16th<\/sup> October 2018, 3pm -4.30pm,\u00a0Ambient Lab, Ground Floor, Jennie Lee Building<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n OpenTEL is pleased to announce that Dr Marily Nika-Yocke, from Google and Alec Boere, from the Open University\u2019s Information Technology will be presenting at the next openAIED interest Group.<\/p>\n Dr Marily Nika-Yocke : <\/em><\/strong>Presentation Title: \u201cBeyond Sci-Fi\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Marily Nika-Yocke, is working with Data for Google\u2019s AI (Speech) team while also being an entrepreneur, developing her own an EdTech app. In the past, she’s worked at Facebook, London as a Vertical Insights Analyst PhD intern. Marily completed a PhD in 2 years, in Predictive Analytics (video virality) from the Department of Computing Science at Imperial College London. She was the first Greek woman to receive Google’s Anita Borg Scholarship. Marily has given 3 TEDx talks up to date, she has written various articles (some of which for the Telegraph, Tech City News and TechCrunch). Marily received the WISE Influence Award 2015 and a medal from Imperial College London for her work as a women in tech global ambassador. She created the London Geekettes Chapter and is actively involved in advocating women in tech. She has mentored up to 300 women up to date and she organized the UK’s first female-only hackathon at Facebook London in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n Alec Boere<\/em><\/strong>: Presentation Title: Test & Learn at the OU<\/p>\n Alec Boere, is a design lead within the Digital Technologies team at The OU. <\/em><\/p>\n Having spent over 15 years in the digital space and his successes including the launch of the UK\u2019s first mobile banking app at scale to the delivery of connected car propositions. More recently his focus has been on narrow AI solutions for big and small organisations.<\/p>\n Alec\u2019s team have been experimenting at the OU with a number of AI POC\u2019s. From to Chat bot\u2019s, Prediction models through to RPA. I will share the challenges and also our learnings thus far on our AI journey with various aspects of professional services at The OU.<\/p>\n