Alon Halevy is a director at Meta’s Reality Labs Research, where he works on Personal Digital Data, the combination of neural and symbolic techniques for data management and on Human Value Alignment. Prior to Meta, Alon was the CEO of Megagon Labs (2015-2018) and led the Structured Data Group at Google Research (2005-2015), where the team developed WebTables and Google Fusion Tables. From 1998 to 2005 he was a professor at the University of Washington, where he founded the database group. Alon is a founder of two startups, Nimble Technology and Transformic (acquired by Google in 2005). Alon co-authored two books: The Infinite Emotions of Coffee and Principles of Data Integration. In 2021 he received the Edgar F. Codd SIGMOD Innovations Award. Alon is a Fellow of the ACM and a recipient of the PECASE award and Sloan Fellowship. Together with his co-authors, he received VLDB 10-year best paper awards for the 2008 paper on WebTables and for the 1996 paper on the Information Manifold data integration system.
Roundtable 2
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There has been widespread interest regarding the use of GenAI – ranging from the amazing possibilities it unlocks for organisations, to the development costs/accessibility required to adopt new technologies. Join us for a discussion on whether the financial services industry is ready to collaborate on developing an industry utility powered by GenAI, and if the benefits will outweigh the costs of doing so.
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Advocates champion AI's ability to level the financial playing field and democratise access through more personalised and intuitive financial services. But critics contend that AI technology, with its inherent biases, will only serve to exacerbate disparities.
Join finance and tech leaders as they explore the integral role of AI in financial services, and what it will take to ensure AI is truly a force for good.
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