Celebrate Aya together!

Join us for a 4-hour live stream to celebrate the release of Aya! Featuring lightning talks & panels from collaborators worldwide, and a showing of The Journey of Aya, a short documentary telling the story of how the project came together.

Add the celebration to your calendar here.

Tune into our social platforms ​live on February 16 at 8:00 am EDT. ​The direct links are below.


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Introduction to Aya (8:00am - 8:36am)

• Welcome Madeline Smith (Aya Operations Lead)
• UI Team Lightning Talk Freddie Vargus (Aya Core Team (UI))
• Benchmarking Team Lightning Talk Ahmet Üstün (Aya Research Scientist)
• Data Team Lightning Talk Marzieh Fadaee (Aya Core Team (Data))
• Responsibility Team Lightning Talk Zheng-Xin Yong (Aya Language Ambassador for Malay) Hui-Lee Ooi (Aya Language Ambassador for Malay) Julia Kreutzer (Aya Senior Research Scientist)

Hear from Aya collaborators across Asia (8:36am-9:51am)

• Asian Languages in Aya Shivalika Singh (Aya Regional Lead for Asia)
• Diversity of outreach efforts Abinaya Mahendiran (Aya Language Ambassador for Tamil)
• Building prompts and completions Vu Minh Chien (Aya Language Ambassador for Vietnamese)
• Arabic around the world Zaid Alyafeai (Aya Language Ambassador for Arabic) Emad A. Alghamdi (Aya Language Ambassador for Arabic)
• Data preparation in non-english languages Surya Krishna Guthikonda (Aya Language Ambassador for Telugu)
• Panel - The Power of Community Collaboration Ramith Hettiarachchi (Language Ambassador Sinhala) with Collaborator Julina Hirushan & Murat Jumashev (Language Ambassador for Kyrgyz) with Collaborator Aidaiym Omurbekovna

Hear from Aya collaborators across Africa (9:51am-10:21am)

• African Languages in Aya Aisha Alaagib (Aya Regional Lead for Africa)
• A linguist's perspective on Aya Olanrewaju Samuel (Aya Language Ambassador for Yorùbá) Possibilities for the future Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina (Aya Language Ambassador for Malagasy)
  

Hear from Aya collaborators across Europe (10:21am-11:06am)

• European Languages in Aya Deividas Mataciunas (Aya Regional Lead for Europe) Dominik Krzemiński (Aya Regional Lead for Europe)
• An anthropologist's perspective on Aya Joseph Wilson (Aya Language Ambassador for French)
• Panel - unique challenges and opportunities for low & mid resource languages Mike Zhang (Aya Language Ambassador for Dutch) Muhammad Abdullahi, (Aya Language Ambassador for Somali) Sean Thawe (Aya Language Ambassador for Chichewa)

Hear from Aya collaborators across Latin America (11:06am -11:16am)

• LatAm Languages in Aya Marina Machado, (Aya Regional Lead for Latin America) Luísa Souza Moura, (Aya Regional Lead for Latin America)
  

Closing Remarks (11:16am - 11:31am)

• Sara Hooker (Aya Project Lead)