Manuela Veloso at the 2nd Edition of Business Transformation Summit

Professor Manuela Veloso, head of the Machine Learning Department at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and CMU Portugal Program PI in two research projects, is one of the three speakers highlighted at the Business Transformation Summit.

The Business Transformation Summit is organized by CEGOC, a leading international professional training company, and will take place in October 17, 2017, at the Lagoas Park Congress Center in Oeiras. The event also features international keynote speakers such as Gerd Leonhard, future strategist and CEO of The Future Agency, and Laura Overton, founder and CEO of Towards Maturity, Professor at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Learning and Performance Institute in UK. 

Professor Veloso will address the Human-Machine relationship with her talk "Human IA Interaction - How the Interaction with Artificial Intelligence Will Impact the future". Manuela Veloso is regarded as the leading expert in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, with an ever-growing list of speaking engagements in the matter. Prof. Veloso describes her research goals as the "effective construction of autonomous agents where cognition, perception, and action are combined to address planning, execution, and learning tasks".

Read the Portuguese article at Empreendedor.com Online (April 11, 2017)