Schedule
A day built for discussion.
A one-day, in-person workshop. More than three hours are reserved for panel discussion, breakout sessions, and cross-group synthesis — the program is interactive rather than lecture-oriented. Times are tentative.
Date
January 2027 — TBD
Venue
AAAI 2027 — TBD
Format
One-day, in-person
09:00–09:15
Opening and workshop framing.
09:15–09:45
Invited talk by Dr. Verena Rieser (Google DeepMind).
09:45–10:15
Invited talk by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang (UCLA).
10:15–11:15
Contributed talks.
11:15–11:30
Break.
11:30–12:00
Invited talk by Dr. Pin-Yu Chen (IBM).
12:00–12:30
Invited talk by Dr. João Sedoc (NYU).
12:30–14:00
Lunch and poster / demo session.
14:00–15:00
Panel on open problems and deployment priorities.
15:00–15:30
General discussion and audience Q&A.
15:30–15:45
Break.
15:45–16:45
Breakout and roundtable discussions.
16:45–17:30
Cross-group discussion and synthesis.
17:30–18:00
Closing discussion.
We expect approximately 50 participants spanning AI safety and alignment, speech and audio research, multimodal learning, security and privacy, and human-centered AI.