Lands of Milk and Honey

Innovation in AI: An update from Israel and New Zealand (An online discussion about the latest AI tech)


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Israel is considered a strong player in the field of AI, with a thriving startup scene and many R&D institutions.

In New Zealand, industry usage and investment in AI applications is growing rapidly.

Researchers from these countries are making significant contributions to the advancement of AI in areas such as computer vision, agritech and biotechnology. In this online round-table discussion, six experts will talk about the latest cutting edge AI tech in these fields. Featuring:

Tamir Tuller - Professor @ Tel Aviv Uni

Dan Erez - Computer Vision Expert @ Taranis

Tal Fialkow - Chief Technology Officer @ Bold

Patrice Delmas - Associate Professor @ Auckland Uni

Mark Billinghurst - Professor @ Auckland Uni

Alex Gavryushkin - Associate Professor @ Canterbury Uni

MC: Izak Tait - Manager @ NAO Institute

This discussion was co-hosted by the New Zealand Israel Innovation Hub and the NAO Institute of Auckland University. The NAO Institute stands for the Natural, Artificial, and Organisation Intelligence Institute. These three facets represent the broad field of intelligence research, from biology and psychology, to sociology and business, to artificial intelligence and machine learning. NAOI covers anything and everything that can think, and we aim to understand all of it. It isa transdisciplinary research centre with affiliated members from a broad diversity of backgrounds, cultures, career stages, research interests, genders and ages; and they all seek to explore the same thing: how do individuals, organisations and machines think; why do they think; and by understanding this, how can we improve the world’s wellbeing?

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This episode was sponsored by SmartHead.

SmartHead is a relatively small “family-style” company of 30 full-time product-minded professionals with HQ in San Francisco. They have almost 16 years of digital product development experience in various domains, including legal tech, robotics, medtech, healthcare, biotech, b2c SaaS, business process automation, martech, and more. The company prides themselves on our holistic product-oriented approach that enables them to implement complex digital projects from raw ideas to cloud scaling with agile cross-functional teams. Their teams have helped Silicon Valley startups like String, and large international corporations like Ancestry and Veeam accelerate the delivery of their products.

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Lands of Milk and HoneyBy New Zealand Israel Innovation Hub