AI Innovation Lab
1.14.25 -- 1.16.25
Join us for an immersive day of FinTech Programming!
Programming
Explore AI Innovation Lab Immersive Week : Dive into industry trends, join workshops, panels, and meet startups at our Innovation Labs. Experience a week of innovation and collaboration!
Immersive Weeks
Week 1
4.01.24 - 4.04.24 [Virtual]
Week 2
4.29.24 - 5.03.24 [In-person]
Week 3
5.27.24 - 5.31.24 [Virtual]
Week 4
6.24.24 - 6.28.24 [In-person]
AI Innovation Summit
6.27.24 [Hybrid]
Join us for our capstone-like event, where you’ll have the opportunity to network, meet the 2024 Lab cohort, and explore AI through curated programming.
Our Innovation Labs Connects
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AI Innovation Lab programming
Explore AI Innovation Lab Immersive Weeks: Dive into industry trends, join workshops, panels, and meet startups at our Innovation Labs. Experience a week of innovation and collaboration!
Immersive Week 3
2024 Lab Focus Area
• Efficient & Scalable Data Infrastructure
• Efficient & Scalable AI Infrastructure
• MLOps & ML Workflow
• AI Governance & Compliance
• Grounded & Trustworthy AI
• Multimodal & Generative AI
“AI is a field that is moving very quickly, it’s complicated, there’s a lot going on, there’s different sub areas”
EIR Alex Castrounis, Founder & CEO of Why of AI, discusses the AI Innovation Lab.
Built with industry experts
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“There is a lot of buzz right now around AI for good reason. It’s rapidly advancing and being applied in very impactful ways in the real world, and it has huge transformative & disruptive potential.”
Alex Castrounis, Founder & CEO
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Alex Castrounis, Founder & CEO @ Why of AI
Execution partners
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Anchor partners
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General partners
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Why AI?
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“This is the third innovation lab. Like any lab, the goal is to bring together startups, corporations, investors, etc., to collectively solve the biggest challenges in an industry or an emerging technology. The AI Innovation Lab focuses on how AI can be applied to solve various problems within other industries as well as what the future of AI holds.”
Rachel Feuerborn, CPO @ 1871
Lab timeline
Programming
Week 1
4.01.24 - 4.04.24 [Virtual]
Week 2
4.29.24 - 5.03.24 [In-person]
Week 3
5.27.24 - 5.31.24 [Virtual]
Week 4
6.24.24 - 6.28.24 [In-person]
AI Innovation Summit
6.27.24 [Hybrid]
Join us for our capstone-like event, where you’ll have the opportunity to network, meet the 2024 Lab cohort, and explore AI through curated programming.
Supported by
Anchor partner
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“At Discover, we strive to be the leading Digital Bank and Payments Network with a focus on Customer interactions as our #1 priority. AI helps drive insights from patterns of Customer needs in a faster, more accurate, and timely manner.”
Keith Toney, EVP / Chief Data & Analytics Officer @ Discover
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“At McKinsey, we accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. We partner with bold leaders to unlock innovation, transform through digital and AI, and develop the skills and capabilities across their organization to identify a strategy that reshapes our collective future.”
Satya Rao, Partner @ McKinsey & Company
General partner
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