AI Across Fields (AIX) Forum

Format

The format of the AIX forum can vary from event to event, but a possible example template for an event is as follows:

1. First hour: 5–7 short (5–7 min) pitch talks about problems that offer a potential challenge for AI methods.

2. Second hour: A panel with all the presenters involved, together with a couple of selected AI experts. The panel is opened by the AI experts providing their initial comments of the pitch talks to launch a discussion. The audience is also given the opportunity to participate and present their questions, and comment on either the pitch talks or the discussion in the panel.

3. Third hour: Networking event with snacks and drinks provided, while the organizers encourage the creation of new links for potential collaboration.

For presenters

Please think carefully about how to present your problem in a way that maximizes the interest of the audience: 

• Describe the core problem in a manner understandable to non-experts in your field; do not worry yet too much about how AI exactly fits in, this can come later; 

• Try to think about how the general objectives of FCAI and the more specific targets of the research programs could align with your problem.

For AI experts

If you are considering why and whether you should attend the events, please keep in mind that, for high-impact implementation of FCAI research, we need to find new opportunities for collaboration and good ideas for successful applications of AI. The people presenting will have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about how they could be useful to us – if that is not an opportunity, what is?

X can be any problem domain where AI can be applied in, from a scientific discipline (e.g. physics), to a sub-field (e.g. materials design) to a business sector (e.g. traffic). A single event does not even need to be thematic (a single "X"), but it can be formed around a collection of interesting pitch talks / problem domains (various different Xs) based e.g. on expertise found in a physical location or organization.

If you are interested in suggesting a topic (X), and/or want to host an AIX Forum event, please contact the Vice-Director of FCAI, Prof. Petri Myllymäki (petri.myllymaki at helsinki.fi).

FCAI is willing to organize some events on its own but prefers to organize them together with another host. The very first AIX Forum events were organized in the Helsinki metropolitan area, but as a national flagship, we are eager to extend the event series to other parts of Finland as well.