Opening of Tampere AI Hub for Intelligent Machines

PROGRAM

13:00 Dean Mika Grundström (TUT): The role of AI in the new Tampere university

13:05 Joni Kämäräinen (TUT): AI research in Tampere

13:20 Moncef Gabbouj (TUT): AI solutions for biomedical and industrial data

13:40 Heikki Huttunen (TUT): New AI research center in Tampere

14:00 Manu Setälä (Business Finland): AI Business program & network of AI centers

14:10 Antti Siren (FIMA): The need of AI in intelligent machines

14:20 Niina Siipola (Business Tampere): The role of AI ecosystem in regional development

14:30 Reza Ghabcheloo (TUT): AI for intelligent machines

15:00 Coffee and Networking

AI Hub Tampere

• Tampere University launches AI Hub Tampere—an artificial intelligence research center

• The center organizes workshops, helpdesk sessions, experimental piloting and other support for adopting artificial intelligence in local companies.

• Our principle is to make AI easy to reach, affordable and all our services are free of charge, neutral and equal for all.

• A neutral publicly funded center at your service.

AI Hub Goals

• Train engineers to implement AI• Train managers to outsource AI• Help companies discover the potential of AI• Help companies understand the limits of AI• Create ecosystem of industry and research partners• Contribute to applied research in the domains of the hub

AI Hub Components

Coordination

NETWORKING

• Building the network and marketing

• Training• Helpdesk• AI Theory

TOOLS

• AI deployment• System level• Software• Hardware

ROBOTICS

• Physical worldapplications

• Use of AI for intelligent machines

HUMAN

• Interaction of human and AI

• Collaborativerobotics

• Safety

AI Hub Partners

Pirkanmaa RegionalCouncil

Forum for IntelligentMachines

FIMA

City of Tampere

TUT

Uni Tampere

DIMECC

Business Finland

RoboCoast(Satakunta)

UEF AI HUB

(NorthernSavo)

SMACC(TUT)

AI HUBTampere

Fundingpartner

OtherHubs

Otherpartner

Forthcoming Events

• 10.12. AI Hub Opening• 13.12. Huawei AI Hackathon, day 1• 17.12. IBM University Tour hosted by AI Hub• 21.12. Huawei AI Hackathon, day 2• 10.1. First AI Hub Workshop

Sample Workshop Agenda

• 9:00 Lecture: Introduction to modern machine learning• 10:00 Lecture: Theory and traditional techniques (in Python)• 10:30 Hands-on session: Set up the laptop, define and train a classifier

with example data. Compute the accuracy of the result• 11:45 Lunch• 12:30 Lecture: Introduction to deep learning• 13:30 Hands-on session: Train a deep neural network for image data• 14:30 Lecture: Deep learning for sequential data• 15:15 Hands-on session: Train a recurrent network for audio data• 16:00 Closing

People

– PI Heikki Huttunen, Prof. TUT / Signal Processing

– Vice-PI Timo D. Hämäläinen, Prof. TUT / Perv. Comp

– Prof. Reza Ghabcheloo, TUT / Automation

– Prof. Roel Pieters, TUT / Automation

– Univ. Lecturer Aino Ahtinen, TUT / Perv. Comp.

Twitter: @AI_Hub_Tampere

Web: tampere.ai