ICML Social: Multi-Agent Systems in Ambient Settings
🎉 You're Invited! — Official ICML 2025 Event Listing
📅 July 15 | 19:00–21:00
📍 West Ballroom D
Join us at ICML 2025 for a deep dive into the future of always-on AI agents — from research labs to real-world deployment 🤖🌍. We’ll explore how ambient multi-agent systems are being designed to align with human intent, act safely, and operate at scale . If you're building or curious about intelligent agents that actually work in the wild, this is the conversation you don’t want to miss 👀✨.
🔹 Agenda:
1. From Lab to Life: Orchestrating Ambient Agents in the Real World
🎙️ Rapael Kalandadze (AI Lab, Wandero)
A look at how multi-agent systems are moving from controlled experiments to real-world deployment, with lessons from large-scale system design.
2. Teaching Ambient Agents to Understand and Pursue Human Intent
🎙️ Shirley Wu (Stanford, Microsoft Research)
How long-term alignment and conversation-aware training can make agents more helpful, proactive, and human-centered.
3. Safety Guarantees for Ambient Agents via Asking for Help
🎙️ Benjamin Plaut (UC Berkeley, Stanford)
Designing agents that know when to ask for help to avoid catastrophic actions and improve real-world safety.
4. WATCHing the Watchers: Real-Time Monitoring for Safer AI Agents.
🎙️ Drew Prinster (John Hopkins, Yale)
Introducing a monitoring framework to detect and respond to failures in long-running agentic systems—before things go wrong.
Panel Discussion - The Ambient Shift: Redefining Intelligence, Safety & Exploration in Multi-Agent Systems
Yiding Jiang (Carnegie Melon, Google Research),
Clément Romac (Huggingface, Inria),
Jindong Wang (William & Mary, Microsoft Research)
Leading researchers explore how always-on agents can safely explore, align with user goals, and operate in complex, real-world environments. The discussion will highlight emerging challenges, infrastructure needs, and the future of agent intelligence at scale.
This event is organized by just two AI enthusiasts who are passionate about connecting with the community and sparking deep conversations 💡🤝. We can’t wait to meet you!