OpenTalks.AI

This year’s partner is the international online language school English Dive In!

English Dive In helps tech professionals optimize their most important interface: the language one. The company goes beyond traditional lessons to help engineers and researchers rewire their brains to process information in English directly — bypassing the inefficient translation layer.

Its method is immersive and personalized: students don’t just study grammar, they debug language in context through topics that matter — from parsing tech talks to discussing ethics in AI in the analytical Movie Club.

The mission of English Dive In is to provide fluency as a tool — the freedom to access research, integrate with global teams, and share work without the latency of translation.
At the Conference, English Dive In is putting theory into practice.

Visitors can come to the stand to experience how language learning trains the brain — the most important muscle. They can challenge themselves with linguistic puzzles, test their focus with the MindFlex neurogame, and see how targeting mindset is the real shortcut to fluency.

English Dive In invites to build neural pathways together.
The future speaks English.

https://www.englishdivein.com/corporate/eng

On February 20 at OpenTalks.AI, Dmitry Vetrov, PhD, Professor of Computer Science at Constructor University, will take the stage.

Dmitry will present a talk on the surprising connection between deep learning and thermodynamics.

During neural network training, the stochastic optimization of the loss function turns out to closely resemble the behavior of classical thermodynamical systems. By analyzing stochastic differential equations that describe the evolution of a (scale-invariant) neural network, one can derive the properties of its stationary state, which strikingly resemble the ideal gas law.

The talk introduces thermodynamic analogues such as temperature, pressure, and volume for neural networks, and demonstrates how thermodynamic potentials, including Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies, are minimized during training under widely used optimization protocols.

Notably, Dmitry is one of the few professors who has 8 (!) PhD students currently working at DeepMind.

📍 Don’t miss one of the most conceptually elegant talks of the conference!

Full conference program and registration: https://opentalks.ai/en/timetable2026

19-20 Feb, Belgrade, OpenTalks.AI
The topic of AI agents is now the mainstream of the industry. And preferably not just agents, but those which will conduct scientific research themselves and create even more powerful agents!) Of course we have a whole track about them!

Tatiana Shavrina (LLama team, you know where she works)) will give an overview of AI agents and especially for scientific tasks, and Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Constructor University) will talk about their AI agent, which builds hypotheses, reads literature, makes calculations, and also sets up experiments! Roma Doronin (Optic) will talk about how the biopharma works and where AI agents are really payed for, and Andrey Kuzminykh (Andre AI) will tell you about the new generation of AI agents!

A lot of interesting and relevant talks and networking awaits for you! There will also be topics about GenAI, LLM, RL, CV, intelligence and consciousness! But we will write about them separately!)

Full conference program and registration: https://opentalks.ai/en/timetable2026

Meet the general partner of OpenTalks.AI-2026 – Spectral::Technologies!

The Spectral::Technologies team is engaged in high-frequency trading (HFT): it develops low-latency infrastructure and ML-driven strategies for trading in markets around the world. He also actively supports the School of Engineering and Mathematics through partnerships with strong technical universities and scientific organizations (HSE, ITMO, St. Petersburg State University, NMU), grants and open courses.

HFT is an environment of extraordinary technological and intellectual competition. The competition takes place every day at microsecond speeds, and no solution is final: markets are constantly changing, and ideas live only until other players figure out how to get around them.

At the conference, you will be able to get acquainted with the industry. The talk “Machine Learning in HFT: Winning in an Ultra-Competitive Market” will be delivered by Quantitative Researchers from their team. In the talk, you will learn:
• What are the fundamental principles of Machine Learning in the high-frequency trading industry?;
• What role ML can play in trading;
• What is more important – to be fast or smart, and also why markets are not just tabular data.

Employees of HFT companies rarely speak publicly, and this is a good opportunity to learn more about ML in one of the most closed industries in the technology sector.

Join us on OpenTalks.AI!

Meet the speakers of OpenTalks.AI-2026!

Dr. Evgeny Izhikevich, the founder of the field of spike networks and neuromorphic computing, will talk at OpenTalks.AI about his new work “Spiking Manifesto”. This work offers a new fast algorithm for calculating spike networks, with which you can convert ordinary deep networks (say Transformers) into the spike network format and get a speed increase of up to 1000 times!

In addition to this talk we will have a separate session on neuromorphic computing and several sessions on computational optimization.

There will also be topics about AI agents, GenAI, LLM, RL, CV, intelligence and consciousness! But we will write about them separately!

Full conference program and registration: https://opentalks.ai/en/timetable2026 #!/tab/1777397661-2

OpenTalks.AI conference on AI/ML in Belgrade,19-20 Feb, program is live! https://opentalks.ai/en/timetable2026

Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Dmitry Vetrov, Tatiana Shavrina, Sasha Novikov, Andrey Ustyuzhanin, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Anatoly Kalambet, Sergey Nikolenko, Roman Doronin, Ilya Makarov, Anton Konushin, Sergey Shumsky, Arkady Sandler, Andrey Savchenko, Sergey Kuznetsov, Dmitry Yudin, Sergey Ovcharenko, Alexander Krainov - over 100 amazing speakers from different countries will come to Belgrade to give their talks!

3 tracks: Research, Engineering and Business.
Hot topics: AI agents, compute optimization, generative AI and, of course, LLMs, CV, RL. And a special session on consciousness!

The OpenTalks.AI 2026 conference will take place on February 19-20 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Register, come over, and enjoy connecting with the AI/ML community gathering in Belgrade from all over the world!
https://opentalks.ai/

We're getting ready to publish the preliminary program; it's already half full with great talks! But there are still opportunities for new speakers!

We're announcing a second rapid call for talks for the OpenTalksAI conference, which will take place February 19-20, 2026, in Belgrade, Serbia!

We're accepting talks on AI/ML research, development, and business applications. And now we're also accepting talks in Russian!

The call for proposals is open until January 20: https://opentalks.ai/en/call-for-proposals
Decisions on talks will be sent out by January 30.

Speakers presenting in English can enjoy a free 30-minute debriefing session with our conference partner, the international online language school English Dive In (https://englishdivein.com/corporate). English Dive In also offers a 50% discount on training. There's no limit on the number of classes.

And by the way, the conference registration fee will increase on January 20th, so now's the time to register!

OpenTalks.AI - Call for papers and proposals OpenTalks.AI - Call for papers and proposals

One week left to submit a talk at AI/ML conference OpenTalks.AI that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, February 2026!

We accept talks on research, development and business cases on AI/ML.

100+ speakers, 1500+ participants, international companies, top level talks, great networking and new horizons!

Call for proposals is open till October 20: https://opentalks.ai/en/call-for-proposals

OpenTalks.AI - Call for papers and proposals OpenTalks.AI - Call for papers and proposals

Next conference OpenTalks.AI-2026 will take place in February 2026 in Belgrade, Serbia. 👻

We are expecting 1,500+ participants to join, many of them from the great local community. As always, we will have top speakers, new partners and many opportunities to every participant! 😎

Conference program is formed from the Call for proposals - it is open till 20.10.2025! 📬 Details and submit form are here:

OpenTalks.AI - Call for papers and proposals OpenTalks.AI - Call for papers and proposals

Dear friends,

unfortunately, we have very sad news(( sorry that over the weekend((

1. The conference in Tbilisi is cancelled. For reasons beyond our control. We are very hurt and sad, but this is the situation.

2. Sorry for the short message, all the details will be on Monday morning, we won't answer before that, we need to work out everything, sorry.

3. Of course, we will refund all participants and partners the money you paid. The details will be in the newsletter.