Abundant Imaginaries: Virtual Student Symposium on Indigenous AI Futures
May 13 - May 14
The future of artificial intelligence remains unclear. But one thing is certain: the technology is bound to fail if it’s not shaped by an abundance of knowledges and imaginaries.
The Abundant Intelligences research program – which advances methods of developing culturally-grounded AI systems to support Indigenous ways of knowing – aims to contribute to such abundance through its Student Symposium on Indigenous AI Futures!
Join us for Abundant Imaginaries, a student symposium on Indigenous AI Futures, to learn how artificial intelligence is being imagined – and built – anew through Indigenous Protocols and Knowledge Systems.
With six thematic panels spread across two days, students from around the world will share their research-creation projects and future imaginaries of AI rooted in Indigenous Knowledges, protocols, epistemologies, and arts.
SCHEDULE:
DAY 1 – Wednesday May 13, 2026
2 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks.
2:15 PM: Panel 1: Countering ongoing colonialism and biases in Western technologies and institutions.
3:30 PM: Break
3:45 PM: Panel 2: Language Models & Indigenous Knowledges: Rethinking mainstream approaches.
5 PM: Panel 3: Emerging AI Futures from Aotearoa.
DAY 2- Thursday May 14, 2026
2 PM: Panel 4: Towards epistemic justice in research and creation methodologies.
3:15 PM: Break
3:30 PM: Panel 5 Decolonizing the AI Stack: Approaches to Indigenous data and Infrastructural Sovereignty.
4:45PM: Panel 6: Indigenous Design Futures.
Presentation Abstract can be found here.
May 13 & 14, 2026
2 -6:30 PM
Online🌐 Zoom Link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/89025544771