Microsoft Research Vancouver &
Canadian Academic Community Workshop
08:00 – 14:00 PT
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
Join us on Monday, July 14, 2025, for an exciting one-day workshop at the Microsoft Research Vancouver lab.
This workshop explores the intersection of cutting-edge technologies around AI agents and foundation models. It brings together ideas related to AI agents, including multi-agent systems, agent-world interactions and interfaces, and verifiable agentic workflows. The scope also covers foundation model training with an emphasis on scalable data generation, advancing reasoning capabilities, multi-turn reinforcement learning, continuous learning, and compute-efficient training techniques for large models. The topics presented are illustrative rather than exhaustive, leaving room for additional related discussions.
We aim to explore these topics throughout our workshop with an agenda that incorporates lightning talks from professors at invited Canadian universities, followed by panel discussions with these speakers alongside members of the Microsoft Research Vancouver lab. These sessions aim to surface compelling intersections across academic and industry research.
We hope you’ll join us for this unique opportunity to engage and build community. Please register by July 1 to confirm your attendance.
Workshop details
Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Time: 8:00-2:00 PM PT
Location: 725 Granville St, Suite 700, Vancouver BC V7Y 1G5
Breakfast will be served from 8:00-9:00 AM at the lab. Lunch will also be provided.
On the next two tabs, explore the tentative workshop agenda and travel tips for visiting Vancouver, B.C.
This in an invite-only workshop.
Organizing committee
Tracy LI
Business Manager
Microsoft Research Vancouver
Lexie Harbottle
Community Initiatives Program Manager
Microsoft Research Accelerator
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