Schedule
Day 1 - Algorithms Day (April 9th)
09:00: Morning Keynotes - Open Problems in AI
09:00 - 09:20 - Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking):
Opening Remarks
09:20 - 10:00 - Dr Shane Gu (Google DeepMind):
The history of GenAI from Passive to Active General Intelligence
10:00 - 10:20 - Prof. Masanori Koyama (University of Tokyo):
What shall AI simulate?
10:20 - 10:40 - Dr Kai Arulkumaran (Araya Inc.):
Neuro-inspired AI: Reinforcement Learning and Consciousness
10:40: Break & Networking
11:20: Panel: Is Scale Enough?
Dr Lucy Lai (Session Chair) - OIST & Harvard University
Dr Kai Arulkumaran (Araya Inc.)
Prof. Masanori Koyama (The University of Tokyo)
Dr Emtiyaz Khan (RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) )
Dr Jad Tarifi (Integral AI)
Dr Sam Passaglia (Cohere)
12:00: Break & Networking
13:00: Afternoon Keynotes - Open Problems for AI
13:00 - 13:20 - Prof. Taro Toyoizumi (RIKEN Center for Brain Science):
Modeling the brain's representation of abstraction and probability
13:20 - 13:40 - Prof. Yunzhe Liu (Beijing Normal University)
Interpreting Sleep Activity Through Neural Contrastive Learning
13:40 - 14:00 - Dr James Whittington (Stanford & Oxford University)
14:20 - Break & Networking
15:00 - 15:20 - Dr Emtiyaz Khan (RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project):
Adaptive Intelligence
15:20 - 15:40 - Dr Jiaxian Guo (Google Research):
An Overview of Large Language Model Efficiency
15:40-16:20: Panel: What will be the next breakthrough in AI?
Dr James Whittington - Conference Chair (Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra)
Dr Yuzuke Iwasawa (University of Tokyo)
Dr Taro Toyoizumi (RIKEN Center for Brain Science)
Dr Jiaxian Guo (Google Research)
Dr Andrey Filchenkov (Noeon Research)
Kiran Mysore (Principal at UTEC)
Day 2 - Ethics & Society Day (April 10th)
09:00: Micro Ethics (Keynotes): AI & the Individual (Researcher)
09:00 - 09:20 - Nicolay Hagen - Session Chair (NTNU & Thinking About Thinking)
AI Ethics Introduction
09:20 - 09:40 - Dr Colin Rowat (Rakuten, Cambridge University):
Interpretability and explainability in ML and AI: an overview with some questions
09:40 - 10:00 - Dr Kenny Song (Citadel AI)
A primer on Trustworthy AI
10:00: Micro Ethics (Panel) : What are the ethical decisions about AI that individual researchers can make? 個々の研究者が AI に関して下せる倫理的な決定とは何でしょうか?
Nicolay Hagen - Session Chair (NTNU & Thinking About Thinking)
Dr Kenny Song (Citadel AI)
Dr Colin Rowat (Rakuten, Cambridge University)
Prof. Skyler Wang (McGill University)
10:40: Break & Networking
11:20: Meso Ethics (Keynotes) - AI & Organizations
11:20-11:40 - Dr Joe Ledsam (Google Health):
Innovations and challenges for AI in Health 医療分野における AI の革新と課題
11:40-12:00 - Dr Arisa Ema (University of Toyko, RIKEN):
Interdisciplinary Approach to AI Governance
12:00: Break & Networking
13:00-13:20 - Prof. Skyler Wang (McGill University)
AI’s Second Order Impacts
13:20: Meso Ethics (Panel): What are the ethical decisions about AI that organizations can make? 組織が AI に関して下せる倫理的な決定とは何でしょうか?
Prof. Skyler Wang - Session Chair (McGill & Thinking About Thinking)
Prof. Arisa Ema (University of Tokyo, RIKEN)
Dr Joe Ledsam (Google Health)
Evan Burkosky (Kimaru AI)
14:00: Break & Networking
14:40: Macro Ethics (Keynotes) - AI & Society
14:40-15:00 - Prof. Toshie Takahashi (Waseda University)
15:00-15:20 - Prof. Yuko Harayama (Head of GPAI at NICT):
"AI and human society" from the perspective of Society 5.0
AIと人間社会」Society 5.0の視点から
15:20: Macro Ethics (Panel): What are the ethical decisions about AI that society can make? 社会が AI に関して下せる倫理的な決定とは何でしょうか?
Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday - Session Chair (Harvard University & MIT)
Prof. Toshie Takahashi (Waseda University)
Kevin Loi-Heng (Avalon Insights)
Tiffany Kayo (Coral Capital)
Day 3 - Applications Day (April 11th)
09:00: Morning Keynotes: Applications of AI
09:00 - 09:20 - AI Applications Introduction
09:20 - 09:40 - Dr Jungo Kasai (Kotoba Technical University)
09:40 - 10:00 - Dr Yukie Nagai (University of Tokyo):
AI for Understanding Human Intelligence
人間の知能の理解に向けた人工知能
10:00 - 10:20 - Fireside Chat: Japan, Entrepreneurship, and AI
Chair: Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, MIT, Thinking About Thinking)
Special guest: Sho Ito (Deputy Director for Innovation Policy, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Special guest: Ilya Kulyatin (Founder, Tokyo AI | TAI)
10:20: Break & Networking
11:00: Lightning Talks by Local AI Entrepreneurs
11:00 - Elizabeth Oda (Braid Technologies)
11:10 - Tiago Ramalho (Recursive)
11:20 - Francis Hamilton (Tektome)
11:30 - Qi Chen (Para)
11:40 - Andrew Fyfe (Neutone)
11:50 - Kosuke Arima (Stockmark)
12:00: Break & Networking
13:00: Afternoon Keynotes: AI & Entrepreneurship
13:00 - 13:20 - Takahiro Matsumoto (Cisco / Robust Intelligence):
AI x Security - Security for AI… and AI for Security as well
13:20 - 13:40 - Dr Daisuke Okanohara (Preferred Networks)
13:40 - 14:00 - Dr Joshua Tan (Metagov)
An Airbus for AI
14:00: Break & Networking
14:40: Afternoon Keynotes: AI for Science
14:40 - 15:00 - Dr Nick McGreivy (Princeton University):
AI for Science: 5 Lessons from my PhD
15:00 - 15:20 - Robert Lange (Sakana AI):
The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search
15:20 - 15:40: Fireside Chat: How can AI revolutionize Science?
Chair: Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, MIT, Thinking About Thinking)
Special guest: Professor Hiroaki Kitano (Adjunct Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)
15:40 - 16:20: Panel: How can AI revolutionize Science?
Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard, MIT, Thinking About Thinking)
Prof. Hiroaki Kitano (OIST)
Dr Nick Mcgreivy (Princeton University)
Dr Yoshitaka Ushiku (NexaScience)
Robert Lange (Sakana AI)