Nuit Blanche: France is AI, Program for Day One

Thursday, October 05, 2017

France is AI, Program for Day One

So today I'll be at the France is AI conference. Here is the program for the day.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 5
8:30: AM - 9:00: AM Breakfast
9:00: AM - 9:05: AM Welcome + Introduction France is AI Keynote Paul Strachman
9:05: AM - 9:10: AM Scikit-Learn: 2017 sprint + Future Roadmap Keynote Alexandre Gramfort (INRIA / Scikit-Learn)
9:10: AM - 9:15: AM Deep in France - initiative Keynote Stéphane Canu (INSA Rouen / Deep in France)
9:15: AM - 9:35: AM How Microsoft is thinking about AI? Random walk along the Microsoft AI Research Agenda Keynote Bernard Ourghanlian (Microsoft)
9:35: AM - 9:55: AM Evolution of Computational Advertising Keynote Suju Rajan (Criteo Labs)
9:55: AM - 10:15: AM On recent advances in machine listening and ambiant sound detection Keynote Alain Rakotomamonjy (University Rouen)
10:15: AM - 10:35: AM Mathematical Mysteries of Deep Neural Networks Keynote Stéphane Mallat (ENS)
10:35: AM - 11:00: AM Networking and Coffee - Morning
11:00: AM - 11:20: AM Deep learning for sequence-to-sequence transformations Keynote Eric Gaussier (LIG Grenoble)
11:20: AM - 11:30: AM Attributes Extraction in e-Commerce Keynote Simona Maggio (Rakuten / PriceMinister)
11:30: AM - 11:50: AM Deep Reinforcement Learning for Prediction under Budgeted Constraints Keynote Ludovic Denoyer (LIP6/UPMC)
11:50: AM - 12:10: PM Visual Question Answering: a new Vision and Langage task Keynote Matthieu Cord (LIP6)
12:10: PM - 12:15: PM Blockchain orchestrated Machine Learning for sensitive data Firepitch Mathieu Galtier (Rythm)
12:15: PM - 12:20: PM Building an AI first product Firepitch David Bessis (Tinyclues)
12:20: PM - 12:25: PM A neural coreference system for conversational agents Firepitch Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face)
12:25: PM - 12:30: PM Detection of phishing webpages with machine learning Firepitch Paolo Pinto (Vade Secure)
12:30: PM - 2:00: PM Break Lunch
2:00: PM - 2:20: PM AI Hardware: the next big conquest? Panel - Julie Josse Julien Demouth (Nvidia), Ludovic Larzul (Mipsology), Igor Carron (LightOn), Damien Querlioz (Universite Paris Sud)
2:20: PM - 2:40: PM AI at Scale @Twitter: ranking the timelines Keynote Nicolas Koumchatzky (Twitter)
2:40: PM - 3:00: PM Embedded AI: Bringing AI on the devices? Panel - Igor Carron Merouane Debbah (Huawei), Thibault de La Fresnaye (Orange), Joseph Dureau (Snips.ai)
3:00: PM - 3:05: PM Predictive AI: The Future of Human to Machine Interactions Firepitch Grégory Grefenstette (Biggerpan)
3:05: PM - 3:10: PM Generating customer responses w/ GANs Firepitch Grégory Renard (xBrain)
3:10: PM - 3:15: PM Scaling up to the full customer lifecycle in financial services Firepitch Nicolas Meric (Dreamquark)
3:15: PM - 3:35: PM Generative Modeling with Optimal Transport Keynote Marco Cuturi (ENSAE)
3:35: PM - 3:55: PM Data challenges with modularization and code submission Keynote Balazs Kegl (CNRS / Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science)
3:55: PM - 4:15: PM Teaching Machines to Learn Autonomously Keynote Emmanuel Dupoux (ENS / EHESS)
4:15: PM - 4:40: PM Networking and Coffee - Afternoon
4:40: PM - 5:00: PM Optimization for machine learning: from single to multiple machines Keynote Francis Bach (INRIA / ENS)
5:00: PM - 5:25: PM Deep Learning: current limits and future perspectives Keynote François Chollet (Google / Keras)
5:25: PM - 5:45: PM The future of AI: discussion on promising approaches Panel - Igor Carron Francis Bach (INRIA / ENS), Olivier Grisel (INRIA / Scikit-Learn), Bernard Ourghanlian (Microsoft)
5:45: PM - 6:05: PM AI: France roadmap (OPECST) Fireside chat - Olivier Ezratty - Igor Carron Cédric Villani (Assemblée Nationale)
6:05: PM - 6:10: PM France is AI Closing Day 1 Keynote Paul Strachman, Igor Carron, Julie Josse
6:10: PM - 6:25: PM Closing Keynote Mounir Mahjoubi (Secrétariat au Numérique)