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How Should we Educate Kids About Artificial Intelligence?

An interview with Juliet Waters, Chief Knowledge Officer at KCJ, for our Women in AI Podcast Series. Juliet discusses the importance of teaching kids AI, the initiatives that KCJ provide and the challenges with that. As well as her favourite female role models, being the younger generation....

Women in AI

Diversity's Critical Role in AI and Innovation

We were delighted to be joined by over 100 Women in AI at the end of November for the first instalment of our Women in AI virtual evenings. Read the highlights & watch the main panel here....

Women in AI

Tips for Getting Started Working in AI - Paige Dickie, Head of AI at Layer 6

An interview with Paige Dickie, Head of AI at Layer 6. Paige shares tips for startups getting started in AI, as well as inspirational Women in AI. Paige also discusses Canada's contribution to AI....

Reinforcement Learning

Doina Precup presents the latest on Reinforcement Learning

Doina Precup, Research Team Lead at DeepMind shared the latest developments in Reinforcement Learning and how it can be used as a tool for building knowledge bases for AI Agents....

few shot learning

Hugo Larochelle - The Past, Present, and Future of Few-Shot Learning

Hugo Larochelle discusses few-shot learning, recent advancements in the field and future research developments we can expect....

Event Highlights

Deep Learning in Montreal: Meet World Experts

Not sure what to expect from this year's summit? We spoke to several of our guests to see how they found the event across the two days to give you an idea of some of the sessions and experiences they had....

Women in AI

The Landscape of AI in Montreal: Interview with Doina Precup, DeepMind

‘I’ve always been interested in AI because I love sci-fi books and movies, and I saw lots of friendly robots interacting with people doing nice things for them’. - Doina Precup...

AI in Finance

AI in Finance: Recent Development In Options Hedging

I will be discussing derivatives hedging policies for financial institutions such as banks and insurers. Thanks to the recent development and hype around machine learning, more sophisticated hedging methodologies have recently receive attention from academics and practitioners....

AI Pioneers

Deep Learning in Montreal: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton Panel

At the Deep Learning Summit in Montreal in October 2017, we saw Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton come together to share their most cutting edge research progressions as well as discussing the landscape of AI and the deep learning ecosystem in Canada....

Event Highlights

Hear From AI Experts: What Did You Miss From Geoffrey Hinton, Sara Hooker, Shane Gu & More?

If you talk to anyone in Neural Nets and ask what function to use, they say you should pick a method where you give an input and compute the derivative of how much...

Event Highlights

Join AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto, and Learn from Global Leaders in Deep Learning

Following the success of RE•WORK’s inaugural summit in Canada last year, the event will be returning with the Deep Learning Summit in Toronto on the 25-26 October. Pioneer of AI, Geoffrey...

AI Pioneers

Interview: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton

For the first time ever, RE•WORK brought together the ‘Godfathers of AI’ to appear not only at the same event, but on a joint panel discussion....

AI Pioneers

Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a renowned figure in the deep learning field. His titles include Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Operations Research at the Université de Montréal, head of the...

AI Pioneers

Deep Learning with Hugo Larochelle, Twitter Cortex

Hugo Larochelle is Research Scientist at Twitter Cortex, and Assistant Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke. Prior to this, he spent two years in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Toronto,...