Invited speakers

 Marko Grobelnik

 Biography

Marko Grobelnik is an expert researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Focused areas of expertise are Machine Learning, Data/Text/Web Mining, Network  Analysis, Semantic Technologies, Deep Text Understanding, and Data Visualization. Marko co-leads the Department for Artificial Intelligence at Jozef Stefan Institute,  co-founded UNESCO International Research Center on AI (IRCAI), and is the CEO of Quintelligence.com specialized in solving complex AI tasks for the  commercial world.

 He collaborates with major European academic institutions and major industries such as Bloomberg, British Telecom, European Commission, Microsoft Research,   New York Times. Marko is co-author of several books, co-founder of several start-ups and is/was involved into over 50 EU funded research projects in various fields of Artificial Intelligence. Marko represents Slovenia in OECD AI Committee (AIONE) and in Council of Europe Committee on AI (CAHAI). In 2016 Marko became Digital Champion of Slovenia at European Commission.