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This weekend, the Fetch.ai Hackathon took place at Imperial College London, organized by Fetch.ai Innovation Lab and hosted by I-X. The event, in collaboration with Imperial Business Partner Moderna, addressed the critical challenge of mapping user journeys to tackle skepticism towards vaccination and developing trust through AI #agents. Participants worked on innovative solutions, demonstrating how AI agents can streamline understanding and addressing #vaccine hesitancy while building trust in vaccination efforts. The event featured inspiring speakers, including Sana Wajid CEng MICE FPWI from Fetch.ai, Eric Yeatman, Chair of I-X, and Satwik Kar from Moderna. Their insights on leveraging #AI to develop solutions for vaccine hesitancy and build trust in vaccination guided the participants as they worked on their projects. The top projects stood out for their creativity and technical excellence in addressing Moderna’s challenge in unique and impactful ways. 🏆 1st Place: IX Vaccine Hesitancy Management Dashboard A dashboard offering insights from medical and patient perspectives, analyzing vaccine hesitancy, social media influence, and sentiment analysis of doctor-patient conversations, created by Abdulaziz A. Alsaad, Lyson Ober, Asish Kumar Sayana, Santosh Kumar Saravanan, and Sherwin Vadakkumcherry. Project details here: https://lnkd.in/grmZPTbU 🏆 2nd Place: Hack VHS A solution built using the Fetch.ai SDK, featuring personalized AI agents to reduce vaccine skepticism by providing users with tailored vaccine information, created by Emma Pajak, Tristan Spreng, Arushi Sinha, Piotr Toka, and Stephen Asiedu Maranatha. Project details here: https://lnkd.in/gX_u9sWf 🏆 3rd Place: Vax Lens A project using sentiment analysis on social media to counter misinformation and create accurate, engaging posts to promote trust in vaccines, created by Alireza Darzi, Tim Lin, Kevin Michalewicz, Paula Cordero Encinar, and Rebecca Langdon. Project details here: https://lnkd.in/gknqjuSp The creativity and innovation showcased during the Fetch.ai hackathon have the potential to significantly impact trust-building and vaccine hesitancy. #Innovation #AI #Research #MRNA #Vaccination #BuildFetch Alessandra Russo Anna Radomska Wiktoria Tunska, PhD Redvers Lee Abhi Gangani Kshipra Dhame Zoltan Mezei Julia Zanghieri Lewis Hatfull Diana Serpoianu Imperial Enterprise Imperial College Computing Imperial Enterprise Lab I-HUB White City Innovation District

It is great to see the ongoing partnership between the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Council and Imperial College London, and we look forward to witnessing the next phase of the Industrial Strategy in action, bringing even more innovation to the area! With the further development of the White City Deep Tech Campus, we cannot wait to contribute to the positive impact the strategy will have on the White City community. White City Innovation District | I-HUB | Scale Space

Less than 24 hours until our Hackathon begins! 🚀 Organised by Fetch.ai Innovation Lab and hosted by I-X, our Hackathon promises to be a hub of creativity and innovation! We can't wait to see how participants will leverage Fetch.ai's agent technology to tackle the hackathon challenge. Special thanks to Imperial Business Partner, Moderna, for providing an exciting challenge for our hackers! #Hackathon #Research #AI Imperial College London | Imperial College Computing | Imperial Enterprise Lab | Imperial Enterprise | I-HUB | White City Innovation District Anna Radomska Redvers Lee Julia Zanghieri Sana Wajid CEng MICE FPWI Lewis Hatfull Diana Serpoianu

Our Co-Director for Engagement, Professor Sophia Yaliraki, took part in the recent AI for Science Summit organised by Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery. Professor Yaliraki discussed how AI can help us unlock new scientific discoveries and spoke about the importance of co-location in driving innovation.

Exciting Event! On 8 January, Professor Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College Computing & I-X) will give an Inaugural Lecture, "My academic random walk towards building networked systems". 🗓️ Wednesday, 8 January 🕠 5:30 - 6:30pm (GMT) 📍 Hybrid (South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London & online) In the lecture, Hamed will walk you through this journey and what he has learned as an individual, alongside the mistakes that he should have learnt from. He will take the opportunity to talk about his path from the council estate in Ladbroke Grove to Imperial College’s North Kensington campus a few blocks away. Importantly, these random hops and journey highlights the roles of several generous individuals along the way who guided and helped Hamed selflessly. No need to register to attend—just mark your calendar! 📅 Tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. 🔗Find out more: https://lnkd.in/enp7RHAP

🚨 Event alert! There are still two days left to sign up for this year's final AI: Cutting-Edge Seminar with Linda Yilin Wen! 🗓️ Thursday, 3 December 🕐 1 – 2 pm (GMT) 📍 Hybrid (White City Campus & MSc Teams) Linda Wen is a design researcher on the Game Intelligence team at Microsoft Research Redmond. She is passionate about creating safe and responsible AI technology that is accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender, or countries of origin. 🎮 During the event, Linda will share her experience as a design researcher working on an interdisciplinary artificial intelligence research team to develop innovative AI systems. The talk will explore two exciting projects: 🔹 The first one focusing on a generative AI model designed to support game creators with ideation, enhancing their creative processes. 🔹 The second focusing on a teachable AI system that assists people who are blind or have low vision in locating personal objects.   This talk has been organised in partnership with the I-X Women in AI Network (IX-WAI). ➡️ Find out more and register here: https://lnkd.in/dNqsKZJU   Imperial College London | Imperial College Computing | Imperial Enterprise Lab | Imperial Enterprise | White City Innovation District | I-HUB | Scale Space | Upstream

We are pleased to announce that Professor Alessandra Russo (Imperial College Computing & I-X) has been appointed as a Co-Director of one of Imperial College London’s Schools of Convergence Science. Professor Russo, together with Professor Payam Barnaghi, Professor Will Branford, and Professor Aldo Faisal, will lead the School of Artificial & Human Intelligence. Professor Russo will also act as the first convener for the School, with the role rotating among the appointed Co-Directors. Congratulations to all the Co-Directors on this prestigious appointment! 👏 For further details, please follow the link below.

Last week, we hosted the first events from the"Responsible AI Lecture Series", co-organised by the Dyson School of Design Engineering and I-X: the "Global Politics of AI" workshop with Dr Kerry McInerney, PhD and "From Autonomy to Synergy: Envisioning Next Generation Human-AI Partnerships" lecture by Professor Sidney DMello. Chaired by Professor Rafael A. Calvo, the sessions sparked conversations on AI's impact on the international political landscape and its potential as a collaborative partner in education. Huge thanks to Dr McInerney and Professor D’Mello for their fantastic talks! 🙌 Don't miss out on the next event in the “Responsible AI Lecture Series”! There is still time to register for Dr Kanta Dihal's lecture, which explores differences in cultural approaches towards AI: ❔ “Imagining AI: Intercultural attitudes toward intelligent machines” 📅 Thursday, 5 December 🕐 13:00 – 14:00 🔗Register for the “Imagining AI” lecture: https://lnkd.in/dbwVZUwR Imperial College London | Marco Da Re

🚀 Only 5 days left until the Hackathon organised by Fetch.ai Innovation Lab and hosted by I-X! During this exciting event, participants will have the opportunity to use Fetch.ai's uAgent technology to build their own AI applications. The challenge, provided by Moderna, Imperial's Business Partner, will focus on using agent technology to map patients' journeys and tackle vaccine hesitancy. We can't wait to see the innovative solutions participants come up with! Imperial College London | Imperial Enterprise | Imperial Enterprise Lab Sana Wajid CEng MICE FPWI Diana Serpoianu Redvers Lee

Did you miss our recent I-X Seminar with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine)? You can now watch it on our YouTube channel. 🎥 The talk introduces the Reality-Centric AI agenda, an approach that tackles the complexity and challenges of the real world through machine learning (#ML). The talk explores how we are expanding the boundaries of ML to advance this vision—ranging from using AI to drive scientific discovery, to pioneering new directions in causal inference over time, to making AI effective with real-world data, and to empowering individuals with #AI. 📺 Watch it now: https://lnkd.in/d_v34CGZ