Waterloo.AI and AMC: AI Industry Day - Webinar Event on March 25, 2021 | 8:30 am to 4:00 pm | Waterloo Data and Artificial Intelligence Institute

Overview: An interactive and informative on-line event, enabling Industry to get more acquainted with various AI success stories across multi-sectors of the economy. Catering to diverse interests, attendees will have the option to choose from a menu of topics, with one stream focusing on the use of AI within Advanced Manufacturing. Applicable to all sectors, the keynote speaker will deliver first-hand experience of “The Journey to Implement AI”, and the importance of “Data” in the future of AI. Morning and afternoon presentations are planned around a mid-day networking event amongst attendees, partners, researchers and the Waterloo AI Eco-System.

AI Industry Day - MS Teams Live Event Links

Time	MS Teams Live Event Links	Topics
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM	Main Live Stream	Welcome, Introductions & Overview Keynote: A Passion for the Customer: Loblaw Technology Waterloo Region AI Eco-System Networking & Virtual Trade Show Keynote: Data, The New Commodity Collaborative Funding for AI Closing Remarks
Breakout Streams
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM	AI - Stream 1 (Morning Section)	Using AI for Software Integrity Industry Considerations for Responsible AI AI-enabled Knowledge Prediction Engine
	AI - Stream 2 (Morning Section)	Strategy in the Age of AI Disruption: How Predicting the Future Can Help Your Business Automating Legal Search with Semantic Search Confidence in AI Systems – Can we trust AI-based systems?
	AMC - Stream (Morning Section)	Integrated Additive Manufacturing and AI Platforms for Smart Manufacturing Robots at Work: Cobots for Tomorrow’s Industry High Performance Manufacturing
	AI for Social Good - Stream (Morning Section)	Optimizing Pre-trained Clinical Embeddings for Automatic COVID-related ICD Coding Perspectives on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging AI, Global Governance, and International Public Policy
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM	AI - Stream 1 (Afternoon Section)	Safety Assurance of AI-enabled Robotic Systems Robust Embeddings for Natural Language Processing AI for Ocular Health
	AI - Stream 2 (Afternoon Section)	Using AI to Find Legal Evidence and COVID-19 Treatments Advancing Transportation Engineering Using AI and Big Data AI for In-vehicle Driver and Occupant Monitoring
	AMC - Stream (Afternoon Section)	Boosting Manufacturing through Virtualization and Intelligence AI Methods are Solving Complex Beam-forming Antenna and Radio Systems Smart Automated High-Performance Composite Manufacturing
	AI for Social Good - Stream (Afternoon Section)	A Human-Machine Collaborative Design Strategy to Efficient Deep Learning for Real-Time Video Expression Analysis Wildfire Management: Disaster Response, Climate Change Towards Adaptive Social Robots: Integrating Physiological Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactions
Waterloo Region AI Eco-System Networking & Virtual Trade Show
Time	Virtual Booth	Hosts
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM	Waterloo.AI	Harold Godwin & Vijay Ganesh
	Waterloo AMC	Valerie Bradshaw & Mike Worswick
	WatCAR	Sebastian Fischmeister & Stefanie Bruinsma
	UW MSAM	Mihaela Vlasea
	UW RoboHub	Brandon Dehart
	UW CIARS	Milad Khaki, Wael Mahmoud Abdel Wahab, Naime Ghafarian, Ehsan Haj Mirza Alian Aminabadi
	UW Precision Controls	Kaan Erkorkmaz, Andrew Katz
	AMC - McMaster	Stephen Veldhuis
	AMC - Western	Lee Smithson
	Microsoft	Rola Darwish
	Yourika	Shady Shehata
	Primal AI	Bart Piwowar
	Watonobus	Amir Khajepour
	UW- Additive Manufacturing: Real-time Microstructure and Geometry Control	Lucas Botelho, Richard Van Blitterswijk
	Wireless Sensors and Devices Lab	George Shaker
	Mitacs	Ashley Hannon
	KA Imaging	Ferninda Fraga
	The Owl Solutions	Hugo Fuentes Diaz
	AI for Hockey	David Clausi