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Join the front-runner research in artificial intelligence – come to the FCAI flagship community event

Have you ever wondered how to harness the power of artificial intelligence to benefit your own research? Do you wish to collaborate and create something new and exciting with top AI researchers? Do you want to know more about the flagship program of Academy of Finland?
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The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI organizes a community event on 21 October 2019 to share what we do and to welcome new researchers from Aalto University, University of Helsinki, and VTT to join the FCAI community. We invite AI researchers as well as researchers from different fields to joint the event.  

Please register to the Community Event by 16 October to hear more.

Venue: T2, CS building (Konemiehentie 2), Espoo

Program (subject to minor changes)
9:00 Coffee
9:15–9:45 Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence: excellence in research and impact (FCAI Director Samuel Kaski)
9:45–10:00 FCAI Special Interest Groups and AIX Forum (FCAI Vice-director Petri Myllymäki)
10:00–11:00Poster session: FCAI Research Programs and Highlights

FCAI Research Programs and coordinating professors 
R1: Agile probabilistic AI, Aki Vehtari
R2: Simulator-based inference, Jukka Corander
R3: Next-generation data-efficient deep learning, Harri Valpola and Alexander Ilin
R4: Privacy-preserving and secure AI, Antti Honkela
R5: Interactive AI, Antti Oulasvirta
R6: Autonomous AI, Ville Kyrki
R7: AI in society, Petri Ylikoski 

FCAI Highlights and coordinating professors
A: Easy and privacy-preserving modeling tools, Arto Klami
B: AI-driven health, Pekka Marttinen
C: Intelligent service assistant for people in Finland, Tommi Mikkonen
D: Intelligent urban environment, Kai Puolamäki
E: AI-driven design of materials, Patrick Rinke

FCAI is both a research organization with a sharp research and impact agenda and an open ecosystem of researchers, companies, and public organizations gathered around a common goal. FCAI is creating a new type of artificial intelligence that can operate with humans in the real world—and that can help Finnish industry and society to realize its full AI potential. FCAI is an Academy of Finland flagship, which is a status only granted to six centers of excellence of high quality and high societal impact.

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