The field of Machine Learning (ML), including Deep Learning (DL), has seen tremendous growth, in the past decade. While such developments have simultaneously led to both optimistic and pessimistic views on AI and the future of society/humanity, one thing everyone agrees on is that certain industries and domains have benefited from AI more than others.

On the other hand, the Global Goals (i.e., the 17 goals officially known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs) can be among the biggest beneficiaries of AI. According to a report by PwC, by 2030, the use of AI for environmental applications could contribute up to $5.2T to the global economy; it could also create 38.2 million net new jobs globally. Adding the impact to overlapping industries such as healthcare, finance, education and more, the size of this impact can be even bigger.

OxML aims to bring some of the best talents in machine learning together with the primary goal of providing them with world-class training in ML/DL, with the main objective of raising awareness about AI+SDG. Our goal is to train and inspire more scientists and engineers in ML to pursue research towards the pledge to leave no one behind, that lies at the core of  SDG’s. This year's program consists of two main modules: ML x Health (Aug 7-10), and ML x Finance (Aug 11-14); participants of both modules will have access to an ML Fundamentals module (June 27-29).