Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST 📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal

Main Talks 1️⃣ Developing a (useful) customer segmentation model for targeted marketing - Claire Boyd There are many approaches to customer segmentation, each with its own pros and cons. This talk will explain an approach that I have taken and has since been implemented successfully, focusing on the process of developing and embedding the model in the business.

2️⃣ Gaussian process regression: from roller coasters to black holes - Zac Irving In this talk, I'll briefly introduce Gaussian process (GP) regression, drawing analogies to roller coasters and theme parks to build intuition. GP regression is particularly useful because Gaussian distributions are so common in nature, and they have a lot of nice mathematical properties; the simplest implementations of GP regression are to interpolate between data points with associated uncertainties. However, by incorporating GPs into a Bayesian inference framework, and with some careful model specification, I'll show how GP regression can also yield physically meaningful results. I'll then slightly extend the roller coaster examples to demonstrate how I've been used GP regression to describe black hole emission as part of my PhD.

Lightning Talks ⚡ ⚡1️⃣ An AI agent doing something useful - Daniel Ball ⚡2️⃣ Smart Campus Microgrids: AI for Real-Time Renewable Optimization - Namia Ali

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