AE: Global Summit on Open Problems for AI

What are the next set of challenges for AI technology?

Join the USA’s leaders in algorithm development, ethics, and application.

4-6th December, 2024.

Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts.

Speakers

Algorithms Day (4th Dec)

  • Professor Aaron Courville

    Professor and CIFAR Chair

    Université de Montréal & Mila

  • Dr Zi Wang

    Research Scientist

    Google Deepmind

  • Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz

    Head of AI Research

    Thomson Reuters

  • Dr Kazuki Irie

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Harvard University

  • Jeremy Dohmann

    AI Research Scientist

    MosaicML & Databricks

  • Gayatri Sarkar

    Founder & CEO

    Advaita Capital

  • Michael Fischer

    Founder

    DeSciNYC / DB DAO

  • Alex M Reinhart

    Pillar VC

  • Dr. Hidenori Tanaka

    Research Scientist & Group Leader

    CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University

  • Dr. Lio Wong

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    LINGO Labs, MIT

Ethics & Society Day (5th Dec)

  • Prof Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

    HAI Fellow, Professor and Director

    Stanford, MIT Media Lab, MIT Human Dynamics Lab

  • Patricia Thaine

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Private AI

  • Professor David Duvenaud

    Associate Professor

    University of Toronto

  • Eric Kaplan

    Executive VP and President

    Operation HOPE & financial literacy for all (fl4a.org)

  • Saima Fancy

    Privacy & Security Specialist

    Ontario Health

  • Dr William Casey King

    Director, Capstone Program

    Yale, Jackson School of Global Affairs

  • Chris Lengerich

    Context Fund

  • Rubez Chong

    Design Director & Badass

  • Dr Chuncheng Liu

    Microsoft Research, Northeastern University

  • Han Sheng Chia

    Advancing Evidence in Policy Fellow

    Center for Global Development

  • Jurgita Miseviciute

    Public Policy and Government Affairs Lead

    Proton

  • Danny Belgrad

    Columbia University

  • Stephen Casper

    CSAIL, MIT

  • Minsoo Thigpen

    Microsoft

  • Hope Schroeder

    PhD Student

    MIT Center for Constructive Communication.

Applications Day (6th Dec)

  • Dennis R. Mortensen

    CEO and Founder

    LaunchBrightly

  • Professor Andreea Bobu

    Assistant Professor

    Collaborative Learning and Autonomy Research Lab (CLEAR Lab), MIT

  • Danny Gray

    Founder & CEO, JAAQ

  • David Rose

    Founder

    LOOKOUT

  • Dr Alex Oshmyansky

    Co-founder & CEO

    Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

  • Dr Salim Afshar

    Chief Medical & Innovation Officer

    Reveal HealthTech

  • Kachina Studer

    XR Technical Associate

    MIT

  • Grigori Guitchounts

    Flagship Pioneering

  • Dr. Mireia Torello

    Co-founder & CEO

    AIKreate

  • Albert Chen

    Co-founder, CEO

    Anago

  • Prof. Dan Nicolau Jr

    Kings College London

  • Trevor Keith

    Founder

    Codapt.ai

  • Waleed Atallah

    Founder

    Mako

  • Tanay Wakhare

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Stealth Startup

  • Thiri Shwesin Aung

    CEO & Founder

    Global Impact Assessment

  • Samuel Colvin

    Founder

    Pydantic

Speakers from the USA’s leading institutions discuss the future challenges and opportunities in AI research and application

Join hundreds of like-minded researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs in:

  • Keynote talks

  • Panel discussions

  • Breakout rooms

  • Discussion sessions

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Schedule

Day 1 - Algorithms Day (December 4th)

09:00: Morning keynotes - What are the Open Problems for AI/ML Algorithms?

11:00: Panel & Breakouts: How Should We Fund AI Research?

12:00: Break & Networking

13:00: Afternoon keynotes - What are the Open Problems for AI/ML Algorithms?

14:40: Break & Networking

15:20-16:00: Panel and Reception: What Do the Next 5 Years Look Like in AI/ML Research?

Day 2 - Ethics Day (December 5th)

09:00: Morning Keynotes: Benchside Ethics (“Micro”): Interpretability, reliability, sandboxing

10:40: Panel: Benchside AI Ethics

11:20: Morning Keynotes: Organizational Ethics (“Meso”): Pipelines, practices, & protocols

12:00: Break & Networking

13:00: Afternoon Keynotes: Organizational Ethics (“Meso”): Pipelines, practices, & protocols

14:00: Panel: Organizational AI Ethics

14:40: Break & Networking

15:20: Afternoon Keynotes: Societal Ethics (“Macro”): Governance & possible futures.

16:00: Main Panel: Societal AI Ethics

Day 3 - Applications Day (December 6th)

09:00: Morning Keynotes: Data, coding, robotics

10:40: Lightning talks: Data, coding, robotics

11:20: Exhibition: Data, coding, robotics

12:00: Break & Networking

13:00: Afternoon Keynotes: AI & Entrepreneurship

14:20: Exhibition: AI & Entrepreneurship

14:40: Break & Networking

15:20: Afternoon Keynotes: AI, Biology, & Medicine

16:00: Panel: AI, Biology, & Medicine

16:40: Closing reception (Museum of Science)

Sponsors

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Organizers

Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday MD PhD

President (Thinking About Thinking, Inc)

Center for Brain Science (Harvard)

Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (MIT)

Dr James Whittington MD PhD

Vice President (Thinking About Thinking, Inc)

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow

(Stanford / Oxford)

Member of technical staff (Zyphra)

Sam Rowe

Founder & CEO (Æthos)

Building global communities for AI

Nemo Shi

Co-Founder (Æthos )

Director (MIT Reality Hack AI)

Applied Responsible AI for Startups

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