Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma, CEO Cambridge Spark on "Skills for a Data World"

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Data Science - The beating heart of AI
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Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma is the CEO and founder of Cambridge Spark. Its mission is to empower organisations to achieve business goals by educating their current and future workforce in Data Science and AI. In particular, Cambridge Spark has developed K.A.T.E.®, a proprietary AI-powered learning platform for Data Science, with the support of the UK innovation agency.

He is author of several programming books, including the best-seller “Modern Java in Action: lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming” which sold over 50,000 copies globally and with a second edition published in November 2018 as well as "Real-World Software Development" published in December 2019.

Raoul holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University as well as a MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and graduated with first-class honours, having won several prizes for technical innovation. His research interests lie in the area of programming languages, compilers, source code analysis, machine learning and education.

He was nominated an Oracle Java Champion in 2017. He is also an international speaker having delivered over 100 talks covering Emerging Technologies, Entrepreneurship, Java and Python. Raoul has advised and worked for several organisations on large-scale software engineering projects including at Google, Oracle, eBay and Goldman Sachs.

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Skills for a Data World

Data is all around us and transforming how organisations are having to operate. As a result, data is significantly impacting the future of work. In this talk, we will cover what are the key skills for individuals and organisation to invest in across all roles for a successful future.

Kes Ward, University of Lancaster on 'Anomaly Detection at the Edge '

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Data Science - The beating heart of AI
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Kes is a mathematics PhD student looking at anomaly detection in real-time data streams. 

He is based at the Statistics and Operational Research for Industry (STOR-i) centre for doctoral training at Lancaster University. 

His work is part-funded by BT to develop new methods for finding changes in network traffic flowing through sensors. This helps identify problems as soon as they happen, so they can be fixed early before causing more issues.

Anomaly Detection on the Edge

In an Internet of Things where everything is collecting and analysing its own data, we need edge analytics to help us sort the meaningful from the muck without breaking the computational bank. In this talk I will present a new statistical method for finding anomalies of different shapes and sizes in a real-time data signal, while working under extremely tight computational constraints.

Dr Matloob Khushi, UoS on "AI: The Fourth Age"

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Data Science - The beating heart of AI
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Dr. Khushi is the Senior Lecturer in AI at the University of Suffolk - UoS and the Course Leader of M.Sc. AI and Data Science. 

He has over 20 years of industry and academic experience. He earned his PhD in AI and Data Science from the University of Sydney in which he developed novel algorithms for solving big genomic data and health informatics.

Dr. Khushi has earned various awards for his research achievements and has authored more than 50 research papers. His ResearchGate score is 23.6 which is higher than 80% of the researchers world-wide. During his postdoc (2014-2017) at the Children’s Medical Research Institute, Australia, he developed automated AI-based algorithms for developing cancer drugs expediting the discovery process. 

Some of his research publications caught international and Australian media attention. He has also developed solutions for the financial industry for the prediction of stock, forex and commodities markets. Dr. Khushi has supervised more than 100 research theses in various domains of AI, big data and data science.

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AI: The Fourth Age

In this talk Matloob will talk about how AI has transformed our society and has defined new norms of livings. He will also share some of the outcomes of his AI research.

iSee teamed up with TFNetworkAutmn21 Conference on "Data Science - The beating heart of AI"

Workshop: 13th - 14th October 2021

At the Tommy Flowers Network Autumn '21 Conference on Data Science - The beating heart of AI

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The iSee project is funded by national European funding councils and co-ordinated by the CHIST-ERA programme.

What do users want when explaining an AI system? 

An Introduction to the iSee Project and Co-Creation Activities

Can you explain the outcomes of AI models for your business? Not everyone can.

There are increasing legal pressures and social obligations for businesses to be able to explain the outcomes of their complex intelligent systems. It is difficult to follow best practice or industry guidelines for a very new and growing aspect of research and development. However, selecting and developing an appropriate explanation strategy is a daunting task. 

To address these challenges, we introduce the iSee project. iSee aims to enable Intelligent Sharing of Explanation Experience by users for users. 

The project will enable the recommendation of the most appropriate explanation strategy to suit the needs of an individual AI system, task and user group. The recommendation will be underpinned by a state-of-the-art AI platform, extracting knowledge from the past explanation experiences and adapting them to ensure compatibility. 

We are employing a User-Centred Design methodology to capture input from a range of stakeholders., making sure that iSee actually supports the users it is built for.

Find out more about iSee and our aims on our website or watch our user story video on YouTube 

 

Geraldina Iraheta, Chief Commercial Officer at the Digital Catapult

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Smart Connected Manufacturing - Making it happen
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Digital leader, technologist and strategic thinker, Geraldina Iraheta is the Chief Commercial Officer at Digital Catapult.

Passionate about turning innovative ideas into concrete business benefit, Geraldina works with leading corporations to drive a culture of innovation and deliver growth through the adoption of leading-edge digital technology.

Bringing a wealth of experience from her global career, including working with startups in Silicon Valley, where she has performed key roles at Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, and Critical Path Inc. Her experience spans a broad range of sectors including mobile telcoms, fintech, manufacturing, creative, and digital health.

She is also a strong advocate of women in digital industry leadership. Her broad business experience also includes extensive work with startups, academia and investors, both in the UK and internationally.

Panel Discussion: "Testbed as a Service" and creating a business case

Gary Bruce, Research Manager and Ecosystems Architect, BT on "Digital Business Marketplace - Partner Ecosystems for the Industry 4.0 age!"

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Smart Connected Manufacturing - Making it happen

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Gary has over 30 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Software industry, with roles at Sun Microsystems and now BT. Throughout his career, Gary has worked on network signalling protocols, APIs, open source software and frictionless BSS ecosystems.

He has worked in various standards activities within the ITU-T, ETSI 3GPP, IETF, OMG, Parlay, JAIN and the TM Forum, and is at home leading and collaborating with a diverse set of people and skillsets from many leading-edge companies. Gary initiated and leads the Digital Business Marketplace within the TM Forum and is now working on commercialising the technology within BT.

Digital Business Marketplace - Partner Ecosystems for the Industry 4.0 age!

Mohammad Zoualfaghari, Research Manager - IoT Architect & Technical Lead, BT on "Value-Added-Services for Industry 4.0"

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Smart Connected Manufacturing - Making it happen

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Dr Mohammad Zoualfaghari, PhD, MEng, MIET, MIEEE is a research manager and Internet of Things (IoT) architect in BT Applied Research. In the last few years, Mo has been the architect and head of technical design & delivery for the UK’s flagship smart cities pilots, such as Milton Keynes (MK:SMART) and Manchester (CityVerve). He leads a couple of technical teams at one of BT's international centre of excellence - BT-Ireland Innovation Centre (BTIIC)- in Ulster University. Mo also leads the flagship Smart Manufacturing initiative in the Digital Business Marketplace (DBM) Catalyst, including Intel, AWS, Ulster University and 26 other companies around the world, as part of Digital Transformation World at TM Forum.

Mo provides over 10 years of experience in the telecommunication industry and recently initiated and lead Zero-Touch Onboarding (ZTO) research, which can address a critical need for the industry, as IoT begins to scale up. This award-winning project helps to onboard millions of devices automatically and securely. His recent work provides device-to-cloud security and illustrates how vertical industries looking to become Smart can be digitally enabled by abstracting and digitizing their products and services which leverage IoT, 5G, Secure Device Onboarding and AI. This comprehensive technology has been innovated proudly in the UK Telco industry, for the very first time in the world.

Prior to BT, Mo was the software and hardware development lead of a successful SME, Meal2Go Ltd, which was acquired by Just-Eat Plc in 2013. He was also an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Birmingham (UK).

Mo received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Engineering (MEng, 1st Class) degrees, both in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK), in 2015 and 2009, respectively. He is a transactions reviewer of IEEE Communications Society, Elsevier and JCSE, and is the registered inventor of many patents, book chapters, journal, and conference papers. Mo is also an active member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Value-Added-Services for Industry 4.0