SciFY – Science For You

October 4th-6th 2017, 15:00-18:30
NCSR “Demokritos” Neapoleos 27, 153 41, Ag. Paraskevi (map)

How can I utilize Artificial Intelligence to:
- Serve my customers better and at a lower cost?
- Μake better decisions faster?
- Understand my target group better?
- Get real results?
Should I be afraid that Artificial Intelligence applications will take my job?
What mistakes should I avoid and how?

At the same time, entrepreneurs will talk to us about real use cases in which AI has led them to success.

Every day, Artificial Intelligence (AI) changes the way we work, search for information, offer services, shop…

Research by Gartner presents “Artificial Intelligence Everywhere” as one of the 3 “dominant mega-trends” in technology. Terms like Chatbots and Machine/Deep Learning are heard more and more often. But what is hype, and what can bring practical results?

In this 3-day seminar, Artificial Intelligence scientists from leading research institutions in the country who collaborate with companies will analyze practical issues such as:

What are Intelligent Systems, and how can we utilize them in a Business Setting?
How can we analyze Business Data and Big Data?
How can we do Brand Monitoring and Sentiment Analysis?

Who is it addressed to?
The seminar does not require high technical training in the field of IT since it is addressed to all executives who want to utilize the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence.

The content will especially help young entrepreneurs, NGO executives, and people preparing to enter the job market.

How will the attendees be helped?

Applied Intelligent Systems

Upon completion of the seminar, you will be able to:

describe what an intelligent system is and its operating principles (chatbot, artificial intelligence personal assistant, intelligent interface, automatic recommendation engine, etc.)
describe how different intelligent systems can contribute overall to a business/an organization (customer support, knowledge management, document management, bio-medical applications, decision support, business intelligence)
list types of intelligence in computing systems and their usefulness in existing environments (mobile devices, industry, e-marketing, high-speed trading)
understand and apply performance metrics for intelligent systems
identify risks related to the implementation of intelligent systems

Applied Data Analysis

Upon the seminar’s completion, you will be able to:

locate useful business data
understand data analysis techniques
state ways to utilize big, open, and interconnected data in business data analysis
list data analysis tools
identify common mistakes in data analysis
list text analysis tools
list visualization tools

Brand Monitoring & Sentiment Analysis

Upon the seminar’s completion, you will be able to:

list data sources for brand monitoring
understand the basic approaches of sentiment analysis
describe the key capabilities and features of brand monitoring tools
describe uses of sentiment analysis tools in the boxes
monitoring campaigns
monitoring branding
list sentiment analysis solutions
recognize challenges and pitfalls in sentiment analysis and its use

Indicative Program

1st Day Program

14:30 – 15:00 Sign up

15:00 – 18:00 Applied Intelligent Systems

18:00 – 18:30 Workshop

2nd Day Program

14:30 – 15:00 Attendance

15:00 – 18:00 Applied Data Analysis

18:00 – 18:30 Workshop

3rd Day Program

14:30 – 15:00 Attendance

15:00 – 18:00 Brand Monitoring & Sentiment Analysis

Use Cases Presentation

18:00 – 18:30 Workshop

Speakers

Dr. George Giannakopoulos

Artificial Intelligence Expert
http://users.iit.demokritos.gr/~ggianna/

George Giannakopoulos is a researcher at the Software & KnowledgeEngineering Lab of NCSR Demokritos (skel.iit.demokritos.gr) and Technical Director at the Urban Non-Profit Company SciFY. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and specializes in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. He has worked on several EU-funded projects, such as SYNC3 (synergetic content creation), OKKAM (unique identification of resources), NOMAD (large-scale mining), SemaGrow (distributed semantic querying on open linked data), CLARIN-EL (language resources technology), and YourDataStories (open linked data) in topics such as automatic summarization, large-scale linguistic services and pipelines, distributed semantic query processing, knowledge extraction, and text analysis. He is also the organizer of the MultiLing community, where, through workshops, an effort is made to solve the challenges in the field of multilingual abstract extraction (MultiLing 2011 Pilot, MultiLing 2013 at ACL 2013, MultiLing 2015 Special Session at SIGDIAL 2015).

Prof. Iraklis Varlamis
Assistant Professor at Harokopio University of Athens
https://www.dit.hua.gr/~varlamis/

Ιraklis Varlamis is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University of Athens. He teaches Database and Knowledge Mining courses, and his research focuses on knowledge mining from texts and the World Wide Web, but also on social network behavior analysis and business knowledge creation and management. He has published over 100 articles in international journals and conferences on the above subjects and has participated in dozens of research projects on data management and knowledge mining.

Dr. Georgios Petasis

Founder and CEO at Intellitech PC

http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/

Georgios Petasis‘ research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, automated language resource development, ontology learning, and the development of natural language processing infrastructures/platforms. He is the creator of the natural language processing platform “Ellogon”. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Society for Artificial Intelligence, and the founder of the company “Intellitech”, which specializes in natural language processing. Finally, he has been a judge in international magazines and a member of program committees of international conferences. He is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR Demokritos. He holds a Ph.D. in machine learning for natural language processing from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has worked as a collaborating researcher in more than 15 national and European projects, while the results of his research work have been recorded in more than 50 publications in scientific books, journals, and conference proceedings and have been cited numerous times.

Use Cases
Also, executives from recognized companies (such as IBM, Publicis, Innoetics) will present real use cases and discuss what we need to pay attention to to ensure effectiveness in implementation.