All Eyes on the Future: Three Days of Supreme Content at MIT AI 2018
This past weekend, MIT Club of Northern California (MITCNC) hosted its second annual MIT AI Conference in San Francisco. For two days, MIT Alumni and leading AI experts from various industries gathered at the InterContinental Hotel for a series of fireside chats moderated by VCs and journalists. Attendees were also given the chance to bring their families and experience Kids Day on the third day of the event.
cred worked with MITCNC for months to coordinate the speakers and content for this one-of-a-kind forum on “The Future of Industries.”
Shuja Keen, President-Elect of the MITCNC giving welcome remarks.
Photo by Maqsood Hakim
One of the most well-attended sessions of Day 1 of the event was the “Applying AI Research to Production” session featuring Jeff Welser from IBM Research, Richard Socher from Salesforce, and Anima Anandkumar from Amazon AI. The 80-minute chat discussed where their work and research in data science has been taking these leading companies.
Another crowd favorite was the session “Spanning the AI Spectrum”, where our client, Joanne Chen of Foundation Capital, moderated thoughtful questions to Richard Rabbat of Gfycat, Jaime Teevan of Microsoft, Guy Satat of MIT, and Bruce Welty of Locus Robotics with Rory O’Driscoll of Scale VP.
Joanne Chen with Richard Rabbat, Photo Courtesy of Maqsood Hakim
The event wrapped its final day on Sunday with the true future of AI: Children, joining to show off their creativity and technical skills—using briefcases, laptops, python software and immeasurable excitement.
Here is a snapshot of activities:
How to Build a Drone- Sponsored by Flybrix
How to Build a Self-driving car- Hosted by Curiosity Machine
AR & VR Immersion Class Hosted by Upload
The Competition Robot of Cupertino Robotics Club on Exhibit
The Competition Robot of Missfits All Girls Robotics Team on Exhibit
Check out these photos from Kids Day:
MIT AI was a thrilling conference that left attendees of all ages excited for the Future of AI. We can’t wait for next year!
