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No doubt this event, like last year, will be wrapped up with a great party at the lawn in front of the K-building at ULB. We hope you can join us for this fun adventure and potentially make networks and friendships that could last a lifetime
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Make sure you do not miss the chance to be a part of the AI Ecosystem of Belgium!
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AI-Awards – Semi Finals – Thursday 16th of May at 19:00
We are pleased to announce that the semi finals of the AI awards will take place at DigitYser on May 16th. We will start at 19:00 sharp.
Over the past month over 60 startups have been nominated to become the AI startup of the year. This Thursday you will have the opportunity to meet them in person and to listen to their story.
You can reserve your ticket here .
To find out more about the AI-Awards, please check out our website : disummit.org .
Desiree is our new partner manager
Dear friends,
I’m pleased to introduce you to your new partner manager Mrs Désirée Timmermans.
Désirée is passionate about IT, marketing, and organizations. Her experience as marketing manager for major IT companies is helping us a lot to understand what the partners of the diSummit really expect. She will be our partner satisfaction manager, making sure each partner gets the maximum out of his investment.
So to become partner you can:
Download: Partnership presentation.
Call Desiree at + 32 2 808 85 64
Send an email to partners@disummit.org
AI in Belgium is booming, and we are in this journey together with you.
This year, all members of the #AI4Belgium and #datascience community meet at the ULB for a full day event focusing on being human in the world of #AI.
The diSummit 2019 gives you the opportunity to be actively part of the entire ecosystem built around the artificial intelligence initiatives and meetups in Belgium. Around 1000 datascience enthusiasts attend this last big gathering before the summer. You will meet the people that delivered the first AI projects in Belgium, and also have the chance to meet the most inspiring startups. In addition, you will experience that #AI is an essential tool to deliver successful projects.
To inspire you, we invited some key international opinion leaders:
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Dr Luc Julia led the Apple team who developed SIRI. Now, he is driving the innovation team of Samsung.
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Dr Stephen Brobst is a former advisor of president Obama on big data issues and was one of America’s Top 5 CTO’s.
During the event, three AI-Awards are announced: best AI-Project, most promising startup, and AI personality of the year. The winners are elected by you and the other participants of the diSummit.
Do you like what you have read? Contact Desiree and check out how your company can get into the spotlight and meet new prospects. We prepared different partnering options for you and your prospects on disummit.org, and on May 29th we organize a special diSummit partner pre-meeting at the ULB to ensure you get the most out of your partnership.
I’m looking forward to meeting you during your video recording and at the speaker’s dinner on June 13th at DigitYser.
Kind regards,
Philippe Van Impe
diSummit: +32 2 808 85 64
About diSummit:
On June 26th the AI4Belgium & Data Science Community will hold their 5th annual Summit. You can expect a day packed with innovative ideas and discussions, lots of networking opportunities and perhaps most importantly a chance to have fun with professionals from a wide array of backgrounds.
Like last year our event will take place at the ULB in Brussels in building K. On the main stage we will have 45 esteemed speakers who will seek to inspire you and 6 other parallel tracks. We have also prepared 12 master classes on topics as diverse and critical as ethics, recruiting and architecture as well as 12 workshops for the more hands-on people .
Furthermore, the Job fair will be bigger and better than ever before! There will be a space for the regional AI-initiatives and like last year a partner village will be on the ground floor.
In addition to this, this year we are adding the AI Awards to reward the most interesting AI-projects and the most promising AI-startup.
D-82: Latest news about the Data Innovation Summit
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IT’S RAINING AI STRATEGIES in Europe – #ai4belgium
After Denmark and Finland published their strategies last week, Belgium released its own plan Monday. Ministers De Backer & De Croo were joined by Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip in Brussels for the presentation, which — like Europe’s grand plan for AI — asserts that AI will create jobs in high-end industries and manufacturing, with ethics as a guiding idea.
This article was originally written by Politico.
A survey out this morning, seen by POLITICO, shows that Belgians are enthusiastic about the benefits of AI. But it also raises red flags about public support, with 85 percent of respondents saying they were concerned about the privacy implications of AI technology. Belgium still has some convincing to do, just as the rest of Europe does.
Meanwhile the EU’s high-level expert group meets today and tomorrow to finalize non-binding guidelines for “trustworthy” AI to be released in early April. Members will also start to discuss their next report, which focuses on boosting European investment into AI and is due for publication early this summer.
Though it’s non-binding, that second document will set the tone for what sort of regulation, if any, is needed. The group remains deeply divided. Some members argue that Europe should control its urge to regulate and let courts issue rulings as the technology progresses. Other argue that Europe needs to establish rules early in the game so as to influence AI standards worldwide.
Your Morning Tech team will discuss those questions with decisionmakers from across the board tonight and tomorrow at this year’s “AI: Innovation & Governance” Summit here in Brussels. There will be plenty of debate about Europe’s “ethics-first” approach to catching up with China and the United States. Views on Europe’s attitude range from “it’s an act of genius” to “slow suicide.” Click here or scroll down for Janosch Delcker’s dive into how the world views Europe’s principle-based approach to innovation.
It is also time to submit your proposal for the #ai-awards that will be announced at the #disummit2019.
Let’s build the content of the diSummit together
Datascience meetup on Legaltech
We had in total 175 people registered for S05E03 meetup of the #datascience community of Brussels. 3 legaltech companies demonstrated how they are using datascience to offer better legal services.
Our speakers explained that the data in the legal industry is mainly words and explained us their approach to process vast amounts of unstructured data through Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP).
The event was held in the clubhouse of the AI & Datascience community at DigitYser on February 7th, 2019. Like always it started with a happy hour at 18:00. All presentations were recorded by Ricardo head of the technical team of DigitYser and made available on our different channels. Youtube – Twitter – Facebook.
Presentation 1 started at 19:00:
How Reacfin proposed to use NLP and deeplearning to check conformity of legal and contractual documents in the re-assurance business.
Reacfin explained us a use case in the re-insurance business. They used NLP to automate the review of huge contracts. Aurélien Couloumy, head of data science, led us through their step by step approach to tackle this issue using Spacy.
Presentation 2 started at 19:25:
How Jetpack.AI won the #hackBXLaw in November 2018.
The winners of the hackathon on debt recovery, Jetpack.ai, explained their problem solving approach that led them to win the contest and develop their tool: Magpie.
Dodo Chochitaichvili and Gautier Krings explained us how lawyers and data scientists worked together using an agile methodology & KISS principles where the first iteration was the production of a skateboard.
Presentation 3 started at 19:50:
Darts-IP explained how AI combined with high quality data is revolutionising Intellectual Property practices.@
The managing director of Darts-ip, Evrard Van Zuylen, and the data scientist, Vignesh Baskaran, aka Vicky introduced the technology they develop to create a comprehensive database on patents around the globe. They explained the data science process management that lead to their competitive advantage. ”
- Join our datascience community on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brussels-data-science-community/
- Video of the event is available on our different channels. Youtube – Twitter – Facebook.
- Check the outstanding jobs : digitaljobs.brussels
- Next event is the meetups : AI & Ethics on February 20th at DigitYser
#DISUMMIT2019
We are please to announce that the call for speakers is out
Newsletter from the Data Science Association
February 3, 2019
Together, we can shape a better future using data science!
Data scientists have the best job in the world!
Join us in London, March 19-20, 2019 for Deep Learning In Finance Summit. Discover advances in deep learning tools and techniques from the world’s leading innovators across industry, research and the financial sector. Learn about deep learning applications in the financial sector from algorithms to forecast financial data, to tools used for data mining & pattern recognition in financial time series, to scaling predictive models, to stock market prediction, to using blockchain technology. Register here.
Belgian Meetups:
Meetup: Data Science Meetup – Legaltech – DigitYser, Brussels – February 7, 2019 18:30
Meetup: Using AI to Fight Disinformation in European Elections – Brussels – Feb 20 from 9 to 10:30 AM
Meetup: AI & Ethics – DigitYser, Brussels – February 20, 2019 18:30.
Events
Event: Data Science Salon – Austin, TX – February 21-22, 2019.
Event: MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference – Boston, MA – March 1-2, 2019.
Event: Bio-IT World Conference & Expo – San Francisco – March 10-15, 2019.
Event: Deep Learning In Finance Summit – London – March 19-20, 2019.
Call for speakers:
di-Summit – ULBrussels June 26th 2019
New Books from DSA Store:
New DSA Videos:
New DSA Resources:
- Four Approaches to Artificial General Intelligence
- Random Forests – Fast Decision Trees on GPU for Mining Evolving Data Streams
New Data Science News Articles:
- Machine Learning’s Mathematical Mysteries
- Genius Neuroscientist May Hold Key to True AI
- Machine Learning Confronts Elephant in Room
- Drone Gives Cops Huge Amount of Your Data
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Inviting the speakers of #diSummit2019 to come forward.
Dear friends,
We are now ready to receive your suggestions for presentation. You are welcome to post it on https://disummit.org/call-for-speakers/ .
A jury will make the decision on who to include in the final agenda. As we receive each year over 100 requests, we have decided to do 2 finals where you will be invited to present. Your presentation will be streamed to allow public voting.
The dates of the finals are:
- April 11th at 18:30 – AI start-up idea of the year
- May 16th at 18:30 – AI project of the year
You will also be invited for a short video interview that will be used to help you gain extra votes from the public.
I’m looking forward to meeting you soon.
Philippe Van Impe
Disummit.org
Turning public data to the public good
As governments make more data publicly available, it becomes critical to understand the ways in which that data can be used to benefit society. How can government leaders improve service delivery and social impact through enhanced open data strategies?
This recent playbook gives the an interesting overview of the challenges.
Here is an overview of the proposed articles:
Turning public data to the public goodHow CDOs can promote machine learning in governmentImplementing the DATA ActHow CDOs can manage algorithmic risksConnecting data to residents through data storytellingHow CDOs can overcome obstacles to open data-sharingCDOs, health data, and the Open Science movement
