Digital technologies are opening up a new paradigm for the future world and fast transforming our society. Intelligent Homes, Smart Buildings, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Autonomous Cars and Automated Factories are opening up new possibilities for how we interact with the world in our daily lives.
Future Worlds will connect Smart Cities, Autonomous Cars and Autonomous Worlds, Virtual Reality, AI and Machine Learning, Human Computer Interfaces, Internet of Things, Drones and Robotics, Cloud, Data Analytics and Cybersecurity.
The 1st Future Worlds Symposium, fire-starter event, was held last year on Aug 2nd at Sacramento City Hall, City Council Chambers, with the Keynote by Dr Vint Cerf, Chief Evangelist at Google, also known as one of the “Founding Fathers of the Internet”, and Welcome by Sacramento Mayor, Darrell Steinberg, other keynote speakers - Sean Harrington, Vice-President, Products and Engineering, City Solutions, Verizon and Maria MacGunigal, CIO, City of Sacramento, with the decision of Verizon to make Sacramento the first city to roll out its 5G technology, with a $100 million investment, and Volkswagen’s initial $44 million investment in electric vehicle technology.
We had a very interesting Q&A moderated by Louis Stewart, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Sacramento.
Further, we had talks from Intel Worldwide Communities Head, Robert Duffy, on Democratization of Innovation, Prof Bebo White from Stanford SLAC, on BlockChain and IOT for Future World, Prof Sven Koenig from USC and Chair SIG AI, on an AI World, and many other speakers and Innovator demos presented and supported with gracious sponsorship from Google, Verizon, Intel, SMUD, Impact, R Systems, SymSoft, Glocol Networks and other organizations, led by ACM Sacramento Chapter.
As 5G, AI and IoT co-evolve, we will see smaller, more powerful chips leading to the next generation of embedded systems with AI and Machine Learning capabilities.
The symposium panel came out with the research theme and question –
“Can we architect an AI Engine for a City in the Future in the coming age of 5G?”
To develop new computing initiatives and the burning hair use Case for 5G, IOT and AI, we will continue to discuss how to drive a city-wide AI Engine with IOT Sensor Nodes as the basic input vectors, providing large data sets to get useful insights, in the light of Dr Cerf’s suggested predicament to us with the deep learning revolution that “this new trend could herald a utopian future or usher in a new nightmare”...
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Sacramento Public Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814