Dr. Demis Hassabis is the Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world's leading General Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, which was acquired by Google in 2014 in their largest ever European acquisition. Demis will draw on his eclectic experiences as an AI researcher, neuroscientist and video games designer to discuss what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, including the recent historic AlphaGo match, and its future potential impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind.

How many times have you wanted to throw your phone out the window of your car because Siri couldn't understand the most basic phrases? Then a 20-minute argument develops with a series of "Hey Siri" commands followed by a string of unwanted Google searches and maybe even an iTunes song. I personally gave Siri a British accent in hopes that would somehow change things. CEO Wibe Wagemans, along with co-founders John Ball and Beth Carey, want to help AI actually understand what you say with their new company, Pat. Wagemans previously was President of Indoor Atlas, a company developing indoor mapping technology.

At least, that's what Google and so many business and tech journalists said when the search giant first faced antitrust complaints in Europe six years ago. And indeed, Microsoft had filed one of those complaints. It was also the money-weilding mastermind behind the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace, a group that lobbied the European Union and helped others bring complaints against arch-rival Google. But all these years later, Microsoft has removed itself from the fight, reaching an agreement with Google that says both companies will drop all regulatory complaints against each other. And yet, Google's antitrust problems are only getting worse. Yesterday, the European Union announced a new round of antitrust charges against Google, this time pointing the finger at the company's advertising service, some of the most important tech in Google's moneymaking arsenal.

In January 2014, Stanford University professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani (authors of the legendary Elements of Statistical Learning textbook) taught an online course based on their newest textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R (ISLR).

Paul Taylor, a former Google engineer and founder and CEO of UK-based Fintech startup Thought Machine, is developing a blockchain-centric operating system, Vault OS, a modern banking engine and core software that runs on the cloud. Before delving into the blockchain space, Paul Taylor held a prominent position at Google as the head of the text-to-speech group at the search giant, responsible for the speech recognition software used in over a billion Android phones and devices used around the world. A Cambridge University academic, Taylor began working on Vault OS over two years ago at a tech start-up hub in London. The inventor and executive has a notable expertise in speech synthesis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, as evident from his tenure in Google. There is a need to uproot and change the legacy systems used by banks in an age when security and efficiency are fundamental to core banking principles and that's where Vault OS can help with an upgrade to the system, according to Taylor.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is used for more than just collecting data and predicting outcomes. It can be used to create better consumer experiences in a multitude of ways. The more consumer-centric your services are, the higher the conversion rate your brand is going to notice. Increased engagement, more social presence and an urgency for addressing consumer queries using AI create happy consumers. Use the data provided by social media interactions, website conversion rates and interaction performance to gain more sales conversions.

In central London this spring, eight of the world's greatest minds performed on a dimly lit stage in a wood-panelled theatre. An audience of hundreds watched in hushed reverence. This was the closing stretch of the 14-round Candidates' Tournament, to decide who would take on the current chess world champion, Viswanathan Anand, later this year. Each round took a day: one game could last seven or eight hours. Sometimes both players would be hunched over their board together, elbows on table, splayed fingers propping up heads as though to support their craniums against tremendous internal pressure. At times, one player would lean forward while his rival slumped back in an executive leather chair like a bored office worker, staring into space. Then the opponent would make his move, stop his clock, and stand up, wandering around to cast an expert glance over the positions in the other games before stalking upstage to pour himself more coffee.

In 1996, Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM, was the first machine to win a chess match against the world champion Garry Kasparov. Since then, artificial intelligence has gone down a rapid development trajectory, now even questioning the divide between technology and creativity. Pushing past the notion of the machine as the extension of the artist, Harold Cohen, former artist and professor at the University of California San Diego, designed Aaron, an art-creating program that can paint still life and portraits of human figures without photos or other human input as reference. Artomatix, founded by Eric Risser in 2013, uses algorithms to leverage the'world's first artificial imagination'. The team at Deep Dream Google has spent recent years'teaching computers how to see, understand, and appreciate our world'.

Join Roger Schank for an informal evening of discussion about his work, the debunking of Cognitive Computing and what learning by doing really means in the 21st Century, from an educational standpoint. Roger is a pre-eminent professor of Cognitive Science with a focus on education and improving the experiences of students in class. Dr. Schank was Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Yale University and Director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University, and research fellow at the Institute for Semantics and Cognition in Switzerland. Roger will give a 40 min talk to the top leaders of Data Science in Barcelona Tech Companies as well as host a Q&A session.

It is widely forecasted that a shortage of skills in data science and analytics will mean a great deal of money is wasted through missed opportunities in coming years. Traditional academic establishments have begun to move to fill the gap.