You are cordially invited to the Second Machine Intelligence Showcase, organised by the Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) at the University of Southampton. Last year's event attracted 200 attendees including representatives from the government (Office for AI), industry and SMEs, and the whole university.

This year’s theme will focus on “Digitalisation: from Silicon to Intelligence”.

Over the last year, the centre has grown from strength to strength with the award of a new £6M MINDS UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) to train 60 AI experts in the next 5 years, and a new Centre for Maritime Futures (to be officially announed soon).

The Showcase will promote the great work the University has produced in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotics. Our academics, researchers, and students will be showing off their latest work in areas such as Data Centric Engineering, AI for Defence, Machine Ethics, Healthcare, and many others.

Headline speakers this year are:

• Professor Mark Girolami (Sir Kirby Laing Professor and Academic Director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain at Cambridge University)
• Professor Steven Meers (Head of Dstl’s AI Lab and RAEng Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton)

A special evening session will include a 'Women in AI' workshop with key speakers from academia and industry.

Full agenda:

CMI Showcase Agenda

9:00-9:30 Arrival and Refreshments

9:30-9:40 Opening Remarks
• Bashir Al-Hashimi (Head of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences) –

9:40-9:50 Overview of CMI and Key Research Projects
• Gopal Ramchurn (Director of the CMI)

10:00-10:45 Keynote 1
• Mark Girolami - Data Centric Engineering: Hype, Hoax or Hope?

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Session A: AI Hardware
• Themis Prodromakis – “AI on a chip” – A roadmap for embedding intelligence everywhere
• Tim Norman – The UKRI MINDS Centre for Doctoral Training
• Geoff Merrett – Optimising Resource Management for Embedded Machine Learning

11:45-12:30 Session B: Digital Maritime
• Dominic Hudson - Improving ship fuel efficiency through development of a performance digital twin
• Adam Sobey - From Machine Learning to AGI: a look at AI in marine applications
• Blair Thornton - Robotics and autonomy exploring earth's inner space

12:30-13:30 Lunch + Posters

13:30-14:15 Session C: AI-Web
• Age Chapman - I’m sorry, what happened?
• George Konstantinides – Enabling Data Sharing Agreements
• Thanassis Tiropanis - Data sharing ecosystems; opportunities and challenges

14:15-15:00 Keynote 2
• Steven Meers - Constructing the future: AI building blocks for Defence and Security

15:00-16:00 Panel – Digitalisation: Opportunities and Pitfalls

16:00-18:00 Networking, Posters, Speed Dating + food/drinks

A video of last year's successful Showcase event along with slides and speaker biographies can be found here: https://www.cmi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/node/176