Join us at the CBC Stage in Edmonton City Centre Mall for a showcase of our city's unique entrepreneurial identity, startup community & culture of innovation!
We’ve all heard of Boston Dynamics and the fascinating work they are doing to make lifelike AI bots that can open doors, do handsprings, and eventually take over the world in a post-apocalyptic action scene, but what we often neglect to discuss is that this type of AI is far from the norm of what’s being built in the tech sector. Some of the world's best talent is doing AI research in Edmonton, and while we aren't building the world's first computer that can think and act for itself, we are building incredible companies using innovative artificial intelligence solutions.
Sit down with Cory Janssen, CEO of AltaML, Craig Knox, CTO of DrugBank and Patrick Pilarski, Amii Fellow and Associate Professor at the UofA to learn about the real life ways that any industry can integrate AI into their company. Whether it be to create internal efficiencies, optimize a business process, or advance and scale their operations, the founders of these fast-growing Edmonton companies will chat about unsexy AI and the integral role it plays in the innovation of their businesses.
Thank you to our presenting partners:
AltaML - We conceptualize, develop, and commercialize ML software products. AltaML partners with organizations using a co-development model where we can provide our technical and strategic expertise to build transformative applications using applied AI/ML.
DrugBank - DrugBank is a curated pharmaceutical knowledge base for precision medicine, electronic health records, and drug discovery. We collect, curate and organize all the important information about drugs into a single unified resource. All the knowledge in DrugBank is backed by tens of thousands of scientific references. Whether you are trying to uncover a new drug for a rare disease, or make a medication reminder app: Drugbank makes your application smarter and your development time shorter.
Amii - The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is home to some of the world’s top talent in machine intelligence. Tightly affiliated with the University of Alberta and other members of the Edmonton technology ecosystem, we’re an Alberta-based research institute that pushes the bounds of academic knowledge and guides business understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
CBC Edmonton - Tune in to CBC Edmonton for news and community information from your local public broadcaster. We bring you the stories, events and people that make Edmonton great. Find us online 24/7 at cbc.ca/edmonton and on social. You can also find us on the CBC radio app or tune your radio to 93.9FM/740AM. Here, you'll get the most up-to-the-minute conversation, weather, traffic and community news. We're here to make connections and find new ways to tell stories that are important to our city.
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