Full programme

*In preparation. Note that the order of sessions and time slots can change, but the GALA dinner is fixed, and it is in the last day of the conference, in the evening.

Conference day 1 (9th of July, 2025)

	Foyer
7:00 am	Registration (day 1) 7:45 am – 8:45 am
8:00 am

	Foyer
7:00 am	Registration (day 1) 7:45 am – 8:45 am
8:00 am

Foyer

Registration (day 1)
7:45 am – 8:45 am

	Ballroom
9:00 am	Welcome address 9:00 am – 9:30 am
9:15 am
9:30 am	Keynote 9:30 am – 10:30 am Prof. Wojciech Samek – Inspecting AI like engineers: mechanistic understanding & validation with SemanticLens
9:45 am
10:00 am
10:15 am

	Ballroom
9:00 am	Welcome address 9:00 am – 9:30 am
9:15 am

	Ballroom
9:30 am	Keynote 9:30 am – 10:30 am Prof. Wojciech Samek – Inspecting AI like engineers: mechanistic understanding & validation with SemanticLens
9:45 am
10:00 am
10:15 am

Ballroom

Welcome address
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Keynote
9:30 am – 10:30 am

Prof. Wojciech Samek – Inspecting AI like engineers: mechanistic understanding & validation with SemanticLens

	Foyer & Terrace
10:45 am	Coffee Break/Networking (day 1 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

	Foyer & Terrace
10:45 am	Coffee Break/Networking (day 1 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

Foyer & Terrace

Coffee Break/Networking (day 1 morning)
10:45 am – 11:15 am

Begonya

Concept-based Explainable AI
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CHAIRS: Alberto Termine, Arianna Casanova

Ballroom left

XAI in health-care
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CHAIR: Ruairi O’Reilly

Ballroom right

Features Importance-based XAI
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CHAIRS: Maximilian Noppel

	Restaurant
1:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm

	Restaurant
1:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm

Restaurant

Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Begonya

Human-Centered Explainable AI
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

CHAIR: Ebinezer R. Florano
Explainability, Privacy, and Fairness in Trustworthy AI
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

CHAIRS: Fatima Ezzeddine

Ballroom left

Applications of XAI
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

CHAIRS: Yoga Rahul
Rule-based XAI Systems & Actionable Explainable AI
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

CHAIRS: Enrico Ferrari

Ballroom right

Novel Post-hoc & Ante-hoc XAI Approaches
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

CHAIR: Sebastian Lapuschkin
XAI for Scientific Discovery
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

CHAIR: Grégoire Montavon

	Foyer & Terrace
5:00 pm	Coffee ending/Networking (day 1 afternoon) 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
5:15 pm

	Foyer & Terrace
5:00 pm	Coffee ending/Networking (day 1 afternoon) 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
5:15 pm

Foyer & Terrace

Coffee ending/Networking (day 1 afternoon)
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Conference day 2 (10th of July, 2025)

	Foyer
7:45 am	Registration (day 2) 7:45 am – 8:45 am
8:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am

	Foyer
7:45 am	Registration (day 2) 7:45 am – 8:45 am
8:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am

Foyer

Registration (day 2)
7:45 am – 8:45 am

Begonya

Human-Centered XAI & Argumentation
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Giulia Vilone

Ballroom left

Intrinsically Interpretable Explainable AI
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Christin Seifert

Ballroom right

XAI for Representational Alignment
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Lenka Tětková

	Foyer & Terrace
10:45 am	Late-breaking work + Demos + DC (poster session coffee break morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

	Foyer & Terrace
10:45 am	Late-breaking work + Demos + DC (poster session coffee break morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

Foyer & Terrace

Late-breaking work + Demos + DC (poster session coffee break morning)
10:45 am – 11:15 am

	Ballroom
11:30 am	Panel – Integrating XAI in industry processes: challenges for responsible AI 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

	Ballroom
11:30 am	Panel – Integrating XAI in industry processes: challenges for responsible AI 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

Ballroom

Panel – Integrating XAI in industry processes: challenges for responsible AI
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

	Restaurant
1:00 pm	Late-breaking work + Demo + DC (poster session, Lunch) 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm

	Restaurant
1:00 pm	Late-breaking work + Demo + DC (poster session, Lunch) 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm

Restaurant

Late-breaking work + Demo + DC (poster session, Lunch)
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Begonya

Generative AI meets Explainable AI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIRS: Bartek Sobieski, Hubert Baniecki

Ballroom left

Benchmarking & XAI Evaluation Measures
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Jörg Schlötterer

Ballroom right

Explainable & Interactive Hybrid Decision Making
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIRS: Francesco Giannini, Roberto Pellungrini

	Foyer & Terrace
4:00 pm	Late-breaking work + Demos + DC (poster session coffee ending afternoon) 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
4:15 pm

	Foyer & Terrace
4:00 pm	Late-breaking work + Demos + DC (poster session coffee ending afternoon) 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
4:15 pm

Foyer & Terrace

Late-breaking work + Demos + DC (poster session coffee ending afternoon)
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Conference day 3 (11th of July, 2025)

	Foyer
7:45 am	Registration (day 3) 7:45 am – 8:45 am
8:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am

	Foyer
7:45 am	Registration (day 3) 7:45 am – 8:45 am
8:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am

Foyer

Registration (day 3)
7:45 am – 8:45 am

Begonya

XAI in computer-vision
9:00 am – 10:30 am

Chair: Damiano Verda

Ballroom left

Explainable AI in Finance & Legal Frameworks for XAI Technologies
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIRS: Paolo Giudici

Ballroom right

Doctoral consortium (session – part 1)
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Przemyslaw Biecek, Slawomir Nowaczyk

	Foyer & Terrace
10:45 am	Coffee break/networking (day 3 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

	Foyer & Terrace
10:45 am	Coffee break/networking (day 3 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

Foyer & Terrace

Coffee break/networking (day 3 morning)
10:45 am – 11:15 am

	Ballroom
11:30 am	Panel – From Explanations to Impact 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

	Ballroom
11:30 am	Panel – From Explanations to Impact 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

Ballroom

Panel – From Explanations to Impact
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

Restaurant

Lunch/Networking (day 3)
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Begonya

Counterfactuals in XAI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Pınar Karadayı
Explainable Sequential Decision Making
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Chair: Mohsen Abbaspour, Mehrdad Asadi

Ballroom left

Uncertainty in Explainable AI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Tuwe Löfström
Roundtable steerring committee
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Ballroom right

Doctoral Consortium (session – part 2)
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Przemyslaw Biecek, Slawomir Nowaczyk
Doctoral Consortium (session – part 3)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

CHAIR: Przemyslaw Biecek, Slawomir Nowaczyk

Foyer & Terrace

Coffee ending/Networking (day 3 afternoon)
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Shuttle bus to gala event

Shuttle bus departing at 18.15 from the lobby of Wyndham Grand Istanbul Europe to venue of gala dinner
6:00 pm – 6:15 pm

Shuttle bus departing at 18.15 from lobby of Wyndham Grand Istanbul Europe

Gala dinner (Le vapeur Magique)

Gala dinner
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm

	Begonya	Ballroom left	Ballroom right
2:30 pm	Human-Centered Explainable AI 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm CHAIR: Ebinezer R. Florano	Applications of XAI 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm CHAIRS: Yoga Rahul	Novel Post-hoc & Ante-hoc XAI Approaches 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm CHAIR: Sebastian Lapuschkin
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm
3:45 pm	Explainability, Privacy, and Fairness in Trustworthy AI 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm CHAIRS: Fatima Ezzeddine	Rule-based XAI Systems & Actionable Explainable AI 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm CHAIRS: Enrico Ferrari	XAI for Scientific Discovery 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm CHAIR: Grégoire Montavon
4:00 pm
4:15 pm
4:30 pm
4:45 pm

	Gala dinner (Le vapeur Magique)
8:30 pm	Gala dinner 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
8:45 pm
9:00 pm
9:15 pm
9:30 pm
9:45 pm
10:00 pm
10:15 pm