Welcome to 9th
Toronto Machine Learning Summit
Live Streaming - June 16th & 17th

Please click on the individual auditorium links to access the sessions.

June 16 Sessions

Auditorium A

Auditorium B

Auditorium C

09:30 AM - 10:25 AM

Opening Day

Remarks & Kickoff

Dave Scharbach; Geoffrey Hunter; Suhas Pai

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents

Bang Liu

Real-World Challenges of Deploying GenAI in Highly Regulated Environments

Melica Mirsafian

A Modular Multimodal LLM Framework for Disease Prediction

Hanieh Arjmand

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Beyond Automation: Unlocking the Value of Agentic AI in Enterprise Environments

Amna Jamal

Panel: How Canadian Banks are Innovating in a Rapidly Evolving Regulatory Environment

Ozge Yeloglu; Yannick Lallement; Eric Morrow; Saba Zuberi; Patricia Arocena

From One Voice to Forty: Inside Vimeo’s Dubbing Engine

Tanu Nori; Gautham Anil

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM

MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Synthesis

Cong Wei

Panel: How Canadian Banks are Innovating in a Rapidly Evolving Regulatory Environment

Ozge Yeloglu; Yannick Lallement; Eric Morrow; Saba Zuberi; Patricia Arocena

Navigating AI Compliance: ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, and the Future of Regulated AI

Matt Lemay, P.Eng.

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

Reshaping the Business Using AI

Anurag Arora

Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Open Reasoning Models

Soumye Singhal

Using LLMs for Data Imputation

Paul Beaton

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Who Owns AI Ethics? Building Accountable Teams in the Age of ML

Rose Genele

Enhancing Productivity and Efficiency with a Multifunctional AI Chatbot (POC)

Hoora Fakhrmoosavy; Preetinder Singh

Rethinking Unsupervised Learning

Leland McInnes

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Unlocking the Power of GraphRAG: Enhancing AI with Knowledge Graphs, Retrieval, & Autonomous Agents

Phani Dathar

Engineering Trust: Practical AI Governance for Real-World Deployments

Fion Lee-Madan; Jeremy Souffir; Valence Howden; Himanshu Joshi; Mayan Murray

WIP- Data and the Value of Data Agentic Tooling

Josh Goldstein

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

From Idea to Implementation: How to Self-Host an AI Agent

Amanda Milberg

Vamba: Understanding Hour-Long Videos with Hybrid Mamba-Transformers

Weiming Ren

Bridging Worlds with Words: Innovations at the Lee Language Lab

Annie Lee En-Shiun

4:20 PM - 4:50 PM

Building Reliable AI Agents: Evaluation & Optimization Strategies

John Gilhuly

Zero Trust For Machine Learning Models

Mehrin Kiani

June 17 Sessions

Auditorium A

Auditorium B

Auditorium C

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM

Opening Day

Remarks & Kickoff

Geoffrey Hunter; Denys Linkov

09:45 AM - 10:25 AM

The Celestial Mechanics of Attention Mechanisms

Luis Serrano

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM

Governing Agentic AI by Design – A Framework for Ensuring Reliability, Safety, and Control in Agentic AI

Atinder Saini; Ankit Misra

Automating Workflows with a Deterministic Network of Modular Agents

Millin Gabani

Case Study: How Does DeepSeek’s FlashMLA Speed Up inference

Shashank Shekhar

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Uncovering Financial Fraud with Graph Machine Learning at Scales

Erfan Pirmorad

Towards World Models & General Agents

Bonnie Li

Scaling of Quantized Large Language Models for Efficient Inference

Xin Wang

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM

Ensuring Data Security in the AI Revolution

Ikhtear Bhuyan

Panel: The New Career Playbook: Agents, LLMs, and What Comes Next?

Diederik van Liere; Ehsan Amjadian; Sarah Sun; Graham Toppin

GARAGe: How Ada Uses LLMs to Make Retrieval Smarter

Christos Melidis

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

Scaling Ultra-Low Latency LLM Inference

Haytham Abuelfutuh

Building with GenAI: What It Really Takes to Get Bots into the Wild

Amin Atashi

Optimizing NLP Workflows by Combining GenAI and Traditional LLMs

Arash Salehzadeh

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Machine Learning for Machine Uptime: AI-Powered Fault Detection & Predictive Maintenance

Javad Farshchi

Generative AI for Retail: Personalization with Diffusion Models

Nima Eshraghi

Tackling Challenges in Scaling Test-Time Compute

Suhas Pai

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Training on AMD Instinct GPUs: From Pre-training to Fine-tuning & Post-training Strategies

Mehdi Rezagholizadeh; Vikram Appia

Explainable Forecasting Through Causal Inference

Nima Safaei

From Executives’ Delusions to Making AI Enablement a Reality: Bridging Data Readiness Gap

Helena (Qiaoshan) Yu

Welcome to 9thToronto Machine Learning SummitLive Streaming - June 16th & 17th

Please click on the individual auditorium links to access the sessions.

June 16 Sessions

Auditorium A

Auditorium B

Auditorium C

09:30 AM - 10:25 AM

Opening Day

Remarks & Kickoff

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents

Real-World Challenges of Deploying GenAI in Highly Regulated Environments

A Modular Multimodal LLM Framework for Disease Prediction

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Beyond Automation: Unlocking the Value of Agentic AI in Enterprise Environments

Panel: How Canadian Banks are Innovating in a Rapidly Evolving Regulatory Environment

From One Voice to Forty: Inside Vimeo’s Dubbing Engine

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM

MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Synthesis

Panel: How Canadian Banks are Innovating in a Rapidly Evolving Regulatory Environment

Navigating AI Compliance: ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, and the Future of Regulated AI

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

Reshaping the Business Using AI

Llama-Nemotron: Efficient Open Reasoning Models

Using LLMs for Data Imputation

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Who Owns AI Ethics? Building Accountable Teams in the Age of ML

Enhancing Productivity and Efficiency with a Multifunctional AI Chatbot (POC)

Rethinking Unsupervised Learning

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Unlocking the Power of GraphRAG: Enhancing AI with Knowledge Graphs, Retrieval, & Autonomous Agents

Engineering Trust: Practical AI Governance for Real-World Deployments

WIP- Data and the Value of Data Agentic Tooling

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

From Idea to Implementation: How to Self-Host an AI Agent

Vamba: Understanding Hour-Long Videos with Hybrid Mamba-Transformers

Bridging Worlds with Words: Innovations at the Lee Language Lab

4:20 PM - 4:50 PM

Building Reliable AI Agents: Evaluation & Optimization Strategies

Zero Trust For Machine Learning Models

June 17 Sessions

Auditorium A

Auditorium B

Auditorium C

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM

Opening Day

Remarks & Kickoff

09:45 AM - 10:25 AM

The Celestial Mechanics of Attention Mechanisms

10:55 AM - 11:25 AM

Governing Agentic AI by Design – A Framework for Ensuring Reliability, Safety, and Control in Agentic AI

Automating Workflows with a Deterministic Network of Modular Agents

Case Study: How Does DeepSeek’s FlashMLA Speed Up inference

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Uncovering Financial Fraud with Graph Machine Learning at Scales

Towards World Models & General Agents

Scaling of Quantized Large Language Models for Efficient Inference

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM

Ensuring Data Security in the AI Revolution

Panel: The New Career Playbook: Agents, LLMs, and What Comes Next?

GARAGe: How Ada Uses LLMs to Make Retrieval Smarter

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

Scaling Ultra-Low Latency LLM Inference

Building with GenAI: What It Really Takes to Get Bots into the Wild

Optimizing NLP Workflows by Combining GenAI and Traditional LLMs

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Machine Learning for Machine Uptime: AI-Powered Fault Detection & Predictive Maintenance

Generative AI for Retail: Personalization with Diffusion Models

Tackling Challenges in Scaling Test-Time Compute

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Training on AMD Instinct GPUs: From Pre-training to Fine-tuning & Post-training Strategies

Explainable Forecasting Through Causal Inference

From Executives’ Delusions to Making AI Enablement a Reality: Bridging Data Readiness Gap

TMLS

Who Attends

2023 Event Demographics

2023 Technical Background

2023 Attendees & Thought Leadership

Welcome to 9th
Toronto Machine Learning Summit
Live Streaming - June 16th & 17th