NeurIPS 2019 Affinity Events

Update Dec 2nd. For the latest updates, click the link above.

Registration Sunday Dec 8th and Monday Dec 9th.

2:00 - 2:10 Introduction / Opening Remarks - Organizers
2:10 - 2:30 Transformer-Based Unsupervised Machine Translation Study from Gender-less Languages - G. Meltem Atay
2:30 - 2:50 The Values of Machine Learning - Ria Kalluri
2:50 - 3:50 Panel - Algorithmic Inequity: Impacts on the Queer Community and Beyond
3:50 - 4:20 Break/Speed Mentoring Session
4:20 - 4:40 Deconstructing Gender Prediction in NLP - Chandler May
4:40 - 5:00 Lost at the Margins: A Quantitative Analysis of Implicit Assumptions in Modeling Identity - Phoenix Meadowlark
5:00 Concluding Remarks - Organizers

Updated Dec 2. Click link above for latest information.

Sunday Dec 8th
6:00 - 8:00 pm | Registration

Monday Dec 9th
7:00 - 8:45 am | Registration and Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 am | Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:30 am | Keynote: Carlos Guestrin
9:30 - 10:10 am | Oral Presentations
10:10 - 10:55 am | Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:05 am | Oral Presentations
11:05 - 11:35 am | Keynote: Barbara Poblete
11:35 - 12:05 pm | Oral Presentations
12:05 - 12:15 pm | Lunch
12:15 - 12:45 pm | Lunch Google Keynote: Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas
12:45 - 2:05 pm | Lunch
2:05 - 2:15 pm | Oral Presentations
2:15 - 2:45 pm | Keynote: Alan Aspuru Guzik
2:45 - 2:55 pm | Oral Presentations
2:55 - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm | Roundtable Discussion Panel
4:30 - 5:30 pm | Research Mentoring Hour
5.30 - 6:30 pm | Break
6:00 - 8:00 pm | Reception and Poster session

Tuesday Dec 10th
time TBA OpenAI Networking Reception

NeurIPS registration not required

Combined poster sessions for Black in AI and Women in Machine Learning

NeurIPS registration not required

Combined poster sessions for Black in AI, LatinX in AI, Queer in AI and Women in Machine Learning

Update Dec 2. For the latest, click the link above.

Time Event Speaker Institution
07:00-08:00 am Registration (NeurIPS registration not required)
08:00-08:30 am Mentorship Breakfast
09:00-09:10 am Opening Remarks
09:10-09:45 am Invited Talk 1 Elaine Nsoesie Boston University, USA
09:45-10:00 am Contributed Talk 1 Selameab Demilew University of Ottawa, Canada
10:00-10:15 am Contributed Talk 2 Abeba Birhane University College Dublin, Ireland
10:15-10:30 am Contributed Talk 3 Neema Mduma NM-AIST, Tanzania
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00-11:35 am Invited Talk 2 Sarah Menker Gro Intelligence, USA
11:35-11:50 am Contributed Talk 4 Israel Birhane MILA, Canada. 11:50-12:05 pm Contributed Talk 5 Robert Ness Gamalon, Inc, USA
12:05-12:20 pm Contributed Talk 6 Folake Akinbohun Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Nigeria
12:20-02:45 pm Lunch + Joint Poster Session with WiML 02:45-03:00 pm Contributed Talk 7 Rahel Tamiru Bahir Dar Universty, Ethiopia 03:00-03:15 pm Contributed Talk 8 Wilka Carvalho University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, USA 03:15-03:45 pm Coffee Break
03:45-04:20 pm Invited Talk 3 Matthew Kenney Duke University, USA
04:20-05:00 pm Panel Discussion 05:00-05:30 pm Awards & Closing Remarks
05:30 pm BREAK
06:30-08:00 pm Joint Affinity Groups Poster Session (co-located with NeurIPS opening reception, NeurIPS registration not required)