Accelerate Conference program now live – and a special discount opportunity!
There’s still time to register for Acceleration Consortium’s (AC) 2023 Accelerate Conference in Toronto, August 22–25! Based at the University of Toronto, the AC is a global community of academia, government, and industry who are accelerating the discovery of new materials and molecules needed for a sustainable future.
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Accelerate Conference
August 22–25, 2023
Toronto (in-person only)
AI tools. Accelerated experimentation. Robotics. Energy / Sustainability. Chemical Reactions. Biotech. Electronics. Responsible Discovery. Commercialization. Democratizing science.
Conference talks, panels, and workshops will explore these themes and more. There’s still time to join us for the Acceleration Consortium’s second annual Accelerate Conference in Toronto, August 22–25, 2023 to explore how self-driving labs are revolutionizing materials and molecular discovery through the power of AI, automation, and advanced computing. Connect in-person with experts in academia, government, and industry who are shaping the emerging field of accelerated science. Become part of a global community working to realize a materially better future: A paradigm shift where we have the technology to rapidly develop the sustainable, inexpensive, and high-performance molecules and materials that will improve our lives and our planet.
This is an especially momentous year for the Accelerate Conference with the recent investment of $200 million into the Acceleration Consortium from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).
With the conference less than 1 month away, here are some highlights!
Keynotes:
Ian Foster & Rick L. Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory | AI-driven large-scale automated scientific experimental laboratories
Suzanne Gildert, Sanctuary AI | Human-like intelligence in general purpose robots
Ivan Zhang, Cohere | Large language models (LLMs) are useful general intelligence
Linda Hung, Toyota Research Institute | Closing the experiment-simulation gap for energy materials
Training workshops, including:
Real-world Bayesian optimization in materials science
Image classification and object detection in microbiology
Low-cost self-driving labs for education and research
Talks and panels, including:
Language models for science
Accelerating the discovery of materials for decarbonization
AI for science across industry
Training and education with AI and robotics
Avoiding unintended consequences of accelerated discovery
Data curation, management, and architecture
Accelerating scientific discovery in biotech
Careers in accelerated science
Special discount opportunity
If you are interested in attending this year’s conference, but have yet to register, we are giving a special 15% discount to the first 10 people who send us an email at acceleration@utoronto.ca.
Contest rules:
Please include the subject line: Special discount opportunity
Contestants must not be currently registered for the conference
That’s it 😊
Speakers
Accelerate will feature a wide range of speakers in the emerging field of accelerated science. Check out our over 40 invited speakers and panellists, with a few more to be added soon, including:
Tonio Buonassisi, MIT
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
John Gregoire, Caltech
Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto
Andy Cooper, University of Liverpool
Karin Strauss, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
Philippe Schwaller, EPFL & NCCR Catalysis, Switzerland
Larry Zitnick, Meta AI
And many more