Upcoming speakers:
April 2026 – (UofT)
May 2026 – (UWO). Register here
POSTPONED, We will update this page when the new date for 2026 is confirmed.
Dov Greenbaum
Title: From Cloud to Ground: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
In-Person: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower Room 519 (POSTPONED, no longer on March 6 2026)
January 22nd, 2026
Sharan Vaswani
Title: A Systematic Framework for Designing Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning
In-Person: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower Room 519
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December 17th, 2025
Katarina Grolinger
Title: AI for Sustainable and Smart Communities
In-Person: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, Room 519
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November 25th, 2025
Rafid Mahmood
Title: Towards Optimal Data Collection for Deep Learning Models
In-Person: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, Room 519
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August 26th, 2025
Title: CAIS Trainee Social
In-Person: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower 8th Floor Lounge
June 5th, 2025
Title: AMD Schola – Enabling ML-Driven Agents in Unreal Engine
Location: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, York Lanes 305
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May 9th, 2025
Hod Lipson
Title: Automating discovery: From cognitive robotics to particle physics
Location: York Lanes 280 N
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April 3rd, 2025
Aaron Hertzmann
Title: Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures
Location: Hall Law School-Room 2027
March 18th, 2025
Title: Guardians of Genomic and Biometric Data: Governing Innovation, Privacy, and Equity in a Fragmented World
Location: ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Keele Campus, Osgoode Hall Law School, Room 2027
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
February 6th, 2025
Yang Wang
Title: Beyond Scaling: Visual Learning by Adaptation
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December 13th, 2024
Bruce N. Walker
Title: Designing Human-AI Collaborations for Navigation: Examples from SWAN and the Robotic Guide Dog Project by Bruce Walker
November 20th, 2024
Richard Zemel
Title: A Framework for Responsible Deployment of AI Models
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October 24th, 2024
David Fleet
Title: The Surprising Effectiveness of Diffusion Models for Generative Imagery
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February 15, 2024
Professor Moshe Vardi, Rice University
Title: Technology and Democracy
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January 18, 2024
Kate Kalcevich, Head of Accessibility Innovation at Fable
Title: Disability Considerations in AI & Evolving Technologies
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June 2, 2023
Professor Ioannis Pitas, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Title: Large Language Models, ChatGPT and University Education
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