#AI4Belgium

#AI4Belgium – Honouring the AI-initiatives in Belgium

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DIS19 semi Finals

AI Awards in Belgium.

The AI4Belgium & Datascience community is honouring the most interesting projects and the most promising startups.

Over the past weeks over 80 nominations have been submitted. The entire community is fully engaged in the nomination and selection of these Awards. check the list here: https://disummit.org/ai-awards/

The companies that have accepted their nomination have been invited at DigitYser to record a short video and  interview.

All nominees will also be present on May 16th – #AI startup for a networking evening where they will do a short 5 minute presentation to the public.

The selection of the AI-Award winner  will be done on the whova app by all the participants to the diSummit.

The 7 startups with the most votes will present at the disummit on June 26th.

Easter Bunny Newsletter – special gift for diSummit

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AI4Belgium & DataScience community newsletter
Di Summit 2019
Dear community member,
Have you noticed everyone’s enthusiasm for our annual conference? What’s truly amazing is that more than half of our tickets have been sold already even though the agenda is yet to published. Beyond dispute, diSummit has established itself as the perfect team event that offers valuable insights for managers and technical professionals alike.

In this newsletter you will find the announcement of our first 3 keynote speakers and a special Easter gift.

Happy Easter my friend, I hope to see you soon for the semi finals or at the Summit.

Philippe Van Impe
Di Summit 2019

diSummit 2019
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.
Visit the official website

Di Summit 2019

Speakers & Trainers
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our members for their input with regards to suggestions for speakers and trainers. This year, we had over 100 suggestions for speakers and 75 speakers filled in the speaker request form. The selected speakers are invited to record their promotion video on Tuesday or Thursday  morning. In order to ensure the gender balance we could be forced to add some men.

All joking aside I am proud to announce our first 3 keynote speakers:

Stephen Brobst – CTO for Teradata Corporation. He was ranked in 2015 by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel).

Luc Julia – co-creator of Siri and VP of Innovation at Samsung has just published a book titled “L’intelligence artificielle n’existe pas”, meaning “Artificial intelligence doesn’t exist”

Caroline Pauwels – Current Rector of the VUB, driving force of educational reforms in Belgium and organiser of the World Difference Day that focuses attention on freedom of speech and media.
call for volunteers

Our Easter gift for you
As a happy Easter gift specially for you we have created a special combi ticket that includes t 100€ discount and the book in English or French from Luc Julia. This offer is valid until April 28th 2019.

Luc Julia, co-creator of Siri and VP of Innovation at Samsung has just published a book titled “L’intelligence artificielle n’existe pas”, meaning “Artificial intelligence doesn’t exist”
buy combi ticket here
Di Summit 2019

Master Classes and Hands-On workshops
Knowledge sharing is of paramount importance at our community event. Local experts will share their valuable experience and expertise in Master Classes for managers in more technical hands-on workshops. These sessions are limited to 60 participants so it is important to register beforehand. Additionally, we also have a series line up about ethics along with some workshops around spark and tensorflow. The full agenda will be released on our app.

Di Summit 2019

AI-Awards
Our call for interesting projects and inspiring start-ups resulted in a list of over 75 nominees. We are planning a semi final on May 16th at DigitYser to allow them to present their project and talk about their ambitions. Presentations will be recorded and used as supporting material for the people who are eager to vote them into the the plenary of the diSummit.

Currently we are undergoing discussions with one of our unicorns regarding the prize that the startup of the year should be rewarded with.  Based on their input so far it will be something around access to expertise, coaching and also access to funds.
register for the semi-finals on May 16th

Di Summit 2019

Everything on the App
We have implemented a revolutionary event app in order to facilitate your networking and gather your input. It will be used for the voting of the AI-Awards. The App builds comprehensive profiles of attendees so you can view all attendee profiles before you even arrive at the event or conference. Plan in advance whom to meet at the event, what to talk about with each attendee, and reach out to others via in-app messages before, during, and after the event. You can also create casual meetups and arrange social activities with other groups of attendees. Whova revolutionises event networking and significantly improves the ROI of attending events.
Di Summit 2019

Healthy Food
For  food we are partnering with Eatmosphere – a nonprofit organisation. On a weekly basis they recover 200 kg of fresh Food Surplus, and donate 80% to organisations that help People in Need. They use 20% themselves to create awareness about food waste by Tickling your Tastebuds.

The food we will serve is Practically Perfect in every sense of the word. We serve a zero-waste maximum taste food concept. Everything is Home and Heartmade, Artisanal and Plant Based. For example, we use recovered produce from local farmers, …
Join the semi-finals
Join us on May 16th at DigitYser fr the semi-finals.
join us for the semi-finals on May 16th 
Volunteer
Become a Volunteer
Are you looking for a great experience intership just before the summer holidays ? The DISummit 2019 is the perfect fit, we are looking for young motivated students, junior professionals interested to put their skills (Logistics, Video, Photo, Social Media, BBQ) at the service of the DiSummit organisation.
Work with us
Download the APP
You will use the app to vote for your favourite startup and to prepare your networking activities at the event.

You have to use the same email used to register your ticket to login into our event app.
Download now

 

Launching #AI4Brussels with DigitYser & the DS Community as coalition partners.

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Yesterday the AI4Belgium coalition was announced in the presence of VP EC Andrus Ansip and the federal ministers Alexander De Croo & Philippe De Backer.

This coalition is being driven by Agoria and the federal government (BoSa)

Regional #AI hubs: 

  • DigitYser for Brussels,
  • The Beacon for Flanders and
  • the Walloon Réseau AI.

Other supporters:

imec, BNKVI , BeCentral and the AI & Data Science Community of Belgium.

What I find interesting in the Strategy is the call to create “ecosystem that facilitate more responsible data-sharing with reinforced open data policies, more collaborations & a platform with well-structured tools and approaches.”

Read more: http://www.ai4belgium.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/AI_4_Belgium_EN_WEB_01.pdf

First concrete actions :

Thank You:

A perfect moment for us to thank our training partners and technology partners for making this datascience community such a success.

Let’s build the content of the diSummit together

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PLEASE nominate your favourite speaker, startup or project in a separate linkedin post using disummit2019 .
The annual conference of the AI & Data Science Community of Belgium will again take place at the ULB.
The format of the summit on 26/6 is the same as last year: 1 plenary of 800 people, 3 master classes & 3 hands-on tracks of 60 each.
And we have added 2 semi finals at DigitYser to select 7 finalists from the long lists of nominees in the categories:
  • April 11th – AI project of the year  
  • May 16th – AI start-up of the year  
more info: https://disummit.org/ai-awards/

Tonight Feb 20th – Sold Out meetup @ DigitYser – Intelligence Artificielle – Peut-elle être éthique ?

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SOLD OUT:

Tonight at DigitYser in the clubhouse of the AI & Data Science Community of Belgium we will welcome 3 prestigious speakers to talk about AI and Ethics.

Julie Foulon our neighbour and co-founder of MolenGeek will be presenting the speakers.

SOLD OUT: Over 200 people have registered and we closed the reservations, but don’t worry the content will be streamed and made available live www.digityser.org/live/ and on our youtube channel: https://lnkd.in/gq8qhta if you are on the road you will be able to follow on Twitter https://lnkd.in/g7CmS84

DISUMMIT June 26th at the ULB: As you are interested in the topic of datascience and Ethics you are also kindly invited to our annual conference disummit2019

👁‍🗨 if you are an expert eager to share its knowledge you can register your presentation here: https://lnkd.in/g4rPbSN

👁‍🗨 if you are a company and you want to be seen you can partner with us : https://lnkd.in/gN3wHy5 more info: disummit.org

Datascience meetup on Legaltech

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. ”

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#DISUMMIT2019

We are please to announce that the call for speakers is out

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Newsletter from the Data Science Association

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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:

New Data Science News Articles:

 

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Inviting the speakers of #diSummit2019 to come forward.

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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

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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

BxlDS S05E03: Data Science and LegalTech in Belgium

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The evening will be demonstrating how legaltech companies are using datascience to offer better legal services.

Agenda:
doors open and happy hour starts at 18:00

presentation 1 starts at 19:00
How Reactfin proposed to use NLP and deeplearning to check conformity of legal and contractual documents in the re-assurance business.

presentation 2 starts at 19:25:
How @jetpackAI won the #hackBXLaw in November

presentation 3 starts at 19:50:
Darts-IP will come to explain how AI combined with high quality data is revolutionizing Intellectual Property practices.

Networking is scheduled as of 20:20

Please use eventbrite to secure your seat: https://dsbrussels3.eventbrite.co.uk