EXHIBIT PROGRAM

Monday – Thursday, July 16th-19th, B-Hall

Adobe Systems

Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services allow our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure and monetize their content across every channel and screen.

https://research.adobe.com/

Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate. We provide the fundamental technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of the Internet to engage with their users and customers. Our businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, innovation initiatives and others. Through investee affiliates, Cainiao Network and Koubei, respectively, we participate in the logistics and local services sectors.

Baidu

Baidu is the biggest Chinese search engine and Chinese website worldwide. With the development of 17 years, Baidu has thousands of R&D engineers, who constitute the best technical team around China and even the world. The team is holding the most advanced search engine technology in the world, which enables China to become one of the four countries worldwide with the core technology of search engines besides America, Russia and the Republic of Korea.

DiDi Chuxing

Didi Chuxing is the world’s leading mobile transportation platform that offers a full range of mobile tech-based mobility options for over 450 million users across more than 400 Chinese cities. Every day, Didi’s platform generates over 100TB worth of data, processes more than 40 billion routing requests, and produces over 15 billion location points. Many AI technologies have been developed to solve fundamental challenges in DiDi, such as demand and supply forecasting, dispatching optimization, ETA (estimated time of arrival), route planning, intelligent customer services, and so on.

Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make ground-breaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier publishes over 3,800 journals and also provides web-based, digital solutions including: ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence and ClinicalKey.

Ericsson

Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology to service providers, with about 40% of the world’s mobile traffic carried through our networks. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. Ericsson uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to drive systems for automation and network evolution, which is one of main differentiators of Ericsson’s portfolio and services.

Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group

The Research & Development Group is responsible for leading “collaborative creation” with customers. Specifically, a three prong approach is being taken: “customer-driven innovation” whereby research is conducted close to customers to identify and resolve challenges through such means as Hitachi’s unique service design methodologies; “technology-driven innovation” creating innovative products through the optimal combination of technologies, and “vision-driven innovation” to pioneer new areas guided by a creative vision and through open innovation.

An important platform to enable these three types of innovation to dynamically interact and promote Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business, is big data. By collecting and analyzing big data from equipment and people on-site, new value can be generated by altering the components in the operation. Hitachi has abundant experience and know-how fostered over the years as a leading company in information and control technologies, as well as technology from experience in building societal infrastructure. This broad range of technologies, knowledge and experience will be leveraged to challenge issues and develop innovative solutions for a better future.

Visit our booth or our website at http://www.hitachi.com/rd/index.html

IBM Research

At IBM Research, we invent things that matter to the world. Today, we are pioneering promising and disruptive technologies that will transform industries and society, including the future of AI, blockchain and quantum computing. We are driven to discover. We are home to 3,000+ researchers including 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards and 13 Inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Visit the IBM Research booth to see demos, talk to research team members and conference presenters/panelists from a few of our 12 global labs, and inquire about job and internship opportunities.

IJCAI-19

The IJCAI 2019 will be held in Macau SAR, China at the The Venetian Macao on the 10th – 16th August 2019. The IJCAI 2019 provides a premier platform to address any greatest challenges technology innovation, giving rise to sharing and value-added activities and an exclusive opportunity of knowledge sharing between Western and Eastern technologies. Together, unprecedented founding may unveiled.

Macao is a city where East meets West, a place where traditional Chinese culture has assimilated Portuguese and Western ways to create a unique cultural mix. The many beautiful historic buildings evoke the city’s collective memories, and this small city lends a wealth of inspiration to the flourishing local arts community. Macao’s nightlife is famous for its variety, its frenetic pace and constant change. This is a city that never sleeps, lots for visitors to see and experience in Macao – even in the middle of the night!

IJCAI-PRICAI 2020

In two years, IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 will be held in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya is one of the biggest industrial city located in the center of Japan.

Prof. Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) who is the local arrangements chair of IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 will excitedly present you all about Nagoya and Japan!

Inovia AI

Inovia AI is one of Europe’s leading solution- and product providers in AI and Big Data. Founded in Stockholm 2012 we’re now 60 employees from 20 countries with specialists such as Ph.Ds in Machine Learning, MBAs, Engineers and Data Researchers from top universities around the world.

We have during our years of AI development, created a flexible AI framework that allows us to build new products and solutions rapidly tailored to our customers’ needs and opportunities we see on the market. Our success is the direct product of our passionate, innovative and driven team delivering cutting edge AI and Big Data solutions.

At IJCAI you’re welcome to try out our latest product: AIVA – a Virtual Assistant based on AI/Deep Learning technology with a cognitive ability that not only identifies words but also interprets the meaning of a sentence or a conversation.
NOTE! We’re always looking for new talents, if you are passionate about AI and Big Data, please come talk to us!

IOS Press

IOS Press (www.iospress.nl) publishes around 25 international journals and approximately 30 book titles a year in the fields of Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Over 300 volumes have been published in the book series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Commencing its publishing activities in 1987 in Amsterdam, IOS Press serves the information needs of scientific, technical and medical communities worldwide. IOS Press continues its rapid growth, embracing new technologies for the timely dissemination of information. LD Connect (ld.iospress.nl), a Linked Data portal containing linked metadata of our books and journals, has been launched in beta in the spring of 2018.

Come to our booth to browse through a selection of our books and journals and to talk to us about publishing and AI. We are also soliciting feedback to LD Connect.

JD.COM

JD.com is China’s largest ecommerce company by revenue and a member of the Fortune Global 500. We believe we provide consumers with an enjoyable online retail experience. Through our content-rich and user-friendly website, www.jd.com, and mobile applications, we offer a wide selection of authentic products at competitive prices which are delivered in a speedy and reliable manner. We also offer convenient online and in-person payment options and comprehensive customer services. In order to have better control over fulfilment and to ensure customer satisfaction, we have built our own nationwide fulfilment infrastructure and last-mile delivery network, staffed by our own employees, which supports both our online direct sales and our online market.

Microsoft

At Microsoft Research, we’re inventing the future of computing. We relentlessly push the boundaries of technology, actively collaborate with world-class researchers, and passionately support the next generation of scientists. Learn more: Microsoft.com/research

MIT Press

The MIT Press is a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology and the arts, and is committed to advancing knowledge by publishing significant works by pioneering authors, and exploring new fields and new modes of inquiry. We honor complexity with provocative and transformative work that crosses academic and geographic boundaries to serve the broadest possible global audience.

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Morgan & Claypool publishes the Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, edited by Ronald Brachman and Peter Stone. Synthesis Lectures are 75- to 200-page books presenting surveys of key topics written by prominent contributors for an audience of students, researchers, and developers. Series books are available in a wide variety of options including print, individual eBooks (PDF, ePub), and as digital libraries for institutions. Recent titles in the AI and ML series include Strategic Voting by Reshef Meir, Predicting Human Decision-Making by Ariel Rosenfeld and Sarit Kraus, and Game Theory for Data Science by Boi Faltings and Goran Radanovic. Forthcoming soon in the series are Adversarial Machine Learning by Yevgeniy (Eugene) Vorobeychik and Murat Kantarcioglu and a revision of one of the most popular books in our collection, Lifelong Machine Learning by Ziyuan Chen and Bing Liu.

Morgan & Claypool will also display selected titles from Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision, edited by Gérard Medioni and Sven Dickinson, and Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst. For more information, please contact us at info@morganclaypool.com.

NNAISENSE

NNAISENSE leverages the 25-year proven track record of one of the leading research teams in artificial intelligence to build large-scale neural network solutions for superhuman perception and intelligent automation, with the ultimate goal of marketing general-purpose neural network-based AIs. The company is an outgrowth of the internationally renowned Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA, which has been at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs in artificial neural networks (invented LSTM), deep learning, reinforcement learning, artificial evolution, and general purpose AI, since the early ’90s. Over the last two years, NNAISENSE has successfully partnered with major players in diverse industries including steel production (ArcelorMittal), finance (Acatis Investments) and autonomous vehicles (Audi) in an effort to validate our proprietary technology, and significantly advance the state of the art beyond artificial perception toward general AI.

Visit our booth to learn more about NNAISENSE and job opportunities.

Node Pole

Node Pole is Sweden’s commercial investment and development hub providing dedicated support for investors within the cloud industry, as well as other emerging energy-intensive industries.

Known from data center establishment successes such as Facebook in the north of Sweden, Node Pole has the purpose of proactively enabling new business into Sweden and for the European market.

With a core team of experienced and dedicated professionals, Node Pole Alliance with 60+ members, as well as partner sites, municipalities and national Government authorities, Node Pole assures you a fast, flexible and scalable transition into a new industrial era.

Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly, Nanyang Technological University

The Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY) is a world-class research centre focusing on the AI+ Aging technologies that can help the elderly enjoy an active, independent and dignified lifestyle. The LILY research centre was set up in August 2012 with support from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and The University of British Columbia (UBC). It is Singapore’s first research centre dedicated to aging technology research, development and prototyping. LILY aims to be one of the world’s lead¬ing incubators of inter-disciplinary research ideas to pro¬mote an active and independent lifestyle for the elderly, and to establish Singapore as a hub in designing and building technology enabled age-friendly communities.

PwC – Pricewaterhouse Coopers

PwC is one of the largest global professional services firm offering, audit, tax, and advisory services to corporates. For more than 160 years, the role we play has always been underpinned by the need for trust and our ability to deliver solutions. Over the past twenty years we have helped our clients navigate the world of emerging technologies, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence.

The PwC New Services and Emerging Technology AI Accelerator is focused on automating and augmenting human decision making using AI technologies for our enterprise clients. We have pioneered the design, build and implementation of enterprise AI applications across a number of industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, retail, auto, oil and gas, airlines, manufacturing, etc), bringing machine learning, deep learning (in video, images, audio, and natural language), natural language processing, computer vision, embodied AI, simulation and reinforcement learning to solve practical problems for our clients to reduce costs, enhance customer experience, increase revenues, reduce risks and improve quality. Our unique approach to AI, which we call Responsible Enterprise AI, combines the opportunities offered by AI, while also managing and mitigating the risks of AI.

https://marketplace.pwc.com/aia

Recorded Future

Recorded Future delivers the only complete threat intelligence solution powered by patented machine learning to lower risk. We empower organizations to reveal unknown threats before they impact business, and enable teams to respond to alerts 10 times faster. To supercharge the efforts of security teams, our technology automatically collects and analyzes intelligence from technical, open, and dark web sources and aggregates customer-proprietary data. Recorded Future delivers more context than threat feeds, updates in real time so intelligence stays relevant, and centralizes information ready for human analysis, collaboration, and integration with security technologies. 91 percent of the Fortune 100 use Recorded Future.

Sondrel

Sondrel’s expertise is in digital system on chip (SoC) design. We cover a wide spectrum, from wireless connected sensor nodes through medium complexity devices up to high-end heterogeneous computing devices that support advanced AI technology solutions. We are delighted to support this event as sponsors, and to take the opportunity to highlight our core competency in architecting and integrating AI IP into efficient and reliable system on chip solutions. Our rigorous methodology, in producing predictable outcomes and a subsystem approach with a focus on maximum design re-use, means that customers can accelerate their time to market product roadmaps and keep costs down.

Operating from our design centres in UK, France, Morocco, China and India, we have a large-scale engineering team. Our clients engage with us from concept all the way to production silicon or use individually tailored specialist services. Our success is based on our knowledge of how to get the most out of silicon, and how to get it to market reliably, on time and at the right price.

Springer

Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services.

Springer has one of the strongest STM and HSS eBook collections, conference proceedings and archives, as well as a comprehensive range of hybrid and open access journals.

Springer is part of Springer Nature, a global publisher that serves and supports the research community. Springer Nature aims to advance discovery by publishing robust and insightful science, supporting the development of new areas of research and making ideas and knowledge accessible around the world.

As part of Springer Nature, Springer sits alongside other trusted brands like Nature Research, BMC and Palgrave Macmillan.

Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of Internet users. Our social products Weixin/WeChat and QQ link our users to a rich digital content catalogue including games, video, music and books. Our proprietary targeting technology helps advertisers reach out to hundreds of millions of consumers in China. Our infrastructure services including payment, security, cloud and artificial intelligence create differentiated offerings and support our partners’ business growth. Tencent invests heavily in people and innovation, enabling us to evolve with the Internet. Tencent is also applying its technology leadership, deep understanding of connection and user behavior and open platform to create AI breakthroughs that can solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Our mission is to enhance the quality of human life through Internet services and AI enables us to do this in powerful new ways. We are focused on solving key problems for our users, customers and society. Through fundamental and applied research, we seek to create products and services that make the benefits of AI accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Tieto

Tieto aims to capture the significant opportunities of the data-driven world and turn them into lifelong value for people, business and society. We aim to be customers’ first choice for business renewal by combining our software and services capabilities with a strong drive for co-innovation and ecosystems. Using Tieto’s expertise in digitalization, we develop innovative solutions with one goal in mind – to shape a smarter society that anticipates the needs of its people. In every phase of their lives.

If you would like to join us; Meet us at IJCAI or read more on tieto.com/smartersociety

WASP- Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) is Sweden’s largest ever individual research program, a major national initiative for basic research, education and faculty recruitment. The total budget for the program is more than 3.5 billion SEK, and major goals are more than 50 new professors and more than 300 new PhDs within AI, Autonomous Systems and Software. The ambition is to advance Sweden into an internationally recognized and leading position in these areas, and WASP has launched a first broad investment in Artificial Intelligence. WASP is now recruiting to several different positions to build and strengthen AI in Sweden.

Shanghai Xiaoi Robot Technology Co.,Ltd,

Shanghai Xiaoi Robot Technology Co.,Ltd, (Xiaoi) is the world’s leading AI technology and industrialization platform provider. It provides core AI technologies such as natural language processing, deep semantic interaction, speech recognition, image recognition, machine learning and big data, as well as solutions and service system which are deeply integrated with communication, finance, government, legal, healthcare, manufacture and other industries. Xiaoi provides services for thousands of large and medium enterprises and government branches, as well as hundreds of thousands of small enterprises and developers. Its users have exceeded 800 million, realizing a mass scale of AI industrialization.