4th TAILOR Conference – Trustworthy AI from lab to market

4-5 June 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal

The theme for the fourth and final conference organised by the TAILOR network is Trustworthy AI from lab to market. Together, we’ll investigate the recent findings from some of the most prominent AI researchers in Europe, with an outlook on how this can be implemented by European industry. We also dedicate parts of this conference to Europe’s young AI talent, who will be invited to present their work in poster sessions and parallel workshops.

Don’t miss this opportunity to listen to experts from academia and industry, contribute to discussions, participate in workshops and grow your network!

Keynote speakers

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

  • Iryna Gurevych
  • Subbarao Kambhampati
  • Carles Sierra
  • Wendy Ju

Call for abstracts

The conference organisers are pleased to invite you to submit a preliminary abstract by April, 21st 2024 for consideration for the conference. Submitted abstracts can be considered for oral presentations – as talks of 15–20 mins assembled into parallel workshops on similar topics – and for poster presentations. Abstracts must be submitted via the registration portal and can be updated if needed until 24th May.

Accepted abstracts will be displayed on the conference website.

Registration

Register as soon as possible, only a few seats left (updated 24 April)

Register here

Programme at a glance

A detailed programme is available towards the end of the page

3rd June

Venue: Tecnico, Alameda CampusAv. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa

16.00-17.30: Pre-Conference Workshop: AI Assistants for Mental Wellbeing

Venue: to be confirmed

18.00-20.00 Welcome drinks and networking opportunities

4th June

Venue: Palacio de Tancos, Calçada do Marquês de Tancos 2, 1100-340 Lisboa, Portugal

8.30 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 10.00 Session 1: Can we trust the machine?
Keynotes by Fredrik Heintz, Wendy Ju, Carles Sierra
11.35 – 13.00 Session 2: Industry collaboration and transfer
Session chairs: Phillip Slusallek and Janina Hoppstädter
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Session 3: Poster session and coffee
15.30 – 17.30 Session 4: Parallel workshops
Workshop 4:1 The European ecosystem of Large Language Models (A TrustLLM GeTT-event)
Workshop 4:2 Embracing robots as relevant non-humans
Workshop 4:3 TBC
20.00 – late Conference dinner

5th June

Venue: Palacio de Tancos, Calçada do Marquês de Tancos 2, 1100-340 Lisboa, Portugal

9.00 – 10.45 Session 5: Making generative AI trustworthy through learning, optimization and reasoning
With Peter Flach, Luc De Raedt. Keynote: Subbarao Kambhampati
11.15 – 13.00 Session 6: What’s next in European AI?
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch then transfer to next venue (metro or taxi or walking)

Venue: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro at  Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Alameda campus (Lisbon)*

14.30 – 17.00 Session 7: Towards Trustworthy Artificial General Intelligence
Session chairs: Fredrik Heintz and André Martins
This session is open for a larger audience, in particular local and regional researchers and graduate students. The venue is on the IST campus.

Venue: IST Alameda campus

17.30-18.30: Post-Conference Workshop: Responsible Innovation and the Education of Future AI practitioners

Workshops and back-to-back events

Before, during and after the main event back-to-back or parallel workshops will be organised.

Logistics

The event will take place across two distinct venues. Find all info as wells as links to maps and recommended hotels on the logistics page.

Hourly Schedule

Monday 3rd June

18:00 - 18:30
Registrations
18:30 - 20:00
Light refreshments and networking

Tuesday 4th June

8:30 - 9:00
Registrations
9:00 - 9:20
Session 1: Can we trust the machine?
Introduction by TAILOR coordinator Fredrik heintz
Speakers:
Fredrik Heintz
9:20 - 9:50
Keynote
Speakers:
Wendy Ju
9:50 - 10:20
Keynote: On the Engineering of Social Values
Speakers:
Carles Sierra
10:20 - 11:00
Panel
Speakers:
Carles Sierra, Fredrik Heintz, Wendy Ju
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Session 2: Industry collaboration and transfer exchange
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Poster pitches
14:30 - 15:30
Poster session and networking
15:30 - 17:30
Parallel workshops
Workshop 1: The European ecosystem of Large Language Models (A TrustLLM GeTT-event) Workshop 2: Embracing robots as relevant non-humans
20:00 - 23:00
Conference dinner

Wednesday 5th June

9:00 - 12:00
Session 5: Making generative AI Trustworthy
9:00 - 10:00
Keynote: LLMs Can't Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks
Large Language Models (LLMs) are on track to reverse what seemed like an inexorable shift of AI from explicit to tacit knowledge tasks. Trained as they are on everything ever written on the web, LLMs exhibit "approximate omniscience"--they can provide answers to all sorts of queries, but with nary a guarantee. This could herald a new era for knowledge-based AI systems--with LLMs taking the role of (blowhard?) experts. But first, we have to stop confusing the impressive form of the generated knowledge for correct content, and resist the temptation to ascribe reasoning, planning, self-critiquing etc. powers to approximate retrieval by these n-gram models on steroids. We have to focus instead on LLM-Modulo techniques that complement the unfettered idea generation of LLMs with careful vetting by model-based AI systems. In this talk, I will reify this vision and attendant caveats in the context of the role of LLMs in planning tasks.
Speakers:
Subbarao Kambhampati
10:45 - 11:45
Coffee break
Session 6: What's next?
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Transfer to IST campus
The final session of the conference is open for a larger audience, in particular loacl and regional researchers and graduate student. The venue for this session is Anfiteatro Abreu Faro at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Alameda campus (Lisbon)
14:30 - 17:00
Session 7: Towards Trustworthy Artificial General Intelligence
Venue: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Alameda campus (Lisbon)
Speakers:
Fredrik Heintz, Iryna Gurevych
Fredrik Heintz
Fredrik Heintz
Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University
Fredrik leads the Reasoning and Learning group within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS) in the Department of Computer Science. His research focus is artificial intelligence especially autonomous systems, stream reasoning and the intersection between knowledge representation and machine learning. He is the coordinator of the TAILOR ICT-48 network of AI research excellence centers, the Director of the Graduate School for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), the President of the Swedish AI Society, a member of the CLAIRE extended core team, a member of the EurAI board, a researcher at the AI Sustainability Center, and a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is also very active in education activities both at the university level and in promoting AI, computer science and computational thinking in primary, secondary and professional education. Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Wendy Ju
Wendy Ju
Wendy Ju is an Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University. She is also an inaugural faculty member of Cornell's new campus-wide multidisciplinary Design Tech department, and an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion. Professor Ju's work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Her current research focus is on everyday urban interaction. Professor Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.
Carles Sierra
Carles Sierra
Carles Sierra is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Barcelona. He is the President of EurAI, the European Association of Artificial Intelligence. He has been contributing to Artificial Intelligence research since 1985 in the areas of Knowledge Representation, Auctions, Electronic Institutions, Autonomous Agents, Multiagent Systems and Agreement Technologies. He is or has been a member of several editorial boards of journals, including AIJ and JAIR, two of the most prestigious generalist journals. He was the editor-in-chief of the JAAMAS journal, specialising in autonomous agents. He organised IJCAI, the most important international artificial intelligence conference in 2011 in Barcelona, and was the President of the IJCAI Program Committee in Melbourne in 2017. He is a Fellow of the European Association of AI, EurAI, and recipient of the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2019.
Subbarao Kambhampati
Subbarao Kambhampati
Subbarao Kambhampati is a professor of computer science at Arizona State University. Kambhampati studies fundamental problems in planning and decision making, motivated in particular by the challenges of human-aware AI systems. He is a fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Association for Computing machinery, and was an NSF Young Investigator. He served as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the chair of AAAS Section T (Information, Communication and Computation), and a founding board member of Partnership on AI. Kambhampati’s research as well as his views on the progress and societal impacts of AI have been featured in multiple national and international media outlets.
Iryna Gurevych
Iryna Gurevych
Iryna Gurevych (PhD 2003, U. Duisburg-Essen, Germany) is professor of Computer Science and director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at MBZUAI in Abu-Dhabi, UAE and an affiliated professor at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her main research interests are in machine learning for large-scale language understanding and text semantics. Iryna’s work has received numerous awards. Those include the ACL fellow award 2020, the first-ever Hessian LOEWE Distinguished Chair award (2,5 mil. Euro) in 2021 and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2022 (2,5 Mil. Euro). Iryna is co-director of the NLP program within ELLIS, a European network of excellence in machine learning. She is the recent president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Date

04 - 05 Jun 2024

Time

GMT (UTC+00:00)
All Day
Palacio Marques de Tancos

Location

Palacio Marques de Tancos
Lisbon, Portugal
Website
https://www.palaciotancos.com/
Category

Organizer

Instituto Superior Técnico

Other Organizers

Trine Platou
Email
trine.platou@liu.se