Symposium on Model Accountability, Sustainability and Healthcare
SMASH 2025
About
The Symposium on Model Accountability, Sustainability and Healthcare (SMASH) is an interdisciplinary gathering focused on operationalizing AI safely and responsibly. The goal of this event is to identify challenges and propose technical, ethical and regulatory solutions to AI safety, data privacy, model interoperability and accountability. This symposium will explore these research topics through the lens of healthcare and sustainability.
The healthcare sector is rapidly embracing AI, and the insights gained are likely to inform future sustainability research. These disciplines operate within interconnected ecosystems of stakeholders, technologies, and datasets, sharing both the potential benefits and inherent risks.
Accepted Papers
Congratulations to all the accepted papers! You can see them and the spotlight papers on the accepted papers page.
Conference Agenda
Note: the below agenda is still subject to some minor changes prior to the event.
Day 1 (Morning @ Mila Agora)
| Section | Time in ET |
|---|---|
| Check-in, registration, snacks & coffee | |
| Welcome and Agenda Doina Precup | |
| Keynote (Responsible AI & Evaluation) Milind Tambe | |
| Break | |
| Keynote (AI Safety & Benchmarking) Adriana Romero | |
| Lunch + Interactive Installation | |
| Keynote (Sustainability) Vrushali Gaud | |
| Invited Speakers (AI Safety and Security Frameworks) Maroussia Lévesque, Christian Kästner | |
| Break | |
| Invited Speakers (Sustainability & Data Ecosystems for Sustainable ML) Omar Benjelloun, Ayse Coskun | |
| Close |
Day 2 (Morning @ Mila Agora)
| Section | Time in ET |
|---|---|
| Welcome and Agenda Coffee and snacks available | |
| Panel Discussion around key complexities in AI deployment in an increasingly legislated & dynamic environment Vrushali Gaud, Doina Precup, Blake Richards, Audrey Durand, Joé T. Martineau | |
| Break | |
| Industrial Highlight (Healthcare) Akinox (Mark Casselman), CHAI (Sumanth Ratna) | |
| Lunch & poster session | |
| Industrial Highlight (Sustainability) Alexandre Lacoste | |
| Invited Speakers (3) Oana Balmau, Matt Kusner, Göktuğ Bender | |
| Break | |
| Spotlight talks (3) | |
| Break | |
| Spotlight talks (2) | |
| Close |
Speakers
- Oana Balmau, McGill University
- Göktuğ Bender, McGill University
- Omar Benjelloun, Google DeepMind
- Mark Casselman, Akinox
- Ayse Coskun, Boston University
- Audrey Durand, Université Laval, CIFAR
- Vrushali Gaud, Google Sustainability
- Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University
- Matt Kusner, École Polytechnique de Montrêal, Mila
- Alexandre Lacoste, ServiceNow
- Maroussia Lévesque, Harvard University, CIGI
- Joé T. Martineau, Obvia
- Doina Precup, Google DeepMind, Mila
- Sumanth Ratna, CHAI
- Blake Richards, Mila, Montreal Neuro
- Adriana Romero Soriano, Meta AI, CIFAR, Mila
Program Committee
- Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University
- Omar Benjelloun, Google
- Martin Cousineau, Obvia, HEC Montréal
- Audrey Durand, Université Laval, CIFAR, Mila
- Cooper Elsworth, Google
- Golnoosh Farnadi, McGill University, CIFAR, Mila
- Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Université Laval
- Jin L.C. Guo, McGill University, Mila
- Bettina Kemme, McGill University
- Eric Kolaczyk, McGill University, Mila
- Lyse Langlois, Obvia, Université Laval
- Benjamin Lee, University of Pennsylvania, Google
- Sumanth Ratna, CHAI, Yale University
- Charbel-Raphaël Segerie, CeSIA, ML4Good
- Carole-Jean Wu, FAIR, Meta
Sponsors
Venue
Mila, 6650 Rue Saint-Urbain, Montréal, QC H2S 3H1