Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup

The November instalment of the North East Data Meet-up will look at Natural Language, highlighting two examples of the fantastic organisations working in Scotland and the North East.

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!
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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[masked] and led the Alexa Prize Heriot-Watt team in 2017.
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Talk 2 - details to follow

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