Applying AI & Machine Learning To Media, Advertising & Entertainment

This will be a hybrid event, taking place at The University of Manchester and online. Aline Villavicencio | Computational modelling of idiomaticity in language Contextualised word representation models have been successfully used for capturing distinct (and very specific) word usages, and therefore could provide an attractive alternative for accurately determining meaning in language.

With 500 million granted in funding in the FY2023 NDAA to the new DoD CDAO, there is an effort now more than ever to scale up data analytics and utilize emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence to break down big data sets for improved decision making. The 10th Annual Big Data for Intelligence Symposium will bring together senior level members from the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), military, academia, & industry to discuss innovative strategies, initiatives, & partnerships toward harnessing big data for actionable intelligence & a strategic decision advantage. This year’s Symposium will feature the perspectives of various Senior level leaders & stakeholders, who are working to enhance the processing, analyzing, management, & accessibility of large data sets in order to produce usable intelligence that will both increase the speed of mission & deliver an enhanced capability to the Warfighter in contested near-peer environments.’

The Seventh International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD'2022) serves as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange latest advantages in theories, algorithms, models, and applications of data mining and big data as well as artificial intelligence techniques. The main theme of this year DMBD'2022 is FinTech.

In her new book Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. This talk examines the governance challenges presented by data trafficking and proposes potential pathways to improved data governance to protect national sovereignty and democracy.