University of Oxford held its inaugural artificial intelligence-focused conference last month, bringing together investors and the world’s foremost researchers in the area.

University of Oxford sees itself “as an artificial intelligence powerhouse,” vice-chancellor Louise Richardson said during her opening speech to the AI@Oxford conference, the first such event put on by the institution – though you would not know it from the hundreds of people filling out the large lecture theatre in the Saïd Business School and an overflow room next door. As speakers and delegates would prove time and again over the course of the next two days, Richardson was, if…

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Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.