Poverty – Techaide

Simon Lacoste-Julien on more equity in machine learning and in our community

Today we meet Simon Lacoste-Julien, co-founder of MILA, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, associate professor at the University of Montreal and Vice President Lab Director of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Montreal. Simon shares with us the journey that led him to become one of the world's leading references in machine learning

Local Love, Bridging Ecosystems & Social Inequalities

We all love Montreal dearly, one of North America’s top cities for its quality of life and yet, astonishingly, our city ranks in the bottom 15 in terms of people (our fellow citizens) living in poverty! The tech community and its startup entrepreneurs are passionately motivated to make the world a better place and this