Werner Vogels, VP & CTO at Amazon will take to the stage for the opening headline session on day two at World Summit AI 2019 (Thursday 10th October) and ahead of their appearance we asked Werner a few questions about Amazon’s approach to machine learning, AI use for enterprise and which industry is being revolutionised by AI adoption. Read on for the full Q&A.

Corporates like to talk about AI. In pitch decks, at company meetings, in comments in media editorials. Wherever there is a chance to flaunt know-how and corporate innovation efforts – and in the AI world, there are plenty of these opportunities – corporates will jump at the chance to talk about how they are rapidly employing AI methodologies and technologies into their operations and offerings.

We're pleased to announce the return of World Summit AI, the world’s leading summit for the entire AI ecosystem from Enterprise to Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science. In partnership with the United Nations, ITU, AI Commons.Org and XPrize, World Summit AI has both a strong ethics and business focus, putting people on stage who would not normally get the chance to be on stage including the Afghan Robotics team and the Inspiring 50 young girls.

Exciting news! The overwhelming demand we’ve received in response to the launch of World AI Week has meant we’ve had to find a bigger venue to accommodate the 15,000 attendees and 100+ affiliated events expected to take place across Amsterdam in October. At the heart of this week, World Summit AI will also be bigger than ever before so *we have a new home* - drum roll......

Montreal, April 10, 2019 - Axionable, a French data company offering concrete business solutions, announces the inauguration of its Montreal office, simply two years after the company was created. Dedicated to pragmatic applied research and tailored artificial intelligence solutions, Axionable is to balance its presence between both Paris and Montreal.

Tell us about XTREME-D. What kind of solutions do you provide for the current AI market?

We are a Tokyo based HPC cloud company established on Februrary 2015. Our flagship product XTREME-Stargate is a bare metal service aimed at traditional high performance computing applications, as well as AI and high performance data analytics (HPDA). We just announced Gen2 of this service on April 3. Read announcement 

Last week, the Nobel Prize of tech (Turing Award) was awarded to the ‘godfathers of AI,’ Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun - three of the most prominent minds behind deep learning’s recent explosion – with a $1 million prize funded by Google.

Dans une semaine seulement, les grands acteurs internationaux de l’intelligence artificielle se rassembleront à Montréal au World Summit AI Americas.

Next week, World Summit AI Americas 2019 will open its doors in Montreal to the major international players in Artificial Intelligence for two full days of heated discussions on AI, mind-boggling innovation, knowledge sharing and networking.

It might have been a while since you last heard from us Inspired Minds Community but we’ve been busy beavers and have some super exciting news to share with you!

Accenture is World Summit AI Headline Sponsor! Over the course of the two day event they will be delivering a keynote address on Innovation in AI, as well as delivering a number of content sessions. In their own words “WSAI is the leading event in the world for the whole AI ecosystem”. We can’t wait to hear from them!