No conference on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning or robotics would be complete without its fair share of technologists, programmers and engineers. But scan the list of attendees at the 2020 Rise of AI Summit, a hybrid (digital and physical) event this week in Berlin (November 17-18, 2020) and the number of people from health insurance companies, banks and venture capitalists is astonishing. As one of the founders of the event, CEO of Asgard Capital, Fabian Westerheide, said in his opening remarks on "The Next Decade of AI, we are in a'renaissance' of the technology." Westerheide says we're seeing a "refurbishment of ideas from the 1960s, 70s and 80s," combined with the amount of data we have now and today's processing power. He calls it "old ideas, new execution, and new capital."

Rise of AI started with 10 people discussing the Singularity in 2014. Today Rise of AI is Europe's most influential platform for the growing Artificial Intelligence industry. Our mission is to build a thriving European ecosystem. We aim for AIs, which serve us and all human benefit with a longer and happier life. Therefore we organize the yearly Rise of AI Conference, German AI Week, Virtual Chats and more. Furthermore we educate, create awareness, advise and invest in the young but growing AI industry.

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