the way we create, design, and interact with the world around us.

Join us as we delve into the mind-bending capabilities of Generative AI and hear from industry experts as they share their insights on its current and future applications. From filmmaking and architecture to music and art, Generative AI is transforming the creative industries and providing us with unlimited possibilities.

But while Generative AI is magical and exciting, it poses some big questions:

Which sectors will be disrupted?
Which new business models will be created?
What action should companies take now to leverage this new technology?
The potential for Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, and DALL E to automate tasks or jobs is immense. How will it impact the job market and what are the implications in education?
What are the potential ethical and societal implications of widespread adoption of generative AI?

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn about the latest advancements in Generative AI and experience its incredible potential for yourself. Register now for an unforgettable journey into the future of creativity!

Lead Partners: Embassy of Switzerland

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Embassy of Switzerland, 16-18 Montagu Place, London W1H 2BQ, United Kingdom

27 April 2023

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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Schedule

5:30 pm 5:50 pm Registration

5:50 pm 6:00 pm Welcome Address

6:00 pm 7:00 pm Codex Talks

Emad Mostaque, CEO and Founder, Stability AI
Nick Lynes, CEO and Co-founder, Flawless AI
What is a Generative AI Hollywood film studio?
Ed Grefenstette, Head of Machine Learning, Cohere
We have taught neural networks to, in some limited notion, understand and produce natural language to surprising effect by scaling their size, and the amount of data they are trained on. What comes next?
Dalith Steiger, Co-founder, SwissCognitive
Switzerland’s competitive AI ecosystem

7:00 pm 7:30 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A

7:30 pm 9:00 pm Drinks Reception

Speakers

Emad Mostaque
CEO and Founder, Stability AI

Technology

At Stability AI, we are developing the most cutting-edge research in-house and across our communities to bring powerful generative AI to enterprises, small businesses, and communities worldwide. We believe that open-source AI is the definitive path forward to deliver breakthroughs in AI, AI alignment and game-changing business applications. Our most popular model, Stable Diffusion, was developed to enable anyone, anywhere, to communicate visually from text to image. Our partner communities are also working on language, audio, video, 3D, and medical models.

Biography

Emad Mostaque is the founder and CEO of Stability AI, which he launched in 2020 with a mission to democratize AI and build the foundation to activate humanity’s potential.

Emad also serves as the Chief Architect of the Collective and Augmented Intelligence against COVID-19, a platform that dynamically maps knowledge about the virus and provides solutions by connecting local initiatives.

Prior to founding Stability AI, he launched Symmitree in 2019, a startup whose goal was to reduce the cost of smartphone and internet access in underdeveloped communities.

He began his career as an analyst at The Pictet Group and advanced to the role of hedge fund manager, where he managed global multi strategy, emerging and frontier funds focused on technology. Emad also served as a strategist at Ecstrat and Religare, advising leading funds and governments on geopolitics, technology, oil markets and other areas. He served as co-CIO of Capricorn Fund Managers, where he managed their award-winning Emerging Markets hedge fund.

Emad has a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oxford.
Nick Lynes
CEO and Co-founder, Flawless AI

Technology

Bringing Generative AI to Hollywood. Flawless is leading the generative AI revolution in filmmaking. Empowering the world’s greatest storytellers with magical new tools and emerging technologies. Flawless TrueSync software opens a new world of possibilities from fast and efficient AI Reshoots, Performance Transfer, and the creation of immersive, Visual Translations, for any language around the world.

Biography

Nick is a delivery-focused commercial technologist and a 20-year veteran of the e-commerce space. Previously a director at an FTSE 100 company, he developed and led APAC for a leading e-commerce operator, with revenues in excess of $1 billion. Nick has launched a number of world-first products and websites. A proven executive, he created and delivered a Lloyds of London-insured cryptographic software system for the gaming industry. A passionate film fan, Nick has a long-running obsession for breakthrough science and technologies.
Ed Grefenstette
Head of Machine Learning, Cohere

Technology

Cohere is making language AI accessible to all businesses, even those without massive compute resources or rare machine learning knowledge. We build state of the art language models and make them available through an API as a managed service or cloud ML platforms like Amazon SageMaker and Google Vertex AI, turning a complex, expensive process into an easy-to-use interface. Our mission is to help every developer, enterprise or startup benefit from the power of language models, whether through copywriting, search, conversational AI, summarization or content moderation.

Biography

Ed Grefenstette is the Head of Machine Learning at Cohere, a provider of cutting-edge NLP models that’s solving all kinds of language problems; including text summarisation, composition, classification and more. In addition, Ed is an Honorary Professor at UCL.

Ed’s previous industry experience comprises Facebook AI Research (FAIR), DeepMind, and Dark Blue Labs, where he was the CTO (acquired by Google in 2014). Prior to this, Ed worked at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, and was a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, whilst also lecturing students at Hertford College taking Oxford’s new computer science and philosophy course.

Ed’s research interests span several topics, including natural language and generation, machine reasoning, open ended learning, and meta-learning.
Dalith Steiger
Co-founder, SwissCognitive

SwissCognitive

World leading AI network committed to unleashing AI in business. SwissCognitive is a trusted network of industries, organizations, enterprises and start-ups to openly and transparently discuss the opportunities, impacts & development of AI. It is an on- and offline community of over 0.5 million AI enthusiasts, that puts the spotlight onto practical use-cases & hands-on experiences, and transfers the hype around AI into real possibilities.

Biography

Dalith Steiger is a serial entrepreneur and a global AI strategist and thought-Leader. She belongs to the top pioneering women in cognitive technologies and one of the top digital shapers and leading voices in the global AI ecosystem. Dalith was featured in Onalytica’s Who’s Who in AI report October 2021 as a global key opinion leader. She was born in Israel, grew up in Switzerland, and studied mathematics at the University of Zurich. With Andy Fitze she co-founded the award-winning AI start-up SwissCognitive, and the CognitiveValley Foundation. Dalith is a global AI-strategy advisor and speaker, sharing her extensive knowledge and experience in the field of AI around the world. She sits in several boards and juries, is leading the Swiss IT Leadership Forum, advises various companies in their AI journey, mentors young women and girls in tech, and teaches AI & Machine Learning in a CAS module at the Applied University of Luzern. Besides her drive for cognitive technologies, she is also a loving mother of two young women, a passionate mountain biker and a big fan of high-heel shoes.

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