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Dr Tim Gocher, CEO, Dolma Impact Fund

Topic: An Investor's perspective on AI

Tim is the founder and CEO of Dolma Impact Fund - the first international Private Equity fund for Nepal. As an impact fund it targets positive financial returns alongside social and environmental outcomes. Dolma's investments span multiple sectors including renewable energy, healthcare, technology and agriculture. Their portfolio companies generate quality,- sustainable employment for thousands in one of Asia's poorest countries. Tim Gocher is Hon. Professor of Sustainable Business in the Business School at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His focus areas include impact investment, corruption, and IP commercialisation and technology clusters. He is also a guest lecturer at London Business School, and has been published in London Business School Review among other journals.

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Dr Pawel Capik, University of West England

Topic: Foreign Investment Promotion in the Age of Industry

Dr Pawel is a lecture in International Business. Prior to joining Bristol Business School in July 2019, he worked at Keele University, Sheffield Hallam University, University of the West of Scotland and University of Glasgow. He was also a Visiting Faculty at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and completed my PhD at the Centre for Contemporary European Studies at the University of the West of Scotland.

Dr Pawel was a recipient of The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Research Grant.

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Dr Ah-Lian Kor, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Topic: Qualitative Spatial Models and Reasoning for Autonomous Navigation

Dr Ah-Lian Kor is part of Leeds Beckett MSc Sustainable Computing Curriculum Development Team. She has been involved in several EU projects for Green Computing, Innovative Training Model for Social Enterprises Professional Qualifications, and Integrated System for Learning and Education Services. She has published work on ontology, Semantics Web,Web Services, Portal and semantics for GIS.

She is active in AI research and has developed an intelligent map understanding system and reasoning system. Dr Kor designed, implemented and evaluated interactive simulations, investigated reasoning and learning styles adopted by users when they interact with computer learning systems. She also co-developed the Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model and an Expressive Hybrid Model for the reasoning of cardinal direction relations between regions. This entailed formalising definitions for the following: atomic binary cardinal relations, whole and part cardinal relations, weak and expressive relations.

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Dr Muhammad Bilal, University of West England

Topic: Modernising Businesses with Artificial Intelligence (AI): Myth or Magic Bullet?

Dr Muhammad Bilal is Associate Professor of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Big Data Laboratory, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. He holds a PhD in Big Data Analytics from UWE, Bristol. During his PhD, he developed a simulation platform for UK argest construction firm (Balfour Beatty) in which hybrid AI models (i.e. Tabular, Vision and Sequence) were operationalised in conjunction with Big Data, Scientific Visualisation, and GIS for Dr Tim Gocher, CEO, Dolma Impact Fund Topic: An investor's perspective on AI Tim is the founder and CEO of Dolma Impact Fund - the first international Private Equity fund for Nepal. As an impact fund it targets positive financial returns alongside social and environmental outcomes. Dolma's investments span multiple sectors including renewable energy, healthcare, technology and agriculture. Their portfolio companies generate quality,- sustainable employment for thousands in one of Asia's poorest countries. Tim Gocher is Hon. Professor of Sustainable Business in the Business School at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His focus areas include impact investment, corruption, and IP commercialisation and technology clusters. He is also a guest lecturer at London Business School, and has been published in London Business School Review among other journals. automating non-trivial planning and execution tasks in Megaprojects. Dr Bilal has multi-disciplinary research interests that span across fields of Construction Informatics, Digital Health, Image Processing, Scientific Visualisation, AI, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Geospatial Analysis & Mining and Web-of-Data technologies.

His area of expertise is Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Image Processing, NLP, Optimisation, Python, SQL/PLSQL and Enterprise Java.