Yesterday, Evispot kicked off the Evispot AI Challenge, a five day long machine learning competition, co-organized with Bisnode and Microsoft. With just over 20 teams participating in the challenge Evispot invited the teams to a night of inspiring talks, food & drinks and introduction to the challenge itself. Besides Evispot, we listened to talks from David Fendrich of Crawlica under the theme “Why can we predict anything at all?” and Robert Quinn of IBM under the theme “Did you say Let’s eat Grandpa or Let’s eat, Granpa?”. Now the participants have until Tuesday to complete the case – we are looking forward for the results!

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Joachim Karlsson, Group Director of Innovation, Bisnode
Joachim introduced Bisnode and their view of the Evispot AI Challenge as well as highlighted the importance of machine learning in the future of credit decisions.

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”Why can we predict anything at all?” by David Fendrich, CTO Crawlica
David started off by saying that he would give a technical speech, not to talk about business at all. And he certainly did, David speech focused around the Solomonoff induction, Kolmogorov Complexity
and gave some valuable tips of how to tackle AI problems. You can find David’s slide here.

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“Did you say Let’s eat Grandpa or Let’s eat, Grandpa?” – by Robert Quinn, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Robert talked about how IBM Watson cognitive journey started with playing Jeopardy. By building a Jeopardy AI-robot, with the two requirements, it should answer within one second and at least be 85% sure to answer the correct answer.

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Isak, CFO & Co-Founder, Evispot
Isak highlighted the importance of the challenge due to the upcoming regulatory changes in the financial industry.

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Tomas, CTO & Co-founder, Evispot
Tomas introduced the challenge in details and declared the challenge’s start.
Below are more pictures from the evening.

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A big thanks to everyone who showed up and had a great evening with us! If you have any questions or comments don’t hesitate to contact us – hello@evispot.ai
Now we are looking forward for the results!
A special thanks to Fabian Wennerbeck who took the pictures!
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