Michal Valko : Talks

Upcoming talks

October 20, 2026
NVIDIA Startup Day Berlin, alongside NVIDIA GTC Berlin Building and Scaling European Models Berlin Marriott, Berlin, Germany
November 2026
Kutaisi University Seminar (November 2026) Kutaisi, Georgia
November 2026
Guest lecture at FIIT STU LLM Reasoning, Post-Training and Alignment Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology (FIIT STU), Bratislava, Slovakia
November 4, 2026
BigHub AI Conference The State of AI Research: Breakthroughs, Limits, and Controversies Microsoft HQ, Prague, Czechia
November 12, 2026
Brown University Robotics and Physical AI Event Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

2027

  • 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (invited), May 24-25, 2027, Berlin, Germany (ICMLAI 2027)
  • UNIQA NatCat Seminar 2027 (speaker), 2027, Sofia, Bulgaria (UNIQA NatCat Seminar 2027)
  • PyCon SK 2027 (invited keynote), March 12-13, 2027, FIIT STU, Ilkovičova 2, Bratislava, Slovakia (PyCon SK 2027)
  • AI event in the Dolomites, March 8-12, 2027, Dolomites, Italy (Dolomites AI 2027)
  • World Models, Causality, and Agents (invited workshop) - Fifth Bellairs Workshop on Causality, February 26 - March 5, 2027, Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados (Bellairs Causality 2027)
  • Munich Security Conference 2027 side event on governing transnational technology utilities (side-event participant), February 12-14, 2027, Munich, Germany (MSC 2027 Tech Utilities)
  • O2 Slovensko 20th Anniversary (invited talk), February 4, 2027, evening, Stará tržnica, Bratislava, Slovakia (O2 Slovensko 20 Years 2027)
  • University of Wrocław Faculty Seminar (invited speaker), February 2027, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland (University of Wrocław Faculty Seminar 2026-27)
  • AI2FUTURE 2027 (speaker), 2027, Zagreb, Croatia (AI2FUTURE Zagreb 2027)

2026

  • The Next Step in Collective RSI: Can AI Agents Improve Together Without Talking? (invited keynote) - AI Frontiers Summit 2026, MBZUAI, December 12, 2026, Châteauform' City Les Jardins de Saint Dominique, Paris, France (AI Frontiers Summit 2026)
  • LIB CON Prague (keynote + panel discussion), December 3, 2026, Prague, Czechia (Czech Librarians 2026)
  • StRICt Workshop: Structured Reasoning for Interpretability and Control (keynote), December 2026, NeurIPS 2026, Paris, France (StRICt @ NeurIPS 2026)
  • GenerationAI Paris 2026 (invited speaker), December 1-2, 2026, CNIT Forest, Paris La Défense, France (GenerationAI Paris 2026)
  • Connecting Humanity and Artificial Intelligence: A Future Built on Values (panel) - Slovak Telekom AI & Humanity, November 26, 2026, Stará tržnica, Bratislava, Slovakia (AI & Humanity SK 2026)
  • Night of Chances IT (keynote), November 25, 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia (Night of Chances IT 2026)
  • Artificial intelligence: economic potential and the future of business and competitiveness (panel) - Prosperity Through Freedom: Return of the Tatra Tiger, Slovak Students For Liberty, November 21, 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slobodou k prosperite 2026)
  • DigiTec 2026: World's New AI Hub (panel), November 21, 2026, Meridian Expo Center, Yerevan, Armenia (DigiTec 2026)
  • Global Robotics and AI Meet (keynote), November 19-21, 2026, Osaka, Japan (RoboticsAI 2026)
  • Slush Lapland Trip (Visionaries) (invited), November 15-17, 2026, Lapland, Finland (Polaris 2026)
  • Brown University Robotics and Physical AI Event (invited), November 12, 2026, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States (Brown Robotics and Physical AI 2026)
  • The State of AI Research: Breakthroughs, Limits, and Controversies (panel) - BigHub AI Conference, November 4, 2026, Microsoft HQ, Prague, Czechia (BigHub AI Conference 2026)
  • LLM Reasoning, Post-Training and Alignment (guest lecture) - Guest lecture at FIIT STU, November 2026, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology (FIIT STU), Bratislava, Slovakia (FIIT STU 2026)
  • Kutaisi University Seminar (November 2026) (invited talk), November 2026, Kutaisi, Georgia (Kutaisi University Seminar Nov 2026)
  • Building and Scaling European Models (panel) - NVIDIA Startup Day Berlin, alongside NVIDIA GTC Berlin, October 20, 2026, Berlin Marriott, Berlin, Germany (NVIDIA Startup Day / GTC Berlin 2026)
  • Frontier Summit (invited), October 19-20, 2026, Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Frontier Summit 2026)
  • China: Partner, Competitor, or Enemy of the EU? (invited) - Centre Jean Gol China Conference, October 16, 2026, 09:00-19:00, SQUARE Brussels, Mont des Arts, Brussels, Belgium (CJG China 2026)
  • Invited seminar at UPJŠ (invited seminar), October 13, 2026, 15:30-17:00, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (UPJŠ), Jesenná 5, room SJ1S24, Košice, Slovakia (UPJŠ 2026)
  • AI Ate My Homework (and Then Hallucinated the Answer) (guest lecture) - Gymnázium, Park mládeže 5, October 13, 2026, 10:00-12:00, Košice, Slovakia (Gymnázium Park mládeže 2026)
  • World Models for Turbines (invited talk) - Solar Turbines Digital AI Team, October 8, 2026, 10:45-12:15, Solar Turbines EAME Ltd., Za Ženskými domovy 3379, Praha 5-Smíchov, Czechia (Solar Turbines 2026)
  • How to Train Your AI (Without Letting It Copy Your Homework) (school talk) - Gymnázium Evolution Jižní Město, October 7, 2026, 09:25-11:00, Gymnázium Evolution Jižní Město, Prague, Czechia (Evolution Kids AI 2026)
  • AI, Innovation & Economy - New Challenges in Central Banking Conference, October 6, 2026, 15:50, Czech National Bank Congress Centre, Prague, Czechia (CNB 2026)
  • A Thousand Lakes, One Latent World: Why AI Needs World Models (invited lecture) - FR8 Cohort 2.f, October 5, 2026, 11:45-12:30, Helsinki, Finland (FR8 World Models 2026)
  • LLMs in the Sauna: What Survives the Heat? (invited lecture) - FR8 Cohort 2.f, October 5, 2026, 11:00-11:45, Helsinki, Finland (FR8 LLMs 2026)
  • The Future of AGI / ASI (invited) - FR8 Cohort 2.f, October 2, 2026, 18:00-19:00, Helsinki, Finland (FR8 Cohort 2.f 2026)
  • Tencent Hunyuan LLM Research, October 2026, Online (Tencent Hunyuan 2026)
  • When AI Learns to Tie Its Shoes: A Future Beyond LLMs (invited) - adidas AI, September 30, 2026, adidas World of Sports, Herzogenaurach, Germany (adidas AI 2026)
  • European LLMs and AI Sovereignty (invited) - European Union Committee, September 29, 2026, Brussels, Belgium (European Forum 2026)
  • European Commission JRC Disinformation Workshop, September 25, 2026, JRC Ispra, Italy (JRC Disinfo 2026)
  • European Researchers' Night: The Power of Science - How We Can Shape Our Future, September 25, 2026, Slovakia (NOC 2026)
  • AI ON TAP - Creandum x BOOOM Oktoberfest (invited), September 24, 2026, Schützen-Festzelt, Munich, Germany (AI ON TAP 2026)
  • When AI Connects the Dots: The Future Beyond LLMs - Future Week 26, September 24, 2026, Atlantis, Media City Bergen, Bergen, Norway (Future Week 2026)
    Future Week 2026
  • AI Horizons 2026 (invited), September 23-24, 2026, CUBEX, Prague, Czechia (AI Horizons 2026)
  • LIX Colloquium (colloquium), September 21, 2026, LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (LIX Colloquium 2026)
  • Game-theoretic alignment and reinforcement learning for LLMs (invited) - ACE Talk Series, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), September 17, 2026, 16:30-17:30 Beijing time, Microsoft Research Asia, online (MSRA ACE Talk 2026)
  • Nash and Nemirovski walk into a bar: LLM alignment with mirror descent and proximal methods - Machine Learning in Nonstandard Settings, September 8, 2026, 09:35-10:25, La Villa Clythia, Fréjus, France (ML Nonstandard 2026)
  • Statistical AI Workshop, August 24-28, 2026, TSIMF, Sanya, China (TSIMF StatAI 2026)
  • Genesis of World Models via Curiosity and Prediction (keynote) - BOLD and Friends, BOLD Launch Festival, August 4, 2026, Rhodes House, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (BOLD Festival 2026)
  • Invited talk at Armenia LLM Summer School, August 3-7, 2026, AI9 Startup Campus, Yerevan, Armenia (ARMLLM 2026)
  • Opportunities in Fundamental AI (keynote + panel) - BOLD Launch Festival, Session 3, August 3-4, 2026, The Examination Schools, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (BOLD Festival 2026)
  • Goanna Builders Day (panel), July 24, 2026, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California (Goanna Builders Day 2026)
  • RAISE Summit 2026 (invited), July 8-9, 2026, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France (RAISE Summit 2026)
  • Independence Day: 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States of America (invited), July 4, 2026, Galéria Umelka, Bratislava, Slovakia (Independence Day 2026)
  • Talk at Krafton AI (invited), July 2, 2026, Seoul, South Korea (Krafton AI 2026)
  • Invited talk in Seoul (invited), July 2, 2026, Centerfield WEST, Seoul, South Korea (Seoul 2026)
  • Global AI Show: AI 2030 - Accelerating Intelligent Futures, June 29-30, 2026, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Global AI Show 2026)
  • High-Level Event on Democracy (keynote) - European Commission Joint Research Centre, June 25, 2026, Brussels, Belgium (EC Democracy 2026)
  • SKAI Conference (invited), June 23, 2026, Vodárenské múzeum, Bratislava, Slovakia (SKAI 2026)
  • International Summer School on Generative AI, June 22-26, 2026, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy (GenAI Summer School 2026)
  • Critical Ventures Ecosystem Summit 2026 (keynote), June 21-22, 2026, Lisbon, Portugal (Critical Ventures 2026)
  • From Chatbots to Agents: How AI Changes Decision-Making, Work, and Control (invited), June 18, 2026, Crowne Plaza, Bratislava, Slovakia (Spring ITAPA 2026)
    Video: From Chatbots to Agents: How AI Changes Decision-Making, Work, and Control
  • Orange Business Conference, June 17, 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia (Orange Biz 2026)
    Video: Orange Business Conference
  • AI Day 2, June 15, 2026, ZŠ Valaliky, Slovakia (online) (AI Day ZŠ 2026)
  • World Models - Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS), June 11, 2026, 14:00-15:30, Milan, Italy (RLSS World Models 2026)
  • Reinforcement Learning and LLMs - Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS), June 11, 2026, 09:00-10:30, Milan, Italy (RLSS 2026)
  • Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, June 8-12, 2026, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany, Italy (ACDL 2026)
  • GLOBSEC Forum 2026 (panel), May 21-23, 2026, Prague, Czechia (GLOBSEC 2026)
  • How Large Language Models Learn to Reason - Giorgi Nikoladze Scientific Research Center Seminar, Kutaisi International University, May 19, 2026, Kutaisi, Georgia (KIU 2026)
  • Rhizome Seminar, May 13, 2026, Paris, France (Rhizome 2026)
  • Artificial Intelligence + Quantum Conference, May 11-12, 2026, Kunsthalle, Košice, Slovakia (AI+Q 2026)
  • GHOST Day: Applied Machine Learning Conference, May 8-9, 2026, Poznań, Poland (GHOST Day 2026)
  • Slovak Oxford Science Conference 2026 (invited talk), April 29 - May 2, 2026, Payerbacherhof, Payerbach, Austria (SOSC 2026)
  • IT/AI Night, April 28, 2026, STU, Bratislava, Slovakia (IT/AI Night 2026)
  • Where Are Humans Still Better Than AI? Michal Valko on Uncertainty and the Future of Technology (invited), April 27, 2026, KInIT (Kempelen Institute), Bratislava, Slovakia (KInIT Human-vs-AI 2026)
  • Invited talk at KInIT: what is new in our research, April 27, 2026, KInIT (Kempelen Institute), Bratislava, Slovakia (KInIT 2026)
  • The Genesis of Predictive Architectures (keynote) - AI Day, April 23, 2026, FMUK, Bratislava, Slovakia (AI Day 2026)
    Video: The Genesis of Predictive Architectures
  • LEAF Academy (invited talk), April 14, 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia (LEAF 2026)
  • Junior Internet AMAVET 2026, April 10-11, 2026, FIIT STU, Bratislava, Slovakia (Junior Internet 2026)
  • FR8 (keynote), April 3-10, 2026, Long TCV, Finland (FR8 2026)
  • Statlearn 2026, April 1-3, 2026, Grenoble, France (Statlearn 2026)
  • Challenges of Modern Psychiatry 2026, March 20, 2026, Hotel Bjornsonka, Jasná, Slovakia (Psychiatry 2026)
  • Seine Technology Summit 2026 (keynote), March 10-11, 2026, Dolce Versailles, Jouy-en-Josas, France (Seine Tech Summit 2026)
  • Math and AI for high school students, March 9, 2026, České Reálné Gymnázium, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (ČRG 2026)
  • Speedy RL & LLMs (invited lecture) - Cerebras AI, February 26, 2026, Sunnyvale, CA, USA (Cerebras 2026)
  • The Genesis of Predictive Architectures: How AI Can Extract Meaning from Unlabeled Data - CIDS Colloquium, New York University Abu Dhabi, January 27, 2026, Abu Dhabi, UAE (NYUAD CIDS 2026)
  • Machines Can Think - AI Adopters Summit (keynote), January 26-27, 2026, Abu Dhabi, UAE (MCT 2026)

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Bootstrap your own latent - DataFest Yerevan, September 11, 2021 (DataFest 2021)
  • Bootstrapped representation learning on graphs - Turkey Machine Learning Summer School, June, 23 2021, Science Academy of Turkey (BAYÖYO 2021)
    Video: Bootstrapped representation learning on graphs
  • Self-supervised learning, BYOL, and friends - DeepMind Theory meets Practice, 2021, London, UK (DeepMind TmP 2021)
  • Graphs in Machine Learning - Medical University Graz, Austria, June 2021 (HCAI 2021)
  • Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A new approach to self-supervised learning - MIST conference in Rajecká Lesná, January, 2021 (MIST 2021)

2020

2019

  • Graphs are the new gold: The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Global Innovation Forum, October 16-18, 2019, Yerevan, FAST, Armenia (GIF 2019)
  • Gaussian process optimization with adaptive sketching: Scalable and no regret - Recent developments in kernel methods, September 26-27, 2019, UCL, London, UK (Gatsby 2019)
  • Rotting bandits are not harder than stochastic ones - Lancaster and DeepMind Bandit Workshop, September 25-26, 2019, London, UK (LanDeep 2019)
  • Graphs are the new gold: The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Cisco, July 23, 2019, Kraków, Poland (Cisco 2019)
  • How the negative dependence broke the squadratic barrier for learning with graphs and kernels - Yandex HQ, July 5, 2019, Moscow, Russia (Yandex 2019)
  • Active multiple matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets - RAAI Summer School 2019, July 3-8, 2019, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (RAAI 2019)
    Video: Active multiple matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets
  • Maximum likelihood estimation for low rank DPPs - ICML workshop on negative dependence, June 14-15, 2019, Long Beach, USA (ICML 2019 DPPs)
  • How the negative dependence broke quadratic barrier for learning with graphs and kernels. - ICML workshop on negative dependence, June 14-15, 2019, Long Beach, USA (ICML 2019)
  • Optimal bandit submodular minimization - ICML 2019 workshop, June 9-15, 2019, Long Beach, USA (ICML 2019 submod)
  • Active block-matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets - Theoretical Computer Science seminar, May 28, 2019, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (CU May 2019)
  • 10 year road to breaking the quadratic barrier for graphs and matrices - Theoretical Computer Science seminar, February 22, 2019, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (CU Feb 2019)
  • Graphs are the new gold - Data Analytics Meetings, February 20, 2019, P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia (UPJS 2019)
  • The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, January 25, 2019, University of Cambridge, UK (Cambridge 2019)
  • The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - Verimag, January 8, 2019, CNRS Grenoble, France (CNRS Jan8 2019)
  • A simple parameter-free and adaptive approach to optimization under a minimal local smoothness assumption - Verimag, January 7, 2019, CNRS Grenoble, France (CNRS Jan7 2019)

2018

  • The power of graphs in speeding up online learning and decision making - DeepMind, October 23, 2018, London, UK (DeepMind 2018)
  • Active block-matrix completion with adaptive confidence sets - International Workshop Optimization and Machine Learning, September 10-13, 2018, CIMI, Toulouse (CIMI 2018)
  • Online influence maximization - Workshop on Graph Learning, May 14, 2018, LINCS, Paris (LINCS 2018)
  • Recommender systems - Big Data Day, Polytech'Lille, March 22, 2018 (Polytech'Lille 2018)
  • Pliable rejection sampling - GDR Isis, Télécom ParisTech in Paris, February 8, 2018 (ISIS 2018)
  • Graph Bandits - MIST conference in Rajecká Lesná, January 7, 2018 (MIST 2018)

2017

  • SequeL, graphs in ML, and online recommender systems - R&DV du Plateau Inria 2017, November 9, 2017, Lille, France (Euratechnologies 2017)
  • Sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation and online learning - DeepMind, September 19, 2017, London, UK (DeepMind 2017)
  • Active learning on networks and online influence maximization - Decision Theory and Network Science: Methods and Applications, September 18, 2017, Lancaster, UK (STOR-i 2017)
  • Side observation in graph bandits - ICML 2017 workshop on Picky Learners, August 11, 2017, Sydney, Australia (ICML 2017)
  • Efficient second-order online kernel learning with adaptive embedding (Impromptu talk) - Conference on Learning Theory, July 9, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands (COLT 2017)
  • Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation - Toulouse Institute of Mathematics, France, June 29, 2017 (IMT 2017)
  • Where Is Justin Bieber? Or Online Influence Maximization - Inria Scientific Days 2017, June 14, 2017, Sophia-Antipolis, France (JS 2017)
  • Where Is Justin Bieber Hiding? Or How to Maximize Influencer Detection on Social Networks? (Popularization invited talk) - Inria Lille, France, May 30, 2017 (13:45 2017)
  • Dating day 2017, March 30, 2017, Lille, France (Dating 2017)
  • Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation - Joint seminar of MuSyAD group of Universität Potsdam and Amazon at Amazon Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2017 (Berlin 2017)

2016

Demos and Presentations

  • Michal Valko, Miloš Hauskrecht, G. Cooper, S. Visweswaran, M. Saul, A. Seybert, J. Harrison, A. Post: Conditional Anomaly Detection - CS Day 2008 (CS Day 2008) [["#1st by people"], ["#2nd by faculty"]] also at (University of Pittsburgh, Arts & Sciences (Grad Expo 2008))
  • Michal Valko: Conditional anomaly detection with adaptive similarity metric - CS Department Research Competition (Research 2008) [#1st place]
  • Michal Valko, Branislav Kveton, Matthai Philiposse: Robust Face Recognition Using Online Learning - 9th University of Pittsburgh Science conference (SCIENCE 2009) also at (Live Demonstration (Grad Expo 2010) and (CS Day 2010))
  • Branislav Kveton, Michal Valko, Matthai Philiposse: Real-Time Adaptive Face Recognition - 23rd Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS 2009)
  • Michal Valko: Graph-Based Anomaly Detection with Soft Harmonic Functions - CS Department Research Competition (Research 2011) [#1st place] also at (Grad Expo 2011 and CS Day 2011)

2015 and before

  • Online decision-making on graphs - DaSciM, LIX, École Polytechnique, France, April 14, 2015 (X 2015)
  • Bandits on Graphs: Exploiting Smoothness and Side Observations - CMLA at ENS Cachan, France, December 16, 2014 (ENS 2014)
  • Optimistic Optimization - MIST conference in Fačkovské sedlo, January 7, 2014 (MIST 2014)
  • Sequential Face Recognition with Minimal Feedback - 30 minutes of Science, Lille, May 2, 2013 (30MIN 2013)
  • Stochastic Simultaneous Optimistic Optimization - ComplACS Workshop, Leoben, Austria, November 2012 (ComplACS 2012)
  • One Class Learning From Streams of Unlabeled Data - Large-scale Online Learning and Decision Making, September 17, 2012 (LSOLDM 2012)
  • Scaling Graph-Based Algorithms - LAMPADA workshop, July 20, 2012 (LAMPADA 2012)
  • Large Scale Sequential Learning - Slovak Oxford Science, April 8, 2012 (Oxford UK 2012)
  • Adaptive Graph-Based Algorithms - Microsoft Research Redmond, July 6, 2011 (MSR 2011)
  • Online Semi-Supervised Learning - MPI Tuebingen, Germany, July 2011 (MPI 2011)
  • Semi-supervised Learning with Random Walks on Graphs - 6th Comenius University Alumni conference (TAM 2009)
  • Stochastic Simultaneous Optimistic Optimization - International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013), June 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (ICML StoSOO 2013)
  • Conditional Anomaly Detection Methods for Analysis of Clinical Alert Data - Machine Learning in Health Care Applications, ICML 2008, July 9, 2008, Helsinki, Finland (ICML Health 2008)
  • Distance Metric Learning for Conditional Anomaly Detection - FLAIRS, May 2008, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA (FLAIRS 2008)
  • Learning Predictive Models for Combinations of Heterogeneous Proteomic Data Sources - AMIA STB, March 2008, San Francisco, California, USA (AMIA STB 2008)
  • Dimensionality Reduction of High-throughput Proteomic Data using Partial Discriminative Projections - AI Seminar, FMFI, May 23, 2006 (FMFI AI Seminar 2006)