Thursday, May 16, 2019 (morning)

AI certification within reach?

8:00 - Opening, Stéphane Rouillon, Senior Partnership Advisor, IVADO - Gilles Savard, General Manager, IVADO - Geneviève Fioraso, President, IRT Saint Exupéry - Alain Aubertin, President and CEO, CRIAQ

8:30 - Keynote Speaker, George Romanski, FAA - "Challenges of AI/ML certification for Avionics Systems"

9:15 - Giuliano Antoniol, Polytechnique Montréal - What last year taught us: the magical seven plus minus two."

9:35 - Freddy Lecue, CortAix, INRIA - "On the role of trust and explanation for AI adoption in Industry."

9:55 - Jean-Michel Loubes, ITM - "Bias in machine learning: challenges for certifiable AI"

10:15 - François Laviolette, Ulaval - "Certified Artificial Intelligence, Challenges and Avenues to Explore"

10:35 - Break

11:00 - Round-table discussion, Annie Ross, Polytechnique Montréal

Phil Cole, Marinvent
Gregory Flandin, IRT Saint Exupéry
Kevin Heffner, CRIM
Laurent Gardes, SNCF

12:00 - Lunch
 
Thursday, May 16, 2019 (afternoon)

A driving/flight license for an AI?

13:15 - Keynote Speaker, Yves Jacquier, Ubisoft - "A.I.'s Game-Changing Impact."

14:00 - Nicolas Saunier, Polytechnique Montréal - "Automated Vehicle Monitoring and Human-Vehicle Communication"

14:20 - Mike McNair, Bell Flight - "Challenges of AI-Driven Vehicles."

14:40 - Alain Tapp, UdeM - "Justification or rationalization, the danger of systems that explain their decisions."

15:00 - Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia - "Prediction of Fatigue on Rotating-Shift Workers"

15:20 - Break

15:45 - Round-table discussion, Patrick Dallaire, ULaval

Pascal Traverse, Airbus
Guillaume Gaudron, IRT Saint Exupéry
Martin Trépanier, Polytechnique Montréal
Houari Sahraoui, UdeM

16:45 - Summary of the day, Mario Marchand, ULaval - Raphaël Puget, Renault

17:00 - Networking Event - Stéphane Rouillon, Senior Partnership Advisor, IVADO - Robert Beaudry, City Councillor, Saint-Jacques District
 
Friday, May 17, 2019

Embedded AI, a challenge for model reduction

8:30 - Keynote speaker, Doina Precup, McGill - "Machine learning: impact on mobility"

9:15 - Mathieu Serrurier, IRIT/IRT Saint Exupéry - "Adversarial networks for dimension reduction"

9:35 - Yvon Savaria, Polytechnique Montréal - "Hardware support architectures and implementation methods for effective embedded AI"

9:55 - Dave Meger, McGill

10:15 - Jean-Marc Gabriel, Renault - "AI and embedded systems, new challenges for software engineering"

10:35 - Break

11:00 - Round-table discussion - Aurélie Hélouis, MILA

Thomas Reid, BOMBARDIER
Guillaume Alleon, Airbus
Pierre Boucher, EnCQor

12:00 - Conclusion - Nicolas Asher, ANITI - Grégory Flandin, IRT Saint Exupéry