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

Dress Code: Smart Casual

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

27 April 2023

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Schedule

5:30 pm 5:50 pm Registration

5:50 pm 6:00 pm Welcome Address

H.E. Markus Leitner, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom

6:00 pm 7:00 pm Codex Talks

Dalith Steiger, Co-founder, SwissCognitive
Switzerland’s competitive AI ecosystem
Nick Lynes, CEO and Co-founder, Flawless AI
What is a Generative AI Hollywood film studio?
Andre Freitas, Leader, Reasoning & Explainable AI Lab at IDIAP (Swiss) and University of Manchester
What are the opportunities to develop Generative AI technologies in Switzerland and how does it complement the UK ecosystem?
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?

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

Alexander Ilic, Co-Founder & Executive Director, ETH Zurich AI Center (Moderator)

7:30 pm 9:00 pm Drinks Reception

Speakers

H.E. Markus Leitner
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom

Biography

Markus Leitner was born in 1966 in Zurich and is a citizen of the City of Zurich. He completed his studies with a degree in Economics at the Zurich University of Applied Science and the University of Fribourg. After various positions in the private sector, he joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1996 and undertook his diplomatic training in Berne (1996/97) and Madrid (1997/98). On his return to Berne, he dealt with Swiss financial center issues (e.g. banking secrecy, politically exposed persons, blood diamonds) in the Economics and Finance Division.

From 2002 to 2006 Mr Leitner was responsible for economic and scientific affairs at the Embassy of Switzerland in Pretoria. From 2006 to 2008, he was posted in Santiago de Chile as Deputy Head of Mission. From 2009 to 2010, Mr Leitner headed the Peace Policy Section in Berne and was appointed Deputy Head of the Human Security Division at the beginning of 2011 until mid-2013. In June 2013, Mr Leitner became the Ambassador of Switzerland in Egypt. He was subsequently appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to the Islamic Republic of Iran and assumed the position in August 2017. Since August 2021, Markus Leitner serves as the Swiss Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Markus Leitner is married and has two children.
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.

Photo credit: Remo Neuhaus

Andre Freitas
Leader, Reasoning & Explainable AI Lab at IDIAP and University of Manchester

Biography

André Freitas leads the Neuro-symbolic AI Lab at Idiap and at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He is also the AI group leader at the digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team (Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute). His main research interests are on enabling the development of Natural Language Processing methods to support abstract, explainable and controllable inference. In particular, he investigates how the combination of neural and symbolic representation paradigms can deliver complex inference. Some of his research topics include explanation generation, natural language inference, and applications in scientific discovery. He is actively engaged in collaboration projects with industrial and clinical partners.

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