Alongside with the WASP summer school on the Synthesis of Human Communication, WARA Media and Language is arranging an industry conference. The conference focuses on identifying practical use-cases for the new technology and sharing experiences from on-going industrial applications in the realm of generative language models, speech synthesis, and gesture modelling. Speakers are both national and international experts in relevant research fields.
The joint grand final is a demo session of students from the Summer School showcasing their prototyping avatars in the 3D Dome at Norrköping Visualisation Center.
Spots are limited so please register sooner rather than later. Last day to register is June 10th.
PROGRAM
Thursday, August 25: “Human communication”
09:00 Magnus Sahlgren (AI Sweden)- Challenges and applications with very large language models
09:30 Zenodia Charpy (Nvidia) – P-tuning for beginners
10:00 Break
10:30 Henrik Björklund (Umeå University) – Is my data biased? Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis
11:00 Michael Noukhovitch (Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) – GPT Models
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Dhanya Sridhar (Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) – Causal Inference with Text Data
14:00 Alessandro Sestini (Electronic Arts)- Reinforcement learning agents for Game Testing
15:00 Networking (students join at 16.00)
18:00 Joint conference dinner together with students from the WASP Summer Schools
Friday, August 26: “Demo Day”
9:00 Demo of the assignment in the Visualization Dome
12:00 Lunch
13:00 End of conference