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)

16:20 - 18:00: End of conference reception (Sakura Deeptech; all guests invited)