Cover Technology & Innovation: Keynote and programme revealed

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Text mining and machine learning expert Sophia Ananiadou is set to give the keynote speech at the Cover Technology & Innovation Forum on 3 April.

Professor Sophia Ananiadou, from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, will be covering artificial intelligence methods for evidence-based risk assessment at Professional Adviser's sister title's event. As the director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), Ananiadou will provide into an insight into text mining, natural language procession and machine learning in relation to underwriting. Anorak CEO David Vanek will talk about making protection conversations truly channel agnostic in his ‘robo-adviser vs digital advisers' discussion, while Facebook...

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