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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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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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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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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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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/
LOCATION:QC
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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