AI Song Contest 2021 Award Ceremony
DATE: July 6, 2021
TIME: 18.00 - 19.00 CEST
HOST: Cesar Majorana
GUESTS: Imogen Heap, Uncanny Valley, Carol Reiley, Gérôme Vanherf and Ajay Kapur and all the participating teams.
A showcase of the 2021 entries including music, many guests and the Grand Final of the AI Song Contest 2021. Which team follows in the footsteps of Uncanny Valley and wins the AI Song Contest 2021?
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Host
Cesar Majorana
Cesar Majorana is a tv-host and writer who grew up with YouTube2mp3 converted music. He is graduating from Sandberg Institute's audiovisual department and writes weekly about living with technology for VPRO gids.
Guests
Carol Reiley
Carol Reiley (aka Mother of Robots) is an entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence roboticist and investor. She is currently CEO of a healthcare startup, a Collaborative Partner of the San Francisco Symphony, tech advisory council member for Harman Kardon, a World Economics Forum Young Global Leader, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics to launch their international beauty campaign. She recently founded DeepMusic.ai, an organization that advocates human creativity in AI + the arts. She has been recognized by Forbes, Inc Magazine, and Quartz's Most Powerful Founders lists in Artificial Intelligence; served as an advocate for underrepresented groups in technology; and spoken out about bias in AI. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and Wired.
Imogen Heap
As a self-produced composer, recording artist and tech enthusiast for over 20 years, Imogen Heap has multiple awards under her belt, her own independent music label and three honorary doctorates. Never sitting still, she has developed music gestureware MI·MU gloves and an integrated digital ID solution, The Creative Passport, to empower music makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem. She has released under-the-skin hits such as Hide and Seek for grown-ups to The Happy Song for babies, composed the music for the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child stage show and is currently building her own AI system. Imogen is an artist’s artist, an entrepreneur, and a mother and is also an advisory board member for the Creative Industries Federation, a director of FAC and has collaborated with Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Jeff Beck, Nitin Sawhney, Jon Hopkins & many more.
Ajay Kapur
Ajay is currently the Associate Provost for Creative Technologies at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as the Director of the Music Technology program (MTIID). He also co-founded and advises a Ph.D. Research Group in Wellington New Zealand called Sonic Engineering Lab for Creative Technology. A risk-taker and entrepreneur at heart, he has also co-founded multiple successful companies in the areas of education technology, experiential art, and artificial intelligence. He received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in 2007 from University of Victoria combining computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, music and psychology with a focus on intelligent music systems and media technology. Ajay graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 2002.
Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley is an Australian music, sound and technology company. Charlton Hill, Justin Shave and Caroline Pegram are armed with decades of experience in the music industry, they are forging the path between artists and technology. They are the winners of the first ever AI Song Contest [‘Beautiful the World], have an ongoing collaboration with Google’s Creative Lab Sydney on ML tools for Musicians and have a AI advisory board of University academics and high level music industry professionals. Uncanny Valley is also behind the creative intelligence of the generative music engine memu.