Discovery on Steroids: How AI will Speed up Innovation
A joint conference by Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Swiss Re Institute and IBM Research, 5 July 2022
Speakers
Iyad Rahwan
Germany
Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. There, Rahwan founded and has been directing the Center for Humans & Machines. Until June 2020, he was an Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Alessandro Curioni
Switzerland
IBM Fellow, Vice President Europe & Africa and Director of the IBM Research Lab, Zurich. Curioni is an internationally recognized leader in the area of high-performance computing and computational science. He was a member of the winning team recognized with the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2013 and 2015. His research interests include AI, Big Data and quantum computing.
Evgeny Morozov
Belarus
Founder of the Syllabus, a knowledge curation initiative, and author of, among others, "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom". Morozov studies political and social implications of technology and has a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. German Newspaper “Die Zeit” considered him "one of the most brilliant internet theorists of our time".
Marcus du Sautoy
Great Britain
Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford. Du Sautoy holds the prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science and is a Fellow of New College. He has received a number of awards including the Royal Society of London’s Michael Faraday Prize. He has been awarded an OBE for his services to science and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Matthias Bethge
Germany
Professor for Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the University of Tubingen and director of the Tubingen AI Center, a joint center between Tubingen University and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, that is part of the German AI strategy. Bethge’s main research focus is on robust vision and neural decision making.
Pierre Barreau
Luxembourg
Co-founder & CEO, Aiva Technologies. Aiva is an Artificial Intelligence composing soundtracks for films, video games, TV shows and commercials. It is also the world’s first AI to have its pieces recognized by an author’s rights society. Barreau is a computer scientist, award nominated film director, and a registered composer.
Jana Eggers
USA
CEO of Nara Logics, a neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence company. Nara Logics’ AI is being used by healthcare organizations, consumer companies and manufacturers in order to better understand data from internet-of-things devices or better engage with customers. The company works closely with MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Gareth Conduit
Great Britain
CTO at Intellegens and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Conduit has a track record of applying machine learning to solve real-world problems such as the development of new materials and drugs. At Intellegens, he is leading the development of new machine learning methodologies for industrial R&D.
Tim Llewellynn
Switzerland
President of Bonseyes AI Marketplace. Bonseyes is an open and expandable AI platform that intends to transform AI development from a cloud centric model, dominated by large internet companies, to an edge device centric model through a marketplace and an open AI platform. Llewellynn is also CEO and co-founder of Nviso, a company that provides artificial intelligence solutions.
Mirjam Eckert
Switzerland
Publishing Director, Frontiers Media SA, a publisher of peer-reviewed open access scientific journals. Eckert completed a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and then moved to the University of Lausanne, Switzerland as a postdoctoral fellow to work on viral immunity.
Christoph Nabholz
Switzerland
Chief Research Officer, Swiss Re Institute. Nabholz manages Swiss Re's Strategic Council to deliver executive advice and foresight on risks across a broad and rapidly evolving business landscape. His research team enhances Swiss Re's market intelligence and contributes to thought leadership on major industry topics.
Jan Bieser
Switzerland
Dr Jan Bieser is a senior researcher and speaker at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. In his research, he examines the opportunities and risks of digitalisation for society and the environment. He is also a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at University of Zurich, and a fellow of the World Economic Forum‘s Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow.
Lukas Jezler
Switzerland
Lukas Jezler, CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies, Rüschlikon/Zurich.
Speakers Breakout Sessions
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Thomas Brunschwiler
Switzerland
Research Manager bei IBM Research Europe, Zürich. Brunschwilers Team nutzt physikalische Daten in Kombination mit Künstlicher Intelligenz, um quantitative Einschätzungen zu Klimarisiken und -auswirkungen zu liefern und die Szenarienplanung in Zeiten der globalen Erwärmung zu unterstützen. Er ist Autor und Mitautor von über 90 Publikationen, drei Buchkapiteln und über 65 Patenten.
Daniel Egger
Switzerland
Research Staff Member, Quantum Applications Research and Software, IBM Research, Zurich. Egger’s current research focuses on quantum information processing with superconducting circuits and quantum algorithms.
Haig A. Peter
Switzerland
Manager at Think Lab Europe, IBM Research Europe. Peter has been an invited keynote speaker at many conferences around Europe on the topics of AI, Accelerated Discovery and the IBM Research “What’s Next” which identifies significant trends and identifies high- impact disruptive technologies leading to game-changing products and services.
Swiss Re Institute
Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Switzerland
Professor, Academic Director of C4DT.org, at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (ÉPFL). Co-Founder of Tune Insight. Through his research, Hubaux contributes to the creation of foundations and the development of tools for privacy protection in today's hyper-connected world. He pioneered data protection and personalised healthcare.
Juan Ramon Troncoso
Switzerland
CEO and Co-founder of Tune Insight. Troncoso has participated and carried out the scientific coordination of several European and national projects related to information security and privacy protection. The EPFL start-up Tune Insight orchestrates collaborations between multiple organizations on sensitive data in health, cyberdefense and financial services
Ermir Qeli
Switzerland
Director, Product Area Lead – Data Platform Engineering, Swiss Re. A computer scientist by background, Qeli's interests revolve around data analytics, machine learning and data visualization. He has been bringing scalable data analytics to the core of the re/insurance industry.
Daniel Martin Eckhart
Switzerland
Advocate, Swiss Re Institute. Eckhart is a passionate storyteller, both as a novelist and a screenwriter. As an engagement expert, he is a moderator, presenter, influencer and roving reporter, advocating on behalf of Swiss Re Institute to bring together the experts from around the world for the future-driven thinking we need to make our world better, safer and more sustainable for future generations.
Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
Marc Vontobel
Switzerland
CEO, Starmind, and member of the Forbes Technology Council. Starmind uses machine learning to create a network of knowledge within organizations. Its aim is to help employees connect with experts within their organization, to support knowledge exchange, the development and spread of ideas.
Elif Ozkirimli
Switzerland
Head of Data Science at Roche. Ozkirimli leads a global team of data scientists that focus on understanding the patient and health care professional as well as on building commercial decision support tools to achieve better patient outcomes at lower cost to society.
Jan Bieser
Switzerland
Dr Jan Bieser is a senior researcher and speaker at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. In his research, he examines the opportunities and risks of digitalisation for society and the environment. He is also a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at University of Zurich, and a fellow of the World Economic Forum‘s Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow.
Andy Fitze
Switzerland
Co-founder, SwissCognitive. Fitze is a digital cognitive strategist, top global AI and digital transformation advisor for start-ups and enterprise boards, and an AI influencer. He is president of the Swiss IT Leadership Forum and member of the Board of Directors of SwissICT. In 2017, he received the Swiss CIO Award for Best IT Manager in Switzerland.
Moderator
Florian Inhauser
Switzerland
Journalist and moderator. Florian Inhauser presents the main newscast at Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SRF and he is also the anchor of the foreign news magazine «#SRFglobal». With a master in history and anglistics he speaks English fluently. He has also an excellent reputation as an international correspondent, covering conflicts and crises around the globe.
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