Montreal AI Symposium 2024

The Montreal AI Symposium aims to gather experts and professionals interested in fundamental advances and applications of artificial intelligence, emphasizing machine learning, deep learning, and related approaches. The Symposium welcomes academic and industrial participants and seeks to build strong connections between researchers in Greater Montreal.

For this year’s edition, the theme of the symposium will be AI and Governance.  We will feature a day-long event, including keynote talks, contributed talks, posters and a panel, including a cocktail for networking and meeting with sponsors. 

General Information

When: Thursday October 10th from 8:50am – 6pm EST

Where: Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 Mansfield St, Montréal, Quebec H3A3R8

Who: Anyone interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

See the schedule here.

A registration is required. Please indicate your intention to participate here (Eventbrite). Note that confirmation of your participation will be provided one week prior to the event. If we receive more registrations than the venue can accommodate, we will conduct a random draw to determine in-person attendance with a focus on prioritizing students and members of underrepresented communities.

Keynote Speakers

Peter Henderson (Princeton)

Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)

Panel: Societal impacts of generative AI

Peter Henderson (Princeton)

Fenwick McKelvey (Concordia University)

Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)

Joelle Pineau (Meta AI)

Call for Sponsors

The event’s organization is entirely supported by sponsors, as registration is free of charge for attendees.
If you want to learn about our sponsorship offers for the Montreal AI Symposium, please contact the organizers.

Organizing Committee

Program chairs:

Michał Drożdżal
(Meta)

Pierre-Luc Bacon
(University of Montreal, Mila)

Ivana Kajic
(Google DeepMind)

Valentina Zantedeschi
(ServiceNow)

David Adelani
(McGill University, Mila)

Diversity chairs:

Reyhane Askari
(University of Montreal, Mila)

Yash Goyal
(Samsung)

Local chair:

Nadine Khairallah
(Mila)

If you would like to serve on the program committee or help with the in-person event, please fill out the forms below:

Code of conduct

This symposium aims to facilitate discussions and the exchange of ideas. We ask all participants to be respectful of others and aware of their own behaviour. Registration for the symposium will require signing the code of conduct. Please take a look at the MAIS 2024 CODE OF CONDUCT.

Our sponsors

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Bronze:

Contact

Contact the organizers: mais.2024.pcs@gmail.com
Stay updated on the conference at @SymposiumAi