The world’s leading AI summit for the Americas
24th – 25th April, 2024
Montréal, Canada
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“A global force for good, focusing the attention of the data science and business communities on how our most cutting edge tools can deliver a brighter future for us all.” Forbes
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery… but there is only one World Summit AI!” Fortune Magazine
About World Summit AI Americas
The world’s leading AI summit for the Americas brings together the global AI ecosystem. World Summit AI is the only AI summit in the world that matters, and we showcase the world’s brightest AI brains on our stages with innovative, cutting-edge, topical content, tackling the most burning AI issues right now.
After the huge success of last year’s World Summit AI Americas, we are delighted to be back again in Montréal on 24th-25th April for the sixth iteration of the Summit. With the 2023 Summit featuring Mila and SAIIL as our content partners, and huge name speakers such as Yoshua Bengio, Joelle Pineau, Gary Marcus, Athina Kanioura, Cassie Kozyrkov, and Luc Julia, is it any wonder that CNN chose to film both days of last year’s Summit for their AI documentary?
This is THE summit you simply can’t afford to miss
> THE biggest global thought-leaders in AI and technology, healthcare and ethics
> Topical conversation and deep-dive tech-talks around the ‘Quantum Apocalypse, Cybersecurity, Encryption and Privacy-Preserving Data, Multimodality, Generative AI and LLMs…and so much more!
> Demos from the leading tech companies at our bustling expo
> More editorially-curated content and big-name speakers from our partners Mila and SAIIL
> Innovation insights from some of the most-groundbreaking startups who are genuinely disrupting the status quo and changing lives
Who’s coming?
🧠 Tech companies, AI Tech Startups & Scaleups, Academics, Investors & Students.
🧠 CEOs, CTOs, COOs, Founders, Chief Data Officers, Chief Information Officers & Chief Digital Officers.
🧠 VPs, Directors, Heads of AI Machine Learning Data Science Technology Innovation Applied AI
🧠 Scientists, Engineers & Developers
🧠 Investors – progressively minded VCs, Seeds and Angels
🧠 Clinicians and Healthcare professionals
View AttendeesKey 2024 themes include
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- Multimodality: Will the advent of multimodality usher in a new era of ‘Interactive AI’?
- AI adoption: What drives successful AI adoption in enterprise?
- Human-centered AI: How will the rise of Generative AI drive the conversation around the need for human-centered AI?
- Maximizing the AI Opportunity: Should we sprint towards an AI-powered future or take a careful walk, balancing innovation and safety?
- Cybersecurity: How will LLMs and AI impact the cybersecurity landscape?
- Quantum Computing: Is a quantum apocalypse on the horizon?
- AI and the workplace: How should we prepare for the era of an augmented workforce?
- Democratising AI knowledge: Can we democratize knowledge around AI and Responsible AI so people can meaningfully understand the impacts, harms and opportunities of the single biggest technological innovation in a generation?
The world’s leading AI summit series welcomes Mila back as Content Partner in 2024!
Mila, – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute is the world’s largest deep learning research institute. Mila will bring its academic expertise to our world-renowned AI Summit, offering first-rate headliners and panels.
Yoshua Bengio, Mila Founder and Scientific Director and Turing prize winner, delivered the opening remarks on the state of AI at World Summit AI Americas 2023 and on the challenges and opportunities that come with a rapidly changing technological lansdscape.
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World Summit AI Americas partnered with SAIIL in 2023 to bring you the BIGGEST Intelligent Heath stage in Montréal.
SAIIL, the Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory in the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital focuses on the use of artificial intelligence to reimagine the way surgery is performed. SAIIL is a multidisciplinary group composed of surgeons, engineers and data scientists who are passionate about redesigning the delivery of surgical care.
The Intelligent Health Track on 20th April 2023, was chaired and editorially curated by Ozanan Meireles, Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital; Director MGH SAIIL; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, a globally-renowned expert in this sector.
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🧠Sneak Peek at the first 2024 AI Brains🧠
YOSHUA BENGIO
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Full Professor, Samsung AI
Professor, Université de Montréal
Scientific Director
Mila & IVADO
YOSHUA BENGIO
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Full Professor, Samsung AI
Professor, Université de Montréal
Scientific Director
Mila & IVADO
Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.
In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and in 2022, became the computer scientist with the highest h-index in the world. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and Officer of the Order of Canada.
Concerned about the social impact of AI and the objective that AI benefits all, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.
ANDREW ZOLLI
Chief Impact Officer
Planet
ANDREW ZOLLI
Chief Impact Officer
Planet
Core Member of Mila
Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; Canada CIFAR AI Chair,
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Autonomous AI; Professor
Université de Montréal
Core Member of Mila
Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; Canada CIFAR AI Chair,
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Autonomous AI; Professor
Université de Montréal
Irina Rish is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Operations Research Department at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) and a core faculty member of MILA – Quebec AI Institute. She holds Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Autonomous AI and a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Canada AI Chair. She received her MSc and PhD in AI from University of California, Irvine and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Gubkin Institute. Dr. Rish’s research focus is on machine learning, neural data analysis and neuroscience-inspired AI. Before joining UdeM and MILA in 2019, Irina was a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where she worked on various projects at the intersection of neuroscience and AI and led the Neuro-AI challenge.
She received multiple IBM awards, including IBM Eminence & Excellence Award and IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 2018, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2017, and IBM Research Accomplishment Award in 2009. Dr. Rish holds 64 patents, has published over 80 research papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, several book chapters, three edited books, and a monograph on Sparse Modeling.
ALYSSA LEFAIVRE ŠKOPAC
Head of Global Partnerships and Growth
Responsible AI Institute
ALYSSA LEFAIVRE ŠKOPAC
Head of Global Partnerships and Growth
Responsible AI Institute
LARRY HECK
Professor of ECE and Interactive Computing, Executive Director, AI Hub and Machine Learning Center
Georgia Tech
LARRY HECK
Professor of ECE and Interactive Computing, Executive Director, AI Hub and Machine Learning Center
Georgia Tech
ALKA ROY
Guest Faculty, Responsible Innovation & AI, SCET, University of California, Berkeley; Founder
RI Labs & The Responsible Innovation Project
ALKA ROY
Guest Faculty, Responsible Innovation & AI, SCET, University of California, Berkeley; Founder
RI Labs & The Responsible Innovation Project
FIONA MCEVOY
Technology & AI Ethics Writer/Researcher & Founder
YouTheData.com
FIONA MCEVOY
Technology & AI Ethics Writer/Researcher & Founder
YouTheData.com
Fiona J McEvoy is an AI ethics writer, researcher, speaker, and thought leader based in San Francisco, CA. She was named one of the 30 Women Influencing AI in San Francisco by RE•WORK, and was recently honored in the inaugural Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ Hall of Fame, established at the end of 2020 to recognize “brilliant women who have made exceptional contributions to the space of AI Ethics and diversity.”
Fiona is the founder of YouTheData.com, a platform for the discussion of the societal impact of tech and AI, and she has had numerous articles published in media outlets including Slate, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Offscreen, and All Turtles. Fiona is also regularly asked to present her ideas to AI conferences across the US and internationally, and in recent years has addressed events in Canada, Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. Her work has been referenced in books, including Francine Banner’s Crowdsourcing the Law, David Vance’s Business Essentials, and Jeff Mapua’s Virtual Reality and You.
Fiona holds a graduate degree in Philosophy, with a special focus on ethics and technology.
Why attend?
The world’s brightest #AIBrains are coming together to learn, rework the future and collaborate.
🧠 Meet new connections and business partners
🧠 Source the latest AI solutions and technologies
🧠 Keep in touch with existing clients and connections
🧠 Share ideas and user case stories
🧠 Find investors, venture partners and source capital
🧠 Meet potential acquirers and new business opportunities
🧠 Connect with founders, recruit staff, and meet up coming rising stars
🧠 Connect with AI ethicists, data scientist talent and developers
🧠 Participate in an interactive workshop and earn professional development points
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HELD UNDER THE OFFICIAL PATRONAGE OF MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, STATE OF QATAR
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