Devang S Ram Mohan has packed a couple of pairs of swimming shorts and flown 14 hours to be in Hawaii today. The London-based mathematician and senior machine learning engineer is visiting the islands to meet 8,000 similar specialists for a week of intellectual exchange, contact-building and cocktails.
The International Conference on Machine Learning is one of the world’s leading events in the field and includes keynote speakers such as John Schulman, a co-founder of OpenAI — which built ChatGPT — and Shakir Mohamed, head of research at Google DeepMind. Hundreds of papers will be presented showcasing attendees’ work and sharing insights, tools and techniques.
It is the latest example of how in-person international conferences have roared back into life after the pandemic as people
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