Conference Programme
Monday, June 22nd, 2026
09:00 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:30
Opening Ceremony
10:30 – 11:30
Keynote Talk:
Professor Rossi Setchi
From Understanding to Trust: The Power of Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00
Keynote Talk:
Assistant Professor Samir Rustamov
Large Language Models: Architecture, Capabilities, and the Road to Domain-Specific AI
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 – 16:15
Paper Session S1: Online Presentations
- Paper 50: From Detection to Explanation: Combining Stream Reasoning and Concept Induction in Smart Farming
- Paper 69: Statutory AI: Aligning Large Language Models with Legal Norms
- Paper 94: Bridging Prompting and Semantic Grounding: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Document-Level Relation Extraction
- Paper 96: A Financial-Risk-Aware Machine Learning Framework for Industrial Convergence
- Paper 126: Towards a non-monotonic neuro-symbolic framework: application to outlier mitigation during training
- Paper 154: An approach for evaluating recommender systems: assessing usefulness and coherence through item relationships
16:15 – 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:45
Paper Session S2: Core AI Models and Learning Paradigms
- Paper 89: Relational Verification, Feature Sensitivity, and Cross-City Transfer in Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Urban Functional Zone Classification
- Paper 95: A Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Query-Efficient Causal Discovery with Large Language Models
- Paper 136: Lexical ambiguity in French: linguistic issues and interpretation by artificial intelligence models
18:30
Gala Dinner
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote Talk:
Professor Gabriel Wainer
Simulating Emergence in Large-Scale Spatial Systems: A Cell-DEVS Approach
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:50
Paper Session S3: Core AI Models and Learning Paradigms
- Paper 150: Improving Named Entity Recognition for the Azerbaijani Language Using Neural and Conditional Random Fields-based Models
- Paper 175: Deep Features, Classical Models: Binary vs. Multiclass Deepfake Detection
- Paper 187: Can We Trust LLMs for Mental Health-Based Decisions? A Causality-Aware Reliability Analysis
- Paper 188: Real-Time Azerbaijani Sign Language Sentence Recognition: Comparative Evaluation of Cosine Retrieval and Seq2Seq Approaches
- Paper 189: Adapting Large-Scale Neural TTS Models to Low-Resource Languages: A Comparative Study
12:50 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00
Keynote Talk:
Professor Deepak Dhungana
From AI Hype to Business Value: Building an AI Strategy That Actually Works
15:00 – 16:30
Paper Session S4: AI-Driven Automation and Optimization
- Paper 27: Cognitive Load Estimation through Eye-Tracking in Industrial Tasks: A Pilot Study
- Paper 112: Hybrid Wavelet–LSTM and Weibull Risk Modeling for Early Fault Prediction Using Accelerometer-Based Vibration Data in Rotating Machinery
- Paper 141: AI-Driven Digital Twin Framework for Risk-Aware Predictive Maintenance in Electrical Control Systems
- Paper 142: AI-Driven Decision Support for Wind-BESS Dispatch Under Export Caps: A Behavioral Cloning Approach
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30
Paper Session S5: Core AI Models and Learning Paradigms
- Paper 199: Federated Learning Approach to Autoencoder-Based Feature Extraction for Pneumonia Detection
- Paper 201: Benchmarking Algorithmic Fairness in AI Recruitment: A Comparative Study of Mitigation Strategies and the FIS Metric
- Paper 206: Handoff Hallucinations: Taxonomy, Benchmark, and Mitigation for Multi-Agent Pipeline Failures
- Paper 207: AzText: Curating Web-Scale Pretraining Data for a Low-Resource Language
Evening
Free Evening
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote Talk:
Professor Gregory Zacharewicz
Interoperability, Simulation, and Digital Twins: New Frontiers for Collaborative and Distributed Systems
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Industry Perspectives Session
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00
Keynote Talk:
Researcher Florence Somer and Engineer Somkeo Norindr
EIDA / AIKON: Building a Platform Leveraging Computer Vision Algorithms for Historical Data
15:00 – 17:00
Paper Session S6: Integrated Perspectives on AI, Governance and Sustainable Digital Infrastructures
- Paper 30: An Ontology-Driven Recommender System for Enhancing Workplace Practices
- Paper 55: Efficiency Driven Digital Transformation for Sustainable Real-Time Monitoring of High-Pressure South Caspian Wells
- Paper 148: Explainability of Tourism Risk Assessment by Leveraging Fuzzy Ontology Properties
- Paper 163: Improving Taboo-Word Generation in Turkic language with Morphology-Aware Filtering and Diversity Selection
- Paper 167: A domain ontology for cooperative perception in the Internet of Mobile Things
- Paper 178: A Community-Driven Dataset and Protocol for Azerbaijani Sign Language Recognition: Advancing Digital Inclusion through Human-Centered AI
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:00
Closing Ceremony
Best Paper
18:30
Social Event

