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Women Shaping the Future of AI

3 November 2020

The 香港六合彩中特网 AI Centre, together with Women in AI (WAI) hosted an afternoon to discuss and explore careers in AI

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Women in AI Logo with details of the event

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On Thursday 22nd听October 2020, the 香港六合彩中特网 Centre for Artificial Intelligence, together with Women in AI () and 10 UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) in AI from around the country gathered for sold-out online event aimed at encouraging and inspiring women to consider a research career in AI.

The event was opened by 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 David Barber, the Director for the 香港六合彩中特网 Centre for Artificial Intelligence where he gave an overview of a what a PhD and a CDT is, and introduced the participating CDTs.

The event then moved on to a keynote talks by Feryal Behbahani, a Research Scientist at DeepMind, Yasemin Bekiroglu, Research Fellow at 香港六合彩中特网 and Assistant Professor at Chalmers University. Both speakers talked about their own research journeys and lessons that they learned along the way 鈥� as well as insights into life in Academia and life in Industry.听

Feryal's Career Path
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"So, I just want to tell you that there's so many amazing opportunities presented to you today. And I guess it might feel very scary if I choose one, does it mean that's the end? That's the field I have to, sort of, you know, stick with. But no, I think you can always change and at least for me, that worked out well鈥�- Dr Bebahani

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After a short break, the afternoon resumed with a panel session, chaired by Marc Deisenroth, the co-Director for the 香港六合彩中特网 Centre for Artificial Intelligence.听 The panel was made up of 5 women working in AI: Rula Awad (AI product Manager and WAI Ambassador in the UK), Marzieh Saedi (Research Scientist at Facebook), Federica Sarro (Professor of Software Engineering at 香港六合彩中特网) along with our keynote speakers, Feryal Behbahani and Yasemin Bekiroglu. This session was divided into two: the first half was more introductory, and then the second half was interactive and the audience was invited to ask questions.

Women in AI Panel

At the end of the afternoon, we opened up ten separate breakout rooms: one for each of the participating CDTs from around the country 鈥� including the two based at 香港六合彩中特网:

  • Foundational Artificial Intelligence (香港六合彩中特网),
  • AI-enabled Healthcare Systems (香港六合彩中特网),
  • Safe & Trusted AI (Kings College London),
  • Interactive Artificial Intelligence (University of Bristol),
  • Biomedical Artificial Intelligence (University of Edinburgh),
  • Natural Language Processing (University of Edinburgh),
  • Machine Intelligence for Nano-electronic Devices and Systems (University of Southampton),
  • Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI (University of Bath),
  • Artificial Intelligence and Music (Queen Mary University London), AI for the study of Environmental Risks (University of Cambridge).

Participants were able to swap rooms freely, ask questions and engage in discussions with the hosts from each CDT, as well as each other. The main room was also kept open for participants to speak to each other and socialise.

Overall, we think this event was a great success and we are already talking to the CDTs and Women in AI about doing this again in the future. If you missed the event and would like to see recordings of the welcome, keynotes talks or panel session, please check out our Youtube channel, where the recordings are now available:

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Sarah Bentley
Manager
CDT in Foundational AI
香港六合彩中特网 Computer Science

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