Time in Eastern Time (US & Canada).
June 17, 2025
8:30 – 9:00 |
Coffee and assorted pastries |
9:00 – 9:30 |
SEMLA 2025 Opening Session Opening by Prof. Foutse Khomh |
9:30 – 10:30 |
Keynote |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee break |
Session I |
Agents (Systems & Evaluations) |
10:45 – 11:15 |
Alexandre Lacoste (ServiceNow, CA) – Autonomous UI Agents: Open-Source Tools, Best Practices, and Safety |
11:15 – 11:45 |
Royal Sequeira (Georgian, CA) – Voice AI Agents: technology, players, problems, and trends |
11:45 – 12:15 |
Eric Wang (Simular, USA) |
12:15 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
Session II |
Agents in Action – Empowering Software Workflows, Interfaces, and Data Systems |
14:00 – 14:30 |
Daniel Jaroslawicz (Distyl AI, USA) |
14:30 – 15:00 |
Ian Arawjo (Université de Montréal, CA) – Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale |
15:00 – 15:30 |
Till Döhmen (MotherDuck, NL) – Text-to-SQL within MotherDuck Dataware housing platform |
15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
June 18, 2025
8:30 – 9:00 |
Coffee and assorted pastries |
9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote – Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore, SG) – AutoCodeRover: from research on automatic programming to spinoff acquisition |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
Session III |
LLMs for Coding & Data-Centric Tasks |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Weiyi Shang (University of Waterloo, CA) – Evaluating the efficiency of LLM-generated code |
11:00 – 11:30 |
Fabian Wenz (Celonis, DE) – An Annotation System for Rapid Text-to-SQL Benchmark Curation |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Effy Li (CWI, NL) – Efficient Use of LLMs for Data Preparation |
12:15 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
Session IV |
LLM-Integrated Use Cases |
14:00 – 14:30 |
Damien Masson (Université de Montréal, CA) – Beyond Prompts: Designing Powerful Ways to Interact with AI |
14:30 – 15:00 |
Orlando Marquez (ServiceNow, CA) |
15:00 – 15:30 |
Olivier Nguyen (Twitch, USA) – Using LLMs for content moderation at Twitch |
15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
Session V |
Digital Twins and Sustainability |
16:00 – 16:30 |
Jennifer McArthur (Toronto Metropolitan University, CA) – Cognitive Digital Twins for Decarbonization – Integrating AI with Building Technologies |
16:30 – 17:00 |
Istvan David (McMaster University, CA) – Digital Twins for Engineering Complex and Sustainable Systems |
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June 19, 2025
8:30 – 9:00 |
Coffee and assorted pastries |
Session VI |
Talks & Tutorials |
9:00 – 10:00 |
SEMTL |
10:00 – 11:00 |
SEMTL |
11:00 – 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 – 12:30 |
SEMTL |
12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
14:00 – 16:00 |
Tutorials |
16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
16:30 – 17:00 |
Closing |