AI Day 2018 program

 
 

8:00–9:00

REGISTRATION and coffee

Registration takes place in the Gala Hall (1st floor) and the sessions are in Kaleva Hall (2nd floor) and in Lumituuli auditorium (1st floor). 

Student poster exhibition of the Aalto Digital Ethics course is open already in the morning in the Partner’s lounge close by Lumituuli auditorium (1st floor). Main exhibition area is on 2nd flood close by Kaleva Hall.

 

9:00–9:45
@ KALEVA HALL

opening SESSION

Opening
Ilkka Niemelä, President, Aalto University

Towards AI strategy in EU and Finland
Ilona Lundström, Director General, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland

Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI
Samuel Kaski, Academy Professor, Director of FCAI, Aalto University

Overview of the day
AI Day organising team and Digi Platform representative

 

10:00–11:30

UNDERSTANDABILITY
@ Kaleva Hall

Chair: Antti Oulasvirta, Professor, Aalto University

Robots that understand people
Ville Kyrki, Professor, Aalto University

Simulator-based adaptation and optimisation of interfaces
Antti Oulasvirta, Professor, Aalto University

Inferring what people want
Tuukka Ruotsalo, Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki; Co-founder, Etsimo Ltd. and Etsimo Healthcare Ltd.

User and machine theory of mind
Tomi Peltola, Researcher, Aalto University

Neural attention in human language understanding
Filip Ginter, AI Scientist, Silo.AI; Professor, University of Turku

 

PRIVACY, SECURITY AND FAIRNESS
@ Lumituuli

Chair: Antti Honkela, Professor, University of Helsinki

Fairness, causality and machine learning
Ricardo Silva, Professor, University College London

Security challenges in machine learning: an industry perspective
Nidhi Singh, Research Director, Elisa Corporation

Privacy-preserving machine learning
Antti Honkela, Professor, University of Helsinki

 

11:30–13:00
@ SIEF AND CAPITOLIUM

LUNCH break

Scientific and business exhibition on the 2nd floor.

Aalto Digital ethics course students exhibits in the Partner’s lounge close by Lumituuli auditorium on the 1st floor.

List of posters and demos to be published closer to the event.

 

13:00–14:30

DATA-EFFICIENCY
@ KALEVA HALL

Chair: Alexander Ilin, Professor, Aalto University

Data-efficient AI for the real world
Kalle Raita, Curious AI

CANCELLED: Why learn something you already know? Combining simulators with learning
Jaakko Lehtinen, Professor, Aalto University

The real world of IoT and its data scarcity problem
Ilona Söchting, Senior Data Scientist, Wärtsilä

Probabilistic learning from scarce data
Arno Solin, Professor, Aalto University

 

SOCIETAL IMPACT OF AI @ LUMITUULI

Chair: Risto Nieminen, Academician of Science, Distinguished Professor (emeritus), Aalto University, President of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

PANEL:

Meeri Haataja, CEO and Co-Founder, Saidot.ai; Lead for Finland's AI Program Ethics working group, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland

Petri Myllymäki, Professor, Director, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

Aki Vehtari, Professor, Aalto University

Petri Ylikoski, Professor, University of Helsinki

THE SESSION IS ORGANISED BY THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS

 

14:30–15:00
@ SIEF AND CAPITOLIUM

Coffee break

Exhibition continues: Scientific and business exhibition is located on the 2nd floor and Aalto Digital ethics -course exhibits in the Partner’s lounge close by Lumituuli auditorium on the 1st floor. List of posters and demos to be published closer to the event.

 

15:00–16:30

 
 

16:30–17:30
@ SIEF AND CAPITOLIUM

AALTO DIGIPLATFORM’S FREE-NETWORKING HAPPY HOUR

Exhibition continues: Scientific and business exhibition is located on the 2nd floor and Aalto Digital ethics -course exhibits in the Partner’s lounge close by Lumituuli auditorium on the 1st floor. List of posters and demos to be published closer to the event.

 

CONJOINED PROGRAM

The activities below are organized in collaboration with AI Day 2018. We recommend you to consider these opportunities.

ETHICS CHALLENGE

Finland’s Artificial Intelligence Programme’s Ethics challenge invites enterprises to join in the ethical use of artificial intelligence.

The use of artificial intelligence in enterprises is increasing fast. At the same time, new kinds of ethical questions have emerged.

Already many companies have joined the AI Ethics challenge. However, much more are needed to reach the year end goal of 300 companies. FCAI is a supporting the AI Ethics challenge and is inviting all enterprises participating AI Day to join the movement!

Learn more and join the challenge

AI DIPLOMA

Diploma in Artificial Intelligence gives you in-depth understanding of the topic and helps you to understand and apply contemporary AI technologies.

The program utilizes the experts in the field and it is a joint effort of Aalto PRO, University of Helsinki HY+ and Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI.

EIT DIGITAL INNOVATION DAY

EIT Digital Innovation Day takes place on the preceding day 11.12.2018 in Dipoli. You can learn from inspiring keynotes, latest showcases and connect to the leading actors in digitalisation in Finland and Europe around the 2018 theme Smart Cities.

For more information, please visit the event website.