About The Event
RIIAA brings together the Mexican and Latin American artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. Emphasizing the interaction between actors based in Mexico and abroad, as well as the academic and industrial communities, in order to catalyze the development, adaptation and use of AI in the country.
Catalysing Artificial Intelligence in Latin America.
Looking to the future and recognizing an increasingly transformative role for AI, the RIIAA is organized by a group of Mexican students, academics, and professionals seeking to bring together existing communities and groups in the field. Originated from a meeting at the NeurIPS conference, this meeting aims to be an important complement to other conferences, emphasizing the interaction between groups based both in Mexico and abroad, as well as between the communities dedicated to research and practice.
Wide range of panels discussing AI
It also featured lectures and a summer school for university students. We had a diverse group of participants: on the one hand, academics and research groups from Mexican and foreign institutions; on the other, university students, government representatives and industry professionals.
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Conference Schedule
Day 1
Aug 25, 2020 UTC-5
Day 2
Aug 26, 2020 UTC-5
Day 3
Aug 27, 2020 UTC-5
10:00 - 11:00Keynote 1: Transforming healthcare through machine learning
By Mihaela van der Schaar Cambridge University & The Alan Turing Institute
11:00 - 12:00Panel 1: AI for CompBiology and Health
By Jeffrey P. Bigham Apple, Mihaela van der Schaar Cambridge University & The Alan Turing Institute
11:00 - 12:00Panel 2: Imitation & Reinforcement Learning
By Montserrat González Arenas Google Brain, Xiaoou Li CINVESTAV-IPN, Pablo Castro Research Software Developer at Google AI, Pablo Sprechmann Research Scientist at DeepMind
11:00 - 12:00Panel 3: Human-centered AI
By Stevie Chancellor Northwestern University/ University of Minnesota, Gonzalo Ramos Microsoft Research, Bryan Pardo Northwestern University
13:30 - 14:30Panel 5: Women in AI
By Michelle Diaz AI Learners, Montserrat González Arenas Google Brain, Mihaela van der Schaar Cambridge University & The Alan Turing Institute, Margarita Sordo Harvard, Yolanda Martínez Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), Saiph Savage Director of Human Computer Interaction Lab, West Virginia University
13:30 - 14:30Panel 6: Computer Vision
By Vicente Ordoñez-Roman University of Virginia, Cengiz Ostireli Associate professor at the University of Cambridge & Senior researcher at Google, Zeynep Akata Profesor at University of Tübingen, Victor Fragoso Microsoft Research
14:30 - 15:30Panel 7: AI in Science and Eng (Latam spotlights)
By Antonio del Rio Chanona Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, Alán Aspuru-Guzik PhD. at UC Berkeley
15:30 - 16:30Keynote 2: AI meets the brain: Understanding memory with machine learning tools
By Liset M de la Prida Instituto Cajal - CSIC
Day 4
Aug 28, 2020 UTC-5
11:00 - 12:00Panel 8: AI 4 Social Impact
By Edgar Duéñez-Guzman Senior Research Engineer At Deepmind, Saiph Savage Director of Human Computer Interaction Lab, West Virginia University
11:00 - 12:00Panel 9: Neuroscience Inspired AI
By Ida Momennejad Senior Reinforcement Learning researcher at Microsoft Research NYC, Evgeny Burnaev Associate Professor at Skoltech, Eva Dyer Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, Grace Lindsay Gatsby and SWC Research Fellow, Felix Hill Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind
13:30 - 14:30Panel 10: Natural Language Processing
By Mariama Drame Hugging Face / AIMS Rwanda, Aisha Alaagib AMMI & Vector Institute
13:30 - 14:30Panel 11: AI applications in LATAM industry
By José Gonzalo Rangel Executive Director of Analytics at Banorte Financial Group, Gerardo Carrera Mendoza Head of Data Science at Mabe Corporativo, Fernanda Cobos Armijo Coordinator of the Technology Promotion Council, FUNSALUD
15:30 - 16:30Keynote 4: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Robotics and Autonomous Decision Making
By Sergey Levine Berkeley
