Panel Discussion on Industrial Applications of AI

Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 09:30-13:00

Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are now being used in various practical applications, such as data mining, content management, speech processing, machine vision, search engines, etc. Greek industry involves several companies exploiting AI techniques.

The aim of this panel discussion is to present the current status and plans with respect to the industrial applications of AI techniques, emphasising on the Greek industry. For this purpose, the panel involves representatives from Greek companies as well as experts in specific AI application areas. Among others, with a focus on the Greek industry, the session will:

• discuss the present situation,
• identify significant application areas,
• examine possibilities of collaboration between the industry and the public sector,
• discuss the relation of industry with Universities and Research Institutes,
• discuss issues related to the better exploitation of AI research results.

The session will be organised in two parts, each part involving experts and company representatives in specific application areas (to be announced as soon as the panelists are confirmed). The 2nd part will be followed by a summing up talk by the session chair. The aim is to have a largely interactive session between the panelists and the audience.

Programme

• 9:30 - 9:40, Welcome and introduction.
  Dr Constantine D. Spyropoulos, director of NCSR's Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, deputy chairman of NCSR "Demokritos" - Moderator
• 9:40 - 10:40
  • Dr Christos Tsalidis, founder, owner and general director of Neurolingo
  • Mr Kostas Chandrinos, managing director at i-sieve technologies
  • Mr Aimilios Chalamandaris, managing director at Innoetics
  • Dr Gerasimos Potamianos, expert on speech processing applications Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos"
  • Dr Vasilios Tountopoulos, IT consultant at ATC S.A.
  • Mr Kostis Kaggelides, Gnomon Informatics
• 10:40 - 11:00, Discussion
• 11:00 - 11:30, Coffee break
• 11:30 - 12:30
  • Mr Marc Duruy, Aldebaran Robotics
  • Dr Anna Hondroudaki, special scientific staff at the General Secretariat for Information Systems, Ministry of Finance, Greece
  • Mr Kostas Tsiptsis, author of the book Data Mining Techniques in CRM: Inside Customer Segmentation
  • Ms Ioanna Koutrouvi, SPSS Greece
  • Dr Dimitris Gounopoulos, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Prof. Nikolaos Hatziargyriou, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
  • Prof. Antonis Kokossis, School of Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens
• 12:30 - 12:50, Discussion
• 12:50 - 13:00, Summing up, Dr Constantine D. Spyropoulos