In collaboration with Mila, TechAide will be hosting another edition of its 1-day AI research conference on April 17. The event will bring researchers and professors from Mila to present their current projects and sharing their field expertise. It will also be featuring keynote speakers: David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Kyunghyun Cho, Golnoosh Farnadi, Sara Hooker, Tegan Maharaj and Derek Nowrouzezahrai.
In addition to being exposed to the most recent research in AI, attendees will be contributing to a great cause. Indeed, all proceeds of the conference will go towards the TechAide initiative to give back to Centraide of Greater Montreal, in support of their fight against poverty and social exclusion. Attendees are encouraged to give generously. No matter the amount, every donation counts. To double our impact, Hugo Larochelle has offered to match all donations, up to $25,000!
Co-organizers: Sarath Chandar, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Hugo Larochelle, Nadine Khairallah, Desiree Goldwater
The event will be held at Mila's offices, at 6650 Saint-Urbain Street, at the Agora on the first floor.
*Please note that the event will be held in English.
*The ticket includes breakfast, coffee/tea, lunch and a cocktail reception.
Schedule
8:30 am to 9:15 am - Welcome, coffee and registration
9:15 am - A word from the organizing committee
9:25 am - A word from Centraide
9:30 am - Sara Hooker (Cohere for AI): The slow death of scaling and what comes next
10:15 am - Kyunghyun Cho (NYU): Causality gets help from deep learning
11:00 am - 15 min Break
11:15 am - Golnoosh Farnadi (Mila/McGill): Beyond the Trade-off: Redefining Fairness and Privacy in Foundation Models
12:00 pm - Lunch Break
1:30 pm - David Adelani (Mila/McGill): Scaling multilingual evaluation of LLMs to many languages
2:15 pm - Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Mila/McGill): Bridging Graphics and Machine Learning: differentiable simulators as inductive biases
3:00 pm - 15 min Break
3:15 pm - Tegan Maharaj (Mila/HEC Montréal): Responsible AI (Doesn't Exist) - Rethinking Risk in a New Era of Complex Systems
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm - Cocktail / Networking and Sponsor Booths
Keynote Speakers
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Assistant Professor at McGill, Core Academic Member at Mila and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Kyunghyun Cho
Professor at NYU, Senior Director, Frontier Research, Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED)
Golnoosh Farnadi
Assistant Professor at McGill University, Core Academic Member at Mila, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google
Sara Hooker
VP of Research at Cohere and Lead of Cohere For AI
Tegan Maharaj
Assistant Professor at HEC Montréal, Core Academic Member at Mila
Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Associate Professor at McGill University, Core Academic Member at Mila, Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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