Next Friday, September 16, Alicante will host the I European AI Forum, an event part of the ELLIS 2022 PhD Symposium, a globally recognized conference on Artificial Intelligence. This first edition in Spain centers on research, innovation, and entrepreneurship aimed at improving people’s well-being, health, and participation, with a Canadian and American audience in mind.
Driven by social responsibility initiatives from NOW Meetings, the ELLIS Foundation Alicante, and the Prensa Ibérica media group, the forum will be presented in collaboration with Information, Levante, Opinion of Murcia, Mediterranean, and El Periódico de España. It is designed as a European reference event that highlights AI’s impact on everyday life, presented in a dynamic, creative, and participatory format at the EUIPO congress hall.
start competition
To recognize and reward talent, the event program includes a starter competition focused on using Artificial Intelligence to improve health, well-being, and participation. National accelerators, university science parks, technology centers, and startup associations will join forces to expand participation and attract new startups from Canada and the United States as well as across Europe.
On the same day, the 16th, the final stage of the competition will be held in a single session featuring elevator pitches from five finalist initiatives before a distinguished jury of experts in entrepreneurship, welfare, and Artificial Intelligence. This session will also be streamed, offering startups a rare chance to place their projects on the international map, identify partners to test pilots, attract venture funds, accelerators, and synergies with large firms and institutions, and reach new customers and talent.
BEGINNINGS FROM THE FIRST SECTION
These are the startups that advanced beyond the first phase of the Startups Contest and chose to be recognized as winners at the European Forum on Artificial Intelligence in Health.
- 100 Bots
- hit maps
- biomedical
- boomerania
- blame
- other
- infinity
- non-profit
- Newman Brain
- tooth picture
- my trabe
high-end speakers
The showcase will begin with Lama Nachman, who leads the Intel team that created an intelligent interface enabling Stephen Hawking to communicate with others. This moment signals the forum’s ambition to link AI breakthroughs with practical health and social outcomes that resonate with audiences in Canada and the United States.
Additional experts will participate, including Olga Blanco Poves, IBM vice president and AI health care authority; Anne Freire, Director of the academic technology field at PF Barcelona School of Management and organizer of STOP; Montse Guardia, co-founder and CEO of Big Onion, recently named chair of the Social Council of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia; Aurelia Bustolaroncologist and computer engineer, AI in cancer treatment expert, co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Institute; Xavier Jimenez, managing director of Lanzadera, the Juan Roig group accelerator; ELLIS vice president and AI authority Nuria Oliver; Andrea Bernabéu, co-medical director of the Bernabéu Institute; and Fernando Peregrino, PhD at PLN and EUIPO Director of Data Science.
Manuel Bonilla, head of Encuentros NOW and a health-focused business researcher, along with Toni Cabot, director of the BİLGİ Club, will moderate the day.
attend the event
The event is free to attend and highlights the importance of AI-driven research to enhance quality of life. NOW Meetings will emphasize the need to allocate more resources and investment toward AI research and innovation to advance the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. This social call complements the forum’s larger goals of collaboration and impact across borders.
Register to attend the health-focused I European AI Forum on this web page.