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Press Release
Opening of Fourth Annual Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) 2018
Landmark conference in London on June 29th brings together 300 prestigious artificial intelligence researchers, entrepreneurs and investors
The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) 2018 opens on June 29th in London. The one-day annual event, now in its fourth year, gathers some of the most important people in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning globally.
Eleven speakers will take the stage, seven of them from outside the UK. Some 300 attendees are participating, selected from among 1,472 applications. The audience is comprised equally of one-third startups, established companies and academia.
Among the speakers are experts from Google Brain, DeepMind, Lyft, The Economist, Stanford University, University of Toronto, Niantic, Cloudera Fast Forward Labs and INFARM.
At the event, the report “State of AI 2018” will be released, produced by Ian Hogarth, an angel Investor and founder/former CEO of Songkick and RAAIS’s founder and curator, Nathan Benaich, and .
Also at the event, the RAAIS philanthropy grants will be inaugurated: financial awards to support leading, socially-beneficial AI research.
RAAIS is unique because it connects the research community developing the technologies with the entrepreneurs and investors putting the breakthroughs into practice. No other event is dedicated to bridging these communities.
RAAIS is supported in part by Google Cloud for Startups and the law firm Cooley.
Contact: info@raais.co
RAAIS Website: https://raais.co/
The RAAIS Foundation Website: https://raais.org/
Newsletter: http://nathan.ai
About RAAIS
The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) was created in 2015 by Nathan Benaich as a leading community of researchers and entrepreneurs who accelerate the science and applications of AI. The mission is to inspire entrepreneurs and researchers to solve the world’s most important problems.
About The RAAIS Foundation
The RAAIS Foundation was created in 2018 by Nathan Benaich and a group of leading researchers and entrepreneurs. The mission is to increase access to education and resources in AI to help advance the greater good for everyone.
About Nathan Benaich
Nathan is the founder of Air Street Capital, a venture capital partnership of entrepreneurs, researchers, engineers and product owners investing in technology companies that accelerate human progress. The firm focuses on intelligent systems. Nathan is also a Venture Partner at Point Nine Capital, and an advisor at TwentyBN and PROWLER.io. He has a Ph.D. in computational biology from the University of Cambridge and a BA from Williams College.
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Signing off,
Nathan Benaich, 29 June 2018
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