Invited talks

Keynotes, invited talks and guest lectures, most recent first.

1. August 2025Keynote
   Context is Key: A Benchmark for Forecasting with Essential Textual Information

   IJCAI 2025 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS), Montréal, Canada
2. July 2025Keynote
   Agentic Full-Stack Benchmarking for Knowledge Work

   ACL 2025 Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM), Vienna, Austria

   Recording
3. October 2024Guest lecture
   AI Agents for Enterprise Workflows

   UC Berkeley, CS294/194-196 Large Language Model Agents (course and MOOC) · with Alexandre Drouin

   Recording
4. October 2022Invited talk
   Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting: N-BEATS and TACTiS

   Bank of Canada, Workshop on Deep Learning for Economic Forecasting
5. February 2022Invited talk
   Beyond Correlation Machines: Causality Tools for Better Predictions and Decisions at Scale

   Gojek-Tokopedia (Indonedia/Singapore), Data Science Summit
6. December 2020Invited talk
   AI for Climate Change & Rebuilding after Covid-19

   Dong-A Business Forum (Seoul, Korea)
7. November 2019Invited talk
   Raising AI Standards of Practice with Explainability

   Monetary Authority of Singapore and Veritas Consortium Expert Series
8. June 2019Invited talk
   Modeling Behavior at Scale: Techniques from Machine Learning and Causal Inference

   International Society for Consumer Psychology, Annual Conference
9. June 2018Invited talk
   Realizing the Potential of Autonomous Systems

   Singapore Defence Technology Summit
10. January 2018Invited talk
    Artificial Intelligence Applications in Securities Markets Enforcement

    Technology Applied to Securities Markets Enforcement (TASMEC), 1st International Conference
11. May 2017Invited talk
    Neural Networks: from function approximators to trainable Turing machines

    Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing, Canadian Security Establishment, Ottawa, Canada
12. March 2017Invited talk
    Intelligence artificielle: Conséquences pour l’industrie de l’assurance

    Journée de l'assurance de dommages, Montréal, Canada
13. February 2017Invited talk
    AI in Business

    AQT CEO Vision, Mont-Tremblant, Canada
14. October 2016Invited talk
    HeMIS: Hetero-Modal Image Segmentation

    CIFAR Workshop on Deep Learning for Medical Imaging, Amsterdam, Netherlands
15. September 2016Invited talk
    AI in FinTech: What’s New? What’s in the Future?

    Power Corporation and AMF joint meeting on FinTech regulation, Montréal, Canada
16. July 2016Invited talk
    Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and all that. What’s New? Why the Excitement?

    Next 36 Venture Night, Toronto, Canada
17. October 2015Invited talk
    Introduction to machine learning for healthcare

    Workshop on healthcare decision systems, Ste-Justine Hospital, Montréal, Canada
18. July 2015Invited talk
    Effective Bayesian Modeling of Groups of Related Count Time Series

    ICML Demand Forecasting Workshop, Lille, France
19. November 2014Invited talk
    Effective Bayesian Modeling of Groups of Related Count Time Series

    University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada
20. October 2014Invited talk
    Le Big Data -- y voir clair

    École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
21. July 2014Invited talk
    Effective Bayesian Modeling of Groups of Related Count Time Series

    University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
22. May 2014Invited talk
    Bayesian Modeling of Groups of Related Count Time Series

    Google Machine Learning Research Group, Mountain View, CA, USA
23. March 2014Invited talk
    Deep Learning: What, Why, How?

    OPTSUM 2014, Hyderabad, India
24. March 2014Invited talk
    Time Series Forecasting with State Space Models

    OPTSUM 2014, Hyderabad, India