Simon Thompson

Simon Thompson has spent 25 years developing AI systems, usually but not always using machine learning. He led the AI research program at BT Labs in the UK, helped pioneer Big Data technology in the company, and managed an applied research practice for nearly a decade. His teams delivered projects that used Bayesian machine learning, deep networks, and good old-fashioned decision trees and association rule mining to provide insight on telecoms networks, customer service, and business processes at a big corporation. Simon left BT in 2019 and now works in consultancy. At the moment, he and his team are busily delivering machine learning projects as a consultant to banks, insurance companies, and in manufacturing using cloud AI platforms, large language models, and vector databases. Simon is a family man and loves his garden and dogs. You can follow him @AISimonThompson on Twitter or look him up on LinkedIn.