Welcome to the 9th edition of Smartspaces!

Greetings, knowledge seekers!

As Berlin Science Week concludes, we’re not slowing down – expect our ongoing lineup of events to keep the spirit of discovery burning bright. 🔥 The festival was jam-packed with thought-provoking events covering everything from the mysteries of space to the wonders of biology. We’re committed to continuing that journey every week.

🚀 This week OpenAI's DevDay has sent a ripple of excitement through the tech world, heralding a new chapter in the evolution of AI. Particularly exciting is the announcement of custom GPTs, which opens up a world of personalized AI applications – imagine the potential of a Smartspaces GPT, revolutionizing how we interact with and explore the realms of science and technology! 🙂 This pivotal development in AI, coupled with fresh partnerships and advanced capabilities, signals that we are indeed on the cusp of a transformative era in artificial intelligence. That's why this week, we're honing our focus on AI, with a special spotlight on the advancements and possibilities within LLMs. 🌐

🧠 We're continuously sharpening our focus with a range of science and tech events, as always inspired by your feedback. Now you can find more hands-on events like hackathons from Google, Microsoft and more competitions where you can hone your skills, solve cutting edge problems and win prizes. 💰 Let us know what topics are most exciting for you and we’ll add them in for next week!

🎮 Test your knowledge with our new weekly quiz: "The Science & Tech Week in Review". Are you up to speed with the latest breakthroughs? Did you learn something new last week? Let's see what you've got! (More to come from us on this front soon 👀)

As always, we're here to feed your curiosity and help you find the perfect intellectual adventures for the week ahead. Let's keep the momentum going with more learning, more discovery, and more collaboration.

What’s up next week?

🎬️ An inspiring lineup of visionaries, household names and timely talks on the most important new technologies. 🎬️ 

• 🧠 Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and one of the most influential politicians in recent years will discuss the topic of empathy in leadership. Hosted by Harvard.

• 👀 Last week we had Andrew Ng, this week, his co-founder at Coursera, Daphne Koller is at EPFL sharing her expertise on drug discovery. Koller is CEO of insitro, a drug discovery startup that has raised over $600M from investors including a16z. She earned a PhD in computer science from Stanford, her research has been cited over 100,000x!

• 🤖 Many, many great, hands on AI lectures and workshops from Imperial, EPFL, DeepLearning.AI and more

As always, you can find the details and links to the events in our Highlighted Events section & hundreds of additional upcoming events, indexed & enriched with contextual information about speakers and topics on smrtspace.xyz

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🌟 Highlighted Events 🌟

Tuesday, 14/11/2023