Please note that the programme may be subject to change.
| Time/Date | Friday July 25, 2025 | Saturday July 26, 2025 | Sunday July 27, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Breakfast | ||
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Opening Remarks Mohan Kankanahalli NUS AI Institute Director, Provost’s Chair Professor, NUS SoC Deputy Executive Chairman, AI Singapore ACM & IEEE Fellow Keynote Doug Burger Technical Fellow & Corporate VP, Microsoft Research ACM & IEEE Fellow | Agentic AI for Insurance and Finance (Tutorial) He Jiong Senior Research Fellow, NUS | Generative AI and City Planning Process Zhao Jinhua (Distinguished Speaker) Professor, MIT |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Towards A New Paradigm of AI Furu Wei Distinguished Scientist & VP, Microsoft Research Asia | Multi-modal Healthcare AI Xinxing Xu Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia | Beyond Hospital Walls Lili Qiu Asst. Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia ACM & IEEE Fellow |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | AI Reasoning (Tutorial) Wee Sun Lee Professor, NUS SoC | Creativity of Generative AI Models (Tutorial) Dianbo Liu Assistant Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine | Exploring Agentic Media Yan Lu Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch and Networking | Lunch and Networking | Societal AI: Research Challenges and Opportunities (opens in new tab) Xing Xie Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia ACM & IEEE Fellow |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | The Co-Evolution of Intelligence and Systems Infrastructure Peng Cheng Senior Director, Microsoft Research Asia | Reinforcement Learning for Agentic Systems Hanze Dong Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia | Lunch and Networking |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Whether, When & How to Govern AI? (Tutorial) Simon Chesterman David Marshall Prof of Law & Vice Provost, NUS Sr Director (AI Governance), AI Singapore | Can AI Help Us Learn Better? (Tutorial) Ben Leong Assoc Prof & Asst Dean, NUS SoC Director, CCSGP & AICET, AI Singapore | Distinguished Speaker Daniela Rus Andrew & Erna Viterbi Prof, MIT Director, CSAIL, MIT |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Afternoon Tea | Afternoon Tea & Networking (end at 16.00) | Closing Remarks Wee Hyong Tok Partner Director PM, Microsoft |
| 15.30 – 16.30 | Toward Lifelike Visual AI (opens in new tab) Baining Guo Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia ACM & IEEE Fellow | Afternoon Tea & Networking (end at 16.00) | |
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Video Intelligence in the Era of Multimodal (Tutorial) Mike Shou Assistant Professor, NUS SoC & CDE | ||