Schedule


Day 1 (9:30am – 6:00pm)


9:30-10:00 Welcome & Registration: coffee, tea and biscuit
10:00-10:10 Workshop Introduction & Logistic - Luo Mai & Edoardo Ponti, University of Edinburgh
10:10-10:20 GAIL Introduction - Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh
10:20-11:40 Session: Software & Hardware for Efficient GenAI
  Talk 1 (40 minutes): Woosuk Kwon, UC Berkely
  Talk 2 (40 minutes): Tenstorrent
11:40-11:50 Break: coffee, tea and biscuit
11:50-12:30 Session: PhD Lightning Talks
12:30-1:50 Lunch (Buffet)
1:50-3:50 Session: Supercomputer, Cloud and Benchmark for Efficient GenAI
  Talk 1 (40 minutes): EPCC - AI Supercomputer / ExaScale Computer
  Talk 2 (40 minutes): Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College
  Talk 3 (40 minutes): Minjie Wang, Amazon AI Lab
3:50-4:00 Break: coffee, tea and biscuit
4:00-5:00 Panel Discussion: New Software and Hardware: Challenges, Opportunities and Collaboration
5:00-6:00 Networking session & Poster sessions – light drinks and food to be provided
   


Day 2 (9:30am – 6:00pm)


9:30-10:00 Welcome & Registration: coffee, tea and biscuit
10:00-11:00 Keynote (Andrew Fitzgibbon, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering)
11:10-11:00 Break: coffee, tea and biscuit
11:10-12:30 Session: Sparsity, Quantization and GenAI
  Talk 1 (40 minutes): Willow Ahrens, MIT
  Talk 2 (40 minutes): Aaron Zhao, Imperial College
12:30-1:50 Lunch (Buffet)
1:50-3:50 Session: Efficient Models and Methods for GenAI
  Talk 1 (40 minutes): Cohere AI
  Talk 2 (40 minutes): Malted AI
  Talk 3 (40 minutes): Alex Tong, MILA
3:50-4:00 Break: coffee, tea and biscuit
4:00-5:00 Panel Discussion: New Models and Methods: Challenges, Opportunities and Collaboration
5:00-6:00 Networking session & Poster sessions – light drinks and food to be provided
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