Track / Schedule

A Pragmatic View on Language Technologies

With Kornelia Papp

Replacing supervision with data in Computer vision

With Armand Joulin

AI for business processes optimization

With Marc Lecoultre

Industry diversity meets Dathena

With Tetiana Kodliuk

AI : The positive disruption

With Eric Saracchi

AIOps with Machine Learning and Knowledge Graph Data Models

With Florian Krausbeck

One-on-one: Startup story

With Alexandre Lebrun

Coffee Break

Startup spotlight: ecoRobotix

With Steve Tanner

Startup spotlight: AI & NLP applied to content marketing

With Edouard Lambelet

Startup spotlight: Data-driven invention

With Matthew Lawrenson

RAPIDS – Accelerating traditional machine learning with GPUs

With René Müller

#shifthappens – Why companies must re-imagine how they attract top academic talent in AI

With James Common

Lessons learned on bridging the gap between the AI revolution and the industry

With Jérôme Berthier

Transforming engineering with Deep Learning

With Timur Bagautdinov

AI Trends & Disruptions: Hybrid AI

With Thierry Caminel

ML with the EPFL Extension School

With Laura Downhower

Ingredients for Impactful AI Projects in Industry

With Andreea Hossmann

Startup spotlight: Interactive training of AI models for earth imagery with Picterra

With Julien Rebetez

Startup spotlight: Privately

With François Helg

Different Industries = Different AI Needs? Our Experience

With Dorothea Wiesmann

Scaling AI-based products across an enterprise

With Yves Lostanlen

Machine learning for industrial process optimization

With Hông-Ân Sandlin

Startup Spotlight: Gamaya

With Luca Baldassarre

Prediction in production

With Martin Gerber

Machine Learning for defect detection in industrial advanced manufacturing applications

With Jérôme Clavel

ML for in situ and real-time monitoring of highly dynamic processes

With Kilian Wasmer

Coffee Break

Panel discussion

With Nicola Rieke, Andy Fitze, Hông-Ân Sandlin, Yves Lostanlen, François Rüf & Dorothea Wiesmann

Balancing Edge and Cloud – Real world experience from an industry use case

With Max Carrel

AIcrowd: Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence to solve real world problems

With Sharada Mohanty

GaitHub: A cross-platform ML-based human motion sensing engine

With Farzin Dadashi

TensorFlow Hub: Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Machine Learning Models

With Elizabeth Kemp

Track / Speakers

Luca Baldassarre

Lead Data Scientist, Swiss Re

Sharada Mohanty

CEO & Founder, AIcrowd

Florian Krausbeck

Founder & CEO, humanAIzed

Kilian Wasmer

Group Leader, Empa

François Helg

CTO, Privately

Nicola Rieke

Senior Deep Learning Solution Architect – Healthcare, NVIDIA

Thierry Caminel

AI and Innovation Leader, Atos

Laura Downhower

Executive Director, EPFL Extension School

Kornelia Papp

Cognitive Data Scientist, Swiss Re

Eric Saracchi

CIO, Firmenich

Alexandre Lebrun

Co-founder and CEO, Nabla

Marc Lecoultre

CEO, MLLab.ai

Jérôme Berthier

Head of AI, Big Data & Innovation Lab, ELCA

Timur Bagautdinov

CTO, Neural Concept

Martin Gerber

Crunching Master & Big Data Analytics Consultant, Acceleris

Tetiana Kodliuk

Chief Science Officer, Dathena Science

Max Carrel

Head of Technology, E-nno Switzerland

James Common

Founder, Common Ground

Jérôme Clavel

Junior Project Manager, Georg Fischer

Andreea Hossmann

Principal Product Manager for Data, Analytics and AI, Swisscom

Dorothea Wiesmann

Department Head, Cognitive Computing & Industry Solutions, IBM Research

René Müller

Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Armand Joulin

Research scientist, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research

Steve Tanner

CTO, ecoRobotix

Edouard Lambelet

Co-founder & Chairman, Finity

Andy Fitze

Co-Founder, SwissCognitive

Hông-Ân Sandlin

Data Scientist, Bühler

Elizabeth Kemp

Software Engineer, Google

Matthew Lawrenson

COO, Iprova

Julien Rebetez

Lead Software & Machine Learning Engineer, Picterra

Yves Lostanlen

Industry Solutions, Element AI

François Rüf

Head of Data, AI & Machine Learning, Vontobel

Farzin Dadashi

CTO, GaitUP

Track / Co-organizers

Robert West

Professor, EPFL

Martin Jaggi

Professor, EPFL

AMLD EPFL 2019 / Tracks & talks

AI & Environment

Mikhail Kanevski, Vasily Demyanov, Sylvain Coutu, Maria Schönholzer, Walter Jetz, Grant van Horn, Saman Halgamuge, Antonino Marvuglia, Dan Assouline, Bojie Sheng, Sebastian Sippel, Alexis Berne, Michele Volpi, Maxim Samarin

13:30-17:00 January 2809:00-12:30 January 293BC

AI & Cities

Mohamed Kafsi, Cristina Kadar, Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Valentine Goddard, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Piotr Mirowski, Niklas Goby, Christopher Nowzohour, Stephen Goldsmith

13:30-17:00 January 284BC

AI & Computer Systems

Kevin Smeyers, Michael Papamichael, Andreas Moshovos, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Svetlana Levitan

09:00-12:30 January 294BC

AMLD / Global partners