The Palais des congrès de Montréal will be hosting two artificial intelligence (AI) conventions. The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) will be coming in 2021 and attract nearly 3,000 experts from all over the world. This means a total of nearly 8,400 room nights booked in Montréal hotels and over $4.5 million in tourism revenue for Québec.

Montréal was awarded the international convention during the 2017 edition of the event in Melbourne last August. Major support came from Professor Joëlle Pineau, who teaches computer science at McGill University, and Professor Donia Precup, who will lead the Montréal office of Deep Mind.

A second AI Conference has been created by the Université de Montréal, Fonds de recherche du Québec and Palais des congrès de Montréal. The new Forum on the Socially Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence, will take place November 2 and 3 at the Palais.

The forum will provide the backdrop for the drafting of the guiding principles of the Montréal Declaration on the Ethical Development of AI.