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Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK

The Ethical and Human Rights Implications of AI

Dr Dirk Hovy

Associate Professor, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

More than words – Integrating social factors into NLP

Jesse Shemen

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Dr Peter Waggett

Director of Research, IBM UK

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Therése Svensson

Data science and AI ethics solution specialist, IBM

Trustworthy AI put into action

Yvonne Soh

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The practical dilemma, tech vs business in AI startups

Alex Chan

CEO, Babbobox

Lies, damned lies and AI. But what are you doing to change the world? Views of an Asian perspective.

Dr Steve Beet

Principal R&D engineer, Aculab

Answering machine detection – AI R&D in a commercial environment

Dr Catherine Breslin

Founder, Kingfisher Labs

Voice technology in industry

Dr Jason Baldridge

Research scientist, Google

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Alan Nichol

Co-founder, Rasa Technologies

What do developers need to build great conversational AI?

Professor Jochen Leidner

Director of research, Refinitiv, UK

NLP and ML applications for fun and profit

Professor Susan M Fitzmaurice

Vice President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield, UK

Language and Speech Research at Sheffield: transdisciplinary approaches and perspectives

Professor Milica Gašić

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Towards dynamic dialogue models

Professor Mark Sanderson

RMIT University, Australia

Creating a Conversational Search System

Emilio Monti

Amazon, UK

Natural Language Understanding as Machine Translation

Dr Giuseppe 'Pino' Di Fabbrizio

VUI Inc., USA

Conversational agents for e-commerce