December 4th: Algorithms Day
08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 10:40 - Opening Remarks & Keynotes - What can artificial intelligence learn from the study of natural intelligence and vice versa?
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Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
Conference Chair (Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking)
Open Problems for AI
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Professor Kanaka Rajan
Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School & Kempner Institute at Harvard
NeuroAI: Using Experimental Data and Computational Models to Reveal the Operating Principles of a Biological Brain
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Professor Hidenori Tanaka
Research Scientist & Group Leader (CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University)
Physics of Intelligence for Trustworthy AI
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Dr James Whittington
Conference Co-Chair (Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra)
A Tale of Two Algorithms: Memory and Reasoning in the Brain and AI
11:00 - 11:40 - How Should We Fund AI Research?
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Felix Sosa
Session Chair
Harvard & MIT & Advaita & Thinking About Thinking
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Professor Michael Lissack
Professor of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai
Executive Director, Second Order Science Foundation, Salem, MA
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Dr Mary Wang
Head of Strategic Initiatives
Convergent Research
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Michael Fischer
Founder
DeSciNYC / DB DAO
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Dr Olivia Viessmann
Principal ML Scientist
Flagship Pioneering
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Zahra Khwaja
Venture Manager
PillarVC + ARIA
13:00 - 15:40 - Afternoon Keynotes - What are the Open Problems for AI / ML Algorithms?
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Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz
Head of AI Research (Thomson Reuters)
Beyond the surface: The quest to unlock the full potential of your data: Insights from Research, Entrepreneurship & Industry
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Dr Zi Wang
Research Scientist (Google Deepmind)
Proactive LLMs for Better Interactions and Alignment with Humans
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Professor Aaron Courville
Professor and CIFAR Chair (Université de Montréal & Mila)
Multi-Agent Interactions in the General-Sum Setting
15:40 - 16:20 - Main Panel - Is this the end of Scale?
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Dr James Whittington
Conference Chair
Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra
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Dr Isabel Papadimitriou
Kempner Fellow
Harvard
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Dr Lio Wong
Postdoctoral Fellow
LINGO Labs, MIT
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Dr Kazuki Irie
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
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Jeremy Dohmann
AI Research Scientist
MosaicML & Databricks
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Alex Reinhart
investor
Pillar VC
December 5th: Ethics & Society Day
08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 10:00 - Micro Ethics Keynotes - What Can Individual Researchers Do for Ethical AI?
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Professor Skyler Wang
Conference Co-Chair (McGill & Thinking About Thinking)
The Micro, Meso, and Macro of AI Ethics
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Professor David Duvenaud
Associate Professor (University of Toronto)
Evaluating frontier models' abilities to sabotage evaluations and human decision-making
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Dr William Casey King
Director, Capstone Program (Yale & Microsoft)
10:00 - 10:40 - Micro Panel - A false sense of safety: Are current AI safety methods truly effective, or are they just patchwork solutions for deeper problems?
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Nicolay Hagen
Session Chair
NTNU & Thinking About Thinking
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Professor David Duvenaud
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
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Stephen Casper
PhD Student
MIT
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Hope Schroeder
PhD Student
MIT
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Chris Lengerich
Partner
Context Fund
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Dr Naomi Saphra
Kempner Institute, Harvard
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Danny Belgrad
PhD Student
Columbia University
11:20 - 13:40 - Meso Keynotes - What Can Organizations Do for Ethical AI?
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Patricia Thaine
Co-Founder & CEO (Private AI)
The Hidden Cost of Privacy Theater in AI Development
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Jurgita Miseviciute
Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs (Proton)
Privacy in the age of AI
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Dr Aleks Jakulin
Co-Founder & President (Data.Flowers)
AI Ecosystem Sustainability Ethics
13:40 - 14:20 - Meso Panel - What Can Organizations Do for Ethical AI?
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Professor Skyler Wang
Session Chair
McGill & Thinking About Thinking
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Dr Chuncheng Liu
Microsoft Research, Northeastern University
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Minsoo Thigpen
Senior Technical Product Manager, Responsible AI
Microsoft
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Jurgita Miseviciute
Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs
Proton
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Dr Aleks Jakulin
Co-Founder & President
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Sydney Runkle
Software Engineer
Pydantic
15:00 - 16:00 - Macro Keynotes - AI & Society
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Prof Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
HAI Fellow, Professor and Director (Stanford, MIT Media Lab, MIT Human Dynamics Lab)
The Digitalist Papers: reinventing democracy
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Han Sheng Chia
Advancing Evidence in Policy Fellow (Center for Global Development)
How we get the upside from AI
16:00 - 16:40 - Macro Panel - If AI is the answer, what is the question?
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Saima Fancy
Session Chair
Women in AI Ethics & Women in AI Governance
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Eric Kaplan
Executive VP and President
Operation HOPE: AI Ethics Council & Financial Literacy for All initiatives
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Patricia Thaine
Co-founder & CEO
Private AI
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Ashley Ramrachia
CEO & Co-Founder
Academy
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Dr Sulagna Ghosh
Founder
Joint Family
December 6th: AI Applications Day
08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 10:20 - Data, Coding, & Robotics Keynotes
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Leroy Sibanda
Session Chair
Thinking About Thinking
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Dr Sadid Hasan
AI Lead
Microsoft
Generative AI: From Origins to Future, Applications & Open Problems
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Professor Andreea Bobu
Assistant Professor (MIT)
Learning a Lot from a Little: How Structure Enables Efficient and Human-Aligned Robot Learning
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Professor Agata Lapedriza
Principal Research Scientist (NEU EAI / UOC / MIT)
AI for Emotion Perception: Unlocking Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges
10:30 - 12:00 - Data, Coding, & Robotics Lightning Talks
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Nemo Shi
Conference Co-Chair
Aethos
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David Rose
Founder
LOOKOUT
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Kimo Gandall
Founder
Fortuna-Insights
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Kenny McLaren
Co-Founder & CTO
Fortuna-Insights
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Jenna Winocur
Co-Founder
Cognisee
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Thomas Baker
Co-Founder
Cognisee
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Tanay Wakhare
Co-Founder & CEO
Prompt Inversion
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Fredrik Heiding
Researcher
Harvard
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Dr Mireia Torello
Co-founder & CEO
AIKreate
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Trevor Keith
Founder
Codapt.ai
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Albert Chen
Co-founder, CEO
Anago
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Waleed Atallah
Founder
Maco
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Kachina Studer
XR Technical Associate
Harvard / MIT
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Dr Mihailo Isakov
CEO & Co-Founder
BoolSi
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Sebastien Mannai
CEO & Co-Founder
Amplified Industries, Inc.
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Serge Vasylechko
Co-Founder
Sundai.Club
13:00 - 14:20 - AI & Entrepreneurship Keynotes
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Samuel Colvin
Founder (Pydantic)
An Opinionated Blueprint for the Future of GenAI Applications
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Kristen Craft & friends
Vice President, Business Partner Manager (Fidelity)
Expert Workshop: Best Practices for Closing a Fundraising Round
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Dr Anna Litvak-Hinenzon
Chief AI Strategist & Founder (AL-Tech AI)
Open problems in AI implementation: Why 80% of AI initiatives fail and how to develop a successful AI roadmap
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Dennis R. Mortensen
CEO and Founder (LaunchBrightly)
The Entrepreneurial Dichotomy Between Augmented Assistance and Full Automation
A few comments on the spectrum from task augmentation to fully replacing humans in building transformative, AI-driven products.
15:00 - 15:40 - AI & Medicine Keynotes
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Yasmine Ayman
Session Chair
Harvard & Thinking About Thinking
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Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi
HealthyML (MIT)
The Pulse Of Ethical Machine Learning in Health
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Professor Dan Nicolau Jr
Associate Professor (Kings College London)
Learning from Small Data: Powder, Pathogens and (Statistical) Power in Clinical Trials
16:00 - 16:40 - Panel: What is being overlooked right now for AI in Biomedicine?
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Dr Clara-Lea Bonzel
Session Chair
Harvard & Thinking About Thinking
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Anna Marie Wagner
Independent Advisor & Board Member
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Dr Alex Oshmyansky
Co-founder & CEO
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
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Thiri Shwesin Aung
CEO & Founder
Global Impact Assessment
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Dr Salim Afshar
Chief Medical & Innovation Officer
Reveal HealthTech
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Grigori Guitchounts
Flagship Pioneering
