AI & Data Science in the North of England
A welcoming community of 1,300+ people.
We are here for everyone who has an interest in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or Machine Learning. Currently accepting speakers for the 2020/21 season.
Attend our Meetups
We started on Meetup, and that’s where most of our admin still happens. If you would like to virtually attend one of our talks then please head over to the Manchester AI Community Meetup and join to be kept informed of upcoming events.
Our Meetups happen at 18:30 UK time on the fourth Thursday of each month. When they happen physically they tend to be in Manchester.
COVID-19 and the 2020/21 Season
Given gestures broadly all this… We will be running all events remotely for the foreseeable future. We want to ensure that it is as easy as possible for people to join us, so we are planning on using Zoom which scores best for accessibility among video conferencing tools.
Previous Speakers
Niels Pedersen
Regulating the Future: how policy-makers think about AI
Programme Leader of the MSc Financial Technology programme at Manchester Metropolitan University, England’s first post-graduate FinTech course. As a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW), Niels has worked at PwC and the Financial Services Authority before coming to academia.
Dr Martin Fergie
Artificial Intelligence In Precision Medicine
Martin Fergie is a machine learning and computer vision researcher at the University of Manchester in the Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences. His research interests are focussed on using machine learning models to predict disease outcomes from medical imaging data.
Dr Kevin Murphy
Towards Machines that Perceive and Communicate
Worked on probabilistic models for computer vision and mobile robotics at MIT before joining the University of British Columbia where he wrote the book on Machine Learning, A Probabilistic Perspective. He joined Google in 2011 as a Senior Research Scientist in Mountain View, where he was instrumental in the acquisition and integration of Deep Mind.