Create a materially better future at the 2023 Accelerate Conference

2023 accelerate conference
presented by the acceleration consortium
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Toronto • Aug 22 — 25, 2023
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about the conference

Accelerate is an interdisciplinary event that brings together changemakers in academia, industry and government who are shaping the emerging field of AI for science.

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Conference talks, workshops and networking opportunities will allow you to connect with a global community working to realize a healthy, sustainable, materially different future.

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Better Materials for a better future—Now

Better Materials for a better future—Now

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featured speakers
Ivan Zhang
Keynote Talk: Large language models are useful general intelligence
  • Co-founder of Cohere, an enterprise-focused generative artificial intelligence startup, that recently secured $270 million in a Series C round of venture capital
  • Ivan came to computers in high school, when a friend pushed him into taking a computer science class
  • The first program he ever wrote was a chess AI—even though he didn’t actually know how to play chess
Ivan Zhang
Keynote Talk: Large language models are useful general intelligence
  • Co-founder of Cohere, an enterprise-focused generative artificial intelligence startup, that recently secured $270 million in a Series C round of venture capital
  • Ivan came to computers in high school, when a friend pushed him into taking a computer science class
  • The first program he ever wrote was a chess AI—even though he didn’t actually know how to play chess
Suzanne Gildert
Keynote Talk: Human-like intelligence in general purpose robots
  • Co-Founder & CTO at Sanctuary AI
  • Before Sanctuary, Suzanne founded Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment
  • The acquisition of Kindred by Ocado in November 2020 was the third-largest exit for a robotics company in Canadian history
Suzanne Gildert
Keynote Talk: Human-like intelligence in general purpose robots
  • Co-Founder & CTO at Sanctuary AI
  • Before Sanctuary, Suzanne founded Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment
  • The acquisition of Kindred by Ocado in November 2020 was the third-largest exit for a robotics company in Canadian history
Linda Hung
Keynote Talk: Closing the experiment-simulation gap for energy materials
  • Manager in the Energy & Materials division at Toyota Research Institute
  • Integrates machine learning and data science methods with experiment and simulation to accelerate the development of new, sustainable materials
  • Majored in applied math and chemistry: math because theorems can be proved just once (and the proof will continue to hold throughout time), and chemistry because theory connects to the real world
Linda Hung
Keynote Talk: Closing the experiment-simulation gap for energy materials
  • Manager in the Energy & Materials division at Toyota Research Institute
  • Integrates machine learning and data science methods with experiment and simulation to accelerate the development of new, sustainable materials
  • Majored in applied math and chemistry: math because theorems can be proved just once (and the proof will continue to hold throughout time), and chemistry because theory connects to the real world
Ian Foster
Joint Keynote Talk: AI-driven large-scale automated scientific experimental laboratories
  • Director of Argonne’s Data Science and Learning Division
  • Co-founder of the popular and long-lived data-sharing tool Globus
  • Widely considered the father of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing
Ian Foster
Joint Keynote Talk: AI-driven large-scale automated scientific experimental laboratories
  • Director of Argonne’s Data Science and Learning Division
  • Co-founder of the popular and long-lived data-sharing tool Globus
  • Widely considered the father of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing
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Thank you to our partners and sponsors for generously supporting this year's Accelerate Conference!