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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Schedule
Day 1 - Algorithms Day (December 4th)
09:00: Morning keynotes - What can Artificial Intelligence Learn from the Study of Natural Intelligence and Vice Versa?
09:00 -09:20 - Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday - Conference Chair (Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking)
09:20 - 10:00 - Professor Kanaka Rajan - Group Leader (Harvard Medical School)
10:00 - 10:20 - Professor Hidenori Tanaka - Group Leader (CBS-NTT & Harvard University)
10:220 - 10:40 - Dr James Whittington - Conference Chair (Stanford & Oxford & Zyphra)
10:40: Break & Networking
11:20: Panel & Breakouts: How Should We Fund AI Research?
Felix Sosa (Session Chair) - Harvard & MIT & Advaita & Thinking About Thinking
Dr Olivia Viessmann - Senior Machine Learning Scientist (Flagship Pioneering)
Michael Fischer - Founder (DeSciNYC/DB DAO)
Mary Wang - Head of Strategic Initiatives (Convergent Research)
Professor Michael Lissack - Executive Director (Second Order Science Foundation)
Zahra Khwaja - Venture Manager (PillarVC + ARIA)
12:00: Break & Networking
13:00: Afternoon keynotes - What are the Open Problems for AI/ML Algorithms?
13:00 - 13:40 - Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz - Head of AI Research (Thomson Reuters)
13:40 - 14:20 - Dr Zi Wang - Research Scientist (Google Deepmind)
14:20: Break & Networking
15:00: Afternoon keynote - Multi-Agent Interactions in the General-Sum Setting
15:00 - 15:40 - Professor Aaron Courville - Professor and CIFAR Chair (Université de Montréal & Mila)
15:40-16:20: Panel: Is This the End of Scale?
Dr James Whittington - Conference Chair (Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra)
Dr Isabel Papadimitriou - Kempner Fellow (Harvard)
Dr Lio Wong - Postdoctoral Fellow (MIT)
Dr Kazuki Irie - Postdoctoral Fellow (Harvard University)
Jeremy Dohmann - AI Research Scientist (MosaicML & Databricks)
Alex Reinhart - Investor (Pillar VC)
Day 2 - Ethics & Society Day (December 5th)
09:00: Micro Ethics Keynotes: What Can Individual Researchers Do for Ethical AI?
09:00 - 09:20 - Professor Skyler Wang - Assistant Professor (McGill University)
09:20 - 09:40 - Professor David Duvenaud - Associate Professor (University of Toronto & Anthropic)
09:40 - 10:00 - Dr William Casey King - Director, Capstone Program (Yale & Microsoft)
10:00: Micro Panel - A False Sense of Safety: Are Current AI Safety Methods Truly Effective, or are They Just Patchwork Solutions for Deeper Problems?
Nicolay Hagen - Session Chair (NTNU & Thinking About Thinking)
Professor David Duvenaud - Associate Professor (University of Toronto & Anthropic)
Stephen Casper - PhD Student (CSAIL, MIT)
Hope Schroeder - PhD Student (MIT)
Chris Lengerich - Partner (Context Fund)
Dr. Naomi Saphra - Kempner Institute, Harvard
Danny Belgrad - Columbia University
10:40: Break & Networking
11:20: Meso Keynotes - What Can Organizations Do for Ethical AI?
11:20-11:40 - Patricia Thaine - Co-Founder & CEO (Private AI)
11:40-12:00 - Jurgita Miseviciute - Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs (Proton)
12:00: Break & Networking
13:00: Meso Keynotes - What Can Organizations Do for Ethical AI?
13:00-13:40 - Dr Aleks Jakulin - Co-Founder & President (Data.Flowers)
13:40: Meso panel: What can Organizations do for Ethical AI?
Professor Skyler Wang - Session Chair (McGill & Thinking About Thinking)
Dr Chuncheng Liu (Microsoft Research, Northeastern University)
Minsoo Thigpen - Senior Technical Product Manager, Responsible AI (Microsoft)
Jurgita Miseviciute - Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs (Proton)
Dr Aleks Jakulin - Co-Founder & President (Data.Flowers)
Sydney Runkle - Pydantic
14:20: Break & Networking
15:00: Macro Keynotes - AI & Society
15:00 - 15:30 - Prof Alex 'Sandy' Pentland - HAI Fellow & Professor & Director (Stanford & MIT Media Lab & MIT Human Dynamics Lab)
15:30 - 16:00 - Han Sheng Chia - Advancing Evidence in Policy Fellow (Center for Global Development)
16:00: Macro Panel: If AI Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Saima Fancy - Session Chair (Women in AI Ethics & Women in AI Governance)
Eric Kaplan - Executive VP and President (Operation HOPE & financial literacy for all; FL4A.org)
Patricia Thaine - Co-founder & CEO (Private AI)
Ashley Ramrachia - CEO & Co-Founder (Academy)
Sulagna (Dia) Ghosh - JointFamily
Day 3 - Applications Day (December 6th)
09:00: Morning Keynotes: Data, Coding, Robotics
09:00-09:40 - Sadid Hasan - Microsoft
09:40-10:00 - Professor Andreea Bobu - Assistant Professor (MIT)
10:00 - 10:20 - Professor Agata Lapedriza - (MIT/NEU EAI)
10:20: Break & Networking
10:30: Lightning Talks: Data, Coding, Robotics
Nemo Shi - Session Chair, Aethos
David Rose - Founder (LOOKOUT)
Kimo Gandall& Kenny McLaren - Founder (Fortuna-Insights)
Jenna Winocur & Thomas Baker - Founders (Cognisee)
Tanay Wakhare - Co-Founder & CEO (Prompt Inversion)
Fredrik Heiding - Researcher(Harvard)
Dr Mireia Torello - Co-founder & CEO (AIKreate)
Trevor Keith - Founder (Codapt.ai)
Albert Chen - Co-founder, CEO (Anago)
Waleed Atallah - Founder (Mako)
Kachina Studer - XR Technical Associate (MIT)
Mihailo Isakov - Founder (BoolSi)
Sebastien Mannai - Founder (Amplified Industries, Inc.)
Serge Vasylechko - Co-Founder (Sundai.Club)
12:00: Break & Networking
13:00: Afternoon Keynotes: AI & Entrepreneurship
13:00 - 13:20 - Samuel Colvin - Founder & CEO (Pydantic)
13:20 - 13:40 - Kristen Craft & friends (Fidelity) - Expert Workshop: Best Practices for Closing a Fundraising Round
13:40 - 14:00 - Dr Anna Litvak-Hinenzon - Chief AI Strategist & Founder (AL-Tech AI)
14:00 - 14:20 - Dennis R. Mortensen - CEO and Founder (LaunchBrightly)
14:00: Break & Networking
15:00: Afternoon Keynotes: AI, Biology, & Medicine
15:00 - 15:20 - Professor Dan Nicolau Jr - Associate Professor (Kings College London)
15:20 - 15:40 - Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi - HealthyML (MIT)
16:00: Panel: What is Being Overlooked Right Now for AI in Biomedicine?
Dr Clara-Lea Bonzel - Session Chair (Harvard & Thinking About Thinking)
Anna Marie Wagner - Independent Advisor & Board Member
Dr Alex Oshmyansky - Co-founder & CEO (Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company)
Thiri Shwesin Aung - CEO & Founder (Global Impact Assessment)
Dr Salim Afshar - Chief Medical & Innovation Officer (Reveal HealthTech)
Grigori Guitchounts (Flagship Pioneering)
