SLASSCOM’s 4th Annual AI Asia Summit on 23-24 Nov.

The keynote speakers at the event (from left): Dr. Romesh Ranawana, Jason Mars, Dr. Rasika Withanawasam and Dacil Hernandez

SLASSCOM, through its AI Centre of Excellence, is set to launch the fourth iteration of the widely successful AI Asia Summit on 23 and 24 November. 

The AI Asia Summit 2022 will spread across two days and include keynotes, panel discussions, networking opportunities and in parallel to the summit, a hands-on workshop will take place on 25 November hosted by AWS. It is an excellent opportunity for Sri Lankans and the global community to gather together to explore the challenge of adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Production AI. 

The event features esteemed and experienced international and local industry experts that includes Enterprise Machine Learning Ltd. CEO Dr. Romesh Ranawana, AI Singapore Senior Deputy Director AI Innovation Koo Sengmeng, BCS Technology International Technology Advisor Jason Mars,  London Stock Exchange Group Chief Architect, Surveillance and Analytics Systems Dr. Rasika Withanawasam, Sysco Labs Director, Engineering and Architecture Nishantha Hettiarachchi, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Brussels Head Applied Research/Director Lifelong Learning Prof. Johan Loeckx, Zone24x7 Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Gerard Fernando,  Nagarro Director Data/AI rest of Europe Dacil Hernandez, University of Moratuwa Senior Professor Prof. Asoka Karunananda, AWS APAC Chief Technologist Oliver Klein and Data Scientist Dr. Rukshan Batuwita

The summit will incorporate conversations on several key topics that present key challenges and solutions businesses face in the world of AI today. These will include  ‘AI and Machine Learning – What CEOs and Senior Executives should know’, ‘Trajectory of Intelligent Systems- ‘Demystifying the Evolution of AI through Deep, Transfer and Zero-Shot Learning’, ‘How Technology Companies in the Food Services are adopting AI’, ‘AI/Machine Learning System Life-Cycle Management and Governance’,  ‘AI Implementations are Fragile: What we Learnt from R&D Projects’, ‘The cruel reality of AI transformations’, ‘Challenges faced by companies when adopting Production AI – Academic Perspective’ and a case study on ‘AI at Scale’.

BCS Technologies is a Platinum Sponsor, the London Stock Exchange Group as a Silver Sponsor and the Royal Norwegian Embassy as the Strategic Partner to this year’s edition of AI Asia Summit. Corporate Sponsorships by Dialog Enterprise, and Elephant Crew as the digital media partner. Further, SLASSCOM expresses their appreciation for the London Stock Exchange Group for their extended contribution by sponsoring 100 university students to be part of this summit.