CyberSec & AI Prague Conference in Prague | Avast

CyberSec & AI Prague Conference in Prague | Avast
Jeff Elder, 25 October 2019

Speakers and presenters from 11 nations draw an overflow crowd to artificial intelligence cybersecurity conference



Cybersecurity must find new ways to employ artificial intelligence and make the world safer and more secure, speakers on Friday told the sold-out CyberSec & AI Prague conference hosted by Avast and the Czech Technical University.  
“How can AI help us to live free, safe and secure?” Michal Pechoucek, Avast’s new chief technical officer (pictured above), asked the audience in the amphitheatre of Prague’s  DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. “We can solve this riddle.”  “How can AI help us to live free, safe and secure? We can solve this riddle.” – Michal Pechoucek, Avast’s new chief technical officer The conference brought speakers and presenters from 11 countries to discuss topics that included the machine vs. machine battle of adversarial AI, and election hacking.

Between sessions an overflow crowd of more than 250 mingled in the sleek industrial Dox Centre and admired student research projects in a “poster session” that included a complex concept depicted with Pokemon characters – perhaps the first meeting of Pikachu and AI conformal evaluators in cybersecurity history. 
Avast’s own artificial intelligence teaches its top-rated antivirus, anti-tracking products, Internet of Things home network innovation Omni, and other products how to protect users every day, said Avast’s head of AI, Rajarshi Gupta (pictured) in a presentation explaining “real AI for real people.” His takeaway, he said, was that “AI in security is real and working daily to protect hundreds of millions of Avast user ..

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