Socials

SomosNLP at NeurIPS: Building Principles for Inclusive Spanish & Portuguese NLP This social aims to create a space for academic and technical reflection on the challenges of developing Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages beyond English, with a special focus on Spanish and Portuguese. We propose a forum to debate methodological, conceptual, and practical tensions, specifically: • How benchmarks and datasets shape progress in non-English NLP. • What biases and omissions today’s AI ecosystem imposes. • What strategies can advance inclusive, multilingual NLP. • How to navigate tensions between industry-driven approaches (fast, large-scale, performance-oriented) and community/academia-driven approaches (careful, linguistically grounded). The event aligns with NeurIPS’ mission by broadening participation, fostering diversity, and enabling global collaboration across academia, industry, and community-driven initiatives.

The “Women in AI Social – Amplifying Voices in AI” is an interactive community event designed to foster meaningful connections, peer dialogue, and collective reflection among women and allies in the AI research ecosys tem. The event embraces inclusive, participatory formats, such as rotating roundtables, speed networking, and creative group activities, that center the voices of all attendees. With a focus on mentorship, inclusion, and global-local per spectives (especially from Latin America), the event invites participants to share experiences, build supportive networks, and envision a more equitable AI future. It is open to all registered NeurIPS CDMX participants, regardless of gender or career stage, and culminates in an optional post-event dinner or social outing to continue the conversations in an informal setting.

As AI reshapes industries, compensation is changing faster than researchers can track. New labs, startups, and top companies are competing for talent with vastly different pay structures, currencies, and cultural norms. Yet most researchers are never formally taught how to understand their worth or navigate these systems. The result is an uneven landscape where brilliant minds often make life-changing decisions without the information they need.