talks

Short Bio for speaking engagements
Marzieh Fadaee is the Head of Cohere Labs, where she leads research on fundamental problems in artificial intelligence. Her work spans multilingual language models, data-efficient learning, model evaluation, and trustworthy AI, with a focus on building systems that are robust, inclusive, and globally impactful. She co-leads the Aya initiative that brought together over 3,000 collaborators worldwide to create the world's largest multilingual instruction dataset and the development of a series of state-of-the-art multilingual language and vision models. Before joining Cohere Labs, Marzieh was the Research Lead at Zeta Alpha Vector, where she pioneered innovative approaches to knowledge discovery and organization. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam where she conducted foundational research on neural machine translation. Her research has been published in top venues such as NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and ICLR, and she frequently serves as a mentor and advisor in the global AI research community.



Upcoming Talks and Events

  • Invited talk at SIAS Lab, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam. Febreury 2026.
  • Speaker at Women in AI Research podcast. Online. Febreury 2026. [x]
  • Speaker at World AI Summit. Febreury 2026.
  • Invited talk at University of Michigan. Michigan. March 2026.
  • Keynote at International Summer School in Generative AI. Rome. June 2026.

2025

  • Speaker at RAISE center at UW on How Evaluation Directs AI Progress. Online. November 2025.
  • Speaker at 10th INESC TEC Autumn Forum on Building Human-Centric Models from Global Voices. Porto. November 2025.
  • Keynote talk at SWORD AI Summit on What We Measure Is What We Build: Rethinking Evaluation of LLMs. Porto. November 2025. [x]
  • Speaker at AI4ALL summit. Amsterdam. November 2025.
  • Panelist at World Summit AI on Frontier models: What’s next for the most advanced AI systems?. Amsterdam. October 2025.
  • Speaker at Internet Accountability Forum on Building Responsible AI for a Global Audience. Brussels. October 2025.
  • Talk at MSR Africa. Online. July 2025.
  • Speaker at Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop on Rethinking Evaluation for the Future of Language Models. Cardiff. July 2025. [x]
  • Talk at BuzzRobot developer community podcast. Online. June 2025.
  • Keynote talk at Copenhagen NLP Symposium on “Evaluating Language Models: A Mirror, a Microscope, and a Map”. Copenhagen. June 2025. [x]
  • Panelist at DALI Sorrento on “LLMs for social impact workshop”. Sorrento. April 2025. [x]
  • Speaker at DALI Sorrento on “The Unscientific Science of AI Evaluation”. Sorrento. April 2025. [x]
  • Speaker at Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) on “Languages as Windows to Human Knowledge: Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding”. Aussois. April 2025. [x]
  • Panelist at Google Gemma Developer Day on “The importance of open models”. Paris. March 2025. [x]
  • Speaker at Open Institute of Technology on “Building the Next Generation of Multilingual Language Models”. Amsterdam. March 2025.

2024

  • Speaker at OnDeck ML Research, NeurIPS on “Charting the Future of Multilingual Models”. Vancouver. December 2024.
  • Speaker at Local Language Partnerships Accelerator Pilot, UNDP. Online. November 2024.
  • Speaker at University of Tehran on “ساخت نسل بعدی مدل‌های چندزبانه”. Online. November 2024.
  • Panelist at Kaggle AMA. Online. October 2024.
  • Panelist at Nordic Data Science & ML Summit on “Building the Future of AI: Scaling Foundation Models and Agents for Real-World Applications”. Stockholm. October 2024. [x]
  • Speaker at Understanding Deep Learning Lecture Series on “Multilingual language models: Benefits and Barriers”. Online. October 2024.
  • Speaker at UKP-CIS Joint Invited Talk Series on “Building the Next Generation of Multilingual Models”. Online. October 2024.
  • Speaker at Sharif University LLM Journal Club on “مدل های زبانی چند زبانه: چرا و چگونه”.Online. October 2024. [x]
  • Keynote talk at PyData Amsterdam on “The Art of Language: Mastering Multilingual Challenges in LLMs”. Amsterdam. September 2024. [x]
  • Speaker at United Nations Development Programme on “AI and digitizing low-resource languages”. Online. August 2024. [x]
  • Interview with Max Welling on “C4AI Fireside Chat series”. Online. July 2024. [x]
  • Keynote talk at SlaterCon on “Aya: A massively multilingual dataset and language model”. Online. March 2024. [x]
  • Interview with Mirella Lapata on “C4AI Fireside Chat series”. Online. March 2024. [x]
  • Tutorial at AAAI on “Aligning Large Language Models to Low-Resource Languages”. Vancouver. February 2024. [x]
  • Interview with Jacob Andreas on “C4AI Fireside Chat series”. Online. January 2024. [x]

2023

  • Guest lecture at Leiden University. Leiden. November 2023.
  • Invited talk at Toronto Data Workshop on “AYA: An Open Science Initiative to Accelerate Multilingual AI Progress”. Toronto. 2023. [x]
  • Invited talk at ELLIS Symposium on Large Language and Foundation Models.Amsterdam. 2023. [x]
  • Invited talk at Schwartz Reisman Institute Seminar Series on “Mastering language understanding with AI: How multilingualism shapes LLMs”. Online. 2023. [x]
  • Invited talk at Women in AI Summit as a nominee in Top 5 AI researcher category. Amsterdam. 2023. [x]
  • Panelist on The Turing Way’s Fireside Chat on “Who is building open source AI?”. Online. 2023. [x]
  • Talk as part of the ACL Mentorship program on “When life happens: How to navigate challenging times in research?”. Online. 2023. [x]

2022

  • Guest on Neural Search Talks podcast on “Generating Training Data with Large Language Models”. Online. 2022. [x]
  • Talk at Transformers at Work III workshop on “From Transformers to work: advances in semantic search”. Amsterdam. 2022. [x]

2021

  • Talk at Transformers at Work II workshop on “The power of semantic search: how and why?”. Amsterdam. 2021. [x]

2020

  • Talk at Transformers at Work I workshop. Amsterdam. 2020.

2018

  • Invited talk at CL Seminar Series of the ILLC (University of Amsterdam) on “The impact of context on machine translation models.”. Amsterdam. 2018.
  • Invited talk at Machine Learning meetup at Amsterdam Politie on “The impact of context on machine translation models.”. Amsterdam. 2018.