Kieran Fraser, a member of the EmPushy team, discusses their project that seeks to humanise push notifications using AI and user-imputed data. The software seeks to make push notifications a much less intrusive part of the user experience, making them more helpful to those receiving them and more useful for those sending them out.

CaliberAI, led by the father son duo Conor and Neil Brady, have come up with an AI solution to improve the quality and standard of public discourse across traditional and online media. The platform, which is based on machine learning, can pick up potentially defamatory text and flag it for human review - almost like a spell check for libel.

Vladimir Krylov, a member of the AIMapIT research team, discusses their development of an AI system for discovery, detection and GPS mapping of stationary street assets. This breakthrough will decrease the amount of personnel hours required for these jobs and will also remove any human error that may occur.

Nicole Baker, co-founder of Biologit, talks on their development of an AI system that collects pharmacovigilance data into one database. This development in streamlining the collection of this data will decrease the amount of personnel hours spent on just filtering out the unimportant, and as such decrease the time between an issue being flagged and it being rectified.

Conor McNally, ADAPT’s Business and Startup Development Manager, discusses how startups can benefit from collaboration with academic researchers. He also discusses his own journey and experiences that enable him to run this programme and advise budding companies.

This is the first episode of Series 2, which will highlight the various startup projects that are being developed with ADAPT support.

Professor Vinny Wade, ADAPT's Director and Chair of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, discusses how technology is developing so quickly that the user may be left behind in the process. For the launch of the new Human+ initiative, Vinny speaks about the need for industry and academia to collaborate across disciplines to develop solutions with the human user at the fore. https://humanplus.ie/

The launch event was in partnership with the Trinity Long Room as part of their Behind the Headlines discussion series. The full audio of the panel discussion can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/tlrhub/behind-the-headlines-humantechnology-beyond-covid-19

Soumya Dev gives us insight into how the future of video ads might work on a technical level. Disruptive ads are not a great experience, so product placement within the videos themselves is what is in store for the future. Using machine learning and computer vision to optimise and automate placement of ad space like billboards into videos is where Soumya's research is focused. The slides to go along with his presentation can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1agJMxcKvmstAFa1xtRDtKDmziB87kNVZ/view?usp=sharing

Teresa Lynn explores some of the Irish Language technology various teams at ADAPT are working on to help promote this minority language online and prevent digital extinction. Her slides to accompany the talk can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIGyPybmWl1iJB3e-1Lfi1QpWhjPw4Dn/view?usp=sharing

Harsh Pandit gives a high level talk about his PhD research revolving around ensuring technology is used for social good. He covers current issues that have arisen with regard to privacy, ethics and online security. Slides to accompany the talk can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wi-uMuicaZrVLnlhe4FGr9qA8v_mCXsJ/view?usp=sharing

Emer Gilmartin discusses how human conversations, especially transitions between multiple speakers, can be tagged and analysed for use with voice assistant technology. Slides to accompany her talk can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15RxC6aW23mmk8XxTLTL-6QgutpD7XuOR/view?usp=sharing