Artificial intelligence (AI) and its application is an area of growing interest within the biosciences research and innovation community. This interest is reflected more broadly in the recently published UKRI statement of opportunity ’Transforming our world with AI’ (PDF), which sets out the cross-disciplinary and cross-sector opportunities to support AI research and innovation in the UK.

UKRI-BBSRC will run a virtual community building meeting for artificial intelligence in the biosciences on Wednesday 19 May 2021. The event aims to raise awareness of the potential AI has for the biosciences and to illustrate where it has already made a difference. It will also promote networking between communities and help UKRI-BBSRC understand the opportunities and challenges of AI for the biosciences in particular, inclusive of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks and other related technologies.

The meeting will be virtual and hosted on Zoom as a whole day event (approx. 9:30 to 16:00). The format is expected to be a mixture of presentations in the morning, a poster session and time for networking over the two-hour lunch break and facilitated workshop discussion in the afternoon.

If you wish to participate, please complete the registration by 7 May 2021.

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