Artificial IntelligenceAccelerate your Businesswith AI and ADAPT

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Welcome 02

Schedule 03

Explore ADAPT’s Research Showcase 04

Demonstrations and Case Studies 05

Contributors 11

Floorplans 12

ADAPT’s Discovery Experience 13

Conclusion 16

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‘Innovationdistinguishesbetween a leaderand a follower’

Steve Jobs

Intelligent business solutions powered by artificialintelligence and digital media technologies arehelping businesses solve increasingly complex

business processes. At the ADAPT Centre, a world-leading SFI Research Centre, we are responding to

the needs of businesses and society to developsustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions

that will serve us into the future.

Our solutions are helping to accelerate decision-making, improve business processes, enhance

user engagement, reduce costs, and drive growthand profitability. ADAPT’s AI research is also

enabling individuals to explore video, text, speechand image data in a natural way across multiple

languages and different devices.

Our vision is to empower and enhance onlineengagement between people, and promote

creativity, competitiveness and entrepreneurship.We are excited to explore the challenges and

possibilities of using AI to enable new businessoutcomes and collaborate on the development of

innovative technology solutions rooted inscientific expertise.

08:15 – 09:00 REGISTRATION AND TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE OVER BREAKFAST

09.00 – 09:15 WELCOMEProfessor Vinny Wade, CEO of ADAPT

09:15 – 09:30 THe AI lANDScAPe AND ADAPTDeclan McKibben

09:30 – 10:15 INTellIGeNT meDIA cASe STUDIeSIndustry leaders give insights into how AI is accelerating their businesses.

Ryanair wolters Kluwer Fidelity Investments Deutsche BankMichael Mouire Christian Dirschl Fintan O’Malley Ray Richardson

10:15 – 11:10 DIGITAl TRANSFoRmATIoN AND THe woRKPlAceAward winning TV and radio broadcaster, Jonathan McCrea, will chair a panel with Alessandra Sala: Nokia Bell labs, Dave Corrigan: Huawei, Dave Rooney: Ancestry, Annalina Caputo: ADAPT / DcU.

11:10 – 12:00 COFFEE BREAK AND TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

12:00 – 12:15 BUSINeSS ISSUeS FoR c-SUITe leADeRSmedb corcoran, Accenture The Dock

12:15 – 13:00 oUR DIGITAl FUTUReWorld leading researchers remove the hype from AI and outline a roadmap for where the technology is going.

Professor Professor Professor Professor Owen Conlan Declan O’Sullivan Naomi Harte John Kelleher

13:00 – 13:05 CLOSING REMARKSProfessor Vinny Wade, CEO of ADAPT

13: 05 – 14:30 LUNCH, NETWORKING AND TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

The ADAPT Centre is a world-leading SFI Research Centrewith expertise spread across seven Irish higher educationinstitutions. Our global position is defined by ourresearch, scholarship, and success in driving innovationfor business partners. Our strength lies in the breadth andexcellence of our expertise that spans thought-leaders inComputer Science to multidisciplinary teams across ourpartner institutions.

Working with industry, ADAPT has been able to harnessits research and innovation to drive impactful outcomesby producing economic benefits and pushing theboundaries of the field.

This research showcase has a range of intelligent mediacase-studies grouped into six thematic areas as follows:

� Next Generation Customer Insights� Conversational AI� AI Enhanced Knowledge Management� Recommendation and Targeting� Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation� FinTech

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We know how important it is tounderstand your customer whenmaking business decisions.ADAPT’s solutions can help youinterface and interact moreeffectively by harnessingbehavioural information frommulti-language customertouchpoints, allowing you tocreate truly tailored experiences.

DemoNSTRATIoNS AND cASe STUDIeS

Actionable Insights from multilingual customerFeedback - microsoftAnalysis of technology options for the categorisation andunderstanding of multilingualcustomer feedback.

Smart NotificationsIntelligent push-notificationsengine called EmPushy,encouraging healthier digitalexperiences.

AI enabled customer InteractionIncrease customer engagement,targeting, retention and conversionthrough Machine Learning.

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Conversational interfaces are appearing ina range of products and services, fromcommerce and personalised healthcare,to financial services and connectedproducts. ADAPT’s expertise inmultimodal interaction, machinetranslation, and natural languageprocessing is creating opportunities forbusinesses looking to embedconversational capabilities andexperiences for their customers andemployees.

chatbots and machine TranslationUsing domain and conversational contextin Machine Translation.

ADele Next-Generation DigitalcompanionA personalised intelligent conversationalagent.

Trust in emotionally expressiveArtificial AgentsGenerating avatars that are engaging andpersuasive.

ZoltarobotA fortune telling robot.

Fake News Content generator for fake news articlesonline.

DemoNSTRATIoNS AND cASe STUDIeS

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An effective knowledgemanagement and AIcombination can helpcompanies acceleratedecision making, improvebusiness processes,enhance user engagement,and drive growth. AtADAPT, our solutions arebeing deployed inorganisations, helping ourpartners develop an AIecosystem in theirorganisations to deliversignificant businessbenefits.

DemoNSTRATIoNS AND cASe STUDIeS

AI Powered legal Search Using AI to replicate andenhance the search approachof legal research experts.

AI Powered video Discoveryand engagementLeveraging knowledge graphsfor semantic videosummarisation.

Novel visualisation ofFinancial Data for DistributedTeamsCollaborative interaction withmultidimensional data invirtual reality (VR) for fraudprevention.

Technology observatoryAI assisted technologysourcing and procurement.

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Customers and employeeswant relevant, useful andactionable information thatsimplifies their decisions.

Deciphering what thatinformation is, however,can be difficult as itchanges constantlythroughout their journey.ADAPT’s targeting andrecommendation expertisecan help organisationsselect who to target, whatcontent to present, when itshould be introduced, andon what channel it shouldbe delivered.

DemoNSTRATIoNS AND cASe STUDIeS

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ADAPT Next-GenerationRecommenderA collaborative, contextual andcontent-based recommender.

eBay Product DescriptionenhancementImproving products descriptionsacross multiple languages to enhancediscoverability and consistency inlocal languages.

Next Gen Advert creation Systemfor the Ad Skipping GenerationAn online ad creation system thatuses deep learning to place billboardads within videos.

Organisations today are saturated in data fromareas such as supply chain, procurement,customer interactions and finance. However thiswealth of data which exists across systems andapplications in various formats, makes it difficultto gain insights. ADAPT technologies are helpingcompanies correlate and analyse data from all ofthese sources in real-time helping to streamlineprocesses and improve operational efficiency.

DemoNSTRATIoNS AND cASe STUDIeS

AImapIT: AI environmentmapping and modellingStreet level object detection andmapping for discovery andgeolocation of assets from opticalstreet level imagery.

oSi’s Geospatial Data:Accessing, Interconnecting and Publishing A linked data platform to supporta new mapping service -data.geohive.ie

Removing language Barrierswith AI machine Translation.Increasing confidence in decidingto publish or edit machinetranslation content.

Driver Sensing and theIntelligent co-PilotSensing and understandinghuman conditions that affectdriver performance, engagementand satisfaction.

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FinTech is transforming thedigital landscape and openingnew revenue markets to localand global companies.Organisations that leveragecutting-edge technologies andresearch are well positioned tosucceed. ADAPT’s FinTech Fusioncollaborative researchprogramme is accelerating theimpact of PayTech, RegTech andInsureTech processes.

DemoNSTRATIoNS AND cASe STUDIeS

Smarter Sentiment AnalysisDiscover what people thinkabout different aspects ofproducts and services.

GDPR ontologyRepresentationUsing semantic webtechnologies for assisting inGDPR compliance.

Novel visualisation ofFinancial DataUsing virtual reality to explorerisk analysis.

Holmes - Fraud DetectionInvestigate fraudulentinsurance claims by visuallydisplaying the connections.

Blockchain ResearchDistributed ledgertechnologies for the FinTechand IoT space.

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Annalina Caputo, Assistant Professor, DCU

Laura Clifford, Manager FinTech Fusion, ADAPT

Medb Corcoran, Ireland Lead, Accenture The Dock

Dr Dave Corrigan, Image Processing / Computer Vision, Huawei

Christian Dirschl, Chief Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer

Professor Naomi Harte, Digital Media Systems, TCD

Professor John Kelleher, Academic Leader, TU Dublin

Dr Aphra Kerr, Senior Lecturer, Maynooth University

Jonathan McCrea, Broadcaster, Newstalk

Declan McKibben, Director of Commercialisation, ADAPT

Michael Mouire, Head of Data and Analytics, Ryanair

Fintan O’Malley, Senior Manager R&D, Fidelity Investments

Professor Declan O’Sullivan, Intelligent Systems, TCD

Ray Richardson, Head of R&D, Deutsche Bank

Dave Rooney, Director of Analytics, Ancestry

Alessandra Sala, Head of Analytics Research, Nokia Bell Labs

Professor Vinny Wade, Director of ADAPT

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FintechIntelligentAutomation and DigitalTransformation

NextGenerationcustomerInsights

conversationalAI

AI enhancedKnowledgemanagement

RecommendationandTargetting

entrance / exit

DiscoveryexperienceWe know how to make AIimpactful for your business.

ADAPT has worked with over 20 leading brands inmany different sectors oncollaborative researchprojects.

Innovation throughcollaboration is best.

We have over 200 researchexperts from a wide variety ofdisciplines ready to be partof your innovationdreamteam.

Start your journey witha Discovery engagementwith ADAPTGet the right people around the table to ideate on your challenges and objectives.

Explore opportunities from state-of-the-art AI and computer scienceresearch relevant to your business.

Develop and validate a credible planfor research-enabled innovation,detailing your business challenges,research and innovationopportunities and the expectedimpact.

ADAPT’s

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Roadmap

Take the right first steps, come on the journey

with ADAPT

Ideate

Understand

Our approach has atransformative effect forour partners.

To learn more about the DiscoveryExperience or to apply, contact us atcollaboration@adaptcentre.ie

SUPPoRTeD BY

Artificial Intelligence and digital mediatechnologies are helping businesses understandcustomer desires, connect with a wider audience,stay ahead of market changes, de-risk activitiesand automate mundane tasks that cost a lot intime, money and human resources.

Using AI can have a major impact on business andlead to huge cost savings and efficiencies, helpingyou progress and grow your business.

It can be difficult to know where to start whenlooking to accelerate your AI journey. At ADAPT, we have significant experience in helpingorganisations harness AI to their benefit.

Explore how it can help your business and ensureyour competitive advantage into the future.

The key is to act now. engage with AI.

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...in empowering people forhealthy engagement in adigital world.

...AI empowers flexiblework environments.

...in technology thatenhances the human inthe loop.

...diversity drivesinnovation.

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...in ethically drivenartificial intelligence.

...individuals should havevisibility and control oftheir personal data.

...in sustainable andresponsible AI.

...great innovationhappens withmultidisciplinaryresearch teams.

...transformativetechnology can enhanceequality of opportunity.

...AI will transformhealthcare.

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