Submission Closed Visit AAAI 25
Tentative Program (subjected to change)
March 4, 2025 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
| Session | Slot (EST) | Topic | Speakers/Authors/Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELCOME | 08:30-08:40a | ||
| KEYNOTE | 08:40-09:15a | Granite: Open Source Models for the Enterprise | Kate Soule |
| Open Source & Policy | 09:15-09:35a | Position paper: Why Open Source AI Models Matter | Arnaud Le Hors, Sanjeev Kumar Marimekala, Susan Malaika, Rajeev Gupta, Michael Rudowsky and Joe Sepi |
| 09:35-09:55a | Position paper: Open Source Casualties of Model-Layer Regulation | Benjamin Brooks | |
| Application | 09:55-10:15a | Short Paper: Employing Open-Source LLMs for Preventive Action Recommendations to Avoid Industrial Safety Incident | Shubham Kumbhar, Siddharth Tumre, Sumit Koundanya and Sangameshwar Patil |
| Standards | 10:15-10:45a | Paper: An Overview of the Natural Language Interaction Protocol | Sanjay Aiyagari, Rithik Babu, Elisa Bertino, Jan Bieniek, Yan-Ming Chiou, Raj Dodhiawala, Erik Erlandson, Sugih Jamin, Ashish Kundu, Jon Lenchner, Tejas Maire, Matthew Mauriello, Mohamed Rahouti, Abhay Ratnaparkhi, Tom Sheffler, Chien-Chung Shen, Dinesh Verma, Wenpeng Yin, Luyi Xing, Jinjun Xiong and Hasan Zengin |
| BREAK | 10:45-11:00a | ||
| Open Source Tools-I | 11:00-11:30a | Paper: Docling-An Efficient Open-Source Toolkit for AI-driven Document Conversion | Nikolaos Livathinos, Christoph Auer, Maksym Lysak, Ahmed Nassar, Michele Dolfi, Panagiotis Vagenas, Cesar Berrospi Ramis, Matteo Omenetti, Kasper Dinkla, Yusik Kim, Shubham Gupta, Rafael Teixeira de Lima, Valery Weber, Lucas Morin, Ingmar Meijer, Viktor Kuropiatnyk and Peter W.J. Staar |
| 11:30-12:00p | Demo: Streamlining Enterprise AI RAG Pipelines with OPEA and IBM DataPrepKit | Ezequiel Lanza, Sujee Maniyam and Murilo Gustinelli | |
| LUNCH | 12:00-01:00p | ||
| Domain Specific Foundation Models | 01:00-01:30p | Paper: SemiKong: Curating, Training, and Evaluating A Semiconductor Industry-Specific Large Language Model | Christopher Nguyen, William Nguyen, Atsushi Suzuki, Daisuke Oku, An Phan, Sang Dinh, Zooey Nguyen, Annie Ha, Vinh Luong, Shruti Raghavan, Huy Vo, Thang Nguyen, Lan Nguyen and Yoshikuni Hirayama |
| 01:30-02:00p | Demo: Benchmarking Geospatial Foundation Models with GEO-Bench and Terratorch | Naomi Simumba, Nils Lehmann, Campbell Watson, Alexandre Lacoste and Paolo Fraccaro | |
| 02:00-02:30p | Demo: Open Foundation Model for Materials and Chemistry | Seiji Takeda, Indra Priyadarsini, Lisa Hamada, Onur Boyar, Emilio Brazil, Eduardo Soares, Flaviu Cipcigan, David Braines, Vidushi Sharma, Tim Erdmann and Mehrad Ansari | |
| 02:30-03:00p | Demo: Garuda: An Indian Agricultural LLM And Krishi Saathi Advisory Chatbot | Chintan Donda, Manan Uppadhyay, Mihir Goyal, Jp Tripathi and Mohammad Salman | |
| Open Source Tools-II | 03:00-03:30p | Demo: Efficient Any-to-any Late Fusion Implementation of Generative Fusion Decoding | Chan-Jan Hsu, Mu-Xi Chen, Yi-Chang Chen and Da-Shan Shiu |
| BREAK | 03:30-04:00p | ||
| Open Source Tools-II | 04:00-04:30p | Demo: DB-Agent - Leveraging Open source LLMs to empower end user | Chandan Kumar |
| PANEL | 04:30-05:15p | “Building an Open Ecosystem” | Nathaniel Bastian, Sean Hughes, John McBroom, Jose Plehn-Dujowich |
| CLOSING | 05:15-05:30p |
Keynote
Kate Soule
Kate Soule is the Director of Technical Product Management for IBM Granite, where she leads the productization and release of IBM’s Granite family of open source Large Language Models. Prior to her current role at IBM Research, Kate was a leader at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a joint research partnership between MIT and IBM Research; Kate ran the Lab’s corporate membership program, supporting industry investment in the Lab’s AI research technologies. Kate earned her MBA at MIT Sloan and previously worked at Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Consultant within the Strategy and Operations practice. Kate also holds a B.S. in Statistics from Cornell University.
Panelists
Nathaniel Bastian
Nathaniel D. Bastian, PhD, is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, serving as an Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. He is also concurrently serving as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). At USMA, Nate serves as Division Chief, Data & Decision Sciences, Chief Data Scientist and Principal Research Scientist at the Army Cyber Institute within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). His research interests aim to develop innovative, assured, intelligent, human-aware, data-centric, and decision-driven capabilities for cyberspace operations. Nate also serves as a faculty member in the Departments of Mathematical Sciences, Systems Engineering, and EECS at USMA. At DARPA, he serves in the Information Innovation Office developing, executing, and transitioning research and development programs in artificial intelligence and cyberspace operations.
Sean Hughes
Sean Hughes is ServiceNow’s AI ecosystem director. He is responsible for ServiceNow’s open scientific collaborations. He is a member of the AI Alliance steering committee; co-leads the AI Alliance Foundation Models Working Group, and the AI Alliance Community core team. He was a founding member of the BigCode Project where he is a member of the Core Team, and co-leads the Legal, Ethics, Governance Working Group. Hughes previously held leadership roles at HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Actian Corporation, and Intel Corporation’s Artificial Intelligence Products Group.
John McBroom
John McBroom joined the IBM law department in 2006 and in his current role as Senior Counsel and IBM Open Technology Counsel, he is responsible for leading legal support for IBM’s various open activities across its enterprise. John also serves as the Board Secretary for Open Innovation Network (OIN), an institution focused on mitigating patent risk in Open Source Software. His past IBM responsibilities include providing legal support to various IBM cloud, software, and hardware offering teams, and has worked on several IBM acquisitions, including Red Hat. John earned his law degree from the Duke University School of Law, and prior to joining IBM, served as law clerk for Federal Judge Ann D. Montgomery and worked for the Faegre & Benson law firm (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath) in Minneapolis.
Jose Plehn-Dujowich
Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (“BQ”) and BQ AI: The Factual AI Company™. Jose has over ten years of academic experience working with U.S. statistical agencies, including the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Small Business Administration (SBA). Prior to focusing on entrepreneurship, Jose was Faculty & Executive Director of the Fink Center at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Adjunct Accounting Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and Executive Director of the Center for Financial Reporting & Management at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, Jose founded the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA), which has become a leading accounting program. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Jose was Assistant Professor of Accounting at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo. While at SUNY Buffalo, Jose helped found the Journal of Human Capital published by the University of Chicago Press. In 2011, Jose contributed IP to co-found Powerlytics, which provides aggregated anonymized IRS tax returns on all U.S. companies and households.