Speaking

Invited Talks

18 lectures, tutorials, and panels across four continents, sharing insights and helping AI & NLP reach wider audiences. Always happy to give more.

Jan
2026

Tariq Daouda Podcast

Trustworthy AI Beyond Benchmarks: Meta-Agents & the Future of AI Evaluation
Podcast hosted by Tariq Daouda, Assistant Professor at UM6P, discussing the Agent-Testing Agent paper and AI ethics
May
2025

World Learning Algeria

LLMs: From Transformer Attention to Low-Resources Darija Summarization
AI Forge Guest Speaker Session, held virtually for AI students from various Algerian universities
Mar
2025

AI & Data Conf (Ramadan Edition)

Invited Speaker on Fast Prompt Alignment for Text-to-Image Generation
Organized by Moroccan Data Scientists (MDS)
Oct
2024

The 2nd International e-Health Forum

Panel Speaker on Reducing Health Disparities by Providing Digital Health Services to Underserved Populations
Co-organized by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Sciences and Health, in partnership with the Moroccan Government Ministries of Health, Foreign Affairs, Higher Education, and Digital Transition, and under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King of 🇲🇦 Morocco
Sep
2024

UM6P Faculty of Medical Sciences

Hosted Talk on Consumer Health Applications in the Era of LLMs
Ben Guerir, 🇲🇦 Morocco
Sep
2024

Deep Learning Indaba

Tutorial on LLMs
Held at the Amadou Mahtar Mbow University in Dakar, 🇸🇳 Senegal
Apr
2024

Workshop on Generative AI in the Era of LLMs, organized by the University of British Columbia's DL & NLP Group

Invited Talk on Consumer Health Applications in the Era of LLMs
Held at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in the Age of Digital Transformation (I2COMSAPP), organized by the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques at Nouakchott University in 🇲🇷 Mauritania
Dec
2023

Math&Maroc Webinar

Lecture on Transformers
Jul
2023

AI Summer School held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Inaugural Lecture, on Transformers
Jun
2023

Apple

Invited Internal Research Talk
Jun
2023

Spotify

Invited Internal Research Talk
Jun
2023

TikTok

Invited Internal Research Talk
May
2023

Tencent AI Lab

Invited Internal Research Talk
May
2023

Toyota Research Institute

Invited Internal Research Talk
Dec
2022

UM6P and 1337 Metaverse Day in 🇲🇦 Benguerir, Morocco

Invited Pre-recorded Talk
Sep
2021

Second Edition of the 🇲🇦 Morocco IoT & AI Challenge

Invited Jury Member for the Finals
Jun
2021

15th Journées Nationales des Jeunes Développeurs (JNJD), at INPT in 🇲🇦 Rabat, Morocco

Lecture: "Getting Started in NLP: Building an AI model for text classification"
Feb
2021

Morocco AI Webinar

Talk: "Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing"
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