October 23, 2026
All times are in BST (UTC +1)
Arrival and light breakfast
Welcome remarks
James Hensman, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Keynote | Scalable generative modelling without data
Esmeralda S. Whitammer (opens in new tab), Chancellor’s Fellow, Institute for Machine Learning School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Tea break
Talk | Feature learning and implicit regularization
Sushrut Karmalkar, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Poster lightning talks
Lunch + Posters
Tutorial | Sequential Monte Carlo, Feynman-Kac processes and diffusion generative models
Paul Fearnhead (opens in new tab), Professor, Lancaster University
Tea break
Talk | Conditioning Gaussian processes on almost anything
Chris Nemeth (opens in new tab), Professor, Lancaster University
Talk | Equilibrium dynamics in reaction network architectures
Rachel Lawrence, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Talk | Connections between multigroup fairness and learning
Varun Kanade (opens in new tab), Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Closing statements
Teodora Pandeva (opens in new tab), Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Networking reception + Mentorship sessions