Program

Tuesday May 17th

8:30am - 8:45am (QC) | Opening remarks

• Eugénie Brouillet, Vice-Rector, Research and Creation, Université Laval
• Grégory Flandin, Program Director - Artificial Intelligence and Critical Systems, IRT Saint Exupéry

8h45 - 9h45 (QC) | Conference "Trustworthy Machine Learning-Enabled Systems"with Lionel Briand, Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Compliance and Reliability, University of Ottawa

9h45 - 10h15 (QC) | Break and poster session

10h15 - 11h45 (QC) | Conference block

• "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Aircraft Modeling, Simulation and Controls at the LARCASE Laboratory"with Ruxandra Botez, Canada Research Chair in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technology, ÉTS Montréal
• "The Importance of Field Testing in Autonomous Vehicle Research - Lessons Learned from Subarctic to Subterranean Environments"with François Pomerleau, Director of the Laboratoire de recherche nordique (Norlab), Université Laval
• "Practical Guidelines and Methods to Verify and Validate AI/ML Based System for Safety Critical Application"with Reza Pedrami, Senior System Safety Expert, CS Group

11:45 - 12:30 (QC) | Discussion on the Confiance AI initiative

• "The industrialization of trusted AI"with Philippe Molaret, Technical Director, Thales
• "A plea to support change towards trusted AI in organizations" with Abdé Essaidi, Executive Vice President, Axionable

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (QC) | Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm (QC) | Panel: "AI and aerospace in Quebec: challenges and prospects", moderated by Alain Aubertin, President and CEO of the Consortium de recherche et d'innovation en aérospatial du Québec (CRIAQ). Panelists :

• Yuri Fattah, Program Manager - Multidisciplinary Priorities, The International Civil Aviation Organization;
• Rémi Duquette, vice-president Innovation & Industrial AI, Maya HTT;
• and Margit Kaesser, Data Scientist and Consultant - Digital Aerospace Transformation, IRT Saint Exupéry Canada.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm (QC) | Conference "Towards product optimization driven by explainable AI"with Caroline Pernelle, AI Strategist, CAE

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm (QC) | Cocktail

Wednesday May 18th

8:30am - 8:45am (QC) | Opening remarks

• Sylvie Barcelo, Deputy Minister, International Relations and Francophonie, Government of Québec
• Frédéric Sanchez, Consul General of France in Quebec City

8h45 - 9h45 (QC) | Conference "Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences"with Vera Liao, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal

9h45 - 10h15 (QC) | Break and poster session

10h15 - 11h45 (QC) | Conference block

• "Interpretability in an Industrial Context - A Sensitivity Analysis Perspective" with Sébastien Da Veiga, AI team leader for design and simulation, Safran
• "Don't Lie to Me: Robust and Efficient Explainability with Verified Perturbation Analysis"with David Vigouroux, AI Research Engineer, IRT Saint Exupéry
• "Transfer Learning in Industry"with Mathilde Mougeot, Professor of Data Science, ENS Paris-Sarclay

11h45 - 12h30 (QC) | Conference "A Few Perspectives on Reliability in Reinforcement Learning"with Emmanuel Rachelson, Professor of Machine Learning and Optimization, ISAE-SUPAERO

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (QC) | Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 (QC) | Discussion: "A look at the DEEL research initiative in Quebec", with Mario Marchand, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Université Laval, and Giuliano Antoniol, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal

14h - 15h30 (QC) | Conference block

• "Interpretable Multiclass Text Classification Using Column Generation"with Krunal Patel, Ph.D. student in applied mathematics, Polytechnique Montréal
• "Domain-Aware Deep Learning Testing for Aircraft System Models"with Houssem Ben Braiek, PhD student in computer science, Polytechnique Montréal
• "Can we Derive Insight from Post-Hoc Explanations of Uncertain Models?" with Gabriel Laberge, PhD student in applied mathematics, Polytechnique Montréal

Thursday, May 19th

8:30am - 8:45am (QC) | Opening remarks

• Nancy Laramée, Director of Partnerships, IVADO
• Alain Aubertin, President and CEO, CRIAQ

8h45 - 9h45 (QC) | Conference "AI, Mobility, Privacy, Ethics - A Conundrum"with Stan Matwin, Director of the Big Data Analytics Lab, Dalhousie University

9h45 - 10h15 (QC) | Break and poster session

10h15 - 11h45 (QC) | Conference block

• "Privacy and ethical issues in the age of massive data"with Sébastien Gambs, Professor, Computer Science Department, UQAM
• "Hiccups on the road to XAI"with Ulrich Aïvodji, computer science professor, ÉTS Montréal
• "Thinking about data governance in the general interest: the potential and challenges of the social utility trust" with Jessica Leblanc, lawyer and project manager, TIESS

11:45 - 12:45 (QC) | Panel: "Ethical issues linked to the use of data for mobility" moderated by Sébastien Gambs, professor at UQÀM, with :

• Naomi Ayotte, Lawyer, Commission d'accès à l'information (CAI) du Québec
• Tara D'Aigle-Curley, lawyer, ROBIC
• and Francis Nadeau, President and CEO of HydraLab.

12h45 - 13h (QC) | Closing remarks

• Christian Gagné, Director, Institut intelligence et données (IID), Université Laval