#ICML2020 invited talk: Lester Mackey – "Doing some good with machine learning"

There were three invited talks at this year's virtual ICML. The first was given by Lester Mackey, and he highlighted some of his efforts to do some good with machine learning. During the talk he also outlined several ways in which social good efforts can be organised, and described numerous social good problems that would benefit from the community's attention. Lester took the audience on a journey from his grad school days to the present, focusing on the social good projects he's been involved in along the way. His research in this area has included efforts to combat nuclear proliferation, climate forecasting, and COVID-19 work.