08:30–09:00
Welcome and Registration
9:00–10:10
Prof. Mira Mezini and Prof. Kristian Kersting, Co-Directors of hessian.AI
Opening of the Conference
Bettina Stark-Watzinger,
Federal Minister BMBF
Opening Speech (Recorded)
Wolfgang Wahlster | 60 min
Professor of Computer Science and CEA of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Topic: Advanced Language Models: From Super-Parrots to Human-Like Dialog Understanding
10:10–10:25
Coffee Break | Breakfast
10:25–12:00
Mirella Lapata | 45 min
Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh
Topic: Conditional Generation with a Question-Answering Blueprint
Tim Baldwin | 45 min
Acting Provost and Chair of the NLP Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI
Topic: Fairness in Natural Language Processing
12:00–13:00
Lunch
13:00–15:55
Angela Yu | 30 min
Alexander v. Humboldt AI Professor Center of Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI
Topic: Leveraging AI to Understand Human Face Processing
Emtyiaz Khan | 45 min
Team Leader at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
Topic: How to make machines that adapt quickly
Georgia Chalvatzaki | 45 min
Full Professor of Interactive Robot Perception and Learning at TU Darmstadt & hessian.AI
Topic: Advancing Robotic Embodied Intelligence through Structured Robot Learning
Marcus Rohrbach | 45 min
Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Incoming Professor at TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI
Topic: Reliable Multimodal Artificial Intelligence
15:55–16:10
Coffee Break
16:10–18:00
Martin Jaggi | 45 min
Associate Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Topic: Building Blocks for Collaborative and Decentralised Machine Learning
Holger Hoos | 60 min
Chair of AI Methodology at RWTH Aachen University. Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Topic: The importance of being Earnest – The future of AI in Germany, Europe
Prof. Mira Mezini and Prof. Kristian Kersting, Co-Directors of hessian.AI
Closing words