Programme

General partner

• October 24

  9.30 – 10.00

  Registration 

   HSE Cultural Centre

  10.00 – 10.05

  Conference opening
  
  
  Alexey Naumov, HSE University 
  
   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  10.05 – 11.05

  Tutorial "Matrix Optimization and Muon: A Natural Perspective on Neural Network Training", part 1 (ENG) 
   
  Maxim Rakhuba, HSE University

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  11.05 – 11.30

  Coffee break 

  11.30 – 12.30

  Tutorial "Matrix Optimization and Muon: A Natural Perspective on Neural Network Training", part 2 (ENG)

  

  Alexander Beznosikov, MIPT, Innopolis, ISP RAS

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  12.30 – 13.30

  Lunch break

  13.30 – 14.30

  Tutorial "Diffusion models: Acceleration and Distillation", part 1 (ENG) 
  
  Aibek Alanov, HSE University, AIRI

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  14.30 – 15.00

  Coffee break 

  15.00 – 16.00

  Tutorial "Diffusion models: Effective Language Modelling", part 2 (ENG)
  
  Egor Chimbulatov, HSE University

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  15.00– 16.30

  Foresight Session "Cloud Technologies 2040" (RUS)

  Moderator:
  Konstantin Vishnevskiy, HSE University
  Speakers:
  Artem Amentes, Social Code
  Vyacheslav Degtyarev, K2 Neurotech
  Ilya Korolev, Cloud.ru
  Nakvasin Sergey, AI Expert
  Andrey Selskiy, HSE University
  Vladimir Tomko,  MTS

   HSE Cultural Centre, Small Hall

  16.00 – 17.30

  Plenary session "Academia in Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?" (RUS)
  
  Speakers:
  Gleb Gusev, Sber AI lab
  Alexander Korotin, Skoltech, AIRI
  Alexey Naumov, HSE University 
  Sergey Samsonov, HSE University
  Vladimir Spokoiny, HSE University 
  Ivan Stelmakh, Central University, NES

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

• October 25

  9.30 – 10.00

  Registration 

   HSE Cultural Centre

  10.00 – 11.30

  Workshop "AI and Genetic Computer" (RUS) 
  
  Maria Poptsova, HSE University
  
   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  10.00 – 11.30

  Workshop "From Noise to Narrative: The Evolution of Visual Generative Models" (RUS)
  
  Sergey Kastryulin, Yandex Research

   HSE Cultural Centre, Small Hall

  11.30 – 12.00

  Coffee break 

  12.00 – 13.30

  Spotlight talks (ENG)

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  13.30 – 14.00

  Coffee break 

  14.00 – 15.30

  Workshop "Financial AI" (RUS)
   
  Andrey Savchenko, Sber AI lab, HSE University

   HSE Cultural Centre, Main Hall

  14.00 – 15.30

  Workshop "Understanding How LLMs Work: An Introduction to Interpretability" (RUS)
  
  Alexey Dontsov, AIRI

  
  Elena Tutubalina, AIRI
   HSE Cultural Centre, Small Hall

  15.30 – 15.45

  Transition from HSE Cultural Centre to Atrium 

  15.45 – 16.00

  Conference photo
   Atrium

  16.00 – 18.00

  Poster Session (RUS/ENG)

   Atrium

  18.00 – 20.00

  Conference dinner 

   HSE Cultural Centre