• 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

  • Dr Zi Wang

    Research Scientist (Google Deepmind)

    Proactive LLMs for Better Interactions and Alignment with Humans

  • Professor Aaron Courville

    Professor and CIFAR Chair (Université de Montréal & Mila)

    Multi-Agent Interactions in the General-Sum Setting

  • Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday

    Conference Chair (Harvard & MIT & Thinking About Thinking)

    Open Problems for AI

  • 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

  • Professor Hidenori Tanaka

    Research Scientist & Group Leader (CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University)

    Physics of Intelligence for Trustworthy AI

  • Dr James Whittington

    Conference Co-Chair (Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra)

    A Tale of Two Algorithms: Memory and Reasoning in the Brain and AI

  • Dr James Whittington

    Conference Chair

    Oxford & Stanford & Zyphra

  • Dr Isabel Papadimitriou

    Kempner Fellow

    Harvard

  • Dr Lio Wong

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    LINGO Labs, MIT

  • Dr Kazuki Irie

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Harvard University

  • Jeremy Dohmann

    AI Research Scientist

    MosaicML & Databricks

  • Alex Reinhart

    investor

    Pillar VC

  • Professor Skyler Wang

    Conference Co-Chair (McGill & Thinking About Thinking)

    The Micro, Meso, and Macro of AI Ethics

  • Professor David Duvenaud

    Associate Professor (University of Toronto)

    Evaluating frontier models' abilities to sabotage evaluations and human decision-making

  • Dr William Casey King

    Director, Capstone Program (Yale & Microsoft)

  • Nicolay Hagen

    Session Chair

    NTNU & Thinking About Thinking

  • Professor David Duvenaud

    Associate Professor

    University of Toronto

  • Stephen Casper

    PhD Student

    MIT

  • Hope Schroeder

    PhD Student

    MIT

  • Chris Lengerich

    Partner

    Context Fund

  • Dr Naomi Saphra

    Kempner Institute, Harvard

  • Danny Belgrad

    PhD Student

    Columbia University

  • Patricia Thaine

    Co-Founder & CEO (Private AI)

    The Hidden Cost of Privacy Theater in AI Development

  • Jurgita Miseviciute

    Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs (Proton)

    Privacy in the age of AI

  • Dr Aleks Jakulin

    Co-Founder & President (Data.Flowers)

    AI Ecosystem Sustainability Ethics

  • 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

    Software Engineer

    Pydantic

  • Prof Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

    HAI Fellow, Professor and Director (Stanford, MIT Media Lab, MIT Human Dynamics Lab)

    The Digitalist Papers: reinventing democracy

  • Han Sheng Chia

    Advancing Evidence in Policy Fellow (Center for Global Development)

    How we get the upside from AI

  • Saima Fancy

    Session Chair

    Women in AI Ethics & Women in AI Governance

  • Eric Kaplan

    Executive VP and President

    Operation HOPE: AI Ethics Council & Financial Literacy for All initiatives

  • Patricia Thaine

    Co-founder & CEO

    Private AI

  • Ashley Ramrachia

    CEO & Co-Founder

    Academy

  • Dr Sulagna Ghosh

    Founder

    Joint Family

  • Leroy Sibanda

    Session Chair

    Thinking About Thinking

  • Dr Sadid Hasan

    AI Lead

    Microsoft

    Generative AI: From Origins to Future, Applications & Open Problems

  • Professor Andreea Bobu

    Assistant Professor (MIT)

    Learning a Lot from a Little: How Structure Enables Efficient and Human-Aligned Robot Learning

  • Professor Agata Lapedriza

    Principal Research Scientist (NEU EAI / UOC / MIT)

    AI for Emotion Perception: Unlocking Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges

  • Nemo Shi

    Conference Co-Chair

    Aethos

  • David Rose

    Founder

    LOOKOUT

  • Kimo Gandall

    Founder

    Fortuna-Insights

  • Kenny McLaren

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Fortuna-Insights

  • Jenna Winocur

    Co-Founder

    Cognisee

  • Thomas Baker

    Co-Founder

    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

    Maco

  • Kachina Studer

    XR Technical Associate

    Harvard / MIT

  • Dr Mihailo Isakov

    CEO & Co-Founder

    BoolSi

  • Sebastien Mannai

    CEO & Co-Founder

    Amplified Industries, Inc.

  • Serge Vasylechko

    Co-Founder

    Sundai.Club

  • Samuel Colvin

    Founder (Pydantic)

    An Opinionated Blueprint for the Future of GenAI Applications

  • Kristen Craft & friends

    Vice President, Business Partner Manager (Fidelity)

    Expert Workshop: Best Practices for Closing a Fundraising Round

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Yasmine Ayman

    Session Chair

    Harvard & Thinking About Thinking

  • Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi

    HealthyML (MIT)

    The Pulse Of Ethical Machine Learning in Health

  • Professor Dan Nicolau Jr

    Associate Professor (Kings College London)

    Learning from Small Data: Powder, Pathogens and (Statistical) Power in Clinical Trials

  • 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

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)

16:40: Closing reception (Lily P’s)