Plenary Speakers

Empowering AI with Human Insight: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Responsible, Trustworthy, and Participatory AI Development
Keeley Crockett
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 8:30 - 9:30

Physical Intelligence of Small-scale Robots
Metin Sitti
Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey
Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 8:30 - 9:30

Human-Centric Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making for Sustainable Mobility
Sanaz Mostaghim
University of Magdeburg, and Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, Dresden, Germany
Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30

When Evolutionary Computation Meets Large Language Models
Kay Chen Tan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 8:00 - 9:00
Keynote Speakers

A practical example of an industrial campus energy management system - real world challenges and success stories
Tobias Rodemann
Honda Research Institute Europe
Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00

Computer Audition: The Age of Emergence
Björn W. Schuller
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00

The Origin of (Artificial) Life
Luca Manzoni
University of Trieste, Italy
Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00

Enhancing Defense Through Intelligent Optimization
Alice E. Smith
Auburn University, USA
Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

Glass-box models for clinical data
Paulo Lisboa
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 10:00 - 11:00

From Vision-Guided Manipulation to Precision: Advancing Robotic Surgery with Smart Needle Insertion
Maria Koskinopoulou
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00

Language AI for RegTech, SupTech and Beyond
Albert Y.S. Lam
Fano, Hong Kong
Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 16:00 - 17:00

Breaking Barriers: Challenges in Scaling Computational Intelligence for Healthcare Systems
Maria F. Cabrera-Umpierrez
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00