Applications for KHIPU 2025 have been extended!
There are no registration fees, and numerous scholarships for accommodation and transportation are available.
More info at
Please spread the word!
Hello world! We are happy to announce the first edition of Khipu: Latin American Meeting in Artificial Intelligence in November, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Outstanding set of speakers. Applications now open for ALL!
Apply and see details in
#khipu2019
It is the final day of Khipu!
This afternoon we are at the beautfiul Teatro Solis to hear AI stories from Latin America and across the world
Thank you to everyone at
#khipu2023
Khipu 2019 crowd with the Masakhane spirit, let's build together! Thanks everyone for the incredible energy and enthusiasm throughout the whole week.
#Khipu2019
We are very excited to announce the next edition of Khipu Latin American Meeting in AI!
Khipu 2023 will be held 6th-10th of March in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Outstanding set of speakers. Applications are now open!
Apply and see details at
#khipu2023
Excited to announce the *Khipu 2021 Event Series*: monthly online meetings to support the advancement of AI talent in Latinamerica. Our inaugural event on April 27 will feature Doina Precup and Rich Sutton & other outstanding speakers.Register at [1/4]
🚀Exciting news! We're launching
#KHIPUx
, a grant program to fuel events across Latin America that embody the essence of KHIPU's AI community.
📆 Planning an AI meetup in LATAM for 2024? Apply now for financial support! Visit
🔔Deadline: December 8, 2023
Great conversation with Doina Precup, Rich Sutton and
#khipu2021
reflecting on the field of reinforcement learning, the importance of this field for deep learning, future important questions in RL and the potential for real-world impact in understanding different multiple domains
"
@JeffDean
was one of the first speakers to agree to speak at Khipu, and it was with his support we were really able to get Khipu off the ground. So, thank you Jeff from all of us, and looking forward to the closing talk at Khipu 2019!"
Livestream:
Finally,
@JeffDean
closing out
#Khipu2019
. "It is hard to introduce Jeff Dean, who has had so many contributions to the field ... but most importantly we want to thank Jeff for his dedication to inclusion in ML, through support of initiatives like
@DeepIndaba
and
@Khipu_AI
."
Two months until
#Khipu2019
! We are proud to award many travel grants for students from all over LATAM. This is only possible thanks to the generous support from our sponsors, who are investing in the community, and helping unlock the great talent in the region!
We have some big news... Khipu's big finale will be taking place in the beautiful Teatro Solis and we are opening the doors to the general public!
There are a limited number of tickets so check out the program and save your spot at
In our 2nd event in
#khipu2021
, we are thrilled to host Yann Lecun
@ylecun
, Sandra Avila
@sandraavilabr
and Enzo Ferrante
@enzoferrante
on self-supervised learning and its applications. May 18th, 17hs GMT-3.More info about speakers and registration at [1/2
Officially kicking off the opening ceremony for
#Khipu2019
! Dean of the Facultdad de Ingenería at our host university
@Udelaruy
, Maria Simon giving opening remarks along with Merire Fortunato, Khipu organiser and research scientist at DeepMind.
Hola Khipu community, oi! It's been a full year since
#khipu2019
. We’re excited to share a documentary with highlights of our first Khipu edition. What were your favorite memories? Share them with
#Khipu_AI
”. (short version , full )
Our organizers Meire Fortunato and
@pablosprechmann
, together with
@riiaa_mex
organizer Andrés Campero at RIIAA 2.0. Thanks Yoshua Bengio for being so generous with your time and taking part in both efforts!
@riiaa_mex
and
@Khipu_AI
aim to foster a great AI ecosystem for Latam.
Given the seriousness and uncertainty with the coronavirus pandemic, sadly, we decided to cancel our in-person Khipu 2020 event. We are thinking about creative ways to engage our community, so stay tuned for updates and contact us (info
@khipu
.ai) with ideas for staying connected!
Thank YOU
@NandoDF
for coming to spend the week with all of us in Montevideo and sharing your knowledge and passion for AI with all of us. When influential researchers speak up for inclusion in ML, people listen. 👏🌎👨💻👩💻♥️
These organisers are true heroes. Their devotion and hard work, over a long year, has resulted in one of the most positive successes in the field of AI in Latin America. Thank you.
@Khipu_AI
First panel of
#Khipu2019
. Topic is challenges and opportunities for AI in LATAM. Current question: AI research requires many skills, how can we reduce the time to market to train AI researchers?
We're hearing from Fabrizio Scrollini, Jocelyn Dunstan, Peter Norvig, Sebastian Barrios, hosted by Luciana Bennoti for the final session of
#khipu2023
on the important topic of fostering AI in Latin America in the incredible setting of Teatro Solís
¡Las aplicaciones para KHIPU 2025 ya están abiertas!
No hay tarifas de inscripción y hay numerosas becas disponibles para alojamiento y transporte.
Más información en
¡Corre la voz!
There is 1 week left to apply to join us at Khipu 2023! ⏳
It's simple to apply to attend Khipu and there is no requirement to submit a paper, so head over to our website now to get your application started! 🚀
#khipu2023
Our next
#khipu2021
event is on Graph Neural Networks! Alejandro Ribeiro &
@joanbruna
will cover GNN basic concepts & applications. Paola Bermolen will present her work on graph representation. Tuesday Oct 26 @ 5PM Brasilia (GTM-3). Free registration at
Applications for KHIPU 2025 are now open!
There are no registration fees, and numerous scholarships for accommodation and transportation are available.
More info at
Please spread the word!
Finally,
@JeffDean
closing out
#Khipu2019
. "It is hard to introduce Jeff Dean, who has had so many contributions to the field ... but most importantly we want to thank Jeff for his dedication to inclusion in ML, through support of initiatives like
@DeepIndaba
and
@Khipu_AI
."
Our first round of acceptances have now all gone out. We had 966 amazing applications, and we wish we could accept everyone. There is a waiting list, and we will accept more people as spots open. Thanks everyone for the time invested on applying to
#Khipu2019
!
Introducing our Khipu speakers: Yann LeCun
@ylecun
is best known for inventing the convnet method which is widely used for image, video and speech recognition. Yann is Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Silver Professor at NYU [1/3]
Introducing our
#khipu2021
speakers:
@gonzamoratorio
is an Associate Professor of Virology at
@Udelaruy
. Last year, Gonzalo was featured in
@Nature
’s 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2020, thanks to his work to contain the SARS CoV-2 pandemic in Uruguay [1/3]
Join us in this exciting
#khipu2021
fireside chat with
@OriolVinyalsML
hosting
@geoffreyhinton
on July 27 9pm UK, 5pm Brasília time. It's FREE, you can register at . After the chat we will have a social on Gathertown and keep the conversation going!
#LATAM
Thank you
@AntelDeTodos
for providing Khipu both with stellar wifi, and streaming tv! We had people from more than 45 countries tune in to watch
#Khipu2019
!! 💻🌎🌍🌏🌐
We are excited and proud to support the IA @ Litoral 2023. We love to see our community gathering and sharing knowledge, passion and science in AI across Latin America.
Do you like it too? Want to organize an event supported by Khipu? Stay tuned...
Guillermo Sapiro talks about ML Challenges and Opportunities of Computational Behavioral Phenotyping in Developmental Health. Follow us on livestream . You can also ask live question through the app with the code
#KhipuAI2019
Luciana Ferrer takes the
#khipu2019
stage to talk about Machine Learning Fundamentals. live stream on . You can also ask live question through the app with the code
#KhipuAI2019
We are happy that
@FacilDesviarse
are joining us at Facultad de Ingeniería to share about this great experience with the local community
You can come and see them live at room B01 at the venue from 4-7pm UYT!
#khipu2023
Congrats to our winners of the best poster award 👏
Up first....
🥇Deep Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks for Efficient Resource Allocation in 5G Networks
Well done to Martín Randall, Federico La Rocca, Pedro Casas, Pablo Belzarena!!
We are about to start 4th day at
#khipu2019
. We are going to upload the lectures slides to our web as we get them. For now, you can enjoy the ones from
@NandoDF
on reinforcement learning here:
DeepMind is on a long-term mission to solve intelligence. We combine the ambitious and interdisciplinary nature of scientific thinking with the energy and focus of a technology start-up.
Introducing our July 27
#khipu2021
speaker:
@geoffreyhinton
is fellow of CIFAR, emeritus professor at
@UofT
, & VP Engineering fellow at Google. Geoff was one of the researchers who introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use it for learning word embeddings [1/3
Khipu starts tomorrow! Join us for the opening words at 8am UYT 👏
Head to the venue today to register & avoid queues tomorrow. To watch remotely, join our Khipu livestream
Look forward to seeing you all for day one of Khipu!
#khipu2023
We received a great number of outstanding applications, and in light of this the review process has been taking longer than we foresaw.Acceptance notifications will be sent out by Aug 12. We apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused and appreciate your understanding.
Introducing our
#khipu2021
host:
@OriolVinyalsML
is a team lead and Principal Scientist at
@DeepMind
. His contributions seq2seq, knowledge distillation, or TensorFlow are used in Google Translate, Text-To-Speech, and Speech recognition, serving billions of queries every day [1/3
Opportunity for Latam professors: funding available (up to 60K USD) for professors to support research at a university or degree-granting research institution around the world. Applications are open, deadline on Dec 2nd. More info at
#latam
#ai
Our organizer and amazing speaker
@DaniCMBelg
takes
#khipu2019
stage to talk about Machine Learning for Healthcare. Thanks Danielle for all your contributions to
#khipu2019
.
Introducing our speakers: Enzo Ferrante
@enzoferrante
is a research scientist at CONICET and lecturer at Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina 🇦🇷. Enzo is the lead of ML for Biomedical Image computing research at the
@sinc_i
institute. [1/3]
Excellent post about the lack of geographic Diversity in NLP conferences. Hopefully with time we will see a shift in this graphs and have greater African and Latin American representation,
#khipu2019
#ai
#latinamerica
The Geographic Diversity of NLP Conferences 🌍
This blog post by
@MarekRei
&
@cainesap
highlights arguably one of the biggest contemporary issues in the ML and NLP community: The lack of geographic diversity.
Pasó un año desde nuestro último KHIPU en Montevideo🇺🇾. Recordalo mirando este video!
Y estén atentos que en breve estaremos compartiendo noticias sobre 🥁🥁 KHIPU 2025 🥁🥁
@chelseabfinn
from
@Stanford
and
@GoogleAI
kicking off her talk on ML for robotics. Chelsea is one of the few researchers to have made field changing contributions in multiple fields and we are so thankful she’s here to present at
#Khipu2019
A massive thank you to our next platinum sponsor the Facultad de Ingenería 🚀 We are also lucky enough to be hosting Khipu at the Facultad de Ingenería!
Thank you for your generous support!
#Khipu2023
#FacultaddeIngener
ía
Guillermo Sapiro of
@DukeU
showing us how we can use AI to diagnose children with autism, to start behavioral interventions sooner so they can live more independent lives ♥️
Livestream:
Introducing our
#khipu2021
speakers: Laura Alonso Alemany
@morlaicassiopea
is a linguist working on NLP applications. She works to facilitate understanding of language technologies and data sciences. Laura is interested in ML as a tool to explore language. [1/3]
We are thrilled to announce our first confirmed speakers for
#khipu2023
!!
Remember the application deadline is September 30th. Plenty of scholarships available!
Apply at
Announcing our first international office in Medellin, Colombia! Landing AI, and AI Fund have teams there. AI needs to expand beyond a small handful of hubs like Silicon Valley and Beijing, and I’m bullish about Latin America.
Please help us to become more aware of the amazing work LATAM women are doing by nominating yourself or someone you know that is working in ML.
#WomeninSTEM
#WomenInTech
#ML
#LATAM
1/3
#WiML
is starting a new initiative to promote the achievements and research of women working in ML. We will use dedicated hashtags to promote the work of women from different diversity groups and women who are working on specific ML topics.
#WomeninSTEM
#WomenInTech
#ML
Introducing our speakers: Rich Sutton is Professor at U. of Alberta & Distinguished Research Scientist at
@DeepMind
. RL pioneer, his contributions include TD learning & policy gradient methods. He is a coauthor of the acclaimed book "Reinforcement Learning, an introduction" [1/3
We're thrilled that
@Google
is a platinum sponsor for Khipu!
Google's mission is to organise the world's information & make it accessible globally. We are excited to have a sponsor with a dedication to innovation and technology.
Thank you for the support!
#Khipu2023
#Google
Friendly reminder that today is the last day to apply for
#khipu2019
! Registration is free for students, and applicants can apply for travel and accommodation scholarships. More details in
📢 Deadline extension! We are extending the deadline for applications to Khipu 2023 until October 14th.
Registration is free, and applicants can apply for travel and accommodation scholarships. More details at
Looking forward to seeing you in Montevideo!
Juan Carlos Niebles takes the stage in
#khipu2019
to talk about CNN's, and also uses ICCV statistics to point out the need to increase Latin American representativity in international conferences.
These are the sponsors supporting Khipu 2021, and helping to strengthen the Latam AI community! Our first meeting is tomorrow April 27th, at 5 pm, Brasilia time (GMT-3). The event is *free* (thanks to our sponsors) and you can save your spot at
Now: Martín Abadi of
@GoogleAI
on privacy and security in ML.
“If we don’t figure out security in the domain of ML it will seriously limit the value of AI because we will be unable to apply it to problems with sensitive data”.
Happy New Year! 🎉 We're excited to kick off 2023 with some big announcements for Khipu. We're thrilled that Pablo Castro, Sara Hooker and Gonzalo Mateos will be joining us at Khipu 2023! Get ready for thought-provoking & insightful talks from these industry leaders.
#khipu2023
Introducing our
#khipu2021
speakers: Paola Bermolen is an Associate Professor in the Math Department at the School of Engineering
@Udelaruy
. She has a degree in Mathematics (2004) from
@Udelaruy
, and PhD in Computer Science and Networks (2010) from Telecom ParisTech, France [1/3
Maria Jose Escobar from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria in Chile discussing her research in neuroscience and AI. “Science and technology will be key in creating more just societies” 👏
Now the talk from
@AntelDeTodos
that besides being a Platinum sponsor, have ensured we have excellent internet connection on the premises and livestreaming for all talks in
#khipu2019
. They are also talking about the "One laptop a child" project!