The main organizer of the event was the Global Issues Institute - GARI. This year, nearly 60 speakers from over 20 countries around the world presented two trends in 15 disciplines of world science, technology, innovation and society. We have managed to open up a truly cross-cutting debate on today's most pressing issues: from climate, through artificial intelligence to biomedicine, but also politics, economics, security and defense. The common denominator of all appearances was to find a way to direct human efforts towards a sustainable and fair global future.
CIIRC CTU profiled several times at the event. Within the main blocks, prof. Vladimír Mařík, Scientific Director of CIIRC, gave a speech. He focused on the importance of artificial intelligence for industrial companies that need it especially for productivity improvement. In this context, he introduced the emerging RICAIP center based on a completely new research concept of modern industrial production. The infrastructure, which is being developed both at CIIRC and at partner institutions DFKI, ZeMA or VUT CEITEC, is the basis for new partnerships between the private and academic spheres. The ETERNITIS pilot project is already proof of this. Just a week ago, more than 40 leading research laboratories from 21 European countries have benefited from several months of work. Together they prepared and submitted for further evaluation a project focused on artificial intelligence research in the field of intelligent robotics. It was CIIRC that led them as coordinator of the whole initiative.
Dr. Josef Urban, who leads AI & Reasoning research at CIIRC, was the keynote speaker of the roundtable discussion where he presented the essence of a combination of learning and reasoning methods used in formal verification. Another CIIRC guest was prof. Holger Hoos of the Dutch Leiden University, an artificial intelligence expert and one of the founders of CLAIRE, the world's largest association of research groups and institutes for artificial intelligence. Prof. Hoos pointed out to the audience that the greatest risk is not a strong artificial intelligence that gets out of control, but the incompetent use of weak AI.
With a truly interdisciplinary approach to science, CIIRC was able to win Dr. Martin Tolar for the event, founder and director of Alzheon, a company that develops innovative medical procedures and medicines for neurodegenerative diseases in the United States. For three years, Dr. Tolar has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world of medicine development by Medicine Maker Power Lists magazine. He is currently developing a drug for patients with Alzheimer's disease based on individual genetic and biological information for targeted therapy with the greatest impact on patients. On the NEXT100 he outlined, among other things, the directions that open up possibilities for the application of artificial intelligence in medicine, especially when evaluating clinical data.
In conjunction with the latest technologies, with their innovative and predatory charge and responsible dialogue about their impact on society and the economy, the organizers of GARI see it as one of the possible ways out of contemporary social and political apathy and mistrust. Personalities such as Jim Balsillie, founder of Research in Motion (Blackberry), economist Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia Earth Institute, Frederick Bordry, director of accelerators and technology from CERN, but also Jiří Drahoš, senator and former presidential candidate.
The Global Arena Research Institute (GARI) is an independent, impartial research organization. GARI uses advanced technologies to map globalization through large data access and digital ontology. Next 100 Symposium is a platform for discussion and agenda formation for the global arena.
