IJCAI 2025 – Artificial Intelligence for a Better World – Since 1969

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Montreal, Canada, August 2025

IJCAI 2025 – Artificial Intelligence for a Better World – Since 1969

“AI at the Society of Society” is a guide to the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) to be held in Montreal, Canada from August 16th to 22nd, 2025. Since its founding in 1969, IJCAI has played a pivotal role as a forum introducing the frontiers of artificial intelligence research and applications, and thus represents the oldest, continuous running conference on artificial intelligence.

In 2025, the meeting with over 2,000 attendees was brought to Canada by Gilpesant, chairman of the local Arrangement Committee and professor at the Computer Software Engineering Department of Polytechnic Montreal. “What makes IJCAI special is connecting the latest research from various fields of artificial intelligence. It is a great opportunity for the Canadian AI community to showcase world-class contributions and outstanding talent.” Algorithms for complex scheduling and planning problems.

Canadian AI Leadership

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the breakthrough in transforming artificial intelligence by providing machines with the ability to learn and remember from sequences such as voice, language, and time-series data – Long-term Memory (LSTM) architecture. Though not developed in Canada, the LSTM story is intertwined with Canadian leadership in artificial intelligence. During the “AI Winter,” when much of the world abandoned neural networks, Canada became a shelter for pioneering research on AI. Despite widespread skepticism, including visionaries like now Nobel Laureate Jeffrey Hinton and especially Joshua Bengio, he continued to pursue deep learning. Their perseverance and the resilience of the Canadian research community have laid the foundation for the AI revolution that is changing the world today. Canada continues to lead agencies such as MILA, Vector Institute, AMII, Ivado and the Canadian AI Safety Institute.

The IJCAI 2025 program features an internationally recognized lineup of keynote speakers covering the full scope of AI research, including:

Joshua Bengio is a pioneer in leading learning and one of the godfathers of deep learning. He was awarded the 2018 Turing Award. It is often referred to as the “Nobel Computing Award.” This is shared with Jeffrey Hinton and Jan Lekun to demonstrate that deep learning models can effectively scale with large data sets and computational power. Benguio is a professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the Mira-Quebec AI Institute, one of the world's largest academic institutes dedicated to deep learning, and helped to establish Montreal as a global hub for AI research.

Every time someone uses a search engine or an AI-powered chatbot, they benefit from technology that bridges the gap between human language and machine understanding. This is a challenge that will be addressed directly in Heng Ji's research. Ji, an invited IJCAI speaker, is a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is well known for his pioneering research into how AI systems extract and distill knowledge from a vast amount of unstructured data. Far from being confined to academia, she is also a proactive voice in AI policy, providing her expertise in debates about the ethical and responsible development of AI.

Luc de Raedt, Professor of Computer Science at Ku Leuven and Director of Leuven.ai, is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to integrating machine learning with symbolic reasoning. Beyond his research, he has played an important leadership role in organizing discussions to shape conversations about responsible AI, leading initiatives, and social impacts of AI, and to shape conversations about ethical and trustworthy AI development. In his IJCAI2025 Keniote speech, he talks about “Neurosymbiotic AI: a combination of data and knowledge.”

In this effort, he is not alone. Bernhard Schölkopf (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems), director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and co-founder of Ellis, is another leading figure who gives an invited talk on “Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to Causal Digital Twins for Science.” In addition to his scientific contributions (particularly in addition to the kernel's method and causal inference), Schölkopf is a prominent advocate of ethical and trustworthy AI in Europe. He plays an important role in shaping the AI research agenda and informing policy discussions about responsible AI.

The Montreal program also features invited talks from IJCAI 2025 recipients. He has been awarded the AdityaGrover (UCLA and Inception Labs) with the IJCAI-25 Computer and Thinking Award. Rina DeChter (University of California, Irvine) received the IJCAI-25 Research Excellence Award. Cynthia Rudin (Duke Univeristy), winner of the IJCAI-25 John McCarthy Award.

The IJCAI 2025 Science Program highlights how AI shapes both cutting-edge research and real-world impact. AI, Arts & Creativity Track explores the growing role of AI in creating and supporting creative work, from music and design to storytelling and architecture. Human-centered AI tracks address the challenge of building AI systems that align with human values and integrating technical, cognitive, ethical and social perspectives. Social Good Track's AI focuses on AI-driven solutions to impose global challenges, encouraging collaboration with governments, NGOs and researchers, and supporting initiatives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Meanwhile, AI4Tech tracks show how AI is driving breakthroughs in key technologies across sectors such as Health, Finance, Mobility and Smart Cities. Complementing these theme tracks, IJCAI 2025 includes a shocking set of competition and challenges to drive applied AI boundaries, including deepfake detection and localization challenges, AI for the Drinking Water Chlorination Challenge, and Pulmonary Fibrosis Segmentation Challenge. Together, these elements reflect the pulsation of AI today. It promotes science while addressing society's needs. IJCAI 2025 also presents an AI art gallery featuring works that explore how machines balance vulnerabilities with agents, and how human interactions and environments shape future possibilities. These artworks address these questions through AI, robotics, AR, VR, and other emerging technologies.

The program also includes between AI Lounge: Wonder and Attention. Insights from three experts, science communication journalists with discussions with three community representatives without admission (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University), Kate Larson (University of Waterloo), and Cinciardin (Duquet University).

A satellite event will be held in Guangzhou, China from August 29th to August 31st, 2025 to assist authors who may find it difficult to obtain a Canadian visa.

The IJCAI 2025 conference is supported by sponsors such as the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), Palais des Congres de Montréal (Diamond Sponsor), GMI Cloud, Finvolution Group, and Baidu and Ant Research.

Complete program

See the complete program at https://2025.ijcai.org/

Organizers and institutional support

Conference chair: Shlomo Zilber Stein Massachusetts University, Amherst/USA

Program Chair: Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / China

Local Arrangement Committee Chairman: Jill Pesante, Polytechnic Montreal / Canada

Local Advertising Committee Chairman: Lina Marsso, Polytechnic Montreal / Mira / Assistant Professor of Canada

Sponsorship/Exhibition/Industry Day Chair: Nancy Lalamee, Ivado, Canada

Chief Student Journalist for Social Media: Lillian Carolyn Demars, Polytechnic Montreal

Webmaster: Möhilshire, Dalhousie University, Canada

IJCAI website details: https://2025.ijcai.org

Media Access and Certification

The meeting is open to journalists. For media enquiries, please contact MihaelaRozman -Email: mrozman@ijcai.org.