AI Tech North 2019
Bringing Innovations of Tomorrow, today!
AI Tech North Conference 2019 was the first large scale AI conference happening in the North of England. It was an event for technology and AI leaders, practitioners and partners to come together under one roof. Showcasing innovation and talent within the world of Artificial Intelligence.
AI Tech North Conference aims to build a community to look towards the future by sharing knowledge and collaborating to make a difference. Uniting people through a common interest in Artificial Intelligence. We believe in AI for good and for the people.
2019 SPEAKERS
Stuart Clarke
Director, Leeds Digital Festival
Sherin Mathew
Microsoft AI Lead, IBM
Sara Simeone
CEO & CoFounder, Digital Oracles, Blockchain ML SME
Volker Hirsch
Partner at Amadeus Capital
Zandra Moore
Chief Executive Officer, PanIntelligence
Saffi Ali
Blockchain Architect, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Prof. Pinar Akman
Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds
Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds
Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds
Robin Lester
AI and Data Expert, Architect at Microsoft
Catalina Butnaru
Global Ethics Lead at City AI, Women in AI Ambassador
Ashraf Murtada
CIO/CTO at HMRC
Nayan Kale
Associate Vice President, Cognitive and Analytics Solutions at Persistent Sys
Paul Andrew
Principal consultant and architect specialising in big data solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform
Dr. Abdulrahman Altahhan
Senior Lecturer in Computing at Leeds Beckett University
Dr Indra Joshi
Digital Health & AI Clinical Lead at NHS England
Imtiaz Adam
AI Influencer, Founder, Director of Machine Learning at DLS
Terry McCann
Microsoft MVP. Principal Consultant at AdvancingAnalytics
Laura da Silva
Microsoft AI MVP, Data Scientist , IWDS Founder
Hassan Ugail
Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford
Adam Hosker
Big Data & AI Specialist - Co-founder Alphabots
Fahd Rafi
Data and AI Architect at Microsoft
Gordon Cullum
CTO at Mastek UK
Amy Kate Boyd
Cloud Developer Advocate (UK) in AI/ML , Developer Relations, Microsoft
Mark Pearce
Intellectual Property Partner, Mills & Reeve LLP
Darren Crombie
CEO and Founder of Upstream Health
Dr Matteo Leonetti
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Leeds
Angga Kara
Executive coach, TEDx speaker & social entrepreneur
Pablo Doval
Microsoft AI MVP | Data Architect
Dr Geoff Spence
Research team lead at CREAVO medical technologies
Iva Gumnishka
Founder and CEO at Humans in the Loop
Joe Hodkinson
Senior Cloud Architect at Nordcloud
Dr Lida Ghahremanlou
AA & AI Solutions Specialist - Microsoft
Dr Anthony G Cohn
Professor of Automated Reasoning and Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds
Eve Roodhouse
Chief Officer, Economic Development at Leeds City Council
Neil Dunlop
Technical Director at Infinity Works
George Kortsaridis
GDG Leader, Speaker at Global Google Conference
Sue Daley
Associate Director, Technology & Innovation
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Claire Chapman
Senior Policy Advisor for Office for Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Firat Tekiner
Data Analytics and ML Specialist at Google Cloud
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