Vancouver AI Connect - presented by RBC Borealis

​This meet up is designed for researchers in AI and Machine Learning (ML) who are eager to hear from leading experts in both industry and academia. This edition will feature keynote speakers, lightening talks and a poster session on accepted NeurIPS papers.

Enjoy refreshments and networking opportunities throughout the evening! If you are attending NeurIPS, this is a fantastic way to connect with others in the field and discuss the latest research developments.

Agenda:
Doors Open - 5:30pm PT
Opening Remarks - 5:45pm - 5:50pm PT
Paper Presentations - 5:50pm - 7:00pm PT
Poster Session and Social - 7:00pm - 8:30pm PT

Speakers:
- Raquel Aoki, Senior Machine Learning Researcher, RBC Borealis Leveraging Environment Interaction for Automated PDDL Generation and Planning with Large Language Models
- Xiang Yue, Post Doctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University - Grokked Transformers are Implicit Reasoners: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization
- Xavier Gonzalez, Statistics PhD Candidate, Stanford University - Towards Scalable and Stable Parallelization of Nonlinear RNNs
- Hossein Hajimirsadeghi, Principal Researcher, RBC Borealis - The Minimal RNNs: Simple Models, More Efficiency