Automatic for the people

Ireland currently ranks as the sixth ‘most-digital’ economy in the EU. Last week’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Summit provided an overview of where we are now, and where AI can take us in the future, writes Róisín Kiberd

At the AI & Machine Learning Summit 2019, from left: Irfan Rasul, principal solutions consultant, Oracle Business Analytics; Dejan Cusic, business director, Ireland and UK, Comtrade Digital Services; Paul Verkaik, director, EMEA solution strategy, IPsoft; Clare Dillon, technology evangelist, Pat Breen, TD, Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation; and Mark Kelly, founder of AI Ireland and chief customer officer at Alldus International Pictures: Maura Hickey