Past KHIPU Editions
Since our inaugural gathering in Montevideo in 2019, KHIPU has brought together more than 1,200 students, researchers, faculty, and industry practitioners across Latin America with the global AI research community, awarding over 520 travel and accommodation grants with 100% free registration. Explore the programs, keynote speakers, foundational lectures, tutorials, and outcomes reports from each edition below.
Explore Editions, Keynotes & Lectures by Year
KHIPU 2025 — Santiago, Chile
Hosted across Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, and CEINA, KHIPU 2025 convened over 500 selected students, researchers, and speakers (with 100% free registration and 245 travel and accommodation grants awarded) for five days of foundational courses, hands-on tutorials, parallel research tracks, 140+ posters, and Women in AI mentoring.
Jeff Dean, Nando de Freitas, Sara Hooker, Joelle Pineau, Kevin Murphy, René Vidal, Guillermo Sapiro, Bárbara Poblete, Álvaro Soto, Jorge Pérez, Isabelle Augenstein, Petar Veličković, Alfredo Canziani, Catherine D’Ignazio, Luke Metz, and 35+ international & regional speakers.
KHIPU 2023 — Montevideo, Uruguay
Hosted at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad de la República (UdelaR) with a closing ceremony at Teatro Solís, bringing together 365 attendees from 14 countries (covering 100% of requested financial aid: 115 travel grants and 126 accommodation grants) for advanced lectures, coding practicals, Chicas TIC, and the Montevideo Declaration on AI.
Samy Bengio, Nando de Freitas, Doina Precup, Kyunghyun Cho, Peter Norvig, Sara Hooker, Guillermo Sapiro, Luciana Ferrer, Alejandro Ribeiro, Thamar Solorio, Rachel Ward, Devi Parikh, Joan Bruna, Marco Cuturi, Sasha Luccioni, Pablo Samuel Castro, and Nayat Sánchez-Pi.
KHIPU 2021 — Online Monthly Series
During the global pandemic, KHIPU hosted an open virtual series from April to October 2021 (engaging 400+ live participants per session across 10+ countries), pairing Turing Award winners and international pioneers with leading Latin American researchers for accessible talks and regional research panels.
Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Richard S. Sutton, Doina Precup, Shakir Mohamed, Joan Bruna, Emily Denton, Alejandro Ribeiro, Pablo Arbeláez, Sandra Avila, Luciana Benotti, Enzo Ferrante, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Laura Alonso Alemany, and Paola Bermolen.
KHIPU 2019 — Inaugural Edition
The inaugural edition of KHIPU brought together ~300 students, researchers, and international speakers selected from 1,000+ applicants at Universidad de la República (UdelaR) in Montevideo—awarding 156 travel and accommodation grants (100% of student and academic requests) and launching a continent-wide AI community.
Yoshua Bengio, Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Nando de Freitas, Chelsea Finn, Kyunghyun Cho, Ian Goodfellow, Martín Abadi, Guillermo Sapiro, René Vidal, Lucia Specia, Luciana Ferrer, Bianca Zadrozny, Sandra Avila, Álvaro Soto, Fabio A. González, Luciana Benotti, and Jorge Pérez.
Joining Us for KHIPU 2027 in São Paulo?
Our fifth gathering will take place at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil from April 5 to April 9, 2027, alongside over 30 year-round regional KHIPUx events across 10 Latin American countries.