Presentation given at CogX 2019, on the Lab to Live Stage. CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub. Find out more at: https://cogx.co/ CogX is an award-winning Festival with its roots in artificial intelligence. The fourth edition, June 8th to 10th 2020, adds a Virtual first experience and Global Leadership Summit, and builds on the huge success of the 2019 event, which brought together over 20,000 visitors.

It is crucial to equip society with the right skills for the AI era. AI affects what students learn and how they learn it. As AI advances, the curriculum will change and the way education is delivered and assessed will change with it. At CogX 2017, an expert panel discusses how AI is used to enable those who can't afford a good education or have learning difficulties to get the best education, what skills will still be valuable for students and ultimately, the powerful impact AI will have on education as a whole. CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub.

The Createch stage will offer an upbeat vision of how converging creativity and technology can improve how we connect, create, and consume.Discover the pioneers re-imagining TV, theatre, fashion, music, and community, and inventing new possibilities for audiences, creatives, and investors.Between sessions, short films will showcase innovative creativity to keep you stimulated and entertained. CogX is hosted by Charlie Muirhead Co-Founder and CEO, and Co-Founder Tabitha Goldstaub. Find out more at: https://cogx.co/ CogX is an award-winning Festival with its roots in artificial intelligence. The fourth edition, June 8th to 10th 2020, adds a Virtual first experience and Global Leadership Summit, and builds on the huge success of the 2019 event, which brought together over 20,000 visitors.

With allegations of appropriation, a lack of diverse panelists for a panel about diversity, and a lack of a clear and definitive apology, the organizers of CogX made many missteps during its recent online conference. It is a story that needs telling because, without exposure, it will continue to happen unchecked. Before we get into the specifics of what happened at CogX, let's look at the broader issue. A recent study showed that almost 70 percent of speakers at conferences are male. The company responsible for those insights performed the same research in 2018, and it seems that we're hardly making any progress at all.

While I was at Camp Kotok, my son found CogX, an AI and emerging technologies conference held in London. They had speakers from academia, governments, and industry to give a more holistic view of AI and emerging technologies. They put all their keynotes online, for free. He watched a few and sent me his feedback. Here are a couple of his key takeaways, but I encourage you to watch yourself and make your own.

Recently I had the opportunity to attend CogX, which frankly speaking, is THE best conference I have attended on Artificial Intelligence (as well as having the ability to meet and listen to some of the hottest startups in AI, seeking funding). For the last 6 weeks I have been taking a course in Artificial Intelligence with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (MIT CSAIL) brilliant, by the way; and the people that we were learning about, and the references, research and reading we have been doing, those people were in the room and on the stage at CogX, hence my excitement! I'm geeking out slightly, but the opportunity to go in the latest Autonomous Vehicle (AV) from Tesla (the Model S); to converse with Robots; and to use Virtual Reality headsets (HTC Hive, with hand controllers) to drive a Pepper Robot through the conference arena, whilst it used Natural Language technology to allow me to talk to people through it, was waaay cool! It brought everything I have been learning about to LIFE! Anyway, I digress. Below are 10 talks that I went to at CogX, that I thought were really cool!

CogX is a two-day AI extravaganza that brings together the biggest, best and brightest minds in Europe to really talk about the future of AI, blockchain and the future. Hold this conference in China or the US and you'd have a completely different conversation thanks to investment levels, protectionism and talent strategies - a key theme of several of the early panels and people I spoke to. The panel on the main stage who opened up CogX in London were tasked with setting the scene for the future of AI and where we are right now. The tone set felt distinctly like we're losing to the US/China, mixed with'we're on a knife-edge of bad things happening' sprinkled with distinctly hopeful tones that potential issues are not inevitable. Made up of some of the best minds currently thinking about such things, the focus seems to have moved from potential to'winning races' and protectionism.

In the last few years, gradually, and despite lamentations from the old guard, the world has started to accept the reality of a new economy. Whatever nomenclature one denotes the phenomenon, it is clear that it is here to stay. What is clearer, at least to Charlie Muirhead and Tabitha Goldstaub, is that for the UK to stay ahead of the curve, there is absolutely no time to waste in adapting to Artificial Intelligence. "I've spent 20 years building tech companies," says Muirhead, a serial entrepreneur who has founded a menagerie of distinguished firms, starting when he was just 18. "It's absolutely my passion, I love doing it, and two years ago, we were thinking: 'what's the next opportunity to focus on?' We wanted to make a contribution – something not to make money."