Events at the ETH Pavilion
Monday, 22 January 2018
International Press Event
RETHINKING
Intelligence
World leaders in robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence meet up for an interactive discussion on "superintelligence" - possibly the last invention of humankind. How do we code to avoid self destruction? It is imperative, as creators, that we address the risks and use the potential as we build a future AI that will be useful to humankind.
external page John Fraher,Senior Executive Editor, Bloomberg News (Moderator)
external page Alessandro Curioni, IBM Research Zurich
Download Anna Ukhanova, Google Research Europe (PDF, 242 KB)
Thomas Hofmann, Data Analytics Lab, ETH Zurich
external page Markus Gross, ETH Zurich and Disney Research
external page Pascal Kaufmann, Starmind
external page Juergen Schmidhuber, Swiss AI Lab - IDSIA
external page Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics
International Press Debut
RoboRat
During the networking reception following the International Press Exclusive, ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich researchers debut a prototype of an autonomous robotic lab rat that uses built-in artificial neural networks to demonstrate intelligent animal behavior.
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
WEF Participants
IDEAS LAB
Supercharging Urban Energy Systems with ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich professors Gabriela Hug, Giovanni Sansavini, and Arno Schlüter present their research on optimizing the integration of green energy to the grid, resilient infrastructures, and decarbonization through city redesign.
This event takes place in the Congress Centre and is open only to official WEF participants.
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Senior Leaders in Education
Davos Forum: Innovation & Impact
Phil Baty, Editorial Director of Times Higher Education present an exclusive launch of a new report examining the impact of university-industry collaboration. Find out how world-class universities and businesses work together to drive the knowledge economy.
Exclusive invite - only.
