McGill AI Learnathon
January 26th, 2024 • 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
An Undergraduate AI Conference
Join some of the most curious students and acclaimed AI researchers in Montreal for an afternoon 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
Yoshua Bengio
Future AI Risks
Speaker Description:
Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montreal, as well as the Founder and Sc...read more
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Advances in AI offer great promises but with great power comes great responsibility. AI can already provide power to heal or to harm, providing great ...read more
Liam Paull
Learning World Representations for Robotics
Speaker Description:
Liam Paull is an assistant professor at l'Université de Montréal and the head of the Montreal Robotics and Embodied AI Lab (REAL). His lab focuses on ...read more
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One of the central questions for mobile robots is that of constructing a model of the world in which the robot is operating. In this talk, we will dis...read more
David Rolnick
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
Speaker Description:
David Rolnick is an Assistant Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and Mila, and Co-founder and ...read more
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Machine learning (ML) can be a useful tool in helping society reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. In this talk, we will e...read more
Steven Li
Building the Contact Center of the Future
Speaker Description:
Steven Li is a principal AI engineering developer at the National Bank of Canada. At NBC, he focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in ...read more
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Recent improvements in speech to text, generative AI and natural language processing/understanding have been critical to helping shape the future of c...read more
Schedule
Note that there will be 10 minute breaks in between each talk.
- 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM: Laurence Perreault Levasseur
- 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM: Liam Paull
- 3:40 PM - 4:20 PM: David Rolnick
- 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM: Steven Li
- 5:20 PM - 6:00 PM: Yoshua Bengio
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