Full programme

* Final programme: it will no longer change.

Conference day 1 (1st of July, 2026)

Foyer

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

AVENTINO + CAELIUS

Welcome address
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Keynote: XAI, from its first steps to frontier crossing
9:30 am – 10:30 am

Prof. André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho

AUREA + MAGNA

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

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

Enhancing Models with XAI: Debugging, Modification, Evaluation
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CHAIRS: Maximilian Dreyer

AVENTINO

Human-Centred Explanation Systems & Explanation User Interfaces
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

CHAIRs: Katharina Weitz, Tobias Labarta

CAELIUS

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

CHAIRS: Samy Sa

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: Frank Glavin

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: Mehrdad Asadi

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: Thiago Alves Rocha

AUREA + MAGNA

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

Conference day 2 (2nd of July, 2026)

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: Andrea Visentin

CAELIUS

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

CHAIR: Kyle Hamilton

Foyer

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

AVENTINO + CAELIUS

Panel – (Sponsored by Accenture)
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

Explainable AI as a business imperative: Governing AI in high-stakes industries

Foyer

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

Foyer

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

Conference day 3 (3rd of July, 2026)

Foyer

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

ARGENTEA + SENATUS

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

Chair: Guido Bologna

AVENTINO

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

CHAIRS: Ara Anderson

CAELIUS

Doctoral consortium (Research Elevator Pitches)
9:00 am – 10:30 am

CHAIRS: Tuwe Löfström, Andreas Holzinger, Javier del Ser

AUREA + MAGNA

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

AVENTINO + CAELIUS

Panel – Defining the boundaries of Explainable Artificial Intelligence: a Community research study
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

Moderators: Prof. Luca Longo, Prof. Sylvio Barbon Junior

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: Sylvio Barbon Junior
Roundtable steering committee
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

CAELIUS

Doctoral Consortium (Forming a Research Hypothesis)
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

CHAIRS: Tuwe Löfström, Andreas Holzinger, Javier del Ser
Doctoral Consortium (Research Hypothesis Pitches)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

CHAIRS: Tuwe Löfström, Andreas Holzinger, Javier del Ser

Gala dinner

Gala dinner (Coco Bambu)
7:30 pm – 11:00 pm