Three years ago, our first website went live!
Since then, our platform has grown tremendously and we’ve created a complete ecosystem for the sharing of AI knowledge.
One special highlight of this community-wide engagement is the AI Awards, which have been a huge success on a global scale. The ‘Oscars of the AI tech world’ and the only independent AI Awards, we have awarded 27 winners in previous years. To celebrate the Awards’ third year, we have created a bigger programme of events to lead-up to December’s ceremony. Nominations are still open, with an impressive 53 award categories of awards. Judging and showcases will take place at various locations over the coming month so get your entries in ASAP!
The purpose and focus of Informed.AI will always be the same: to enable people to learn more about artificial intelligence and to make the subject more accessible for everyone. Essentially, we support the AI Community and are always looking for ways to widen our scope, coverage, accessibility and appeal.
The past three years have been an amazing journey. On a practical level, we’ve added more functionality to into.AI (previously neurons.ai), creating a number supporting sites for specific parts of the ecosystem (see below for a full breakdown). But by far the most enjoyable part has been meeting so many people and helping them to engage better with the wider AI community.
We have always recognised the importance of keeping our site users happy and welcome feedback and comments from anyone using the platform. Just last month we held our first AI RoundTable, which provided incredibly valuable feedback on how to further enhance the ecosystem. We’ll be implementing a lot of these suggestions over the coming months, so stay tuned…
It’s been beyond encouraging to witness the organic growth of our users over the past three years:
- We now have close to 1,000 visitors per day from every country across the world
- Our Neurons professional network has hit 6,000 members, with 25 groups in 15 countries, and is growing every week
- We have many thousands of followers on our social media channels and newsletters.
We have a brilliant network of volunteers who enable us to do so much. These include chapter leaders of the meetup groups, judges for the annual achievement awards, and the dedicated central team that support me on many other tasks and plans.
This truly is a community for the people, run by the people. I am so proud to be part of it.
I want to thank you all for being part of the Informed.AI network and ask that you continue to share with you friends and colleagues and help us make this the best and biggest AI community out there.
Andy Pardoe
The site we launched three years ago has grown into a number of sites that form the complete AI ecosystem:
INTO.AI
Recently rebranded from neurons.ai to align with other .AI domains and to more clearly tell our story.
We want to thank everyone for their continued involvement. We are always looking for contributors to submit stories, press releases and thought-leadership articles. Sharing your news and views is an intrinsic part of the ecosystem so please keep submitting your news!
We also have a regular spotlight for AI companies/start-ups who want to showcase their new products. This is a totally free promotional tool. Individuals can also submit content for this – we have book authors, for example.NEW! We are now also creating our own unique stories, articles and papers. This exclusive content will also be shared as part of our newsletters so please sign up if you haven’t already
AWARDS.AI
The official website of the AI Awards, where you can place your nominations and learn about previous winners.
Nominations for the 2018 awards are open until July 15th. Please use the form on Awards.AI to submit.
Awards.AI is the first and biggest global annual achievement awards for artificial intelligence. Our focus is to support the AI community by recognising and celebrating the hard work and dedication of those working in this field.
Award Showcases will be held between September and November – these give shortlisted nominees the opportunity to demonstrate their technology to the public and judging panel. Confirmed Showcase dates can be found at Awards.ai/programme. Award winners will be announced at a ceremony in London in December and tickets for this event will be on sale from September.
NEURONS.AI
A Professional Network for AI Practitioners and Researchers.
Growing steadily in size, this is a mix of both online and offline interactions, with meetups, forums, user blogs and messaging. This platform facilitates knowledge sharing between organisations, allowing us all to benefit from the open developments of this field.
We have over 20 Chapters in 15 countries around the world, with more being added every month.
If you would like to lead a chapter in your city, please let us know.
EVENTS.AI
Over 200 AI related events, conferences, meetups, one-day events and webinars. With the largest list of discount codes for AI conferences in one place.
This is a great place to plan your annual itinerary and save money too!
VOCATION.AI
A career portal and jobs board to support key areas of development.
One of the key issues highlighted by the Royal Society report on Machine Learning was the potential skills gap this industry is facing. Obviously there isn’t a single solution to this, but we hope that into.AI – from a training and education perspective – and Vocation.AI- from a career/jobs perspective – will help to support the development needed over the coming years.
Updated with a fresh, new design, we are looking to partner with agencies and companies to list opportunities. Candidates can also post their profiles and CVs online.
SHOWCASE.AI
With our first AI RoundTable being a successful event, we are planning to host more in the coming months.
We have plans to host a Summit later this year, plus our Quarterly Showcase events – providing Online Live Demonstrations of AI Products, Frameworks and Tools. We are also planning to hosting an Annual UnConference for Researchers to better share ideas and receive feedback- more on this soon!
