Sir George Zambellas, Board of Directors, Agorai, speaking at the AI Summit, 2018, ExCel, London
Admiral Sir George Michael Zambellas, GCB, DSC, ADC, DL, FRAeS (born 4 April 1958)[1] is a retired Royal Navy officer. He was the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 2013 until he handed over duties to Admiral Sir Philip Jones in April 2016. In his early career he served as a helicopter pilot with 814 Naval Air Squadron, 829 Naval Air Squadron and then 815 Naval Air Squadron. As captain of HMS Chatham he was deployed as part of Operation Palliser off Sierra Leone, for which he received the Distinguished Service Cross in 2001. He went on to be Fleet Commander and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff in early 2012. Education: Agorai will seek to accelerate AI education and research, helping the UK become an AI research hotspot. Specifically, Agorai will invest in education by providing grants and software licenses to universities and research centres across the UK. Empowerment: Access to AI should not be restricted to large businesses alone. Agorai will work to encourage and empower the UK’s small and medium sized businesses to access AI. A programme of workshops will ensure they have the requisite information to apply AI to their business. Agorai will provide two-week workshops, free of charge, to approximately 150 companies per year. It is hoped this will help accelerate AI adoption across the UK. Entrepreneurship: Agorai will launch an AI Accelerator in London providing funds to entrepreneurs, the lifeblood of an economy, seeking to build AI powered solutions designed to improve and transform industries. Start-up companies selected to take part in the Accelerator will enjoy access to top business leaders and AI experts, financial funding, and receive allotments of Agorai licenses. The firms can then develop and deploy their software solutions on the Agorai platform, taking full advantage of the resources, assets and latest technology innovations available through the AI and Data marketplaces to help create a global ecosystem of AI innovators.
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