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SUMMARY:2021 Mila Techaide AI Conference
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Mila\, TechAide will be hosting another edition of its 1-day research conference on artificial intelligence on April 23. The event will bring together numerous researchers\, professors from Mila\, an elite group of AI researchers presenting their current projects and sharing their field expertise. \nIn addition to being exposed to the most recent research in AI\, attendees will be contributing to a great cause. Indeed\, all proceeds of the conference will go towards the TechAide initiative to give back to Centraide of Greater Montreal\, in support of their fight against poverty and social exclusion. \nAttendees are encouraged to give generously. No matter the amount\, every donation counts. To double our impact\, Hugo Larochelle has offered to match all donations\, up to $25\,000! \nPlease\, refer to the Mila website for the details of the conference schedule and speakers. \nCo-organizers: Hugo Larochelle\, Sarath Chandar\, Sasha Luccioni\, Nadine Khairallah
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/2021-mila-techaide-ai-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201115T170000
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SUMMARY:2020 Techaide AI4GOOD Conference and Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:From November 12 to 15\, the TechAide AI Conference and the AI4GOOD Hackathon will be merged into one greater virtual event. This year\, TechAide is inviting you to the TechAide AI4Good Conference and Hackathon. \n\n\n\n\nThe objective of the conference is to showcase projects with positive impact from the AI community\, to raise money for Centraide of Greater Montreal\, and to inspire collaborations that could lead to improvements in the lives of Montrealers. \nOn the first day\, world-renowned researchers will share their work\, coupling innovative AI approaches with impactful projects from areas such as health\, environment\, accessibility\, and human rights. The day will feature two sessions\, each consisting of recorded presentations streamed in a Zoom watch party\, followed by a live Q&A with the speakers. \nFollowing the conference\, a hackathon will be held starting on November 12th\, from 5 pm and spanning the weekend until November 15th at 3 pm. The hackathon encourages interdisciplinary discussion and problem-solving\, bringing together problem owners from nonprofit organizations with AI enthusiasts that will develop and deploy concrete solutions to these problems. This will not only allow AI researchers and non-profit organisations to address important challenges related to the Greater Montreal society\, but also forge future possible collaborations. \nThis event is made possible thanks to the technical support of Mila and to the dedicated work of our volunteers of the TechAide Committee: Sasha Luccioni\, Nadine Khairallah\, Doina Precup\, Nabil Beitinjaneh\, Ilias Benjelloun\, Diana Rebmann\, Hugo Larochelle and Shibl Mourad. \nAttendees are also encouraged to give generously. No matter the amount\, every donation counts! To double our impact\, Hugo Larochelle has offered to match all donations\, up to $50\,000! \n\nConference Schedule\nThursday\, November 12th\, 2020\n9 AM – 11:30 AM \nMorning Watch Party \nShakir Mohamed (DeepMind)\nMiguel Luengo-Oroz (United Nations Global Pulse)\nOlivier Corradi (Tomorrow)\nReihaneh Rabbany (Mila) \n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM \nQ&A with the morning presenters \n12:30 PM – 1:30 PM \nGather.town social with sponsor booths and interaction with the presenters \n1:30 PM – 4 PM \nAfternoon Watch Party\nDimitri Kanevsky (Google)\nJohn Platt (Google)\nYoshua Bengio (Mila)\nJoelle Pineau (Mila/Facebook)\nMarzyeh Ghassemi (Vector Institute) \n4 PM – 5 PM \nQ&A with afternoon presenters \n5:15 PM \nHackathon launch \n  \nHackathon Schedule\nThursday\, November 12th\, 2020\n5:15 PM – 6:15 PM \nCentraide presentation with Lili-Anna Pereša (CEO) \n6:15 PM – 6:30 PM \nAgenda and logistics review \n6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \nNetworking and team formation \n  \nFriday\, November 13th\, 2020\n9 AM – 9:30 AM \nPresenting Centraide’s challenges and needs \n9:30 AM – 10 AM \nPresenting 211 Dataset \n10 AM – 10:30 AM \nPresenting Montreal datasets \n10:30 AM – 11 AM \nParticipant Q&A \n12:30 PM – 2 PM \nData analytics with Python \n2 PM – 3 PM \nMentor station: Ask your questions \n3 PM – 4 PM \nThe colors of COVID \n5 PM – 6 PM \nNetworking session/Team selection \n6 PM – 7 PM \nOptimizing collaboration – views from a life coach \n  \nSaturday\, November 14th\, 2020\n9 AM – 10:30 PM \nHow I visualized income inequality in Toronto using Tableau Public \n10:30 AM – 11:30 AM \nTeam formation \n11 AM – 12 PM \nMentor station \n12 PM – 1 PM \nAI Problem Scoping \n1 PM – 2 PM \nHow to optimize with little to no data \n2 PM – 2:30 PM \nPredicting risk in Montreal using open data (Stats Canada) \n6 PM – 7 PM \nPitch your project \n7 PM – 8 PM \nMentor station \n  \nSunday\, November 15th\, 2020\n9 AM – 10 AM \nDecoded reality: Ethics in AI \n10 AM – 11 AM \nMentor station \n1:30 PM – 3 PM \nTeam presentation pitch \n3 PM – 4 PM \nPresentation from our sponsors:  \n\nNext AI\nDell Technologies\n\n4 PM – 5 PM \nFinalists and closing ceremony
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/2020-techaide-ai4good-conference-and-hackathon/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Past events
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SUMMARY:Free Python Course
DESCRIPTION:Details\nWhen \nTuesday\, July 21 \n17:00 – 19:00 \nThursday\, July 23 \n17:00 – 19:00 \nSunday\, July 26\n17:00 – 19:00 \nThe course contains three lessons and is on a first come\, first served basis. \nWhere: TechAide Virtual Café (Zoom) \nCost: FREE \nAudience: Beginners of All Ages \nLanguage: English / Français \nPlatform: Zoom \nEstimated class size: 15 students per class \nWhat you need:\n• Computer / tablet\n• Internet connection\n• Zoom app \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The Course\nWhat is Python used for?\nPython is the most prominent programming language in mathematics\, Artificial Intelligence\, and data science. It is also extremely powerful in research\, developing websites\, web apps\, desktop GUI applications\, animation\, and so much more. \nWhy are we making this course open to all?\nWe believe that technologies with powerful potential such as machine learning\, data analysis\, and general AI will be very important to our society in the future. It is important for everyone at any age to get to know the fundamentals of these technologies\, starting with the language behind it all. \nWhy are we doing this?\nWe wish to bring the tech world closer to the social world. This course is one of our events that promote social collaboration and shine a light on the battle that Centraide has been fighting for decades in our communities. Poverty\, food insecurity\, social isolation\, and many more problems have devastated families and futures. Inspired by the actions of Centraide\, this course is one of the ways for us to help our community. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourse Topics\n1. Hello\, Python: An introduction to Python syntax\, variable assignment\, and numbers\n2. Functions and Getting Help: Calling functions and defining your own\, and using Python’s built-in documentation\n3. Booleans and Conditionals: Using booleans for branching logic\n4. Lists: Lists and the things you can do with them. Includes indexing\, slicing and mutating\n5. Loops and List Comprehensions: For and while loops\, and a much-loved Python feature: list comprehensions\n6. Strings and Dictionaries: Working with strings and dictionaries\, two fundamental Python data types\n7. Working with External Libraries: Imports\, operator overloading\, and survival tips for venturing into the world of external libraries
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/free-python-course/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200610T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200610T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T122222
CREATED:20200610T210023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T144119Z
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SUMMARY:Techaide Café
DESCRIPTION:What is TechAide Café?\nAn open online space for the Montreal tech community to meet online and exchange knowledge\, inspiration\, ideas and insights; while raising funds to support Centraide in its mission to reduce poverty and social isolation in Montreal. \nCafe User Manual\nTechAide Café is a virtual meeting room where anybody can enter and engage in open discussions as they would in a real cafe. \nThe Café welcomes everybody and is free. When attendees register at a Café\, they can make a small donation at their discretion to enjoy a virtual cup of coffee. \nWe thank you in advance for your contribution by your presence\, your donation\, or both.  Feel free to donate what you think is appropriate for you at this time or not to donate.  Your presence in the community is very valuable\, regardless. \nAll proceeds from the TechAide Café will go to Centraide of Greater Montreal to support their fight against poverty and social exclusion.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/techaide-cafe/
CATEGORIES:Past events,Techaide Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T122222
CREATED:20200206T220013Z
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SUMMARY:2020 Techaide Ambassadors Kick Off Cocktail
DESCRIPTION:TechAide was established to bring the tech community together in creative and entertaining ways in order to raise awareness and money to support Centraide break the cycle of poverty and social exclusion in Greater Montreal. TechAide’s support of Centraide reflects the tech community’s deep confidence in the organization’s role in understanding each local territory’s needs and supporting a network of high-impact agencies and projects to take care of the essential challenges and build caring communities. \nIn 2020\, we are aiming to grow TechAide even more significantly! Come and meet us to see how\, we are so excited to work with you to help make that happen. \nOn Thursday\, February 6th\, TechAide will host his annual kick-off cocktail to bring together Montreal’s tech ecosystem leaders. We are fortunate to have Mary Dailey Desmarais and Paul Desmarais III share some inspiring words\, in particular how we can continue to get together to give back to the community in 2020. \n The event will take place at Maison Notman\, from 6 to 8 p.m. and snacks and refreshments will be served during the evening. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity for people from the Montreal tech community to meet\, exchange ideas and have fun\, in addition to providing invaluable support to Centraide of Greater Montreal in its fight against poverty and social exclusion. \n  \nTax receipt \nFor this event\, a $50 tax receipt (50% of the value) will be issued. Registration No.: 11884 2517 RR0001.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/2020-techaide-ambassadors-kick-off-cocktail/
LOCATION:Notman House\, 51 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, QC\, H2X 1X2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200126
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SUMMARY:2020 Techaide Soccer Tournament
DESCRIPTION:The 2020 tournament\nWe are proud to announce that our 2nd TechAide Soccer Tournament benefiting Centraide of Greater Montreal will be back on January 25th\, 2020. \nOnce again\, the Tech Community is getting people together for some festive indoor exercise. Soccer players of all skill levels are welcome to join this friendly competition. This year\, we are aiming to recruit 24 teams instead of 17! \nAfter the tournament\, the winning teams will receive a tournament cup at a reception with food\, beverage and sponsor information booths. \nIn addition to spending a great afternoon with some of the most dynamic players in Montreal’s tech\, startup\, and venture capital community\, everyone who attends the event will be contributing to a great cause. All proceeds from the tournament will go to Centraide of Greater Montreal to support their fight against poverty and social exclusion. \nTOURNAMENT DETAILS\nTeams of five players will go head-to-head in an indoor soccer tournament. Teams can have up to 5 substitutions with unlimited player combinations. Matches are played on a small field and are short\, with one intermission of 10 minutes. \nEach team must have one (1) female player on the field at all time. TechAide supports the participation and inclusion in all his events. It’s important for us. \nThe 24 teams in the tournament will be divided into 6 groups for an initial round-robin of 3 matches. The 2 teams that lead each group after the round robin will then go on to the quarterfinals. The winners of the quarterfinals will go on to the semifinals. \nThe winners of the semi-finals will play in the final. The losers of the semi-finals will play in a match to determine the 3rd-place winner. \nThe teams that don’t make it into the playoffs can keep playing to try and win the competition for most goals scored. \nTEAM REGISTRATION\nEach team has until January 18th\, 2020 to raise at least $1\,000 to participate in the tournament. All profits will then be donated to Centraide of Greater Montreal. To reserve a spot\, we ask for a $100 registration fee (deposit) that will be included towards the final $1\,000. \nFor each registration fee ($1\,000)\, a tax receipt will be issued. This receipt will be released to whom is making the donation.  Registration No.: 11884 2517 RR0001. \nDONATIONS\nWe will also be accepting donations to support the event and your favorite team (please indicate the name of the team). \nFor this event\, a tax receipt will be issued for every donation of $20 or more to Centraide. Registration No.: 11884 2517 RR0001.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/2020-techaide-soccer-tournament/
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T122222
CREATED:20191121T220030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T155133Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night @ Element AI
DESCRIPTION:On November 21th\, join us for another amazing Game Night powered by Randolph. Our host\, Element AI\, welcomes us warmly in their office of Rosemont District with finger food and refreshments. \n\nWhen? Thursday\, November 21th\, 2019 between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm\nWhere? Element AI\, 6650 Rue Saint-Urbain #500\, Montréal\, QC H2S 3G9\nWho? 150 people from the Montreal tech community\nAdmission: $75 including food and beverages\n\nCome -solo or as a team- to compete against the greatest names of Montreal Tech! \nDon’t miss this great opportunity to meet up with your tech friends and colleagues and have fun\, while supporting Centraide of Greater Montreal in it’s fight against local poverty and social exclusion.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/game-night-element-ai/
LOCATION:Element AI\, 6650 Rue Saint-Urbain #500\, Montreal\, QC\, H2S 3G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190610
DTSTAMP:20260418T122222
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SUMMARY:2019 AI4GOOD Conference and Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:On June 7\, 8 and 9\, 2019\nTechaide is organizing the AI4Good Conference and Hackathon -Montreal edition organized by Techaide at Mila\, Montreal. \nThe objective of this conference is to connect the AI community with the non-profit community in Montreal to better understand the existing problems and to encourage collaborations that will lead to improvements in the lives of Montrealers. \nFor the first day of the conference\, speakers will share their expertise on existing problems in the Montreal community which potentially could be addressed with the help of AI\, or on AI solutions which could be or have already been applied to existing problems in the AI4Good space. \nAs part of the conference\, a hackathon will be held on the evening of June 7\, from 5 am to 9 pm\, on June 8\, from 9 am to midnight and on June 9\, from 9 am to 3 pm. The hackathon aims to encourage interdisciplinary discussion and a forum for AI researchers and non-profit organisations to address important challenges related to the Montreal society and forge future possible collaborations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate & Time\nJune 7th: 9 am to 5 pm Conference – Talks from both AI researchers and non-profits ▪ 5 pm to 10 pm: Hackathon part I \nJune 8th: 9 am to midnight – Hackathon part II \nJune 9th: 9 am to 3 pm – Hackathon part III\nLocation\nMila – Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle\n6666 Rue Saint-Urbain #200\, Montréal\nAttendees\n150 representatives of non-profit organizations\, AI researchers and AI students\nAdmission\nGeneral admission: $150\nStudents: $25\nNon-profits: free\nAdmission includes food and beverages \nClick here to visit the event official website.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/ai4good-conference-and-hackathon-mtl-edition/
LOCATION:MILA\, 6666 Rue Saint-Urbain\, Montreal\, QC\, H2S 3H1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190529T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T155026Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night @ Lightspeed
DESCRIPTION:On May 29th\, 2019\nJoin Techaide for an exciting Game Night at Lightspeed offices\, where you’ll get the chance to test your skills against Montreal’s finest tech minds! \nThe Randolph – Jeux et divertissements team will host the event and make sure there’s a little bit for everyone\, with games of skills and classic board games. Individually or with your team\, win points for each victory and become #1 of our Techaide Leaderboard! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nMay 29\, 2019 \nTime\n6:00 pm to 8:00 pm \nLocation\nLightspeed offices\,\n700 Saint Antoine East\,\nMontreal\, QC\nH2Y 1A6 \nAttendees\n100 people from the Montreal tech community \nAdmission\n$75 including food and beverages \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFinger food and drinks will be served all evening\, generously offered by Lightspeed. \nDon’t miss this great opportunity to meet up with your tech friends and colleagues\, have fun\, while supporting Centraide of Greater Montreal in it’s fight against local poverty and social exclusion.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/game-night-lightspeed/
LOCATION:Lightspeed\, 700 Rue Saint-Antoine West\, Montreal\, QC\, H4Z 1A1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190427
DTSTAMP:20260418T122222
CREATED:20190426T120051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210905T163053Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Techaide AI Conference
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Hugo Larochelle from Google Brain\, Techaide will be hosting a 2nd edition of its 1-day research conference on artificial intelligence on April 26th. The event will bring together world-renowned researchers in the field. \nIn addition to being exposed to the most recent research in AI\, attendees will be contributing to a great cause. Indeed\, all proceeds of the conference will go towards the Techaide initiative to give back to Centraide of Greater Montreal\, in support of their fight against poverty and social exclusion. \nAttendees are encouraged to give generously. No matter the amount\, every donation counts. To double our impact\, Hugo Larochelle has offered to match all donations\, up to $25\,000! \nSchedule\n8:00 – 8:30 \nWelcoming and registration \n8:30 – 8:40 \nOpening words \n8:40 – 9:15 \nA Meta-Transfer Objective for Learning to Disentangle Causal Mechanisms\nYoshua Bengio \n9:15 – 9:50 \nLearning with less labelling effort\nNegar Rostamzadeh \n9:50 – 10:50 \nBreak \n10:50 – 11:25 \nTemporal Regularization in Reinforcement Learning\nJoelle Pineau \n11:25 – 12:00 \nGrounding and Structure in Natural Language Processing\nJamie Kiros \n12:00 – 13:30 \nLunch break (on your own) \n13:30 – 14:05 \nMachine Learning in Cancer Immunotherapy\nJennifer Chayes \n14:05 – 14:40 \nMachine Learning and Creativity\nPablo Samuel Castro \n14:40 – 15:40 \nBreak \n15:40 – 16:15 \nOptimizing Behaviour Over Long Time Scales by Revaluing Memories\nTim Lillicrap \n16:15 – 16:50 \nThree Flavors of Neural Sequence Generation\nKyungHyun Cho \n16:50 – 17:25 \nFixup Initialization: Residual Learning Without Normalization\nYann Dauphin \n5:25 ET + \nHappy Hour
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/2019-ai-conference/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Park Ave\, Montreal\, QC\, H2V 4H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190126T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190126T170000
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SUMMARY:2019 Techaide Soccer Tournament
DESCRIPTION:Techaide is organizing a soccer tournament January\, 26th\, 2019 for the benefit of Centraide of Greater Montreal. The Tech Community is getting people together for some festive indoor exercise. Fans of amateur soccer are welcome to take part in this friendly competition \nFor a great cause\nIn addition to spending a great afternoon with some of the most dynamic players in Montreal’s tech\, startup\, and venture capital community\, everyone who attends the event will be contributing to a great cause. All proceeds from the tournament will go to Centraide of Greater Montreal to support their fight against poverty and social exclusion. \nEvent details\nTeams of five players will go head-to-head in an indoor soccer tournament. Teams can have up to 7 substitutions with unlimited player combinations. Matches are played on a small field and are short\, with two intermissions of 5 minutes. \n\nThe 16 teams in the tournament will be divided into 4 groups for an initial round robin of 3 matches.\nThe 2 teams that lead each group after the round robin will then go on to the quarterfinals. The winners of the quarterfinals will go on to the semifinals.\nThe winners of the semi-finals will play in the final. The losers of the semi-finals will play in a match to determine the 3rd-place winner.\nThe teams that don’t make it into the playoffs can keep playing to try and win the competition for most goals scored.\n\nAfter the tournament\, at 6:00 p.m.\, the winning teams will receive a tournament cup at a reception with food and beverages and sponsor information booths. \nTeam Registration\nThe registration fee for each team is $100. \nEach team is then asked to raise at least $1\,000 to participate in the tournament which will then be donated to Centraide. The $100 registration fee can be included in the final amount. \nFor each registration fee ($1000)\, a tax receipt will be issued. This receipt will be released to whom is making the gift on Eventbrite. Please note that the fee could be separate in a few donors to get to the $1000. Registration No.: 11884 2517 RR0001. \nDonations\nWe will also be accepting donations to support the event and your favorite team (please indicate the name of the team). \nFor this event\, a tax receipt will be issued for every donation of $20 or more to Centraide. Registration No.: 11884 2517 RR0001.
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/2019-techaide-soccer-tournament/
CATEGORIES:Past events
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SUMMARY:2018 Techaide AI Conference
DESCRIPTION:On April 17th\, 2018\, Hugo Larochelle from Google Brain is bringing together some of the best researchers in the Montreal AI community on a single stage for a unique conference benefiting Centraide. \nAttendees are encouraged to give generously. No matter the amount\, every donation counts. To double our impact\, Hugo Larochelle has offered to match all donations\, up to $25\,000! \nSchedule\n8:00 – 8:45\nWelcoming and registration \n8:45 – 9:00\nWelcoming words \n9:00 – 10:00\nKeynote: Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems\nJeff Dean\, Google senior fellow and lead of Google Brain \n10:00 – 10:30\nModeling user clicks\nLaurent Charlin\, HEC Montréal \n10:30 – 11:00\nBreak \n11:00 – 11:30\nAdvances in temporal abstraction for reinforcement learning\nDoina Precup\, Deepmind & McGill \n11:30 – 12:00\nRecent progress in Generative Adversarial Networks\nAaron Courville\, Université de Montréal \n12:00 – 1:30\nLunch \n1:30 – 2:00\nDrawing inspiration for AI from living intelligence\nYoshua Bengio\, Université de Montréal \n2:00 – 2:30\nNew perspectives on GANs\nSimon Lacoste-Julien\, Université de Montréal \n2:30 – 3:00\nOptimization dynamics for adaptive and efficient learning systems\nIoannis Mitliagkas\, Université de Montréal \n3:00 – 3:30\nAccelerating stochastic optimization methods using gradient transport\nNicolas Le Roux\, Google & McGill University \n3:30 – 4:00\nBreak \n4:00 – 4:30\nSome progress on fast approximate natural gradient descent\nPascal Vincent\, Facebook & Université de Montréal \n4:30 – 5:00\nLearning to Predict Important Content by Reading Summaries\nJackie CK Cheung\, McGill University \n5:00 – 5:30\nMachine learning for human rights: detecting burned villages from the sky\nJulien Cornebise\, Element AI \n5:30 – 6:00\nRewarding dialogue systems\nLayla El Asri\, Microsoft Maluuba \n6:00 – 8:00\nCocktail hour \n  \n 
URL:https://www.techaidemontreal.org/en/event/conference-ia-techaide-2018/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Park Ave\, Montreal\, QC\, H2V 4H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past events
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