BioDT project partner Thanasis Trantas from TNO participates in SURF's Advanced Computing User Day 2024. As a key scientist behind the Biodiversity Foundation Model, Trantas will introduce this innovative concept to the advanced computing community and discuss the computational challenges encountered during its development. The event, scheduled for December 12, 2024, at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, marks the second edition of this significant gathering for users from both research and business sectors.
SURF's Advanced Computing User Day
SURF, the ICT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions, serves as the perfect platform for this event, bringing together members who collaboratively develop and procure digital services while addressing complex innovation challenges. The event will feature a notable keynote address by Cees Snoek, focusing on the perceptual limitations of multimodal foundation models, adding significant value to the day's proceedings and complementing the BioDT presentation.
The importance of this event lies in its role as a convergence point for advanced computing expertise and innovation. Professor Snoek's keynote will delve into the revolutionary class of AI models that, while capable of generating impressive multimedia content through interactive prompts, face crucial challenges in fundamental perception tasks. These challenges include spatial grounding, temporal reasoning, and difficulties in low-resource scenarios, along with the critical aspect of human alignment for ethical, legal, and societal acceptance.
BioDT at SURF's Advanced Computing User Day
BioDT's participation through Thanasis Trantas represents a significant opportunity to showcase the project's advancement in biodiversity modelling to a highly relevant audience. The presentation will not only introduce the fundamental concepts behind the Biodiversity Foundation Model but also provide valuable insights into the computational challenges encountered during its development. This platform allows BioDT to engage with the broader scientific community and demonstrate how they address complex challenges in biodiversity research through advanced computing solutions.
More information and the registration form are available on the event webpage