Major European AI/ML Conference organised by ELISE held in Helsinki

Featured sessions

To open the conference, ELLIS President Bernhard Schölkopf's keynote speech gave an overview of ELISE’s achievements, plans for ELLIS moving forward, as well as a fascinating scientific talk. Closing the first day, ELLIS Board Member Professor Neil Lawrence gave a keynote speech to launch his new book 'The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI'. Many of the themes of the keynote addresses were expanded upon in a panel discussion, where Timo Harakka, and Professors Schölkopf and Lawrence, were joined by Jessica Montgomery and Professor Petri Myllymäki.  

Streams of the three keynote addresses and the panel discussion can be found on YouTube: ELISE Wrap Up Conference & ELLIS Community Event - YouTube

Co-located workshops and working groups

ELISE’s work package leaders hosted workshops that shared their achievements with the wider ELLIS community, and discussed and planned ways forward after the ELISE project ends in August 2024. This included a workshop on the ELLIS PhD Program, which has grown beyond expectations thanks, in large part, to the ELISE project.

ELISE co-organised four ELLIS Research Program Workshops for the event. These workshops hosted their own participants and guest speakers. The Robust Machine Learning, Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning, Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems, and Human-centric Machine Learning Research Programs hosted workshops.

External links for the Research Program workshops:
Probabilistic Numerics and Physics-informed Learning
Robust ML
Human-centric ML
Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable ML

Joint work with European NoEs

The event was also an opportunity for ELISE and ELLIS to extend their collaborative work with other European Networks of Excellence Centres (NoEs) in AI/ML. ELISE collaborated with the NoE, ELIAS, to organise a workshop for ELLIS’s Human-centric Machine Learning Research Program.

The congregation in Helsinki also joined the 4th VISION Community Workshop in Thessaloniki for three remote sessions. The aim of these sessions was to plan how to sustain the work of the NoEs after the ICT-48 projects end.     

“This successful event was, in some ways, the first of its kind”, says Christopher Murray, the Project Coordinator of ELISE. “It was a unique opportunity for diverse groups within ELISE and ELLIS to come together, share their achievements, and make lasting connections. The speakers we had at the event are world-leading, and the Research Programs, companies, and coordinators who participated are advancing the field in remarkable ways.”