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Dr Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, acquired by Google in their largest ever European purchase. Demis will draw on his experiences as an AI researcher, neuroscientist and game designer to discuss the ways in which AI breakthroughs are helping us discover new scientific insights. He will also explain AI’s tremendous potential for improving healthcare, touching on DeepMind’s recent groundbreaking health projects.
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Speaker biography
Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a neuroscience-inspired AI company which develops general-purpose learning algorithms and uses them to help tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Since its founding in London in 2010, DeepMind has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, three of them in the scientific journal Nature – an unprecedented achievement for a computer science lab.
Demis is a former child chess prodigy, who once ranked second in the world for his age. He then coded the multi-million selling simulation game Theme Park aged 17. Following graduation from Cambridge University with a Double First in Computer Science, he founded the pioneering video games company Elixir Studios.
After a decade of experience leading successful technology startups, Demis returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard, before founding DeepMind. The journal Science listed his research connecting memory with imagination as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2007. Demis is a five-time World Games Champion, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the recipient ofthe Royal Society’s Mullard Award and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal. In 2016, Demisreceived WIRED magazine’s Leadership in Innovation Award and in 2017 he was named in the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.