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 (1st of July, 2026)

	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

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
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. xxx – title
9:45 am
10:00 am
10:15 am

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
9:00 am	Welcome address 9:00 am – 9:30 am
9:15 am

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
9:30 am	Keynote 9:30 am – 10:30 am Prof. xxx – title
9:45 am
10:00 am
10:15 am

AVENTINO + CAELIUS

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

Prof. xxx – title

	AUREA + MAGNA
10:45 am	Coffee Break/Networking (day 1 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

	AUREA + MAGNA
10:45 am	Coffee Break/Networking (day 1 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

CAELIUS

Rule-Based Explainable AI
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CHAIRS: Samy Sa

	AUREA + MAGNA
1:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm

	AUREA + MAGNA
1:00 pm	Lunch 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm

AUREA + MAGNA

Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

Uncertainty-Aware Explainable AI
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

CHAIR: Tuwe Löfström-Cavallin
Trust Through Transparency: Next-Generation Explainable AI in Medicine
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

CHAIRS: Malika Bendechache, Dost Muhammad

AVENTINO

xAI in Healthcare: Balancing Accuracy, Trust, and Ethics
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

CHAIRS: Ruairi O’ Reilly
Explainable AI for Sequential Decision Making
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

CHAIRS:

CAELIUS

XAI for Time Series
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

CHAIR: Nils Gumpfer
Mechanistic Interpretability in Explainable AI
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

CHAIR:

	AUREA + MAGNA
5:00 pm	Coffee ending/Networking (day 1 afternoon) 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
5:15 pm

	AUREA + MAGNA
5:00 pm	Coffee ending/Networking (day 1 afternoon) 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
5:15 pm

AUREA + MAGNA

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

Conference day 2 (2nd of July, 2026)

	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

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

XAI and the Physical Sciences
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Jonas Naujoks

AVENTINO

Psychometric Applications for XAI and attribution techniques
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Nicola Rossberg, Andrea Visentin

CAELIUS

Neural-Symbolic Methods for Interpretable and explainable AI
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIR: Kyle Hamilton

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

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

AUREA + MAGNA

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

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
11:30 am	Panel – xxx 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
11:30 am	Panel – xxx 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

AVENTINO + CAELIUS

Panel – xxx
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

	AUREA + MAGNA
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

	AUREA + MAGNA
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

AUREA + MAGNA

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

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

Argumentation, abduction, abstraction and agreement for XAI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIRS: Lucas Rizzo

AVENTINO

Shapley-driven explainable AI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Joerg Schloetterer

CAELIUS

Explainable AI in legal and regulatory contexts
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIRS: Francesco Sovrano

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

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

AUREA + MAGNA

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

Conference day 3 (3rd of July, 2026)

	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

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

Counterfactual-based explainable AI
9:00 am – 10:30 am

Chair:

AVENTINO

Explainability with and for Large Language Models
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIRS:

CAELIUS

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

CHAIRS: Tuwe Löfström, Andreas Holzinger, Javier del Ser

	AUREA + MAGNA
10:45 am	Coffee break/networking (day 3 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

	AUREA + MAGNA
10:45 am	Coffee break/networking (day 3 morning) 10:45 am – 11:15 am
11:00 am

AUREA + MAGNA

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

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
11:30 am	Panel – 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

	AVENTINO + CAELIUS
11:30 am	Panel – 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm

AVENTINO + CAELIUS

Panel –
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

AUREA + MAGNA

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

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

Notions and metrics for explainable AI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Marco Zullich
Contrastive-based explainable AI
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Chair: José Machado

AVENTINO

Novel approaches and methods for XAI
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIR: Zita A. Vale
Roundtable steerring committee
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

CAELIUS

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

CHAIRS: Tuwe Löfström, Andreas Holzinger, Javier del Ser
Doctoral Consortium (session – part 3)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

CHAIRS: Tuwe Löfström, Andreas Holzinger, Javier del Ser

Gala dinner

Gala dinner (Venue to be announced)
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm

	ARGENTEA + SENATUS	AVENTINO	CAELIUS
11:30 am	Enhancing Models with XAI: Debugging, Modification, Evaluation 11:30 am – 1:00 pm CHAIRS: Maximilian Dreyer	Human-Centred Explanation Systems & Explanation User Interfaces 11:30 am – 1:00 pm CHAIRs: Katharina Weitz, Tobias Labarta	Rule-Based Explainable AI 11:30 am – 1:00 pm CHAIRS: Samy Sa
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm
12:45 pm

	ARGENTEA + SENATUS	AVENTINO	CAELIUS
2:30 pm	Uncertainty-Aware Explainable AI 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm CHAIR: Tuwe Löfström-Cavallin	xAI in Healthcare: Balancing Accuracy, Trust, and Ethics 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm CHAIRS: Ruairi O’ Reilly	XAI for Time Series 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm CHAIR: Nils Gumpfer
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm
3:45 pm	Trust Through Transparency: Next-Generation Explainable AI in Medicine 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm CHAIRS: Malika Bendechache, Dost Muhammad	Explainable AI for Sequential Decision Making 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm CHAIRS:	Mechanistic Interpretability in Explainable AI 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm CHAIR:
4:00 pm
4:15 pm
4:30 pm
4:45 pm

	Gala dinner
8:30 pm	Gala dinner (Venue to be announced) 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