Who Sets the Questions? Agenda-Setting Through Workshops in the Age of AI

This talk discusses how AI is transforming the research process and why “setting the right questions” is becoming the key leverage. It introduces workshops as an agenda-setting device and shares practical insights from organizing CVPR/ICCV workshops.

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