AI is Shaping the World, Who will Shape AI?
WHEN: 13-14 October
WHERE: The Microsoft Reactor, 70 Wilson Street
EC2A 2DB
Places are limited.
www.teensinai.com
To celebrate International day of a Girl and Ada Lovelace Day, Teens in AI in partnership with Microsoft is running a 2-day Hackathon to inspire girls aged 11-18 into Artificial Intelligence. We are on a mission to encourage young women to pursue computing and technology and promote diversity in this ever growing field.
What is a Hackathon?
A hackathon is an event that gathers people with diverse skills (programming, design, entrepreneurs) to solve a real problem within a limited amount of time. Our teen hacks run on weekends, 9-5 pm.
We first experienced Acorn at the AI Hackathon in June 2017, (via a google search), and joining Acorn has ultimately eliminated our one risk - a huge relief for me. Kiran has been in contact with people from Deep Mind, KCL and Hanson Robotics through Acorn, not to mention getting great exposure to design thinking, Agile, visits to companies across London. Elena is an incredible catalyst for truly excellent experiences and her intentions are genuinely focused for the child's benefit, something that sadly missing from the outcomes of government ideals.
The atmosphere was buzzing, the young people involved were absolutely engaged and took their tasks, and learning the skills needed to achieve them, very seriously. More than that though, the levels of sharing and communication with people who, in many cases, they had just met was incredible. I think it is this that really touched me most, to say nothing of the actual products that the teams came up with, which were also most impressive.
Avi Gillis
Head of Diversity & Inclusion
DCMS
This has been a life changing event! I enjoyed learning about different types of jobs out there, such as a developer or UX designer. I also enjoyed learning about different market research methods and most importantly, my team I were solving a problem with refugees & met with mentors from the UN. I wish school was like a hackathon!
Acorn Aspirations is a social impact company, which aims to inspire young people aged 11-19 into the world of technology and entrepreneurship.
We are on a mission to bridge the digital skills gap and nurture the next generation of digital talent to fill the jobs required by the tech industry.
Teens In AI exists to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence.
We aim to democratise AI and create pipelines for underrepresented talent through a combination of expert mentoring, talks, workshops, hackathons, accelerators, company tours and networking opportunities that give young girls aged 12-18 early exposure to AI for social good.
Our vision is for AI to be developed by a diverse group of thinkers and doers advancing AI for humanity’s benefit.
AI researchers are needed in EVERY industry and to give you an example of what they earn, take a look at this piece in New York Times.
"OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016. It paid another leading researcher, Ian Goodfellow, more than $800,000 — even though he was not hired until March of that year. Both were recruited from Google."
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AI is Shaping the World, Who will Shape AI?
www.teensinai.com; www.acornaspirations.com