Startup Grind Seattle Host Oren Etzioni Artificial Intelligence expert, CEO Ai2

Feb 27, 2019, 1:30 – 3:30 AM (UTC)

Seattle

Create 33, 999 3rd Ave, 33 Floor, seattle, 98104

Do you want to learn where Artificial intelligence (AI) is going or what the heck all the talk is about? Well your in luck, few people know the space as well as our guest this month Oren. He is the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Ai2. He has amassed many awards and has been a venture partner at Madrona Ventures in 2000. He has authored over 100 technical papers.

In-person event

About this event

Dr. Oren Etzioni has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence since its inception in 2014. He has been a Professor at the University of Washington's Computer Science department since 1991, and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. He has garnered several awards including Seattle's Geek of the Year (2013), the Robert Engelmore Memorial Award (2007), the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award (2005), AAAI Fellow (2003), and a National Young Investigator Award (1993). 

He has been the founder or co-founder of several companies, including Farecast (sold to Microsoft in 2008) and Decide (sold to eBay in 2013). He has written commentary on AI for The New York Times, Nature, Wired, and the MIT Technology Review. He helped to pioneer meta-search (1994), online comparison shopping (1996), machine reading (2006), and Open Information Extraction (2007). He has authored over 100 technical papers that have garnered over 2,000 highly influential citations on Semantic Scholar. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1991 and his B.A. from Harvard in 1986.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Oren Etzioni

    Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

    CEO

When

When

Wednesday, February 27, 2019
1:30 AM – 3:30 AM (UTC)

Agenda

1:30 AMNetworking and Food
2:15 AMFireside Chat
3:30 AMNetworking

Host

  • Mike Grabham

    Esidarap Inc

    CEO/Founder

Organizers

  • Robert Green

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Director

  • Shawn McGaff

    OblongPixel

    Co Director

  • Eduardo Altamirano

    Assistant to the Director

  • Julie Zhu

    Mentor

  • Mike Grabham

    Esidarap inc

    Advisor

  • Rob Ricciardellli

    Co-Director

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