With the rise of artificial intelligence, there’s been many conferences and business events to discuss the moral, risky and money-making — or saving — implications across industries.
But Denver’s DenAI Summit is the first event of its kind to be hosted by a city government, showing Mayor Mike Johnston administration’s openness to adopting the technology.
“One thing we want to do in Denver is to be able to say, we want the city to be an open API,” Johnston said Thursday morning referencing an application programming interface publicly open for software developers.
The inaugural summit at the Colorado Convention Center was sold out and had more than 800 registrations, according to the city. The event is designed to tackle the biggest themes cities are facing each year and how AI can be used to solve it. The first theme was a major priority for the mayor: affordability.
Another big theme …