AI BOOST 2021

Date/Time
Date - 17/11/2021 - 18/11/2021
All day

The conference that we were all waiting for – AI BOOST 2021 is finally here!

Streaming live from Vilnius, Lithuania on November 17-18th!

Artificial intelligence conference that has it all – from inspirational grand ideas, local use cases of AI and even the most advanced research – everyone will find something of their own at the AI BOOST 2021. Bleeding edge AI applications, AI for Business, AI for Government & Society, AI for Research, AI for Startups, AI for… you!

Join us on November 17-18th and enjoy the full experience of thought-provoking keynotes, valuable networking opportunities, global companies & AI experts.

The event is FREE of charge, just don‘t forget to register.

PROGRAM

17 Nov2021

Stage 1

GMT+2

09:30 – 09:35

Opening of the conference | moderator Andrius Milinavičius
09:35 – 09:40

Opening speech | Ms. Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
09:45 – 09:50

Opening speech | Ms. Aušrinė Armonaitė, Minister of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania
10:00 – 10:30

Ecosystem of AI in Lithuania | Dovydas Čeilutka, President at Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania
10:30 – 11:30

Modern Artificial Intelligence 1980s-2021 and Beyond | Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director & Professor at The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA – USI & SUPSI, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at NNAISENSE
11:30 – 12:00

Will robots take my job? | Toma Vevelstad, Country manager for Baltics and Scandinavia at Office Samurai
12:00 – 12:30

How has recruitment changed with the help of AI? Digital headhunting practices that work. | Diana Blažaitienė, CEO of Soprana Personnel International
12:30 – 13:00

Why and how should business leaders care about ethics in AI | Ignas Valančius, CBDS Service Line Leader CICs Europe, CPT Practice Lead – CIC Baltic Global Business Services, IBM
13:00 – 13:30

Creating a common approach for responsible AI development and deployment | Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, Rule of Law, Responsible Tech & Competition Affairs, Europe, Microsoft
13:30 – 14:15

The importance and practice of Designing for Values in AI | Dr. Stefan Buijsman, Researcher AiTech at Technische Universiteit Delft
14:15 – 14:45

The work generated by AI is not protected. Or is it? | Vilija Viešūnaitė, TRINITI JUREX Managing Partner in Lithuania, Head of Intellectual Property Practice Group
14:45 – 15:15

Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How Companies Can Benefit From It? | Eglė Čiuoderienė, Business Development Executive at Baltic Amadeus
15:15 – 16:00

What are the latest AI trends for different industries? | Maksims Naumovs, Data & Artificial Intelligence Lead at Accenture Baltics
16:00 – 16:30

AI for security and protection of critical infrastructure | Jelena Levak, Head of EU Projects at RiniGARD Ltd, Garik Markarian, Emeritus Professor Lancaster University, Damir Osterman, Head of Process and Technology Development, Croatian Ministry of the Interior
16:30 – 17:00

The future of wine retail: how algorithms can make it local | Alex Kashkarov, CEO and co-founder of Airate, a wine-tech startup.
17:00 – 17:15

Choosing your next spot: How can AI transform businesses location decision making? | Saulė Gabrielė Petraitytė, Co-founder & CEO of Datahood
17:15 – 17:45

AI for media business: countering disinformation | Viktoras Daukšas, Head of Debunk EU initiative
17:45 – 18:15

Practical Implementation of AI in Manufacturing | Dalius Mašalas, CTO and Co-Founder of UAB „Artificial Intelligence for Industry”
18:15 – 18:45

E-Commerce future is AI | Viktoras Jucikas, Founder/CTO at Genus AI

Stage 2

GMT+2

11:00 – 11:30

Startup superpowers: Next generation web apps with TensorFlow.js | Jason Mayes, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google.
12:00 – 12:30

Recent Machine Learning tasks for high-dimensional data | Aristidis G. Vrahatis, Dipl-Ing, M.Sc, PhD Hellenic Open
12:30 – 13:00

AI architecture with functional Causality inherent to the architecture | Dr. Angelo Dalli, CEO of UMNAI
13:00 – 13:30

Europe’s Languages and Artificial Intelligence – European Language Grid and European Language Equality | Georg Rehm, Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI GMbH(DFKI)
13:30 – 14:00

Scaling machine learning: design for speed, efficiency and innovation | Monika Venčkauskaitė, MLOps Engineer at Vinted
14:00 – 14:30

The Swedish AI Governance – a model of Trust | Mats Snäll, Chief Digital Officer at Lantmäteriet (Swedish Land Registry)
14:30 – 15:30

AI at the service of Media, Society and Democracy | Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Research Director at CERTH-ITI
15:30 – 16:30

Trends and opportunities on combining AI and Brain-Machine Interfacing | Dr. Ricardo Chavarriaga, Head, CLAIRE Office Zürich and Research Associate at Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)

18 Nov2021

Stage 1

GMT+2

09:30 – 09:45

Opening of the conference | moderator Šarūnė Smalakytė
09:45 – 10:20

Can public sector and startups work together to build an AI-enabled government? | Arūnė Matelytė, Manager of GovTech Lab Lithuania
10:20 – 11:00

How to make Artificial Intelligence safe, ethical and productive for a positive human impact | Nancy Nemes, General Manager Nemes Ventures Founder #humanAIze Author of The Proust QuestionnAIre
11:00 – 12:00

There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Luc Julia, Co-creator of the Apple Voice Assistant, SIRI and Scientific Director at Renault
12:00 – 12:30

AI Governance: Global perspectives and examples | Jayant Narayan, Project Lead, World Economic Forum
12:30 – 13:00

AI cases in France | Henri Verdier, French Ambassador for Digital Affairs
13:00 – 13:30

Why European Cooperation is necessary for establishing the real European AI ecosystem | Daniel Abbou, Managing Director at German AI Association
13:30 – 14:00

Developing Responsible AI with Government | Tom Westgarth, AI Policy Consultant at Oxford Insights
14:00 – 14:30

Adopting responsible AI in practice | Ashley Casovan, Executive Director at Responsible AI Institute
14:30 – 15:00

Sustainable AI – on the governance of a biased society | Stefan Larsson, Senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University
15:00 – 15:30

The European Approach to AI Regulation: EU Artificial Intelligence Act. | Dr. Paulius Astromskis, Managing Partner at EXE.Legal and Lawcalizer
15:30 – 16:00

EU higher education offer in AI | Montserrat López Cobo, Project Officer at Digital Economy Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre
16:00 – 16:30

Fireside chat: Smart cities, happy citizens: Public Sector Digitization | John Marx, Toma Vevelstad
16:30 – 17:00

Most common myths about AI | Ken Cassar, COO of UMNAI
17:00 – 17:30

AI & education within public sector | Claudio Feijoo, Professor at the Technical University of Madrid
17:30 – 18:00

The future of AI’s impact on society | Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson, Professor at Reykjavik University

Stage 2

GMT+2

12:00 – 12:30

AI in Industry 4.0 | Roberts Kadikis, Head of Robotics and Machine Perception laboratory
12:30 – 13:00

Machine learning on the edge | prof. habil. dr. Antanas Čenys, Information Systems Department Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
13:00 – 13:30

Interpretable prediction of protein binding sites with geometric deep learning | Jérôme Tubiana, Postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University
14:00 – 14:30

Artificial intelligence able to cross barriers between languages: is it the salvation for smaller ones | Dr. Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Researcher at Tilde, Professor at Vytautas Magnus University.
14:30 – 15:00

A data-driven information hub for sustainable urban mobility | Sadok Ben Yahia, Professor of Data Science, Tallinn University of Technology
15:00 – 15:30

Real-world use cases for conversational AI | Linas Aidokas, Project Chief Specialist of LIEPA-2 project. Programmer of SoftBank Robotics NAO and Pepper robots
15:30 – 16:00

AI based digital monitoring for cultural heritage | Dr. Tadas Žižiūnas, Researcher at Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication
16:00 – 16:05

Startups that solve the real problems. Opening of the stage | Andrius Milinavičius, Founder at Baltic Sandbox
16:05 – 16:20

The world of AI and why should we be excited by the solutions startups create | Gediminas Galkauskas, Business Growth Strategist at Hungry Scout
16:20 – 16:35

AI is available today. Why don’t you use it? | Antanas Bernatonis, Head of business development at Fintech startup Montonio Finance, Author at GenZ.lt
16:35 – 16:40

Case studies | Andrius Milinavičius
16:40 – 16:50

Case #1 – AI in BIOTECH | Monika Paulė, CEO at CasZyme
16:50 – 17:00

Case #2 – AI in RETAIL | Žygintas Šitkauskas, Product development manager at Agmis
17:00 – 17:10

Case #3 – AI as a service – natural language processing | Vytenis Pakėnas, CEO at isLucid
17:10 – 17:20

Case #4 – AI in TRAVEL | Edmundas Balčikonis. Co-Founder and CEO at Eddy Travels
17:20 – 18:00

Panel discussion: Challenges of building an AI solution | Monika Paulė, CEO at CasZyme | Edmundas Balčikonis, Founder at EddyTravels | Žygintas Šitkauskas, Product development manager at Agmis | Vytenis Pakėnas, CEO at isLucid | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius
18:00 – 18:20

Fireside chat: How to attract investment | Mindaugas Bružas, CEO & Co-Founder at Oxus.AI | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius
18:20 – 19:00

Panel discussion: Can we attract investment for something like AI? Bullshit bingo VS real opportunities | Mindaugas Bružas, CEO & Co-Founder at Oxus.AI | Arvydas Bložė, investment director at Practica Capital | Kasparas Jurgelionis, Founder/CTO at Genus AI | Inga Langaitė, CEO at Unicorns LT | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius
19:00 – 19:20

What AI startups have to know about privacy and data procesing | Aurelija Rutkauskaitė TRINITI JUREX Partner, Patent Attorney, Head of Data Protection Practice Group
19:20 – 19:40

Fireside chat: If we do a lot of interesting stuff, so why don’t we speak about it | Martynas Rusteika, PR professional | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius

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Stage 1

Opening of the conference | moderator Andrius Milinavičius

Opening speech | Ms. Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania

Opening speech | Ms. Aušrinė Armonaitė, Minister of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania

Ecosystem of AI in Lithuania | Dovydas Čeilutka, President at Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania

Modern Artificial Intelligence 1980s-2021 and Beyond | Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director & Professor at The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA – USI & SUPSI, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at NNAISENSE

Will robots take my job? | Toma Vevelstad, Country manager for Baltics and Scandinavia at Office Samurai

How has recruitment changed with the help of AI? Digital headhunting practices that work. | Diana Blažaitienė, CEO of Soprana Personnel International

Why and how should business leaders care about ethics in AI | Ignas Valančius, CBDS Service Line Leader CICs Europe, CPT Practice Lead – CIC Baltic Global Business Services, IBM

Creating a common approach for responsible AI development and deployment | Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, Rule of Law, Responsible Tech & Competition Affairs, Europe, Microsoft

The importance and practice of Designing for Values in AI | Dr. Stefan Buijsman, Researcher AiTech at Technische Universiteit Delft

The work generated by AI is not protected. Or is it? | Vilija Viešūnaitė, TRINITI JUREX Managing Partner in Lithuania, Head of Intellectual Property Practice Group

Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How Companies Can Benefit From It? | Eglė Čiuoderienė, Business Development Executive at Baltic Amadeus

What are the latest AI trends for different industries? | Maksims Naumovs, Data & Artificial Intelligence Lead at Accenture Baltics

AI for security and protection of critical infrastructure | Jelena Levak, Head of EU Projects at RiniGARD Ltd, Garik Markarian, Emeritus Professor Lancaster University, Damir Osterman, Head of Process and Technology Development, Croatian Ministry of the Interior

The future of wine retail: how algorithms can make it local | Alex Kashkarov, CEO and co-founder of Airate, a wine-tech startup.

Choosing your next spot: How can AI transform businesses location decision making? | Saulė Gabrielė Petraitytė, Co-founder & CEO of Datahood

AI for media business: countering disinformation | Viktoras Daukšas, Head of Debunk EU initiative

Practical Implementation of AI in Manufacturing | Dalius Mašalas, CTO and Co-Founder of UAB „Artificial Intelligence for Industry”

E-Commerce future is AI | Viktoras Jucikas, Founder/CTO at Genus AI

Stage 2

Startup superpowers: Next generation web apps with TensorFlow.js | Jason Mayes, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google.

Recent Machine Learning tasks for high-dimensional data | Aristidis G. Vrahatis, Dipl-Ing, M.Sc, PhD Hellenic Open

AI architecture with functional Causality inherent to the architecture | Dr. Angelo Dalli, CEO of UMNAI

Europe’s Languages and Artificial Intelligence – European Language Grid and European Language Equality | Georg Rehm, Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI GMbH(DFKI)

Scaling machine learning: design for speed, efficiency and innovation | Monika Venčkauskaitė, MLOps Engineer at Vinted

The Swedish AI Governance – a model of Trust | Mats Snäll, Chief Digital Officer at Lantmäteriet (Swedish Land Registry)

AI at the service of Media, Society and Democracy | Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Research Director at CERTH-ITI

Trends and opportunities on combining AI and Brain-Machine Interfacing | Dr. Ricardo Chavarriaga, Head, CLAIRE Office Zürich and Research Associate at Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)

Stage 1

Opening of the conference | moderator Šarūnė Smalakytė

Can public sector and startups work together to build an AI-enabled government? | Arūnė Matelytė, Manager of GovTech Lab Lithuania

How to make Artificial Intelligence safe, ethical and productive for a positive human impact | Nancy Nemes, General Manager Nemes Ventures Founder #humanAIze Author of The Proust QuestionnAIre

There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Luc Julia, Co-creator of the Apple Voice Assistant, SIRI and Scientific Director at Renault

AI Governance: Global perspectives and examples | Jayant Narayan, Project Lead, World Economic Forum

AI cases in France | Henri Verdier, French Ambassador for Digital Affairs

Why European Cooperation is necessary for establishing the real European AI ecosystem | Daniel Abbou, Managing Director at German AI Association

Developing Responsible AI with Government | Tom Westgarth, AI Policy Consultant at Oxford Insights

Adopting responsible AI in practice | Ashley Casovan, Executive Director at Responsible AI Institute

Sustainable AI – on the governance of a biased society | Stefan Larsson, Senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University

The European Approach to AI Regulation: EU Artificial Intelligence Act. | Dr. Paulius Astromskis, Managing Partner at EXE.Legal and Lawcalizer

EU higher education offer in AI | Montserrat López Cobo, Project Officer at Digital Economy Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre

Fireside chat: Smart cities, happy citizens: Public Sector Digitization | John Marx, Toma Vevelstad

Most common myths about AI | Ken Cassar, COO of UMNAI

AI & education within public sector | Claudio Feijoo, Professor at the Technical University of Madrid

The future of AI’s impact on society | Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson, Professor at Reykjavik University

Stage 2

AI in Industry 4.0 | Roberts Kadikis, Head of Robotics and Machine Perception laboratory

Machine learning on the edge | prof. habil. dr. Antanas Čenys, Information Systems Department Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Interpretable prediction of protein binding sites with geometric deep learning | Jérôme Tubiana, Postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University

Artificial intelligence able to cross barriers between languages: is it the salvation for smaller ones | Dr. Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Researcher at Tilde, Professor at Vytautas Magnus University.

A data-driven information hub for sustainable urban mobility | Sadok Ben Yahia, Professor of Data Science, Tallinn University of Technology

Real-world use cases for conversational AI | Linas Aidokas, Project Chief Specialist of LIEPA-2 project. Programmer of SoftBank Robotics NAO and Pepper robots

AI based digital monitoring for cultural heritage | Dr. Tadas Žižiūnas, Researcher at Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication

Startups that solve the real problems. Opening of the stage | Andrius Milinavičius, Founder at Baltic Sandbox

The world of AI and why should we be excited by the solutions startups create | Gediminas Galkauskas, Business Growth Strategist at Hungry Scout

AI is available today. Why don’t you use it? | Antanas Bernatonis, Head of business development at Fintech startup Montonio Finance, Author at GenZ.lt

Case studies | Andrius Milinavičius

Case #1 – AI in BIOTECH | Monika Paulė, CEO at CasZyme

Case #2 – AI in RETAIL | Žygintas Šitkauskas, Product development manager at Agmis

Case #3 – AI as a service – natural language processing | Vytenis Pakėnas, CEO at isLucid

Case #4 – AI in TRAVEL | Edmundas Balčikonis. Co-Founder and CEO at Eddy Travels

Panel discussion: Challenges of building an AI solution | Monika Paulė, CEO at CasZyme | Edmundas Balčikonis, Founder at EddyTravels | Žygintas Šitkauskas, Product development manager at Agmis | Vytenis Pakėnas, CEO at isLucid | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius

Fireside chat: How to attract investment | Mindaugas Bružas, CEO & Co-Founder at Oxus.AI | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius

What AI startups have to know about privacy and data procesing | Aurelija Rutkauskaitė TRINITI JUREX Partner, Patent Attorney, Head of Data Protection Practice Group

Fireside chat: If we do a lot of interesting stuff, so why don’t we speak about it | Martynas Rusteika, PR professional | moderator – Andrius Milinavičius