"In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products but above all to reinvent yourself over and over again" writes Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, professor of world history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in his latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. The book presents a strategic framework of 21 of society's most complex areas, from community, education, equality, work to education and meaning. The unifying chord that resonates across all chapters is the anticipated impact AI will have in changing every aspect of society. Dr. Harari doesn't resort to quick conclusions of how AI will positively or negatively impact an area of society; he leaves that judgment to the reader. He shows the good AI can do while explaining how historical context gives one reason to worry about its potential dystopian aspects.

Greg Mori is research director at Borealis AI's Vancouver research centre and director of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Depending which forecast you subscribe to, the global market value for artificial intelligence is projected to reach anywhere between US$36.8-billion and US$1.2-trillion by 2025. This for a series of technologies that only reached mainstream consciousness a few years ago. At the vanguard of this push are the tech giants that have seen explosive growth thanks to the most lucrative applications of this technology: entertainment and advertising. The result of these investments has been phenomenal changes in our daily consumption of media.

Overview: An event series which helps startup, corporate, and tech investment professionals sift through the noise, and understand the true happenings in the Artifical Intelligence industry. Guests from various industries will use this new found Focus to learn how to prepare for, and even implement Artificial intelligence into their businesses. Matt Greenwood - Chief Innovation Officer at Two Sigma Investments: Two Sigma Ventures is a division of Two Sigma that seeks to invest in companies that push the boundaries of an industry and bring real progress to the world, by harnessing the power of data science, machine learning, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, advanced hardware, and related fields. Vincent Tang - Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Samsung Accelerator: The accelerator partners with innovators to build ideas into products, grow products into businesses, and scale businesses that leverage and transform the Samsung ecosystem.Started in 2013 on a mission to create breakout software and services and foster a startup culture at Samsung. Jake Soffer - Co-Founder & CEO at Rollio: Rollio is Artificial Intelligence (AI) built into your Sales Team's core.