Introduction

Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems

With Jeff Dean

Redesigning Companies for AI

With Michael Baeriswyl

Panel: AI for global good

With Charlotte Lindsey Curtet & Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Piano Interlude

With Yulia Miloslavskaya

Coffee Break

Pushing the Frontiers of AI Impact in Industries

With Costas Bekas

Startups Spotlight

With Patrick Barbey

Machine intelligence's influence on risk measurement, monitoring, and markets

With Jeffrey R. Bohn

AI & China Panel

With Yuanchun Shi, Robert West, Li Pu & Adam Knight

Piano Interlude

With Yulia Miloslavskaya

Modeling and Prediction of User Performance and Behavior in Computer-Based Learning Environments

With Tanja Käser

ChemOS: orchestrate self-driving laboratories for next-generation experimentation

With Loic Roch

Introduction

With Lorenzo Granai

Semantic interpretation of optical remote sensing data by computer vision and machine learning

With Michele Volpi

Learning representations with self-attention

With Jakob Uszkoreit

Introduction

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Introduction

With David Leroy

Machine learning for better conversations at scale

With Lucas Dixon

A Pragmatic View on Language Technologies

With Kornelia Papp

AI and your data: who owns the data, what if things go wrong, GDPR and AI

With Michel Jaccard

Technologies for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

With Morten Dahl

Replacing supervision with data in Computer vision

With Armand Joulin

Panel Discussion

With Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Valentine Goddard & Stephen Goldsmith

Evolution of Network Operations

With Sam Aldrin

How well can text representations address lexical composition?

With Vered Shwartz

AI for business processes optimization

With Marc Lecoultre

Machine Learning in solving subsurface energy resources exploration and development challenges: Discover, Describe, Predict, Decide

With Vasily Demyanov

Out-of-distribution detection for neural NLP models

With Hrant Khachatrian

Industry diversity meets Dathena

With Tetiana Kodliuk

Federated Learning in Practice at Google

With Peter Kairouz

End-to-end differentiable learning of protein structure

With Mohammed AlQuraishi

AI and copyright: computer-generated works, authorship and originality in AI

With Ana Andrijevic

Chargrid: towards understanding 2D documents

With Christian Reisswig

Break

AI : The positive disruption

With Eric Saracchi

Dynamically predicting progress rate and completion time of students during activities in classrooms

With Louis Faucon

Bias in Algorithms – a case study for comment classifications

With Marcel Blattner

AIOps with Machine Learning and Knowledge Graph Data Models

With Florian Krausbeck

Panel: representations, interpretability & visualisation

With Jakob Uszkoreit, Vered Shwartz, Hrant Khachatrian & Christian Reisswig

Current application and expectations of Machine Learning for the Agriculture finance industry

With Sylvain Coutu

When foes are friends: a privacy perspective on adversarial examples

With Carmela Troncoso

European Patent Office practice regarding AI

With Bastian Best & Patrick Heckeler

Pay Attention to Virality – understanding popularity of social media videos

With Tomasz Trzciński

De Novo Molecular Design by Artificial Intelligence: Can AI help us to generate novel bioactive molecules?

With Lukas Friedrich

Artificial Environmental Intelligence With High Flying, Far Walking And Deep Learning

With Sylvain Coutu

Enabling Advanced Automation with Network-friendly Machine Learning

With Laurent Ciavaglia

Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet

With Wafa Johal

One-on-one: Startup story

With Alexandre Lebrun

Spoken Language Understanding on the Edge

With Alice Coucke

Deep Learning for Land Use/Cover Statistics of Switzerland

With Maria Schönholzer

Explore: research suggestions at your fingertips

With Richard Zens

AI for Network: use case perspective

With Imen Grida Ben Yahia

Socially-Aware Learning Spaces

With Himanshu Verma

Module Identification in Genomic Networks as an Open Community Challenge

With Sarvenaz Choobdar

Dynamic Paywall for Readers Conversion

With Christian Ammendola

Practical transfer learning for NLP with spaCy and Prodigy

With Ines Montani

Detection of shallow landslides on aerial images using convolutional neural networks

With Maxim Samarin

Coffee Break

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Large contexts in neural machine translation

With Andrei Popescu-Belis

Drafting the perfect invention disclosure report for an AI invention

With Patrick Heckeler & Bastian Best

Trustworthy Machine Learning for Formative Feedback

With David Adamson

Novel technologies, data and methods to predict and manage global biodiversity change

With Walter Jetz

Introduction

Startup spotlight: ecoRobotix

With Steve Tanner

Interactive and adaptive translation for professionals

With Joern Wuebker

Mining large-scale human mobility data for crime modelling

With Cristina Kadar

The sleeping giants: AI and TV operators

With Pietro Berkes

ns3-gym – The Playground for Reinforcement Learning in Networking Research

With Piotr Gawlowicz

Deep Learning for Chemical Synthesis and Drug Discovery

With Marwin Segler

AI for Earth: Using machine learning to monitor, model, and manage natural resources

With Jennifer Marsman

Near real-time multilingual customer service

With João Graça

Startup spotlight: AI & NLP applied to content marketing

With Edouard Lambelet

Perceiving the City with Crowds and AI

With Daniel Gatica-Perez

How to make the best of an image repository to illustrate editorial stories – Text-Image Retrieval and Face Recognition

With Rémi Lebret & Didier Orel

Learning on Graphs

With Michaël Defferrard

Startup spotlight: Data-driven invention

With Matthew Lawrenson

Panel: machine translation

With Andrei Popescu-Belis, João Graça & Joern Wuebker

Talk Title TBD

With Alex “Sandy” Pentland

Solve for H: Leveraging AI to solve problems for human kind

With Anna Bethke

RAPIDS – Accelerating traditional machine learning with GPUs

With René Müller

Panel Discussion

Coffee break

iNaturalist: Large Scale Visual Classification of the Natural World

With Grant van Horn

Applied Media Learning. The Mermaid Approach to Capturing Audience Attention

With Janine Lee

Patentability of the inventions of AI

With Ana Ramalho

Prediction of personal antibody repertoires

With Enkelejda Miho

Learning to Navigate in Cities Without a Map

With Piotr Mirowski

Towards breaking the closed-world assumption in deep neural networks

With Michele Sama

#shifthappens – Why companies must re-imagine how they attract top academic talent in AI

With James Common

Artificial intelligence for making earth accessible, searchable and insightful

With Frank de Morsier

Break

Iterative classroom teaching

With Teresa Yeo & Louis Faucon

Enabling speech-to-meaning with acoustic language processing

With Nicolas Perony

Lessons learned on bridging the gap between the AI revolution and the industry

With Jérôme Berthier

Geospatial Data Science, Telco Data, and the Mobility of the Future

With Christopher Nowzohour

Q&A

With Ana Andrijevic, Michel Jaccard, Ana Ramalho, Patrick Heckeler & Bastian Best

What Do You Think? – Language Models for Snippet Extraction from News Article Comments

With Tim Nonner

Towards Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice: On the Use of Socially Aware Conversational Agents in Vocational Education

With Catharine Oertel

Building a live recommendation agent for communication in healthcare

With Lars Maaløe

Transforming engineering with Deep Learning

With Timur Bagautdinov

Interpretable classification of molecular measurements via pathway-induced multiple kernel learning

With Matteo Manica

Panel Discussion

With Walter Jetz, Grant van Horn, Michele Volpi & Vasily Demyanov

AI for good in Industry

With Chris Benson

Geospatial deep learning for solving real-world problems

With Niklas Goby

AI Trends & Disruptions: Hybrid AI

With Thierry Caminel

Panel: products & startups

With Nicolas Perony, Lars Maaløe, João Graça, Michele Sama, Joern Wuebker & Ines Montani

Deep learning on protein molecular surfaces

With Pablo Gainza Cirauqui

Mobility Insights at Swisscom: Large-scale Machine Learning for Describing Collective Mobility in Switzerland

With Mohamed Kafsi

Combining Multiple Data Streams to Inform Collaborative Student Learning Processes

With Jennifer Olsen

Handling High Cardinality Categoricals via Target Encodings

With Anastasios Zouzias

Summary and Closing

With Nicola Rohrseitz

ML with the EPFL Extension School

With Laura Downhower

Poster Session & Apéritif

Introduction

Welcoming Talk

With Martin Vetterli

Safe & Affordable Digital Health for All

With Bernardo Mariano

Piano Interlude

With Yulia Miloslavskaya

How Machine Learning Upgrades Human Creativity

With Garry Kasparov

One-on-one

With Garry Kasparov & Marcel Salathé

Q&A

With Garry Kasparov

POTs: The Revolution will not be Optimized

With Rebekah Overdorf

Introduction

With Tereza Iofciu

ML & Environmental Risks

With Mikhail Kanevski

Machine learning – accelerating understanding of real-world patient data

With Asif Jan

Predicting for the Adaptive Transport system

With Francisco Pereira

Introduction

Value-Based Deep Learning Hardware Acceleration

With Andreas Moshovos

Welcome and Introduction

With Miquel Noguer Alonso

Ingredients for Impactful AI Projects in Industry

With Andreea Hossmann

A Marauder's Map of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning

With Nicolas Papernot

Startup spotlight: Interactive training of AI models for earth imagery with Picterra

With Julien Rebetez

An application of advanced computer methods in Nutrition science

With Gordana Ispirova

Deep learning for automated grading of prostate cancer histopathology images

With Eirini Arvaniti

No AI without Big Data

With Armando Gonzalez

Startup spotlight: Privately

With François Helg

Different Industries = Different AI Needs? Our Experience

With Dorothea Wiesmann

Byzantine Machine Learning: Safeguarding AI from Data Poisoning and Hacked Machines

With El Mahdi El Mhamdi

Health Search and Machine-Learned Epidemiology

With Evgeniy Gabrilovich

Cross-domain street scene semantic segmentation

With Matthieu Cord

Catapult and Brainwave: Powering Microsoft’s Configurable Intelligent Cloud

With Michael Papamichael

Learning and Optimization for Environment

With Saman Halgamuge

Scaling AI-based products across an enterprise

With Yves Lostanlen

The past, present and future of generative models

With Mihaela Rosca

Machine learning for industrial process optimization

With Hông-Ân Sandlin

Deep learning meets Rheumatology – the use of neuronal networks to improve disease prediction and choice of treatment

With Thomas Hugle

Startup Spotlight: Gamaya

With Luca Baldassarre

Machine learning in clinical research: the Nestlé perspective

With Cheng Chen & Maya Shevlyakova

"Society in the loop" shaping responsive cities, creating a commons information patrimony

With Matteo Mazzeri

Opening the Black Box: Making Deep Learning Interpretable & Transparent

With Wojciech Samek

Accelerated Machine Intelligence: An Edge to Cloud Continuum

With Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Machine learning for sustainability assessment from a Life Cycle Assessment perspective

With Antonino Marvuglia

Prediction in production

With Martin Gerber

Building a security ML-based startup from scratch

With Raul Popa

ML for trading: from automated decisions to decision support

With Charles-Albert Lehalle

The challenge of Cooperative Autonomous Driving

With Arnaud de La Fortelle

How to estimate the electricity potential of roof mounted PV panels in a country, with a little bit of data

With Dan Assouline

Machine Learning for defect detection in industrial advanced manufacturing applications

With Jérôme Clavel

AI and Urban Health

With Elaine Nsoesie

AI enabled biofouling monitoring and cleaning system for offshore wind turbine monopile foundations

With Bojie Sheng

Discussion

How do attacks look in a world dominated by AI?

With Sharada Mohanty

ML for in situ and real-time monitoring of highly dynamic processes

With Kilian Wasmer

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Human and Non-Human Agency

With Thomas Müller

Panel discussion

With Nicola Rieke, Andy Fitze, Hông-Ân Sandlin, Yves Lostanlen, François Rüf & Dorothea Wiesmann

Bayesian inference to learn and predict road user behaviours

With Julian Kooij

How to bring AI medical devices to the market – Regulatory insights

With Gloria Macia

Machine learning and snowflakes

With Alexis Berne

Panel Discussion

With Michael Papamichael & Andreas Moshovos

Setting the foundation for personalized eGrocery shopping​

With Gaétan Hervé

Introduction

With Marisa Tschopp

Trusting AI and the Future of War

With Anja Kaspersen

Let them speak: machine learning boosts language rehabilitation training after stroke

With Michael Tangermann & David Hübner

Dynamic Replication and Hedging: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

With Petter Kolm

Beyond Supervised Driving

With Adrien Gaidon

Climate change detection: A case for applied statistical learning?

With Sebastian Sippel

Trusting real-world AI applications

With Marc Schöni

Network-based Biased Tree Ensembles (NetBiTE) for Drug Sensitivity Prediction in Cancer

With Ali Oskooei

Your life in a grocery bag: Large-scale analysis of food consumption in the city

With Luca Aiello

Panel: Artificial Intelligence in Finance

With Armando Gonzalez, Rajesh Krishnamachari, Charles-Albert Lehalle & Petter Kolm

ML and some of its effects on the social

With Sophie Mützel

How machine learning is enabling us to better understand patient quality of life

With Valeria De Luca

Balancing Edge and Cloud – Real world experience from an industry use case

With Max Carrel

ToTheArcade: IoT and Machine Learning, a match made in heaven, a gamified PoC

With Kevin Smeyers

How people perceive AI – Trust & Explanation

With Pearl Pu

What's My Disease? Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning for Medical Diagnosis Prediction

With Gabriel Krummenacher, Tomas Dikk & Matthias Kämpf

AIcrowd: Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence to solve real world problems

With Sharada Mohanty

Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

With Sunil Mallya

Panel Discussion

With Saman Halgamuge, Sebastian Sippel & Alexis Berne

Pratical Project: Integrating Vehicle Routing and Resource Allocation in a Pharmaceutical Network

With Roxanne Tison

Trusting AI – IBM's strategy, research, and practical approaches

With Anika Schumann

Online recognition of elevator-specific user activity context using mobile phone sensor data

With Alberto Chiappa

GaitHub: A cross-platform ML-based human motion sensing engine

With Farzin Dadashi

Defending deep learning from adversarial attacks

With Svetlana Levitan

Walking in a world with self-driving cars?

With Mark Meeder

Handling High Cardinality Categoricals via Target Encodings

With Anastasios Zouzias

TensorFlow Hub: Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Machine Learning Models

With Elizabeth Kemp

Multi Agent reinforcement learning for train dispatching

With Erik Nygren & Adrian Egli

State of Recurrent Neural Networks for Chronic Disease Onset Prediction

With Sunil Mallya

Deep optimal stopping

With Sebastian Becker

Profit maximizing machine learning

With Arnout Devos

Closing Remarks

crowdAI: Crowdsourcing AI to solve real world problems

With Katja Hofmann, Sharada Mohanty, Erik Nygren, Pierre Gallien & Julian Jordi

Teaching Machines to Converse with People

With Antoine Bordes

Research to Counter Machine Learning's Dangers and Why "Bias" May Be the Least of our Problems.

With Zeynep Tufekci

Piano Interlude

With Yulia Miloslavskaya

Coffee Break

Track summary

Applied Machine Learning: The Dawn of a new Era

With Christopher Bishop

Closing words

Piano Interlude

With Yulia Miloslavskaya