Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP and Fellow at Google Research, where he leads an organization working on both basic research and new products in AI.

Octopus intelligence is different and separate from that of the mammals that we know well. But is that any reason to declare them aliens and decide they came from outer space? This presentation looks at the evidence.

Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Lecturer from The University of Glasgow, will discuss her work around speculating on the dog-to-dog internet and her research on building a dog-to-human video caller.

Interspecies Conversations with writer, editor, and researcher Dylan Kerr, Tools for Thought: Artifacts from the History of Comparative Psychology