AI+VR Rise Conference

AI+VR Rise is UK’s first conference exploring applications of AI in VR.

Top minds in AI and VR will come together for one evening to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used in virtual or mixed reality environments. You will learn about state-of-the art developments in both AI and VR, and possible crossover between the two.

With a carefully selected panel and line-up of speakers, we aim to facilitate the first ever debate on AI and VR crossovers.

Schedule & speakers

18:00 - 18:15 Welcome & attendees arrival

18:15 - 18:30 Opening speech

18:30 - 19:15 VR Session

Rob Whitehead, co-founder and CTO of Improbable - A high level introduction of the AI and VR industry

Colum Elliott-Kelly, technology education evangelist at Blippar - Computer vision technology in AR 

19:15 - 20:00 AI Session

Phil Westcott, European Ecosystem Leader, IBM Watson Group: IBM Watson in IoT & VR

James Ravenscroft, CTO at Filament: Building smart avatars in VR games with NLP

20:00 - 21:30 AI and VR crossovers, panel discussion with:

Prof. Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, author of The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Re-shaping Human Reality

Raz Schwartz, Research Lead at Oculus

Isabel Guenette-Thornton, former Product Lead at PhD candidate in Digital Sociology

Phil Westcott, European Ecosystem Leader - IBM Watson Group

Olga Egorsheva, CEO and Co-Founder of Lobster

Edward Miller, Co-Founder of Scape Technologies

Moderator: Catalina Butnaru

21:30 - 22:30 Announcing the follow-up hackathon & Networking

PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Join as a partner, sponsor, speaker or mentor for either AI+VR Rise Conference or AI+VR Rise Hackathon. For sponsorship, get in touch with Thomas Gere. For everything else, get in touch with Catalina Butnaru.