Inaugural Aurora Forum Positions Armenia as Regional Hub for Humanitarian Outreach, Education, Science, Technology, Economic Development, and Cultural Innovation
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October 16 - 18
Global Innovation Forum 2019: Transforming Intelligence
The Global Innovation Forum (GIF) on “Transforming Intelligence” is set to explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on science and society from the scientific, technological, and industrial perspectives. On the premises of GIF19, some of the leading scientists and thought leaders will engage in academic discussions and visionary debates, sharing their expertise and research findings. The GIF19 will be held in an atmosphere of futurism enlivened by an immersive experience. It will act as a platform to bridge academia and industry, assembling the brightest minds and executives from both worlds to shape the future of scientific and technological transformation.
Objectives
•Facilitate new discoveries both globally and locally through the exposure to state-of-the-art research
•Establish beneficial collaboration between international and local scientists industry leaders, investors and policymakers
•Increase the outreach, exposure and impact of participants’ research, technology, and products
Tracks & Sessions
Frontiers of AI
How can AI be leveraged to produce more accurate forecasting and leave exceedingly positive impact on societies?
How far is AI from superhuman level performance in the crucial domains of our life?
Topics
•AI for Forecasting Human Behaviour
•AI in Agent-Based Systems
•AI in Education
•Computer Vision
•Econophysics
•Enabling Technologies and AI
•Natural Language Processing
•Reinforcement Learning
Science & AI
How does AI transform the way we do science?
What promises does AI hold for disruptive discoveries in natural sciences?
Topics
•AI in Astronomy
•AI in Bioinformatics and Omics
•AI in Biomolecular Structure and Function
•AI in Chemistry
•AI in Drug Design
•AI in Materials Discovery
•AI in Medical Diagnosis
•AI in Precision Medicine
Session Types
Visionary Talk
Luminous speech geared toward addressing the role of burgeoning technologies in shaping the future of humanity and beyond.
Duration: 30 min speech followed by 15 min Q&A
Keynote Speech
Presentation delivered by a prominent scientist or technologist with an insight on future developments of the main Forum topics.
Duration: 30 min speech followed by 15 min Q&A.
Deep Insight
Individual deep-diving talks by scientists on their research findings, conclusions and implications for further research.
Duration: 20 min speech followed by 5 min Q&A.
Industry Dialogue
Presentation and moderated panel discussion of industry related topics in the scope of the Forum topics.
Duration: 15 min speech followed by 15 min Q&A with all panelists.
Fishbowl on Smart Earth
Dialogue session with four groups of speakers sitting in a circle and rotating one after another.
Session topics are:
• Smart Globe
• Smart Nations
• Smart Armenia 2041
• Smart Cities
Duration: 90 min.
Session on Reshaping Innovation Ecosystems
The session will consist of two separate panel discussions exploring the process of reshaping innovation ecosystems from the perspectives of 1. Development finance and 2. Venture finance. Each session will last for 45 minutes with 5-6 speakers and one moderator involved in each of them.
- Panel Discussion 1. The role of development finance in reshaping innovation ecosystems
- Panel Discussion 2. The role of venture finance in reshaping innovation ecosystems
GIF Talks
Lectures by top speakers held at the premises of leading universities, high-tech companies & large organizations, with a purpose to ensure a broader outreach of their expertise to various stakeholders.
Workshops
3-hour intensive session, where leading world experts provide training on a practical skill to a targeted group of participants.
On 29-31 October, 2018, the inaugural Global Innovation Forum gathered over 600 participants from 21 countries representing over 300 organizations. Under the umbrella of “Engineering the Evolution” the participants of GIF—cutting-edge researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from around the world—had the opportunity to discuss the latest achievements and emerging technologies from the frontiers of biology to the future of intelligence.
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Global Innovation Forum 2019: Transforming Intelligence
Speakers
Dr. Aram Adourian
Partner, Flagship Pioneering
Noubar B. Afeyan
Co-Founder, Aurora Forum; Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Scientific Innovator; Co-author of the vision, Discussion Paper "At the Crossroads: A Time for Solutions"; Professional Entrepreneur; Philanthropist
Dr. Kirill Afonin
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte)
Dr. Armen Aghasaryan
Head, Data Analytics Research Department, Bell Labs, Nokia
Mr. André Andonian
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co
Dr. Ani Aprahamian
Director, A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory of Armenia; Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Grigor Arakelov
Researcher, Senior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Laboratory of Computational Modelling of Biological Processes, Institute of Molecular Biology NAS RA; Russian-Armenian University
Mr. Hovhannes Avoyan
CEO and Founder, PicsArt
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
CTO & Professor, NTENT & Northeastern University
Prof. Valeri Barsegov
Chemistry Professor, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Danielle Belgrave
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Prof. Nir Ben-Tal
Lab Head, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Bruce Boghosian
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Tufts University
Mr. Wout Brusselaers
CEO, Deep 6 AI
Mr. Arnel Casanova
Country Representative, AECOM Philippines
Dr. Suren Chilingaryan
Data Processing and Performance Expert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Mr. Soumith Chintala
Engineer, PyTorch
Dr. Ryan Coffee
Senior Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford
Prof. Marco Cuturi
Research Scientist, Professor, Google Brain / ENSAE-CREST
Prof. Arnak Dalalyan
Professor, École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE)/Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)
Mr. Rem Darbinyan
Founder, SmartClick
Dr. Nikolay Dokholyan
G. Thomas Passananti Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Penn University
Alfred Eisaian
CEO, IntelinAir
Dr. S. M. Ali Eslami
Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Dr. John Fisher
Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Sergei Gleyzer
Professor, University of Alabama
Mr. Harry Glorikian
General Partner, New Ventures Funds
Mr. Hovakim Grabski
PhD researcher/student, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Institute of Biomedicine and Pharmacy, Russian-Armenian University
Dr. Alex Graves
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Mr. Erik Grigoryan
Minister of Environment, RA Ministry of Environment
Dr. Anna Harutyunyan
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Dr. Irina Higgins
Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind
Dr. Vasant Honavar
Edward Frymoyer Endowed Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Naira Hovakimyan
W.Grafton & Lillian B.Wilkins Professor, Head of Advanced Controls Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Su- Huai Wei
Chair Professor and Head of the Materials and Energy Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Ms. Paula Ingabire
Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda
Dr. Hasmik Keshishian
Group Leader, Senior Research Scientist, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Ms. Anusha Khan
Regional Advisor, East and Asia Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation
Dr. Dima Kozakov
Associate Professor, Stonybrook
Mr. Raffi Krikorian
Managing Director, Emerson Collective
Dr. Alex Lazarian
Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ms. Julie Lenzer
Chief Innovation Officer, University of Maryland
Mr. Marvin Liao
Partner, 500 Startups
Dr. Zorayr Manukyan
Chief Scientific Officer, ClinsStatDevice LLC
Dr. Marios Mattheakis
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard John A
Dr. Philipp Mertins
Group Leader, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Mr. Tigran Mkhoyan
PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Structures and Materials Department, Delft University of Technology
Dr. Iga Muradyan
Instructor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Samuel Myers
Research Scientist, Broad Institute
Prof. Artem Oganov
Professor, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)
Dr. José Onuchic
Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Biosciences, and Co-Director Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) and Department of Physics, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Biosciences Rice University
Dr. Armen Orujyan
Founding CEO, FAST
Prof. Garegin Papoian
Monroe Martin Professor, The University of Maryland at College Park
Dr. Ashot Papoyan
CEO and Co-Founder, Elm Tree Research
Dr. Aalpen Patel
Chair, Department of Radiology, Geisinger Health System
Prof. Luciano Pietronero
Professor, Sapienza University and ISC-CNR, Rome (Italy) and IFC-World Bank, Washington (USA)
Dr. Grigory Sapunov
CTO Intento
Prof. Lev Sarkisov
Professor, Chair of Molecular Thermodynamics, Director of the Discipline for Chemical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
Mr. Asher Siddiqui
Head of Technology Investments, ADFG
Dr. Vahan Simonyan
Professor, Chief Scientist George Washington University, WHISE-Embleema , DNA-HIVE
Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick
Director, Center for the Study of Systems Biology, Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology Professor, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. Dave Thirumalai
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Alexander Tropsha
Associate Dean for Pharmacoinformatics and Data Science, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Namrata Udeshi
Senior Group Leader, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Dr. Michal Valko
Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind
Dr. Wim Van Hecke
CEO, Icometrix
Ruben Vardanyan
Co-Founder, Aurora Forum; Co-author, Discussion Paper “At the Crossroads: A Time for Solutions” Entrepreneur, Impact Investor; Venture Philanthropist
Pekka Viljakainen
Senior Adviser to the President, Skolkovo Foundation
Prof. Martin Wainwright
Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Mr. Leonard Wossnig
CEO, Rahko Ltd.
Prof. Victor Yakovenko
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Dr. David Yang
Founder and Chairman of the Board, ABBYY
Other events on Oct 16 - 18
Stamp Cancellation Ceremony Dedicated to 2018 Aurora Prize Laureate
Kamar Business Center, 2 Vazgen Sargsyan Street, Yerevan 0010, Armenia
The Impact Humanity Television and Film Festival
Moscow Cinema, 18 Abovyan Street, Yerevan 0001, Armenia
Summer School 2019: Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism
The Alexander, a Luxury Collection Hotel, 3-4 Abovyan St, Yerevan (Oct 18), UWC Dilijan, 7 Getapnya St, Dilijan (Oct 19), Tatev Monastery Complex, H45, Tatev (Oct 21)
This is My Story: Aurora Mardiganian and Women Stories that Inspire and Empower the World
Kamar Business Center and Shahumyan Square, 2 Vazgen Sargsyan St, Yerevan, Armenia
European Cultural Parliament Symposium in Dilijan
UWC Dilijan, 7 Getapnya St, Dilijan 3903, Armenia
Aurora Dialogues: Conversation with the 2019 Aurora Humanitarians
Starts 10:00
American University of Armenia, Large Auditorium, Main Building, 40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan 0019, Armenia
UWC Dilijan 5th Anniversary Celebration
UWC Dilijan, 7 Getapnya St, Dilijan 3903, Armenia
Aurora Dialogues: Humanitarianism in Education Conference
UWC Dilijan, 7 Getapnya St, Dilijan 3903, Armenia
Cyrill Demian Association Celebrating 190 years of Accordion: Discussion and Concert
UWC Dilijan, 7 Getapnya St, Dilijan 3903, Armenia
Conference on Issues of Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Teryan 105, Yerevan (Oct. 16-17); Ayb high school, Tbilisi Highway 11/11, Yerevan (Oct. 19-20)
Gyumri: Friendship and Gratitude Day The Anthology of Blues, Part 2, Concert by Vladimir Avetissyan & D’Black Blues Orchestra
Starts 18:00
Vardanants Square, Gyumri
Gate to Heaven, a film by Jivan Avetisyan: movie premiere
Starts 19:30
KinoPark, Arshakunyants ave 34-3, Yerevan Mall, Yerevan
Visit to Genocide Memorial and Tree Planting by 2018 Aurora Laureate
Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum-Institute, 8/8 Tsitsernakaberd Highway, Yerevan
The Culture and Morality of Gratitude: Lecture by Professor Armen Darbinyan, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
Starts 14:40
Russian - Armenian University, Grand Hall, 123 Hovsep Emin St., Yerevan
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23.01.2019