DSAIR Distinguished Lecture with Richard Socher, Salesforce Chief Scientist

DSAIR Distinguished Lecture with Richard Socher, Salesforce Chief Scientist

TOPIC | Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

ABSTRACT

From the heights of government to the corporate boardroom and the emerging grassroots, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the foundation of how we live, work and play. In this new digital economy, AI has allowed businesses to offer better, more customised solutions and innovate at a scale never seen before.

Join Salesforce Chief Scientist, Richard Socher, for a thought-provoking session as he demystifies AI and discusses what it means to our economy and businesses. Recently recognised as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders of 2017, Richard will share what is next for AI, and how he harnessed the power of deep learning to deliver intelligent features, geared for the consumer world, into an enterprise environment. Learn some of Richard’s research on image recognition to CRM and an advanced conversational agent that can answer any question and understand your mood.

Be inspired as Richard shares his journey of starting MetaMind upon his PhD graduation and built one of the hottest AI startups in the world to his decision to sell MetaMind to Salesforce and begin the next chapter of his research in A.I. and pushing new frontiers.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Richard Socher is Chief Scientist at Salesforce and an adjunct professor at the Stanford Computer Science Department. At Salesforce he leads the company’s research efforts and brings state of the art artificial intelligence solutions to Salesforce.

Prior to Salesforce, Richard was the CEO and founder of MetaMind, a startup acquired by Salesforce in April 2016. MetaMind’s deep learning AI platform analyzes, labels and makes predictions on image and text data so businesses can make smarter, faster and more accurate decisions than ever before.

Richard was awarded the Distinguished Application Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011, the 2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in 2012, a 2013 “Magic Grant” from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the 2014 GigaOM Structure Award and is currently a member of the WEF Young Global Leaders Class of 2017.

Richard obtained his PhD from Stanford working on deep learning with Chris Manning and Andrew Ng and won the best Stanford CS PhD thesis award.