** *Update***

Please note that there is a slight change to the format of the seminar. This seminar will include an interview session with Vishal and Dongho.

In this seminar, Vishal Chatrath (Co-founder and CEO) and Dr Dongho Kim (Co-founder and CTO) from PROWLER.io talk about their start-up journey, when and how they recognised the opportunity worth pursuing, how they successfully raised their funding and what continues to drive them? They will also cover what makes their Artificial intelligence for Decision-Making different from others.

PROWLER.io was founded by mathematicians and engineers following years of research into machine intelligence, probability theory and multi-agent problems and managed to raise investment from China, Singapore and elsewhere globally, PROWLER.io raised an additional $24 million from new and existing investors, valuing the company at $100m. (Business Weekly, May 20, 2019). Their AI engine VUKU can process moving data in real-time, adapt to uncertainty, act on sparse information and learn from experience. It is data-efficient, does not need Big Data sets to be effective and is designed to have broad application across multiple sectors (e27, October 30, 2019).

Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Lecture Theatre (4th Floor), Cambridge Judge Business School

Time: 18:40 - 21:00

Organised by Jeong Suk Song, Ariel Scroggins, Derek Douglas, Jithindas Ramadas and Faraz Haider. All are participants on the Cambridge Judge Business School Executive MBA (2018-2020) programme.

Chaired and moderated by Dr Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice, Cambridge Judge Business School

18:40 - 19:00 Registration

19:00 – 19:05 Welcome by Dr Chris Coleridge

19:05 – 19:15 Introduction to PROWLER.io, Artificial Intelligence for Decision-Making

Speaker: Vishal Chatrath, Co-founder and CEO, PROWLER.io

19:15 – 19:35 Artificial Intelligence for Decision-Making, the technology

Speaker: Dr Dongho Kim, Co-founder and CTO, PROWLER.io

19:35 – 20:00 Interview on Vishal and Dongho's Start-up journey

Moderator: Dr Chris Coleridge

20:00 – 21:00

Networking over pizza and drinks (sponsored by PROWLER.io)

The talks are open to everyone, but registration is essential. Limited seats are available. If you are unable to attend this seminar after your registration, please cancel your seat as soon as possible to free it up for someone else.

Speaker biography

Vishal Chatrath/Co-founder and CEO, PROWLER.io

Vishal is a serial entrepreneur and global manager whose work experience spans fundamental research, manufacturing, operations, R&D, product management, corporate strategy and business development. He has lived in 18 cities in 6 countries ranging from the equator to the arctic.

Dr Dongho Kim/Co-founder and CTO, PROWLER.io

Dongho’s research interests are various fields of machine learning and in particular decision making under uncertainty via reinforcement learning. He is originally from South Korea and a former postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department.