Enabling AI @ Exeter: Symposium and Showcase
Enabling AI @ Exeter: Symposium and Showcase
Dates: 19th–20th March 2025
Locations: Streatham & Online
Join us for a two-day event exploring the latest advancements in AI, bringing together researchers, students, and industry professionals. Expect insightful discussions, hands-on workshops, and opportunities to shape the future of AI at Exeter.
🔹 What to Expect:
- Expert Talks – Insights from leading AI researchers
- Interactive Workshops – Hands-on sessions exploring AI advancements
- Networking Opportunities – Connect with peers and industry experts
- Shaping the Future of AI at Exeter – Share your feedback on the university’s AI strategy
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Provisional Schedule: 19th March
Welcome to Enabling AI @ Exeter: Symposium and Showcase
Speakers: Heather Haseley & Chris Frost
Time: 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Location: Harrison 103 Lecture Theatre (Online Zoom link) Password: Passcode:071862
Keynote Speaker
Speaker: Professor Alan Brown
Time: 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Location: Harrison 103 Lecture Theatre (Online Zoom link) Passcode:071862
Department Lightning Talks
Learn about AI – its role in research, education, and university operations
Time: 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Harrison 103 Lecture Theatre (Online Zoom link) Passcode:071862
Design the Future of the University's AI Strategy
Session lead: Heather Haseley
Time: 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Peter Chalk: Purple Lecture Theatre (Online Zoom link) Passcode:329455
Introducing the New Expo Lab 1 Space: Welcome and Launch
Speaker: Toby Vaugh Kidd
Time: 12:45 PM – 1 PM
Location: Expo Lab 1 (Online Zoom link) Passcode:339035
Break / Networking
Time: 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Expo Lab 1
Panel Discussion
Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Peter Chalk: Purple Lecture Theatre (Online Zoom link) Passcode:215352
Tech Play – Experimentation and Innovation Team
Time: 3 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Expo Lab 1
Networking Session
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Expo Lab 1
AI & The Creative Industries: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future
Speakers: Dom Jinks (Head of Creative Industries – Exeter Innovation) and Alice Foulkes (Business Development Officer, Creative Industries & Economy – Exeter Innovation)
Topic: Explore the impact of AI on the Creative Industries. They will showcase cutting-edge AI projects and initiatives from University of Exeter academics and discuss the upcoming AI & Creative Industries Festival (June 2025). Expect insights into AI and heritage archives, publishing, content creation, issues of bias, and emerging industry challenges—and how AI is shaping the future of creative work.
Time: 10am – 10.30am
Location: Seminar Room 05 /Forum (Online Zoom link) Passcode:325686
Un-natural Language Processing: Creativity, Conventionality and ChatGPT
Speakers: Tom Pickard, Aline Villavicencio & Maggie Mi
Topic: To err is human, but many of the errors made by contemporary AI models feel distinctly inhuman. Join us to explore how these models' processing of language differs from ours, and consider whether that matters.
Time: 10.45am - 11.15am
Location: LT2 /IAIS Building (Online Zoom link) Passcode:430818
Project Bluebird: AI for Air Traffic Control
Speaker: Professor Richard Everson
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Expo Lab 1
ADD-TREES
Project:
‘Project: ADD-TREES – AI-elevated Decision-support via Digital Twins for Restoring and Enhancing Ecosystem Services
ADD-TREES is a pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) research project providing innovative technologies that will aid crucial decisions about land use change. By developing user-bespoke digital twins and co-create decision support tools directly with and for policy makers and large landholders, ADD-TREES has a focus on initiatives to create new woodlands and forests. It aims to feed directly into the UK Government Environment Act 2021 target of planting half a million hectares of new trees to increase carbon capture and other greenhouse gases as part of the UK’s strategy to achieve Net Zero by 2050’.
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Speaker: Professor Danny Williamson
Time: 11.45am - 12.30pm
Location: Seminar Room 1 – 2, The Forum (Online) Passcode:576135
Innovation Pitch
Meeting Chair: Kerry Deacon
- Speaker 1: Ceri Howells & Students
- Speaker 2: Dr Karen Scott & Andrew Schapp
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: Expo Lab 1, Forum (Online link available on request)
Speaker Session
Speaker: Dan Isaac
Topic: Garbage In, Garbage Out – The Importance of Data Literacy in Utilising AI
Time: 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Newman Red Lecture Theatre (Peter Chalk)
AI, Careers and Employability: Supporting students and graduates in the age of AI
Workshop led by: Simon Allington, Oliver Laity, Leanne Bisatt and Lee Wylie.
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: Newman Collaborative Lecture Theatre