Summer School Program

Morning Session:

Welcome sessions for MegaData: Federated Learning.
Introduction to Machine Learning (ML pipelines).

Afternoon Session:

Cont. of ML Lifecycle
ML Lifecycle and centralized deep learning.

Morning Session:

Data Privacy and Data Protection Regulation (e.g., GDPR)
Introduction to Federated Machine learning (Why FL).

Afternoon Session:

Simulating a vanilla FL using FedAVG
Implement and apply FedProx algorithm

Morning Session: Guest Talk by Salman Toor (Scaleout, Sweden)

Introduction to FL with FEDn framework

Afternoon Session:

FEDn practice session
Frameworks installation, configuration, and setup of FEDn.
Scaleout Studio

Morning Session: Guest Talk by Daniel Beutel (FLOWER, UK)

Introduction to FL with FLOWER framework

Afternoon Session: Guest Talk by Pan Heng (FLOWER, UK)

FLOWER practice session
Frameworks installation, configuration, and setup of FLOWER.

Morning Session:

Guest Talk by Javier Fernandez-Marques, FLLM with FLOWER.
Guest Talk by Afsana Khan (Netherlands): Vertical Federated Learning.

Afternoon Session:

Project announcement and open discussion.
Team formation.

Morning Session:

Guest session: Samaneh Mohammadi (RISE Research Institutes, Sweden), Balancing privacy and performance in FL
Student presentation 1.

Afternoon Session:

Guest session: Samaneh Mohammadi (RISE Research Institutes, Sweden),Encryption in Federated Learning
Guest session: Hiroki Kaminaga (Cybernetica, Estonia), Multi-party computations for FL security

Morning Session:

Guest session:Jiang, Xiaowen (Germany), Federated Learning Optimization
Guest session: Mehreen Tahir (Ireland),Federated Learning Client Selection

Afternoon Session:

Guest session: Shaleeza Sohail (Australia),Hirarical Federated Learning
Student presentation 2

Morning Session:

Student presentation 3.
Student presentation 4.

Afternoon Session:

Team working on projects.
Feedback from monitors.

All day:

Team working on projects coding, experimentation and writing report.
Preparing posters and demos.

All day:

Participant's projects and final presentations.
Summer school closing and photo session.