10/26, Monday. I attended 3 panels today at Surf Incubator.
This one in the afternoon is short and useful: how NOT to be tied to one AI model, one tool.
This evening, not AI related, Pamela Ronald spoke at Town Hall, part of UW lecture series. She's 100% on the camp of more generic engineering. Given her career, not surprising. Very one-sided, nothing new. I only make a note here, because she discovered Sub1 gene of rice.
10/27, Tuesday. Economic Outlook with Chief Economist Phil Neuhart of First Citizens Bank. Not exactly AI themed.
I very much liked this talk. Clear message.
Some of his data, even though not new, but the numbers are shocking.
I included two of those.
He briefly mentioned AI's influence to jobs. His recommendation to kids is learning a trade.
In the afternoon, Michael Boroughs of Fortis Capital promotes their "total wealth solution", with a team of CPA, attorney, and insurance agent. Prior to today's panel, I had never heard of insurance of employee stock option (ESOP). They must want to get onto startup founder's eyeballs.
10/28, Wednesday. PitchBook, Model ML, Harvey AI, on AI platform for private financial market, at Verizon Lounge in the basement of Climate Pledge Arena.
I didn't get much from the panel.
Food and drink, yes. My purpose of coming here is to obtain a ticket for the ice hockey game tonight.
I went home after securing the digital ticket (complicated).
Most people went up to an observetary area.
Came back at 7pm for the game: Kraken (Seattle) vs Maple Leaf (Toronto).
Due to security check, I was slightly late. But plenty people were still walking around in the lobby.
When I found my seat, the Canadian anthem just finished, now it was American anthem.
The team of ice scrapers rolled out every 5 minutes or so.
The first intermission, there was a funny shooting bolling ball by sliding on the ice.
Not much during the 2nd intermission. AV system constantly blinking slogans. Loud.
Once awhile, someone runs around and throw Tshirt to the audience. Entertaining.
Most surprising to me is that it was cold.
Kraken won 5:4, and unlocked a 30% discount code, valid only till midnight of the next day.
10/29, Thursday. 2 events by Canadian agencies.
In the morning, a panel of 3 on clean tech.- Ryan Heisier, USA business liason of BluWave-ai (Ottawa) develops AI optimization for utilities, grid operators, and energy users to calculate energy storage, charging and demand.
- Francis Doumet, Co-Founder & CEO of Metaspectral (Vancouver) uses AI and hyperspectral imaging to reveal information that conventional sensors cannot detect. Its used to map minerals, detect emissions, sorting waste.
- Bethany Edmunds of AI Network of BC (AInBC), a leading hub for British Columbia's growing AI sector, helps organizations identify opportunities, build partnerships, and secure government investment.
In the afternoon, a more official program by the Quebec government in Seattle in Rainier Club.
Craig Weichel, Consul General general of Canada, David Ruiz, Québec delegate in Seattle and one WA state official spoke.
The main event is a chat an interview of Jonathan Barry of Law Zero by Aurelie Saada.
Barry is a good speaker.
This evening, another Founders Live. I was late, heard only 3.5 pitches.
- Kajal Deepak - SmartVerify
- Michael Nassirian - Thessai.com
- Ash Bhoopathy - Held : AI calendar assistent
- Paul Bubluski - Ternwell : story book
- Emily Rapp - Koniv : voice interface for inventory logging.
10/30, Friday moring at Surf Incubator. AI governmence and risk. Talked just about risk, not much about steps to reduce risk.
10/21, Wednesday of previous week, this panel at Seattle University, not part of this AI week, is also about AI, so I lumped my note here.
Department of Marketing at SU invited 4 speakers at the conference of The Society for Consumer Psychology in the following weekend.
I enjoyed all 4 presentations and the Q&A.
In order of presentation:
- Heng Xu on the need of Governing the “Statistical Me”:.
- Dennis Stolle on tendency of bad decision under pressure.
- Christina Tworek on AI invisibility across consumers and business decision-makers. Advocate transparency.
- Erick M. Mas suggests that consumers who preceive themself lower in social hirachy are less willing to share data, while those of higher status are more privacy concerned.
