The AI Honey Bee Dance

17 December 2019

Kia ora readers, Congratulations to Megan Tapsell and Louise Taylor for being elected and appointed as our new Chair and Deputy Chair; I am elated with this partnership. We also welcome new members to our Executive Council Frith Tweedie, Eduard Liebenberger and Paulo Gottgtroy who have been elected to join our force for AI good! We’re also hopeful our next council announcement will include … Continue reading "The AI Opportunity for New Zealand with Professor Michael Witbrock"

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Trio of NZ business women leading AI in NZ

11 December 2019

Kiwi business women are leading the drive of one of New Zealand’s most significant technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), into 2020. The AI Forum of New Zealand has just appointed one of ANZ bank’s heads of technology, Megan Tapsell, as its chair, along with Simpson Grierson tech lawyer Louise Taylor as its deputy chair. Emma Naji, … Continue reading "The AI Opportunity for New Zealand with Professor Michael Witbrock"

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NZ finance sector primed for AI – research report

02 December 2019

The New Zealand financial sector is primed for AI (artificial intelligence), a new national research report says.

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4 ways to increase AI adoption in Aotearoa

Recently, the AI Forum hosted panel discussions in Auckland and Wellington to explore what can be done to increase AI adoption in business and Government.
06 August 2019
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The World’s AI Principles | Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

Kia ora Reader, CogX, the world’s largest festival of AI, was an amazing experience and an opportunity to gauge how New Zealand’s AI community compares to the rest of the world. Read my CogX highlights here. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning is a newly published, comprehensive paper, co-authored by some of the world’s leading international academics … Continue reading "The World’s AI Principles | Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning"
25 June 2019
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AI world comes together at Cogx

Greetings from a showery British summertime! I’ve made the trip over to the other side of the world this week, alongside a few other AI Forum members, to attend the 2019 CogX Festival of AI and Emerging Technology in Kings Cross, London. This is the largest gathering of the global AI community, with an estimated 15,000 attendees, 10 stages and 12 topics including healthcare, infrastructure, finance and economy.
11 June 2019
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Techweek TV: Real World AI in 2019 – practical insights from New Zealand businesses implementing Machine Learning solutions

What’s it all about? AI Forum Executive Director Ben Reid participated in a discussion with three leading New Zealand data science and machine learning experts. The conversation examined AI business cases, implementation challenges and lessons at the coalface from those actively delivering AI solutions. Panel includes (left to right): Jake Millar (Unfiltered), Ernestynne Walsh (Nicholson … Continue reading "Techweek TV: Real World AI in 2019 – practical insights from New Zealand businesses implementing Machine Learning solutions"
05 June 2019