2025 Quarterly Roundtable #3

All right, welcome everyone. Hello. It is September 26th, 2025, and we're live in quarterly roundtable number three. Greetings. This is Alexandra and Daniel. And we'll walk you through the roundtable. All right. We're a participatory online institute that is communicating, learning, and practicing applied active inference. This is recorded in an archive live stream, so please provide feedback so we can improve on our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome and will follow video etiquette for live streams. You can screenshot that slide with some helpful permanent short links. Okay. We are in the near fall equinox quarterly roundtable number three of our year. And we're going to go through some institute level updates and then highlight a bunch of projects and then close with a fun culinary metaphor and look to people's live chats. So if you're watching live, write any questions or anything in the chat. Okay. So 2025 short link is a living entry point for this year's activity. And ecosystem.activeinference.institute is our main living document. So ton of resources, ton of places to explore. Let's get right into the updates. One of the major activities that we've been working on with the team over the last few weeks has been preparing for the fifth applied active inference symposium. This is going to be online, though possibly with some in-person activities around the world. And so far, there are about 20 presenters confirmed. Carl Friston will be the keynote speaker. We'll have a bunch of live streamed sessions. We'll have several workshop and training sessions and a bunch of pre-recorded presentations as well. The theme is going to be industry and all that it means. So if you go to the symposium short link right now, you can register as a participant. And also presenter registration will be open through the end of October. And we're looking for any sponsoring organizations who would like to have that visibility and make that contribution. All good. Research fellows programs. So research fellows are affiliated colleagues at the Institute. We now have six research fellows. J.F. Cloutier, Anna Pereira, John Boyk, David Blumen, Robert Warden. And over the last few months, we have accepted a new research fellow, a colleague of multiple projects here at the Institute, Shaghi Rabin, whose project is the Myth of Objectivity Hypothesis. And there's a page in the documentation about Shaghi's work and link to his paper and previous live stream at the Institute. And we are currently in the midst of another round of reviews for research fellows. So check out their work, check out the program, and let us know if you have any questions. And we welcome future applications for research fellows, which will be reviewed on a rolling basis in the coming quarters. All right, on to partnerships. These are structured relationships between the Institute and other organizations who are looking to have that kind of a container slash vehicle for their learning, upskilling, contributing, however they want to help. And some board of director colleagues have been working on this program and taking a lot of learnings over the last year and a half or so that we've been operating it. And we'll be updating and releasing more information on that soon. We just wanted to here acknowledge our current partners who are all in different ways involved and will be helping out with a symposium, organizing sessions, First Principles First, Newman Games and Lazy Dynamics, and one other soon to be announced partner organization as well. So if you would like to be an advocate at your organization or you have any other feedback on the way that this kind of program can lead to synergistic and sustainable development in our ecosystem, absolutely go for it and let us know. Okay. In the third quarter, we continue to have excellent input and participation from our very broad scientific advisory board. So these are informal guidance participants. And one of the…