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Emily Johnson

Head of Engagement
HM Treasury

Emily Johnson

Head of Engagement
HM Treasury

Emily Johnson

Head of Engagement
HM Treasury

Generative AI is going to play a crucial role in building the embodied internet, aka Metaverse. Democratizing the metaverse would imply giving every creator a set of tools to dream up and build their own immersive canvas that they can share with others. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges and opportunities in generative AI for synthesizing 3D objects, creating/editing digital twins, building virtual worlds, and accelerating the synthesis pipeline.

Author:

Vikas Chandra

Senior Director, AI
Meta

Vikas Chandra is Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs where he works on AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Meta, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 120+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr. Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE.

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Vikas Chandra

Senior Director, AI
Meta

Vikas Chandra is Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs where he works on AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Meta, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 120+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr. Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE.

ChatGPT is the ‘sputnik’ moment for AI in US and Europe – it is now obvious how AI will be fundamental. There is an imperative to future-proof industry by investing in the exploration of the impact of next-generation AI technologies. But, it is also fuelling an urgency for enterprises to capitalize on and deploy core AI technologies today. Models continue to evolve but deployment is becoming more and more important. Smart users are comparing the compute costs and data risks of using massive, proprietary LLMs with smaller, open-source models, fine-tuned to their specific needs. They are searching for much more efficient solutions for deployment today and in the future. In this talk we will discuss:
·         Why LLMs like GPT-4 may not be the best solution for many enterprise AI tasks
·         Identifying the most exciting, enterprise-ready AI solutions for deployment today
·         Why your compute platform matters when using generative AI

Author:

Helen Byrne

VP, Solution Architect
Graphcore

Helen leads the Solution Architects team at Graphcore, helping innovators build their AI solutions using Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs). She has been at Graphcore for more than 5 years, previously leading AI Field Engineering and working in AI Research, working on problems in Distributed Machine Learning. Before landing in the technology industry, she worked in Investment Banking. Her background is in Mathematics and she has a MSc in Artificial Intelligence.

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Helen Byrne

VP, Solution Architect
Graphcore

Helen leads the Solution Architects team at Graphcore, helping innovators build their AI solutions using Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs). She has been at Graphcore for more than 5 years, previously leading AI Field Engineering and working in AI Research, working on problems in Distributed Machine Learning. Before landing in the technology industry, she worked in Investment Banking. Her background is in Mathematics and she has a MSc in Artificial Intelligence.