McGill AI Learnathon
January 23rd, 2026 • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
An Undergraduate AI Conference
Join some of the most curious students and acclaimed AI researchers in Montreal for a day-long conference at MILA (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute). The McGill AI Society has organized a series of talks and events open to interested, curious, and ambitious students ranging from high school to the graduate level, completely free of charge! Come learn about AI and meet other like-minded students! Registration includes the following:
AI for everyone
Our day-long program will have talks focused on a variety of AI concepts, from introductory to specialized topics.
Expert Speakers
We have invited a slate of industry and research leaders to host a range of technical talks and moderated panels.
Speakers
Blake Richards
Life is computation
Speaker Description:
Blake Richards is Research Scientist Manager with the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google, and an Associate Professor in the School of Computer S...read more
Event Description:
The development of modern AI systems has been shaped by a great deal of inspiration from neuroscience, and biology more generally. Why is that? In thi...read more
Liam Paull
Open-vocabulary structured scene representations for generalizable zero-shot robotic task execution
Speaker Description:
Liam Paull is an associate professor in the computer science department at the University of Montreal and a co-founder of the Montreal Robotics and Em...read more
Event Description:
Recently developed open-vocabulary foundation model representations have the potential to increase robots’ abilities to perform complex reasoning and ...read more
Oumar Kaba
Making sense of matter with machine learning
Speaker Description:
Sékou-Oumar Kaba is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Mila and McGill University working at the intersection of AI, physics, and materials scie...read more
Event Description:
Physics gives us powerful first-principle models, but many real-world problems involve scales and interactions that are difficult to capture exactly. ...read more
Schedule
Note that there will be 10 minute breaks in between each talk.
- 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Oumar Kaba
- 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM: Siva Reddy
- 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM: Blake Richards
- 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM: Liam Paull
- 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM: Jackie Cheung
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Sponsors
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