Connectionists: Global Research & Entrepreneurship Summit on Open Problems for AI. Tokyo, Japan, 9-11th April 2025 at the Miraikan Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

[Battleday, Ruairidh]

Global Summit on Open Problems for AI. Miraikan Museum of Emerging Science
and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, 9-11th April 2025.

What are the next set of challenges for AI algorithms? What are the open
problems in regulation & application?

We are most excited to announce the Algorithmic Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Global Summit on Open Problems for AI
<http://www.algopreneurship.ai>. Miraikan Museum of Emerging Science and
Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, 9-11th April 2025.

Join world-leading AI researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs in this
global Summit over three days of keynote talks, panels, and breakout
sessions.

Day 1 - Algorithms

We ask what the fundamental challenges for developing AI algorithms are, as
well as promising avenues for overcoming them.

We’ll be hearing from Dr Shane Gu (Google DeepMind), Dr Taro Toyoizumi
(Riken CBS), Dr Kai Arulkumaran (Araya Inc.), Dr Emityaz Khan (Riken AIP),
Professor Masanori Koyama (University of Tokyo), Dr James Whittington
(Stanford & Oxford University & Zyphra), Dr Lucy Lai (Harvard University),
Dr Yusuke Iwasawa (University of Tokyo)

Panel on “Is this the end of Scale?”

Panel on “How should we fund AI research?”

Day 2 - Ethics

We ask what the fundamental ethical challenges and opportunities are for AI.

Keynotes: Professor Yuko Harayam (Tohoku University; GPAI), Professor Arisa
Ema (University of Tokyo & RIKEN CAIP), Dr Colin Rowat (Rakuten,
Cambridge), Dr Joe Ledsam (Google Health), Kenny Song (Citadel AI)

Panel: Micro Ethics - What Can Individual Researchers Do for Ethical AI?

Chair: Nicolay Hagen (NTNU)

Panel: Meso Ethics - What Can Organizations Do for Ethical AI?

Chair: Professor Skyler Wang (McGill)

Panel: Macro Ethics - If AI is the answer, what is the question?

Chair: Dr Collin Conwell (Johns Hopkins)

Day 3 - Applications and entrepreneurship

We ask what the fundamental challenges and opportunities are in
applications for social good and entrepreneurship.

Keynotes: Professor Yukie Nagai (University of Tokyo),  Professor Dan V.
Nicolau Jr (Kings College London), Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard
& MIT), Dr Aran Komatsuzaki (Eleuther AI), Dr Conglong Li (Google
Deepmind), Takahiro Matsumoto (Cisco / Robust Intelligence), Dr Jungo Kasai
(Kotoba Tech)

This should be an exciting and productive event, and we expect an audience
of 400 of the world’s best AI researchers and entrepreneurs at student,
early-stage, and full career levels.

Student tickets: $20 for all three days

Scientist & Entrepreneur tickets: $20 per day

Corporate tickets: $100 per day

Reserve your place now! <http://www.algopreneurship.ai>


Ruairidh <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruairidh-battleday-648a2b65/>,
<https://www.jcrwhittington.com/>Lucy <https://lucylai.com/>, James
<https://www.jcrwhittington.com/>, and Dan
<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dan-nicolau>

Thinking About Thinking <https://www.thinkingaboutthinking.org/>

-- 
Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday BMBCh (Oxon) PhD

President
Thinking About Thinking, Inc <https://thinkingaboutthinking.org>

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Brain Science,
Harvard University

Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines,
MIT
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