SALA ‘26 Program

The time zone in Quito, Ecuador is UTC-5.

TimeMonday
March 9
Tuesday
March 10
Wednesday
March 11
Thursday
March 12
9:00-9:30Welcome remarksWelcome remarksWelcome remarksWelcome remarks
9:30-10:30ML basicsRLNLP
(Thamar Solorio)
Hackathon presentations
10:30-11:00Break / PostersBreak / PostersBreak / PostersBreak / Posters
11:00-12:00Applied MLTBALLMsAI for Climate
12:00-13:30LunchLunchLunchLunch
13:30-14:30Vibe codingComputer VisionPost-training / RLHF (Nathan Lambert)AI & Climate
(Sasha Luccioni)
14:30-15:00Break / PostersBreak / PostersBreak / PostersBreak / Posters
15:00-16:00Colabs/Hackathon introTBALatamGPT
(Luciana Benotti)
Samy Bengio Keynote
16:00-17:00Colabs/HackathonColabs/HackathonColabs/HackathonHackathon awards
17:00-18:00Parallel panelsParallel panelsEnd of event reception
9:00-9:30
Welcome remarks
9:30-10:30
ML basics
10:30-11:00
Break / Posters
11:00-12:00
Applied ML
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Vibe coding
14:30-15:00
Break / Posters
15:00-16:00
Colabs/Hackathon intro
16:00-18:00
Colabs/Hackathon

Session Types:

📚 Foundational Sessions
🚀 Specialized Sessions
🔧 Hackathon Activities
✨ Special Events