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| 2 | +title: "Harmony at Newspeak House on 23/01/2025" |
| 3 | +description: "We will present Harmony at Newspeak House" |
| 4 | +date: "2025-01-08" |
| 5 | +categories: |
| 6 | + - "psychology-ai-tool" |
| 7 | + - "events" |
| 8 | +# youtube: "C7SQdLPR6gs" |
| 9 | +image: "/images/newspeak.png" |
| 10 | +url: "/psychology-ai-tool/newspeak-house/" |
| 11 | +--- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## Tech Talk: Building AI for Good - Showcase & Meetup at Newspeak House on 23 January 2025 |
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| 16 | +We will present the open source AI tool [Harmony](/ai-in-research/harmony-wellcome-data-prize/) at the second [Building AI for Good - Showcase & Meetup](https://lu.ma/3f5h3k5m?tk=S5SF8q) on **23 January 2025** organised by [Newspeak House](https://newspeak.house/). |
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| 20 | + |
| 21 | +* 18:30 - Doors Open |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +* 19:00 - 19:20: Thomas Wood ([Fast Data Science](https://fastdatascience.com/ai-in-research/newspeak-house/)) and [Bettina Moltrecht](https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/60736-bettina-moltrecht) on supporting psychologists with Harmony. We will discuss using generative AI and LLMs to help researchers discover datasets and compare items in mental health questionnaires, even when they are written in different languages. Harmony is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and previously by the Wellcome Trust. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +* 19:25 - 19:45: Rob on voice AI user interfaces |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +* 19:50 - 20:10: Lorraine on building AI for Practice |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +* 20:15 onwards: community notices and mingling |
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| 35 | +## Speaker profiles |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +### Bettina Moltrecht |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Dr Bettina Moltrecht is a mental health researcher based at the University College London (UCL) and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in the UK. Bettina combines a strong clinical, tech and research background in her work. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +### Thomas Wood |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +Thomas Wood studied physics at university, and then did a masters in natural language processing in 2008. In 2018, he founded Fast Data Science, so he could work as a freelance consultant in natural language processing and machine learning. He is working as the industry partner on the Harmony project, and his other work includes applying natural language processing to clinical trial protocols. |
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| 46 | + |
| 47 | +## See also our past events |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +* 22 November 2024: [Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter](/open-source-for-social-science/women-in-data/) |
| 50 | +* 30 October 2024: [Onboarding webinar for DOXA AI competition](/doxa/) |
| 51 | +* 11 and 12 September 2024: [Harmony at MethodsCon Futures](/ai-in-mental-health/harmony-at-methodscon-futures/ |
| 52 | +) in Manchester |
| 53 | +* 2 July 2024: [Harmony: NLP and generative models for psychology research](/open-source-for-social-science/pydata-meetup/) at Pydata London |
| 54 | +* 3 June 2024: [Harmony Hackathon](/open-source-for-social-science/hackathon/) at UCL |
| 55 | +* 5 May 2024: [Harmony: A global platform for harmonisation, translation and cooperation in mental health](/ai-in-mental-health/harmony-at-lifecourse-seminar/) at Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Initiative seminar series. |
| 56 | +* 27 March 2024: [Harmony at AI Camp](/psychology-ai-tool/aicamp-meetup/) |
| 57 | +* 17 August 2023: [Harmony and TIDAL workshop](/ai-in-mental-health/harmony-and-tidal-workshop) |
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