Computer Vision Scientist Intern - Geometry and 3D Vision
About the job
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field is required.
- Proficiency in Python is required.
- Ability to design, run, and analyze experiments independently is required.
- Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, large-scale training, and accelerator-based GPU or TPU compute environments is required.
- Advance the state of the art in world modeling as part of a research team.
- Develop self-supervised learning methods to learn efficiently from video and other continuous, high-dimensional signals.
- Develop architectures that efficiently predict world dynamics from video and other high-dimensional signals.
- Develop scalable algorithms for preprocessing and curating video data.
- Develop evaluations for benchmarking world model understanding, prediction, and planning.
- Develop efficient algorithms for model-based planning and reasoning.
- Conduct research focused on 3D geometry of the real world.
- Deep expertise in at least one of 3D/4D reconstruction, SLAM, SfM, depth estimation, pose estimation, or point tracking.
- Hands-on proficiency with a rendering or simulation engine such as Blender or Isaac Sim, including scripted scene generation and batch rendering pipelines.
- A demonstrated record of contributing to advanced research projects through publications or major model releases.
- Experience developing evaluation frameworks for world models.
- Experience releasing and maintaining open-source projects.
- Proficiency in a deep learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX.
About AMI
We are building a new breed of AI systems that (1) understand the real world, (2) have persistent memory, (3) can reason and plan, and (4) are controllable and safe.
We are a team of scientists and engineers building frontier world model-based AI. We combine the scientific rigor of a top-tier research institute with focus on engineering excellence and execution.
We are a global company, with offices in Paris, Montreal, New York, and Singapore. Come build the future of AI with us!
About this Role
AMI believes AI agents should predict and plan using an internal model of the world — their world model. We’re looking for new team members to advance the state-of-the-art in world modeling. We believe that video is a rich and abundant source of data reflecting how the world works, and that in general models need to be able to process continuous, high-dimensional data from a variety of sensors to: (a) understand context about the current state of the physical world, (b) make predictions about how the world will evolve, possibly as a result of actions taken, and (c) plan and adapt sequences of actions to complete complex tasks, possibly in dynamic, complex environments.
You will work with a team on world model research efforts, with a specific focus on 3D geometry of the real world, including::
Self-supervised learning methods to efficiently learn from video and other continuous, high-dimensional signals
New architectures that efficiently learn to predict world dynamics from video and other high-dimensional signals
Scalable algorithms for pre-processing and curating video data
Evaluations for benchmarking world model understanding, prediction, and planning
Efficient algorithms for model-based planning and reasoning
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
Proficiency in Python
Ability to design, run, and analyze experiments independently
Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, large-scale training, and accelerator-based (GPU or TPU) compute environments
Preferred Qualifications:
Deep expertise in at least one of the following: 3D/4D reconstruction, SLAM or SfM, depth and pose estimation, point tracking.
Hands-on proficiency with a rendering or simulation engine (Blender, Isaac Sim, etc.), including scripted scene generation and batch rendering pipelines.
Demonstrated record of contributing to advanced research projects via publications and/or major model releases
Experience developing evaluation frameworks for world models
Experience releasing and maintaining open-source projects
Proficiency in a deep learning framework (PyTorch or JAX)
About the company
AMI Labs is a frontier artificial intelligence research company that builds world models—AI systems designed to understand, predict, and plan actions in the physical world, not just process language. Its work targets robotics, healthcare, and industrial applications by giving AI a grounded sense of physics and causality to foresee outcomes and guide decisions. Unlike systems that rely mainly on language data or large-scale chat models, AMI Labs focuses on causal, grounded models that can reason about real-world environments. The company aims to advance foundational AI research and develop practical, real-world AI capabilities that can operate in physical settings. Its Paris-based team benefits from substantial funding and partnerships with major tech and industry players, underscoring a goal to push AI beyond language tasks toward reliable, real-world intelligence for automated systems.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$1B
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2025
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What believers are saying
- October 2026 hiring added Jiatao Gu and Peter Tong, signaling technical expansion continues.
- AdaJEPA test-time adaptation improved world-model planning under shift, strengthening AMI’s core research narrative.
- The first product launches soon, giving AMI Labs a near-term proof point for customers.
What critics are saying
- AMI Labs still lacks a public product, leaving commercialization timing uncertain through 2027.
- OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta can outspend AMI Labs before world models mature.
- If JEPA underperforms in robotics and healthcare, the $3.5 billion valuation becomes existentially indefensible.
What makes AMI Labs unique
- Yann LeCun’s JEPA world-model thesis gives AMI Labs rare technical credibility and pedigree.
- March 2026 raised $1.03 billion seed capital, enabling expensive frontier research before revenue pressure.
- Global hubs in Paris, New York, Montreal, and Singapore attract specialized talent across robotics, healthcare.
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-2%Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, French President attend UAE-France Business Dialogue. Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled and French President Emmanuel Macron attend UAE-France Business Dialogue in Abu Dhabi, boosting partnerships in energy, AI and advanced technology with new MoUs and investment projects Text Size: ABU DHABI: His HIghness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, have attended the UAE-France Business Dialogue at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. The event formed part of joint efforts to strengthen the UAE-France economic and investment partnership and explore new opportunities for cooperation in priority strategic sectors, particularly energy, artificial intelligence and advanced technology. In the opening remarks, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan welcomed the French President and the accompanying delegation. H.H. Sheikh Khaled noted that the friendship between the UAE and France spans more than five decades, built on firm foundations of trust, mutual respect and a shared vision of progress and prosperity. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed affirmed that the strategic partnership between the two countries has evolved to keep pace with global developments. He noted that changes in the global economy underscore the growing strategic importance of bilateral cooperation in ensuring secure, reliable and sustainable energy supplies, and building resilient supply chains capable of addressing challenges, alongside deepening cooperation in artificial intelligence and advanced technology. It also builds on the Campus AI initiative that the two countries are developing in France. Sheikh Khaled highlighted that the UAE-France Business Dialogue provides an opportunity to translate shared priorities into strategic investments and major projects in sectors that will shape the economies of tomorrow. The event affirms the UAE's commitment to further advancing its partnership with France and translating shared interests and visions into tangible outcomes that benefit both countries and their peoples. The dialogue provides a high-level platform to exchange perspectives on the future of vital sectors, review progress in partnerships and joint projects between Emirati and French companies, and explore ways to broaden cooperation, supporting both countries' economic interests and strengthening their ability to keep pace with rapid changes in the global economy. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the French President attended two panel discussions. Titled "The Power of Resilience: Shaping the Future of Energy and Beyond", the first discussion examined key transformations in the energy sector and the importance of strengthening resilience, fostering innovation and developing sustainable solutions to keep pace with global changes and ensure secure and sustainable supplies. The second discussion, titled "Beyond Compute: AI Shaping the Future", focused on the growing role of artificial intelligence in reshaping economic and industrial sectors, the opportunities advanced technologies offer to develop new models for growth and innovation, and ways to strengthen cooperation between Emirati and French institutions and companies. The two sessions brought together ministers and business leaders from both countries to exchange perspectives and expertise on future priorities and explore opportunities for cooperation and joint investment, helping translate shared ambitions into partnerships and projects with tangible economic impact. The dialogue highlighted the depth of the investment and strategic partnerships between the UAE and France, particularly in conventional and advanced energy, clean energy and artificial intelligence. Leading UAE companies, including ADNOC, Masdar, MGX and G42, play a central role in developing and expanding these partnerships. The dialogue also highlighted bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, encompassing liquefied natural gas, energy infrastructure development, low-emission solutions and renewable energy projects. This reflects the two countries' shared expertise and investment and technological capabilities, as well as their commitment to strengthening energy security and supporting the transition towards more efficient and sustainable systems. The dialogue also addressed bilateral cooperation in artificial intelligence, highlighting the Campus AI initiative, which brings together MGX with French and international partners to develop advanced computing and AI infrastructure in France, alongside G42's investments in advanced computing infrastructure. These initiatives reflect a shared commitment to harnessing strategic investments and technological expertise to accelerate innovation, strengthen capabilities in future-focused sectors and reinforce both countries' standing within a global economy driven by knowledge and technology. Sheikh Khaled and Emmanuel Macron also witnessed the signing of Memoranda of Understanding and contracts between Emirati and French institutions and companies, covering energy, artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technology. In AI and advanced technology, three MoUs were signed with AMI Labs to strengthen research and technological cooperation and explore new applications across several vital fields. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) signed an MoU with AMI Labs to strengthen cooperation in AI research and development and facilitate the exchange of scientific and technological expertise and knowledge, supporting the development of research and innovation capabilities in the sector. G42 also signed an MoU with AMI Labs to establish a framework for strategic cooperation in cloud computing infrastructure and AI models, and to explore opportunities to develop advanced technological solutions and deploy them in practical applications. Analog signed an MoU with AMI Labs to explore opportunities to integrate AI models into robotics and physical AI applications, opening new avenues for developing intelligent systems and expanding their use in industrial and technology sectors. In the energy sector, ADNOC Gas and Schneider Electric signed an MoU to assess advanced technologies and opportunities for operational improvements, helping enhance operational efficiency and deploy digital and technological solutions to improve the performance of energy systems. ADNOC Refining and Technip Energies also signed two contracts relating to a refining capacity enhancement project and a sustainable aviation fuel project. The contracts reflect continued industrial cooperation between the two countries and the expansion of partnerships in refining capacity development and sustainable fuel solutions. These agreements demonstrate both countries' commitment to broadening economic and investment cooperation, strengthening integration between their industrial, technological and research capabilities, and opening new avenues for public-private partnerships to support the development of innovative and sustainable solutions in shared priority sectors. The UAE-France Business Dialogue and the agreements signed during the event reflect the strength of the two countries' economic and strategic relations, and their shared commitment to deepening cooperation in sectors that will form the foundations of future economies. The dialogue also underscores the commitment from both sides to building on their partnerships and achievements by harnessing their investment, industrial and technological capabilities to develop high-impact projects that advance growth, innovation and competitiveness, while contributing to shared economic prosperity.
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and French President attend UAE-France Business Dialogue to strengthen strategic partnership in energy and artificial intelligence. His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and His Excellency Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, have attended the UAE-France Business Dialogue at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. The event formed part of joint efforts to strengthen the UAE-France economic and investment partnership and explore new opportunities for cooperation in priority strategic sectors, particularly energy, artificial intelligence and advanced technology. In the opening remarks, His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan welcomed the French President and the accompanying delegation. His Highness noted that the friendship between the UAE and France spans more than five decades, built on firm foundations of trust, mutual respect and a shared vision of progress and prosperity. His Highness affirmed that the strategic partnership between the two countries has evolved to keep pace with global developments. His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan noted that changes in the global economy underscore the growing strategic importance of bilateral cooperation in ensuring secure, reliable and sustainable energy supplies, and building resilient supply chains capable of addressing challenges, alongside deepening cooperation in artificial intelligence and advanced technology. It also builds on the Campus AI initiative that the two countries are developing in France. His Highness highlighted that the UAE-France Business Dialogue provides an opportunity to translate shared priorities into strategic investments and major projects in sectors that will shape the economies of tomorrow. The event affirms the UAE's commitment to further advancing its partnership with France and translating shared interests and visions into tangible outcomes that benefit both countries and their peoples. The dialogue provides a high-level platform to exchange perspectives on the future of vital sectors, review progress in partnerships and joint projects between Emirati and French companies, and explore ways to broaden cooperation, supporting both countries' economic interests and strengthening their ability to keep pace with rapid changes in the global economy. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the French President attended two panel discussions. Titled The Power of Resilience: Shaping the Future of Energy and Beyond, the first discussion examined key transformations in the energy sector and the importance of strengthening resilience, fostering innovation and developing sustainable solutions to keep pace with global changes and ensure secure and sustainable supplies. The second discussion, titled Beyond Compute: AI Shaping the Future, focused on the growing role of artificial intelligence in reshaping economic and industrial sectors, the opportunities advanced technologies offer to develop new models for growth and innovation, and ways to strengthen cooperation between Emirati and French institutions and companies. The two sessions brought together ministers and business leaders from both countries to exchange perspectives and expertise on future priorities and explore opportunities for cooperation and joint investment, helping translate shared ambitions into partnerships and projects with tangible economic impact. The dialogue highlighted the depth of the investment and strategic partnerships between the UAE and France, particularly in conventional and advanced energy, clean energy and artificial intelligence. Leading UAE companies, including ADNOC, Masdar, MGX and G42, play a central role in developing and expanding these partnerships. The dialogue also highlighted bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, encompassing liquefied natural gas, energy infrastructure development, low-emission solutions and renewable energy projects. This reflects the two countries' shared expertise and investment and technological capabilities, as well as their commitment to strengthening energy security and supporting the transition towards more efficient and sustainable systems. The dialogue also addressed bilateral cooperation in artificial intelligence, highlighting the Campus AI initiative, which brings together MGX with French and international partners to develop advanced computing and AI infrastructure in France, alongside G42's investments in advanced computing infrastructure. These initiatives reflect a shared commitment to harnessing strategic investments and technological expertise to accelerate innovation, strengthen capabilities in future-focused sectors and reinforce both countries' standing within a global economy driven by knowledge and technology. His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Excellency Emmanuel Macron also witnessed the signing of memoranda of understanding (MoUs) and contracts between Emirati and French institutions and companies, covering energy, artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technology. In AI and advanced technology, three MoUs were signed with AMI Labs to strengthen research and technological cooperation and explore new applications across several vital fields. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) signed an MoU with AMI Labs to strengthen cooperation in AI research and development and facilitate the exchange of scientific and technological expertise and knowledge, supporting the development of research and innovation capabilities in the sector. G42 also signed an MoU with AMI Labs to establish a framework for strategic cooperation in cloud computing infrastructure and AI models, and to explore opportunities to develop advanced technological solutions and deploy them in practical applications. Analog signed an MoU with AMI Labs to explore opportunities to integrate AI models into robotics and physical AI applications, opening new avenues for developing intelligent systems and expanding their use in industrial and technology sectors. In the energy sector, ADNOC Gas and Schneider Electric signed an MoU to assess advanced technologies and opportunities for operational improvements, helping enhance operational efficiency and deploy digital and technological solutions to improve the performance of energy systems. ADNOC Refining and Technip Energies also signed two contracts relating to a refining capacity enhancement project and a sustainable aviation fuel project. The contracts reflect continued industrial cooperation between the two countries and the expansion of partnerships in refining capacity development and sustainable fuel solutions. These agreements demonstrate both countries' commitment to broadening economic and investment cooperation, strengthening integration between their industrial, technological and research capabilities, and opening new avenues for public-private partnerships to support the development of innovative and sustainable solutions in shared priority sectors. The UAE-France Business Dialogue and the agreements signed during the event reflect the strength of the two countries' economic and strategic relations, and their shared commitment to deepening cooperation in sectors that will form the foundations of future economies. The dialogue also underscores the commitment from both sides to building on their partnerships and achievements by harnessing their investment, industrial and technological capabilities to develop high-impact projects that advance growth, innovation and competitiveness, while contributing to shared economic prosperity.
AI pioneer Yann LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction, calls Amodei 'deluded' AI pioneer Yann LeCun says he has "zero concerns" that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity, arguing that recent AI-agent incidents stem from preventable failures in system design and human oversight. In an interview with Emily Forlini, he criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warnings, calling him "deluded," and said many AI labs need a stronger grasp of cybersecurity. LeCun also warned that rules framed around extreme AI risks could entrench the largest companies and hinder competition. Pinned post LeCun blames system design, not rogue intent. LeCun pointed to OpenAI agents that autonomously hacked Hugging Face, saying they did what they had been instructed to do but operated inside poorly designed, "leaky" sandboxes. A sandbox is a restricted environment meant to keep software activity contained. He argues that better safeguards and supervision could prevent such incidents, rather than treating them as evidence that AI systems are becoming uncontrollable. He disputes warnings from AI leaders. LeCun rejected claims that AI could soon cause human extinction, describing such warnings from Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as harmful and frightening to the public. He also criticized the effective altruism movement, which has focused on reducing large-scale risks, and said its influence can distort decision-making in AI labs. These are LeCun's views; the article also notes that other researchers and executives take the risks seriously. LeCun cautions against regulation that favors incumbents. LeCun said he is more concerned that AI rules could be shaped to protect established companies than that AI could end humanity. He argues that restrictions on powerful or open-source models could make it harder for smaller competitors to enter the field. The article also describes his new company, AMI Labs, which is developing "world models" - AI systems designed to understand and predict aspects of the physical world for uses such as industrial monitoring and robotics.
Yann LeCun: AI runaway incidents preventable through engineering; AMI Labs product launch imminent. Phemex News 2026/10/01 03:18 Turing Award winner and AMI Labs founder Yann LeCun stated that recent AI agent runaway incidents stem primarily from insufficient human oversight and sandbox design flaws rather than inherent AI risks. He asserted these issues can be prevented through targeted engineering improvements. AMI Labs currently employs approximately 60 people and is developing a world model for industrial applications based on the JEPA architecture. The company confirmed its first product will launch soon. Disclaimer: The content provided on Phemex News is for informational purposes only. Phemex Limited do not guarantee the quality, accuracy, or completeness of the information sourced from third-party articles. The content on this page does not constitute financial or investment advice. Phemex Limited strongly encourage you to conduct you own research and consult with a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
Turing laureates headline ACM's inaugural AI summit in Atlanta. ACM's inaugural AI Leadership Summit opens in Atlanta with Turing laureates Yann LeCun and Andrew Barto, plus UN and UNESCO leaders. What the program signals. Key takeaways. * 1ACM's first AI Leadership Summit runs its main program August 31 to September 2 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, with a Doctoral Consortium held August 30 at Georgia Tech. * 2The opening track pairs Turing laureates Yann LeCun and Andrew Barto with roboticist Rodney Brooks, three researchers who have each publicly questioned the field's dominant assumptions about scaling language models. * 3Governance and agentic AI are programmed on separate days with almost no overlap in personnel, a structural signal that policy and engineering communities are still converging rather than merged. The Association for Computing Machinery has spent nearly eight decades running the conferences where computing gets argued out. Today it opens its first summit dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence, and the guest list reads less like a trade show and more like a standing committee on the future of the field. The inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit runs its main program August 31 through September 2 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, preceded by an invitation-only Doctoral Consortium at Georgia Tech on August 30. Two ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates - Yann LeCun and Andrew Barto - headline the opening day, joined by iRobot founder Rodney Brooks, the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, a former UNESCO Assistant Director-General, and chief scientists from Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, and The Walt Disney Studios. What makes the program worth reading closely is not the star count. It is the sequencing. ACM has put its frontier-model skeptics on stage first, quarantined governance in its own track with no engineers on the panel, and scheduled agentic AI a full two days later. For executives trying to read where the professional computing establishment actually stands on AI in 2026, the schedule itself is the story. Day one is three skeptics in a row. The Monday morning track is titled Rethinking the Future: Frontier Models and Technologies for a New Era of AI, and it opens with back-to-back talks from Yann LeCun, Andrew Barto, and Rodney Brooks, followed by a panel called The Next Decade of AI moderated by Georgia Tech's Mark Riedl. Each of the three has spent the past several years pushing against the industry's center of gravity. LeCun has argued publicly and repeatedly that large language models are a dead end for genuine machine intelligence, and he has put considerable capital behind that position. Barto, who shared the 2024 Turing Award with Richard Sutton for the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning, represents a research lineage that predates the transformer era by decades and never depended on it. Brooks has been attacking the field's assumptions about embodiment and symbolic reasoning since the 1980s, while building robot families - Roomba, PackBot, Baxter, Carter - that actually shipped. LeCun's presence carries a specific commercial subtext. He left Meta at the end of 2025 after more than a decade leading its Fundamental AI Research lab, and now appears on the ACM program as Executive Chairman of AMI Labs. In March 2026, AMI closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, with Nvidia, Temasek, and Samsung among the participants - reported by TechCrunch as the largest prelaunch AI raise in European history. The company is building world models on LeCun's Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, aimed at manufacturing, robotics, aerospace, and biomedical applications rather than chat. A keynote arguing that the industry's dominant architecture is a detour lands differently when the speaker has just raised a billion dollars to prove it. The summit by the numbers. Figures drawn from ACM's official summit materials and press coverage of the participants. Main program, Aug 31 - Sep 2 ACM AI Leadership Summit registration page Concurrent SIG tracks on September 2 ACM published program Standard non-member registration after June 30 ACM AI Leadership Summit registration page Student ACM member registration after June 30 ACM AI Leadership Summit registration page Turing Award prize, funded by Google ACM, March 2025 AMI Labs seed round, LeCun's new venture TechCrunch, March 2026 Why ACM built this event. ACM framed the summit as a cross-sector convening rather than a technical conference, positioning it alongside its governance and education work rather than its research proceedings. " Artificial intelligence is transforming every dimension of human knowledge, creativity, and collaboration. The ACM AI Leadership Summit will be a milestone event where the global computing community taps into the excitement of the moment while exploring the AI era from a whole range of perspectives. - Elisa Bertino, ACM President-Elect and co-chair of the Summit organizing committee How the three days are structured. The main program is organized as thematic day-blocks rather than parallel research tracks, with the exception of Wednesday's cross-disciplinary sessions. Track titles and speaker assignments below follow the program published on the summit site as of late July 2026 and may shift on the day. | Day | Tracks | Featured participants | What to watch for | | Sun, Aug 30 (Georgia Tech) | Doctoral Consortium - invitation only | Summit headliners acting as mentors | Early-career pipeline; not part of the public program | | Mon, Aug 31 | Rethinking the Future; AI and Scientific Discovery; AI Governance | Yann LeCun, Andrew Barto, Rodney Brooks, Amanda Randles, Amandeep Singh Gill | Whether the architecture debate gets a real airing or a polite one | | Tue, Sep 1 | AI and the Creative Arts; AI and the Workforce | Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe), Markus Gross (Disney/ETH Zurich), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Ed Chi (Google DeepMind), Ellen Zegura (NSF) | Authorship and labor framing from the companies actually shipping the tools | | Wed, Sep 2 | Agentic AI; A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective (six concurrent SIG tracks) | Ece Kamar (Microsoft Research), Dinesh Verma (IBM), Ahmed E. Hassan, Claire Le Goues (CMU), Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT) | The trust question for AI-written software, asked by the people building the verification tools | Governance and agents are in different rooms - On purpose. The most revealing thing about the program is what does not overlap. Monday's AI Governance track features a talk by Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, followed by a panel moderated by Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton. The panelists are Virginia Dignum of Umeå University, Gabriela Ramos formerly of UNESCO, Francesca Rossi of IBM, Philip Thigo from the Office of the President of Kenya, and Yi Zeng of Renmin University of China. It is a policy panel staffed by policy people. Wednesday's Agentic AI session is three talks - Ahmed E. Hassan of Queen's University, Ece Kamar of Microsoft Research, and Dinesh Verma of IBM - framed by organizers around autonomous systems that plan, reason, and act, with safety, control, and trust presented as engineering consequences rather than regulatory categories. No panel, no policymakers. That separation answers a question a lot of enterprise buyers have been asking implicitly: is agentic AI a capability term or a governance term? On this program it is clearly a capability term, and governance got its own day two slots earlier with an almost entirely different cast. The practical implication for anyone building an internal AI policy is that the two vocabularies have not converged yet, and a compliance framework written from governance literature will not map cleanly onto what deployment engineers are actually shipping. Wednesday afternoon offers the sharpest technical session of the week: a track titled around whether software written by AI can be trusted, moderated by Claire Le Goues of Carnegie Mellon, with Armando Solar-Lezama of MIT, Lin Tan of Purdue, Erik Meijer, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Srikanth Yoginath of Oak Ridge. Program repair, program synthesis, and ML-for-correctness researchers debating verification is the closest thing the summit has to a hard engineering verdict. What business and Technology leaders should take from the program. * Treat the LeCun keynote as a capital-allocation signal, not just a research opinion - world-model architectures now have over a billion dollars of seed funding behind them and named industrial targets in robotics, aerospace, and biomedical work. * Assume your agentic AI vendor conversations and your AI compliance conversations are using different definitions of the same words, and force a shared glossary internally before either one drives a purchase. * Watch the Wednesday software-trust track for the state of the art in verifying AI-generated code - the answer there matters more to engineering leadership than any keynote. * Note the workforce panels are staffed by Accenture, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google DeepMind rather than by economists, which tells you the framing will be product-and-deployment led. * Georgia Tech, Emory, Georgia State, Kennesaw State, and Morehouse are all listed among the supporting institutions - a useful map of Atlanta's AI talent pipeline for anyone recruiting in the Southeast. * Registration ran $300 for ACM members and $400 for non-members after the June 30 early-bird deadline, with student rates at $200 and $250 - modest by industry-conference standards, which reflects the academic-society framing. 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