AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas - Oncology, Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory & Immunology. Based in Cambridge, UK, AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.

Among our 6,000+ software engineers, we employ 150+ data scientists and research engineers who employ machine learning and natural language processing to solve complex, real-world problems. For example, they build ML models that enable predicting news stories’ impact on company stock prices, recommender systems, semantic parsing for question answering, topic clustering/classification, summarization, sentiment analysis, anomaly detection in time series, and various other domain-specific solutions.

Our mission: Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life. Founded in 2012, ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Dedicated to building global platforms of creation and interaction, ByteDance now has over 60,000 global employees and a portfolio of applications available in over 150 markets and 75 languages, including Toutiao, Douyin, Xigua Video, TikTok, Helo, Lark, and more.

Citadel is a leading investor in the world’s financial markets. Our global team works to help our capital partners achieve their financial goals. Citadel Securities is a leading quantitative trading firm and market maker. Both firms share a common commitment to bringing the brightest minds together to leverage cutting-edge techniques, such as machine learning, to solve some of the most complex research and technology problems in the world. **ABOUT CITADEL** For over a quarter of a century, we have sought to deliver industry leading investment returns to clients including corporate pensions, endowments, foundations, public institutions, and sovereign wealth funds. Our global team works to help our clients’ capital fulfill its greatest potential across a diverse range of markets and investment strategies, including fixed income & macro, equities, quantitative, commodities and credit. For more information, [visit Citadel.com](www.citadel.com) **ABOUT CITADEL SECURITIES** Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker, delivering a broad array of fixed income and equity products to banks, broker dealers, government agencies, corporations, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds. Through innovation and efficiency, the firm provides liquidity with the goal of driving price discovery in more than 35 countries and making markets more competitive, open, and transparent. Since its founding more than 15 years ago, Citadel Securities has cultivated a culture of excellence, assembling the brightest minds in trading, technology, and the sciences to make better markets for a better world. For more information, [visit CitadelSecurities.com](www.CitadelSecurities.com)

Our media processing technologies for video, speech, and language processing are connecting the real world to cyberspace and expanding human activities to contribute to creating a safe, secure, and comfortable society.

We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. At HRT we come from all sorts of backgrounds: mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics, and engineering. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automated trading. Our culture celebrates great ideas whether they come from HRT veterans or new hires. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues, whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office. **Seem like something you might be interested in?** Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.

Research at Netflix is aimed at improving various aspects of our business. Research applications span many areas including our personalization algorithms, content valuation, and streaming optimization. To maximize the impact of our research, we do not centralize research into a separate organization. Instead, we have many teams that pursue research in collaboration with business teams, engineering teams, and other researchers. This allows for close partnerships between researchers and the business or engineering teams in each area. In addition, research that applies to the same methodological area or business area is shared and highlighted in discussion and debate forums to strengthen the work and its impact. These forums also serve to identify and motivate future research directions. Researchers at Netflix love working in a unique environment enabled by the Netflix Culture that values curiosity, courage with smart risks, innovation, science, rigor, and high impact. Across the company, we strive to run experiments to back our hypotheses up with evidence, which often uncover surprises that redirect or refine our research. We relish the freedom to try new ideas and the opportunity to debate their implications with colleagues spanning all parts and levels of the company, including our own CEO.

At Qualcomm AI Research, we are advancing AI to make its core capabilities – perception, reasoning, and action – ubiquitous across devices. Our mission is to make breakthroughs in fundamental AI research and scale them across industries. By bringing together some of the best minds in the field, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and shaping the future of AI.

Headed by Simon Lacoste-Julien, professor in computer science at Université de Montréal and co-founding member of Mila, SAIL is located in Mila's corporate space at the heart of the Montreal AI ecosystem nearby Element AI, Borealis AI, FAIR, Microsoft Research and others where an open collaborative environment is encouraged. **Research Areas & Core Activities** Key early research themes for the lab are optimization and generalization in machine learning, with applications to structured data such as in machine translation or speech recognition. Interaction with visitors from the AI and S/W research center from SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) in Korea is encouraged. Their research interests include deep learning, visual and speech recognition, autonomous driving, and chip design automation, among others.

Sberbank holds almost one-third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy and the biggest deposit taker in Russia. The Government of the Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is the principal shareholder of Sberbank owning 50% plus one voting share of the bank’s authorized capital, with the remaining 50% minus one share held by domestic and international investors. Sberbank has customers in 18 countries. Sberbank has the largest distribution network in Russia with about 14,000 branches, while its international operations – subsidiary banks, branches, and chapters – include the UK, US, CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, India, China, and other countries. The bank holds general banking license No. 1481 issued by the Bank of Russia. Official websites of the Bank: [Sberbank Group](www.sberbank.com), and [Sberbank](www.sberbank.ru) client site.

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm. Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, we began with six employees and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance. Since then, we’ve built a reputation for successful investing based on persistent innovation, analytical rigor, careful risk management, and uniquely talented employees. We’re focused on collaboration, not internal competition—teams work together to share trade ideas, identify and address risks, build tools, and explore new opportunities. Our staff includes world-class mathematicians, economists, physicists, computer scientists, analysts, business-builders, and system architects relying on specialized trading, operational, and compliance expertise developed over 30+ years.

Funded by VinGroup, the largest enterprise in Vietnam by capitalization, our mission is to conduct high-impact research that pushes the knowledge frontier in AI and to accelerate applications of AI in Vietnam, the Asia Pacific region, and beyond. Headed by its founding director, Dr. Hung H. Bui (formerly of Google DeepMind), this is the first AI research lab in Vietnam created with a focus on top-tier research and publications. The lab enjoys a world-class research facility, including ample access to computing infrastructure and GPUs. In addition, it will maintain active research collaboration with other top AI research labs around the world. The current research areas include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and natural language technologies. Vingroup is one of the biggest private conglomerate in Asia with a market capitalization value of around US $16 billion. As a multi-sector corporation, Vingroup focuses on three main areas: - Technology - Industrials - Property Services Vingroup continues to pioneer and lead consumer trends in each of its businesses introducing Vietnamese consumers to a brand new, modern life-style with international-standard products and services. Vingroup has created a respected, well-recognized Vietnamese brand and is proud to be one of the nation’s leading private enterprises.

Waymo is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives. **[Visit Our ICML 2020 Microsite](http://waymoevents.com/icml)**

Since its founding in Tokyo in 1915, Yokogawa has contributed to the development of a wide range of industries including oil, gas, chemicals, power, and iron & steel, and has established a global reputation as a leader in the control field. Yokogawa delivers comprehensive solutions that make use of machine learning and AI, and creates sustainable value through co-innovation with its customers.