Deputy Head of Sberbank Alexander Vedyakhin: AI Journey has become the largest online conference on AI
First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Alexander Vedyakhin and Assistant to the President of Russia Maxim Oreshkin opened the first day of the international conference on artificial intelligence and data analysis AI Journey.
Alexander Vedyakhin recalled that the conference has been held for the 6th year and its scale has significantly increased during this time: “We started with a small event, and last year AI Journey became the largest online conference on artificial intelligence in the world.”
AI Journey 2021 will include over 110 academic hours of speaking, over 250 speakers from 14 countries, 50 universities and 70 companies. More than 80 candidates and doctors of sciences will share unique expertise on AI at the conference, and broadcasts will be watched in more than 110 countries of the world.
The conference will be attended by top AI speakers, including Tom Gruber, Jurgen Schmidhuber , Bertalan Mesco, Catherine More, Joseph Sivich, Michael Wooldridge and many other international experts on AI, said the first deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank.
Assistant to the President of Russia Maxim Oreshkin said that until 2025 in the world in areas related with artificial intelligence, 95 million jobs will be created. “According to our estimates, there will be about 3 million jobs in IT in Russia,” he added.