Applied AI: The Machine Learning Conference at Harvard Business School

In a world in which more and more elements of our lives are creating data, machine learning is beginning to impact the world's most important industries.

Join us for the annual conference on machine learning, organized by student clubs at Harvard Business School, in which we will explore the technology's impact on finance, health care, and tech.

Conference Schedule:

09:00-09:45 Registration and Coffee
09:45-10:00 Welcome & introduction
10:00-10:30 Keynote: David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition/ Bridgewater) - David is the award-winning AI researcher who built and led the IBM Watson team from its inception in 2006 to its landmark success in 2011 when Watson defeated the greatest Jeopardy! players of all time.
10:30-12:05 Health: Robert Gentleman (23&Me), Jen Kerner (PathAI), Alina Gatowski (Boston Children's Hospital)
12:05-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:20 Finance: Mikey Schulman (Kensho), Paulo Marques (Feedzai), Rudina Seseri (Glasswing Ventures)
14:20-14:40 Break
14:40-15:10 AI Ethics Keynote: Max Tegmark (The Future of Life Institute/ MIT) - Max Tegmark is a renowned scientific communicator and cosmologist, and has accepted donations from Elon Musk to investigate the existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence.
15:10-16:30 Tech: Spyros Matsoukas (Amazon), Sara Robinson (Google), James McInerney (Spotify)