Second annual AI conference to be held at St. Lawrence College

April 25, 2019

St. Lawrence College’s Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Club will host their second annual Big Data and AI Conference on Friday, May 3 in the Innovation Hub on the College’s Kingston campus. The conference, entitled, Innovation in Analytics: Applications in AI, will feature industry leaders, including Paul Zikopoulos, Vice President of Big Data Cognitive Systems at IBM.

The Big Data and AI Conference will explore the topics of applying machine learning to business problems, building smart cities, big data ethics, law and security, and much more. Students from St. Lawrence College’s School of Business and the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University are invited to attend, as well as members of the Kingston community.

Speaker lineup:

Glenn Vollebregt – Welcome from President and CEO, St. Lawrence College
Paul Zikopolous – Deep Learning and AI
Doug Socha – Emergency Medical Services
Daniel Zikovitz – AI in Health Care
Eric Osuorah – Blockchain: A Primer
Craig Desjardins – Smart Cities/loT – City of Kingston
Neil Bartlett – Applications in Financial Industry
Wes Garland – Computing Infrastructure
Eileen De Courcy – The Future of Work

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