Call for Participation: AI LA Life Summit 2020
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AI LA Life Summit 2020
October 13-15, 2020 (Virtual)
https://lifesummit.la
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*** REGISTRATION ***
https://hopin.to/events/life-summit-2020
* $5 student tickets
* $25 industry tickets
*** OVERVIEW ***
Whether you are science-focused or science-curious, AI LA’s three-day
summit will inspire and interconnect you through scientific storytelling.
Learn from academic and industry researchers at the core of today’s
innovations, especially if you are interested in pursuing a career at the
intersection of biotechnology and healthcare. The Life Summit is a forum
for coming together as a community, a platform for exchanging ideas, and a
catalyst for the scientists of the next generation.
*** SCHEDULE ***
(All times in Pacific Time, UTC-7)
DAY 1: REFLECT (Tue, Oct 13)
* 8:00am - Keynote by Claire Bonaci, Microsoft Sr. Director, US Health &
Life Sciences
* 8:15am - Hackers without Borders
* 9:15am - The Global Pivot
* 10:15am - Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Delivery of Behavioral
Health
* 11:00am - Networking
* 12:00pm - Break
* 4:00pm - Keynote by Amanda Daflos , Chief Innovation Officer of City of
Los Angeles
* 4:15pm - LA's COVID-19 Response
* 5:15pm - Equity in Telehealth
* 6:00pm - Health Systems Stressed
* 7:00pm - Networking
DAY 2: RECENTER (Wed, Oct 14)
* 8:00am - Keynote by George Tolomiczenko, Director of Medical Innovations
at UC Irvine
* 8:15am - Temporal Scene Understanding in Robot-assisted Surgery Using
Deep Learning
* 8:30am - Deep learning-enabled cellular image analysis at scale
* 8:45am - Physics-Guided Deep Learning for COVID-19 Forecasting
* 9:00am - Using Reinforcement Learning to Imitate Drug Discovery Experts
and Accelerate Discovery
* 9:15am - Better Storytelling Through Data: Lessons from the Frontlines
and Backends of a Pandemic
* 10:00am - Investor Roundtable
* 11:00am - Networking
* 12:00pm - Break
* 4:00pm - Welcome
* 4:15pm - AI Applications in Ophthalmology
* 4:30pm - The Entrepreneurial Scientist
* 5:15pm - AI Talk (UCLA)
* 5:30pm - AI Talk (USC)
* 5:45pm - Developing tools for collaborating around 3D+ biomedical imaging
data
* 6:00pm - AI in Healthcare
* 7:00pm - Networking
DAY 3: REIMAGINE (Thu, Oct 15)
* 8:00am - Keynote by Stephanie Hsieh, Executive Director at Biocom LA
* 8:15am - Reimagining Cancer Treatment
* 9:15am - Reimagining R&D in Labs
* 10:00am - Quantified Self & AI
* 11:00am - Networking
* 12:00pm - Break
* 4:00pm - Keynote by Vivienne Ming, Professional Mad Scientist
* 4:15pm - The Future of Synthetic Biology
* 5:15pm - Living Robots
* 6:05pm - Sustainable Living Systems
* 7:00pm - Networking
*** CONTACT ***
For more information, contact the AI LA Executive Board:
* Todd Terrazas, AI LA (todd(a)joinai.la)
* Dr. Ross Mead, Semio (ross(a)semio.ai)
*** ABOUT ***
AI LA is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a
mission to catalyze innovation through education, conversation, and
collaboration. Since 2016, we have facilitated community events related to
AI and its applications to education, environmental sustainability,
healthcare, life sciences, the ethical and fair use of technology, and
more! Learn more at https://joinai.la!
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Ross Mead, PhD
Founder and CEO
ross(a)semio.ai
+1 (618) 696-2600
<https://semio.ai>
Dear Colleague,
Hope and pray that you stay safe in this COVID-19 situation.
International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC-2021)
<https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/>
*Conference Dates: *Feb 25-27, 2021
Hard Deadline: *[October 10, 2020]*
ISIC 2021 will allow remote participation and the organizing committee has
started working toward putting together the technical infrastructure for
both types of presentations (Face-to-face and remote). We understand that
some workplaces are forfeiting the travel allowance, but need not worry as
we make the remote participation available via online platforms. The
registration amount for remote participation will be decreased by 30% in
every category.
You are hereby invited to submit full-length papers as the deadline of
October 10, 2020, is approaching. The topics majorly include "Artificial
Intelligence", "Machine Learning", and "Semantic Computing", but not
limited to these. ISIC 2021 accepts submissions of all the three types
- the comprehensive overview of the topic,
- the review/survey of the topic, or
- the research results/findings.
*Star features of the conference:*Though it is its first edition, ISIC 2021
has attracted already
- 4 top-shot researchers as advisory
- 6 keynotes/invited talks
- 2 tutorials
- 11 special sessions with 31 chairs
- Springer to publish the ISIC 2021 proceedings in the Communications in
Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, which is indexed in major
indices
- 11 special issues in journals (indexed in major indices) from 8
publishers for extended papers of ISIC 2021
- 21 members being chairs in main conference organization (coming from all
around the world)
- 200 Program Committee Members from various countries all around the world
- high geographic diversity with members from 40 different countries
- high gender diversity with 32% women
The conference aims to establish itself as one of the best venues to
publish the research findings with a publishing possibility in journals
with major indices.
Publication: Conference proceedings will be published by **CCIS Springer
(Scopus Indexed) and available online. Few selected outstanding papers will
be invited to submit the extended work in *Scopus / Web of Science (WoS)
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indexed journals.
*Submission link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isic2021
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*Important Dates:*
Last date of Paper Submission: *[October 10, 2020]*
Notification of acceptance: *[November 10, 2020]*
Camera-ready submission of accepted papers: *[December 10, 2020]*
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at <
jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in>
Best Regards
*On behalf of the Conference Committee*
Dr. Sarika Jain
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/home
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Consider contributing to the
International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021
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Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021
