On the weekends of 23 and 30 of november the Global Startup Weekend AI will go life in 15 cities. The weekend event is centered on action, innovation, and education. Beginning on Friday night with an idea pitching session and continuing throughout the weekend with testing, business model development, and basic prototype creation, Startup Weekend culminates on Sunday night with demo pitching in front of a panel of potential investors and local entrepreneurs. Participants are challenged with building functional startups during the event and are able to collaborate with like-minded individuals.
Global AI Summit in Paris, 2019
4 Team Leaders of 4 winning teams of the Global AI Edition will be chosen and invited to Paris for two days of bootcamp & networking in 2019. Dates to be determined (April to May).
Here's how this is going to happen:
Accomodation & flights will be offered by the Global AI team.
Next AI pre-qualification to accelerator & founder program
Delivered in Montréal and Toronto, NextAI is an accelerator and founder development program for early or idea stage AI-enabled startups. NextAI is for exceptional teams and individuals from around the world who are commercializing AI research and want to build global companies.
The winning team in each city will pre-qualify for NextAI's individual application round and will be able to directly apply as a team or join the pool of finalists to find a team.
Snips kit for Makers & Iot projects
The Maker Kit includes hardware components specially selected by Snips to easily build a powerful AI Voice Assistant, develop skills, and deploy to your connected device. (all the info you need about the kit here :).
Techstars AI Montreal mentorship
MD & Program Manager of the Techstars Montréal Accelerator Program will mentor the 3 winning teams for 1h per month, for three months prior to the Global AI Summit
Google cloud computing
| Hashtag | Country | Lead Organizer | Date | Facebook Page | Sign up! |
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| #SWAIHK | Hong Kong | Felix Wong | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Hong Kong | Join |
| #SWAILima | Peru | Victor Pacora | 23 - 25 Nov | Lima | Join |
| #SWAIYaounde | Cameroon | Colbie Medjom | 23 - 25 Nov | Yaoundé | Join |
| #SWAILaPaz | Bolivia | Monica Irene | 23 - 25 Nov | La Paz | Join |
| #SWAIBrussels | Belgium | Elena Tosheva | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Brussels | Join |
| #SWAITaipei | Taiwan | David Kuo | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Taipei | Join |
| #SWAIMTL | Canada | Michelle Yu | 23 - 25 Nov | Montreal | Join |
| #SWAIJeddah | Jeddah | Andrew Yip | 29 Nov - 1 Dec | Jeddah | Join |
| #SWAIAntananarivo | Madagascar | Randriamanivo Mialinjava | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Antananarivo | Join |
| #SWAIParis | France | Candice Capelle | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Paris | Join |
| #SWAIIzmir | Turkey | Patrick Bosteels | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Izmir | Join |
| #SWAIGuayaquil | Equator | Sergio Serna | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Guayaquil | Join |
| #SWAISzczecin | Poland | Maciej Jankowski | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Szczecin | Join |
| #SWAIBeirut | Lebanon | Azhar Siddiqui | 30 Nov - 2 Dec | Beirut | Join |
Machine Learning Engineer @ ASAPP
As a data scientist, I work frequently with the following tools: the Python scientific and inferential stack, R, Jupyter, AWS, Google Cloud, SQL, Flask, Docker and a heavy handful of machine learning and probabilistic models. I work periodically with many more: Scala, Spark and React to name a few. I believe it crucial to be able to both build models and productionize one's own solutions.
Social Entrepreneur, Collaboration Catalyst, AI LA President
Mission driven entrepreneur who builds companies, nurtures communities, and invests in people. He leads the AI LA community, Los Angeles’ largest and most active community of today's most curious minds focused on tomorrow’s most challenging problems.
Data scientist, former management consultant
Data scientist, Aerospace Engineer by training and a hobbyist computer programmer. Passionate about how human intelligence and machine intelligence are changing the world using computing. After many years working on management consulting (and more than a little struggle pushing for rigorous, fact based, data rich approaches to problem solving, rather than relying on "softer" consulting skills), and some working more specifically in machine learning and analytics. He has worked in different industries, mostly technology and media related, with focus on customer-facing functions (Sales, Marketing, Customer Support).
Project manager at Techstars
Justine Marchand is one of the Techstars startup accelerator mentors as well as Program Manager, Montreal at Techstars.
AI researcher at INRIA.
He is interested in data mining of functional brain images (fMRI) to learn models of brain function, encoding and decoding models of cognition, resting-state and functional connectivity, functional parcellations of the brain, spatial penalties for learning and denoising.
Co-Founder & CEO @ Yobs
On a mission to build AI that makes talent decisions bias-free and efficient. Seed investor / hands-on advisor for ridiculously ambitious founders in the US who are foreign-born or underrepresented. Growing the top applied AI community in LA.
Digital Nomad | Business Strategist | Ambassador at City AI
Founder of WAYV Digital, providing business strategy and technology solutions for impact-driven companies to help them scale up, become sustainable and spread their impact around the world. Currently working with companies across 5 continents in the areas of education, disability care, healthcare and sustainable e-commerce.
Founder & Chairman | Adjunct Professor | Eisenhower Fellow 2017
He is an independent researcher and start-up entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in Learning Sciences, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence. He is a Senior Fellow at University of Turku and Adjunct Professor at Tampere University of Technology. Prior to founding HeadAI (artificial labour), he has founded e.g. SkillPixels ltd. (games based learning) and gameMiner ltd (game AI & data mining). Ketamo has published more than 80 international peer-reviewed research articles, had ~200 presentations on his studies in international forums and received several awards and nominations related his R&D activities.
Managing Director of Techstars Montreal AI, I invest in founders to help them do more faster.
My background is engineering but I love bringing tech products to market and selling them as much as I love building them. I'm strongly attached to Montreal and believe in its capacity to generate leading tech companies. Putting this into concrete actions as Managing Director of Techstars Montreal AI and mentor at Founder Institute.
Product Marketing | Global Ethics Lead at City AI | Women in AI Ambassador | Agile Ethics Trainer
She is a strategy-focused Head of Marketing helping AI and product-first companies grow. Her approach is data driven, yet focused on human behaviours, needs and expectations. She also values the role of empathy, design thinking and consumer psychology in making sensible marketing and business decisions.
Head of Data Science delivery - Big Data & Artificial Intelligence at Allianz France.
He is in charge of project's delivery and in charge of leading the operations team (data scientists and project business leaders), prioritization and coordiation for IT team. He works in different type of projects : predictive management of temporary contracts, detection of underwritting fraud motor business using machine learning and features engineering, detection of claims fraud for P&C and health, text mining & prédiction of customer satisfaction using machine learning
Head of Research at AID, Google Developers Expert (GDE) on ML, Intel AI Student Ambassador, City.AI Ambassador
AI/Machine Learning Developer and Researcher. Full Stack Developer and UI/UX Designer with over 7 years of professional experience.
Deputy of Group Strategy and M&A at GEFCO
Foremost a technology aficionado, interested in understanding digital major trends and their impact on businesses. I am inquisitive on next technological waves and their impact on our society more generally. I have been involved in the Telco, Advertising and Media businesses over the past 10 years covering assignments on business growth and transformation. He is currently Deputy of Group Strategy & M&A
President and CEO, CloudConstable Incorporated
Mr. Pickering is an innovative expert in analytics and data management. His extensive global experience includes leadership roles on many high profile projects and leading edge technology initiatives. He is currently leveraging his extensive Cloud and Agile development background to bring enterprise-class predictive and protective analytics to consumers.
Data Scientist at the French Ministry of Health.
She first worked for 3 years as a research engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) where she contributed to several projects in Machine Learning, NLP (Natural Language Processing) and building chatbots. Passionate about new technologies, she is member of the associations Women in AI and All In and regularly participates in tech meetups.
Machine Learning Engineer at Quby
Wilder is a Machine Learning Engineer, a City.AI Ambassador, an IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Contestant and Committer and PMC member of the Apache Software Foundation. He was a guest attendee at AI for Good Global Summit at the United Nations.
Sylvain Theveniaud Allianz Accelerator Founder & Managing Director
Sylvain is the managing director of the Allianz Accelerator. Before joining Allianz to create the accelerator, Sylvain was the founder of a Product Strategy and Business Development Consulting firm, and mentor of international startups programs. Sylvain successfully spearheaded key management and executive positions in the enterprise IT software market for Fortune 500 covering Strategic Alliances, Business Development, Product Marketing, Product Management, CTO and Head of Engineering. He also headed, as VP Strategy and Member of the Executive Committee, major IT trends in a Silicon Valley company. Sylvain has experience in due diligence, M&A in worldwide and multicultural contexts. Sylvain holds a BSc in Computer Science and Database Management, an MBA of Entrepreneurship from MBS, an Executive from Stanford and was part of the Berkeley Methodology of Entrepreneurship program.
Laura Calmore Director of Strategic Initiatives at ni2o
Laura has been a community leader, organiser & facilitator to foster local & global ecosystems in France & CEE tech ecosystems. Extensive network and leadership experience working in international environments and consulting on growth strategy, development and open source practices. Skilled with +7 years of diverse professional experience in strategy, operations , cross-project team management in global environments & tech startups.