Partner Summit 2025
The 2025 Partner Summit was jointly organised by our CDT and the CDT in Natural Language Processing (funded in 2019), whose students are further along in their research.
The 2025 summit welcomed over 40 external representatives and kicked off with a public keynote AI and Society: Cultivating Responsible Innovation for Our Future, by Ofcom’s Director of Online Safety, Dr Fred Langford, followed by a panel discussion with NatWest’s Head of AI Hub, Emma Wong and Head of the Scottish AI Alliance, Steph Wright.
The rest of the day featured PhD student presentations across varied formats: poster sessions, panels, fireside chats, and formal talks. A small selection of topics includes:
- Bias and Multilingualism in Language Technologies
- Compose and Conquer: Out-of-Distribution Generalisation in Humans and AI
- The Sparse Frontier: Sparse Attention Trade-offs in Transformer LLMs
Beyond the morning’s public session that featured external partners of the CDTs, partners also participated in presentations and panels, including JaguarLandRover, G-Research, Cohere, and Historic Environment Scotland. They also provided feedback on their engagement with the CDT/School thus far and shared suggestions and ideas which we are implementing in 2025/2026.
Image credits: Chris Scott