UPF Engineering co-organizes the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2024

The sixth edition of the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN) continues its expansion beyond computational sciences. The symposium will bring together world leaders in deep learning in Barcelona

On Thursday, December 19, La Salle - Ramon Llull University will host the sixth edition of the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN), the international symposium on deep learning, organized by scientists from university and industrial research centers in the country.

Deep learning is the dominant field in artificial intelligence (AI), responsible for the main technological advances of recent years. Behind world-famous products such as ChatGPT is precisely deep learning, and this has made social interest in this aspect of data science grow exponentially.

From Barcelona to the world

The Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium focuses on research into deep neural networks, and brings together world-class researchers who carry out their research in Barcelona, ​​or who trained at universities in the Catalan capital and work abroad. This sixth meeting hosts 25 talks and around sixty posters from research groups in the country, from foreign universities such as EPFL or Stanford, and from world-leading companies such as Deepmind, Amazon, or Apple.

The opening conference will be given by chemist Noelia Ferruz, from the Center for Genomic Regulation, who this 2024 has won one of the prestigious Starting Grants of the European Research Council. For the first time, the main talk will not focus on traditional applications of computing, such as computer vision or natural language processing, but will focus on the impact of deep learning on the discovery of new drugs. This expansion is aligned with the awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry to scientists who pioneered deep learning.

The DLBCN 2024 will also expand in the field of outreach, making an effort to explain to society how AI works, and invite young talent to train in the field. With this aim, the team of communicators from Neurones Fregides will produce outreach videos and interviews that will be distributed on the symposium's new Instagram channel @dlbcn.ai, which joins the scientific channels of @dlbcnai in English on Twitter and BlueSky. Finally, the organizers have also launched a podcast in English automatically generated from the scientific publications presented there.

The event is sponsored by Meta, Apple, Google, Crisalix, the ELLIS Barcelona network, AstraZeneca, ZeroError and the UOC's eHealth Center. It is organized by scientists from Amazon, La Salle - URL, Apple, the UAB Computer Vision Center, Meta, Pompeu Fabra University, Sony AI, the University of Barcelona, ​​AstraZeneca, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, the Open University of Catalonia, and Telefonica.

Further details at @dlbcnai and [email protected]. 

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