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July 2026: CAIS Conference 2026-Coming Soon



May 7th, 2026

Joanna Redden

Title: AI Governance in Practice: Why Attention to Impact Matters

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower Room 519

Watch the recording HERE


April 30th, 2026

Eldan Cohen

Title: New Directions in Intrinsically Explainable Machine Learning: Teaching Old Models New Tricks

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, York Lanes 280N

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April 23rd, 2026

Bruce Schneier

Title: Integrity in a World of AI with Bruce Schneier

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower Room 519

Watch the recording HERE


January 22nd, 2026

Sharan Vaswani

Title: A Systematic Framework for Designing Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower Room 519

Watch the recording HERE


December 17th, 2025

Katarina Grolinger

Title: AI for Sustainable and Smart Communities

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, Room 519

Watch the recording HERE.


November 25th, 2025

Rafid Mahmood

Title: Towards Optimal Data Collection for Deep Learning Models

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, Room 519

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August 26th, 2025

Title: CAIS Trainee Social

In-Person: York University Keele Campus, Kaneff Tower 8th Floor Lounge


June 5th, 2025

AMD Schola

Title: AMD Schola – Enabling ML-Driven Agents in Unreal Engine

Location: York University Keele Campus, York Lanes 305

Watch the Recording HERE.


May 9th, 2025

Hod Lipson

Title: Automating discovery: From cognitive robotics to particle physics

Location: York Lanes 280 N

Watch the Recording HERE.


April 3rd, 2025

Aaron Hertzmann

Title: Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures

Location: Hall Law School-Room 2027


March 18th, 2025

Prof. Dov Greenbaum | Reichman University

Title: Guardians of Genomic and Biometric Data: Governing Innovation, Privacy, and Equity in a Fragmented World

Location: York University 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

Watch the Recording HERE


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

Watch the Recording HERE


October 24th, 2024

David Fleet

Title: The Surprising Effectiveness of Diffusion Models for Generative Imagery

Watch the recording HERE


February 15, 2024

Professor Moshe Vardi, Rice University

Title: Technology and Democracy

Watch the Recording HERE


January 18, 2024

Kate Kalcevich, Head of Accessibility Innovation at Fable

Title: Disability Considerations in AI & Evolving Technologies

Watch the Recording HERE


June 2, 2023

Professor Ioannis Pitas, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,

Title: Large Language Models, ChatGPT and University Education

Watch the Recording: HERE (Passport York Login required)