Whats your Natural Language? - North East Data Meetup, November 2020

The November instalment of the North East Data Meet-up is here. Looking at Natural Language and highlighting two examples of the fantastic organisations working right here in Scotland and the North East!

Look out for speakers to be announced shortly!!

AGENDA -

6pm. Virtual Networking In the form of Break-out Rooms from 6pm.

6:15 Until 6:45pm. Speakers.

6:45pm. Open Q&A + Discussion

Zoom Link will be made available to those who RSVP, password will be sent out 24hours prior to the event. Look out for the Email!

Talk 1 - Ioannis Papaioannou

Ioannis is the CTO and co-founder of Alana AI and holds a post-graduate degree in conversational AI while finishing his PhD, specialising in open-domain, coherent and engaging multi-turn dialogue policies, and Human-Robot Interaction. He has a wealth of experience across the tech industry, having designed and successfully deployed several large-scale projects, as well as being part of several Conversational AI research projects. Ioannis was one of the main developers of Alana during the Amazon Alexa Prize Competition 2017-2018 and led the Alexa Prize Heriot-Watt team in 2017.

Talk 2 -

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Co-hosted by The Data Lab Scotland, Scotland IS and Opportunity North East

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