For 2026, all events will be held in a hybrid mode with five options: on site or virtual choices (live, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, and .pdf slides).

IARIA Congress 2026

Conference will be mixed online and on location at

Hotel Novotel Cap 3000
40 avenue du Verdun
06700 Saint Laurent du Var
France

Hotel: https://all.accor.com/hotel/0414/index.en.shtml
Phone: +33 4 93 19 55 55
Email: h0414@accor.com

Note: This event is a mix of online and on site participation. All contributions are posted below; those presenting onsite have their own schedule, as a subset of the entire program.

Opening Welcome

On Site Program

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FORESIGHT I

AIMEDIA: Felt Futures - An Experiment in Sensing 2032
Concept & Facilitation: Iuliana Adina Apostol, HeliosTree GmbH, Germany 
Participants: (as of July 1st)
Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler, TISSS Lab, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Matthias Harter, Hochschule RheinMain - University of Applied Sciences,  Germany
Prof. Dr. Julio Teixeira, UFSC, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Stephan Böhm, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany 
Dr. Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, OCTO & MSR Deep Learning, Microsoft, USA

Open Discussions

Monday, July 6
OD1. Creativity and Creativeness In Digital&AI Era - On Site
Moderators:
Iuliana Adina Apostol, HeliosTree GmbH, Germany
Dr.  Cristiane Melchior, LUT University, Finland
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chia Shin Lin, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan
- presentation slides

Tuesday, July 7
OD2. Resource Optimization: Data Harvesting and Knowledge Acquisition - On Site
Moderators:
Prof.  Dr. Brian Gannon, IU Internationale Hochschule, Germany
(Emeritus) Prof. Dr. Malcolm Kenneth Crowe, University of the West of Scotland (retired), Scotland
(Emeritus) Prof. Dr. Fritz Laux, Reutlingen University, Germany
- presentation slides

Thursday, July 9
OD3. Tailoring System Resiliency - On Site
Moderators:
Prof. Dr. Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr.-Ing. Dr. Alexey Cheptsov, TIK – Die Technischen Informations- und Kommunikationsdienste, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
(Emeritus) Prof. Dr. Fritz Laux, Reutlingen University, Germany
- presentation slides

Keynote Speeches

K1. Responsible AI Deployment in Regulated Industries: Bridging the Gap Between Promise and Production
Vidya More, Independent Research, Harvard Business School (alumni), USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K2. The Challenges of Adopting Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Prof. Dr. Marius Schönberger, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K3. AI and Media: The Unnoticed Perspective
Prof. Dr. Amira Abdel Hamid, Academic Director of New Media and Communication major, ESLSCA University, Egypt
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K4. Maritime 5G for Ocean Digitalization: Technologies, Opportunities, and Visions
Prof. Dr. Kun Yang, Zhejiang Ocean University, China
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K5. Brain-Computer Interactions: Principles and Applications within Health Fields
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Ron-Angevin, University of Malaga, Spain
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K6. What Data Want: A Scientific Data Management Infrastructure bw-SFS (Storage-for-Science)
Dr.-Ing. Dr. Alexey Cheptsov, TIK – Die Technischen Informations- und Kommunikationsdienste, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K7. Creative Problem Solving with genAI in STEM Coursework and Theses
Prof. Dr. Monika Maria Möhring, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Friedberg, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K8. Articulating Multidisciplinary Knowledge Bundles for Urban Planning
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Robert Laurini, INSA Lyon, University of Lyon, France
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K9. Synthetic Humans and Virtual Influencers: The Rise of AI-based Media Actors
Prof. Dr. Stephan Böhm, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K10. From Personal Productivity to Organizational Intelligence: Integrating Generative AI into Organizations and Decision Processes
Prof. Dr. Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K11. AI Co-creation of Virtual Worlds & Visual Imagination
Dr. Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, OCTO & MSR Deep Learning, Microsoft, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Panels

Monday, July 6, afternoon
P1. The Next Stage of AI-based Media Innovation: From Generative AI to Agentic Media Ecosystems
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Stephan Böhm, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
Panelists:
Iuliana Adina Apostol, HeliosTree GmbH, Germany
Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler, TISSS Lab, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Rosario Torres, Penn State University (Berks College), USA
Can Bilgin, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Technische Universität München, Deutschland
- presentation slides

Tuesday, July 7, afternoon
P2. Safety and Reliability of Complex Systems
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Carlo Simon, Hochschule Worms, Germany
Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Prof. Dr. Martin Holmberg, Linköping University, Sweden
Dr. Roger Tilley, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Prof. Ing. Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy
- presentation slides

Wednesday, July 8, afternoon
P3. AI and the Future of First Jobs
Moderators:
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kunz, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Dr. Claudia Hess, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Edward Ku, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, 台灣
Vidya More, Independent Research, Harvard Business School (alumni), USA
Prof. Dr. Monika Maria Möhring, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Friedberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Dr. Maria Kallionpää, KreativInstitut.OWL, Hochschule für Music Detmold, Germany
- presentation slides

Thursday, July 9, morning
P4. The Challenges of Adopting New and Emerging Technologies
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Isaac Caicedo-Castro, Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia
Panelists:
Dr. Abdul Rehman, French Touch Factory, France
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Robert Laurini, INSA Lyon, University of Lyon, France
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Nenninger, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Dr. Monika Maria Möhring, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Friedberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Matthias Harter, Hochschule RheinMain - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- presentation slides

Special Sessions

AIMEDIA 1 / AIMS: Artificial Intelligence in Music and Sound: Research, Analysis, and Ethical Considerations

Introduction
Maria Kallionpää
- presentation slides / editorial

Composing with Constraints: AI-Assisted Music Composition in Toki Pona and 31-EDO Tuning
Miika Hyytiäinen
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Perceiving AI-Generated Music in the Classroom: The Influence of Contextual Framing and Musical Experience
Eva Maria Klimpel, Axel Berndt
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Co-Creating with the Neural Net Artistic Practice, Pedagogy, and the Ethics of AI in Music and Sound
Maria Kallionpää, Hans-Peter Gasselseder
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Agentic AI for Music Knowledge Representation: Towards the Automated Generation of IEEE 1599 Documents
Luca Andrea Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

DIGITAL 1 / PGAI26: Productivity Gains by AI - Evidence, Evaluation and Unintended Effects

Introduction
Claudia Heß, Sibylle Kunz
- presentation slides / editorial

When AI Joins the Team: Measuring Perceived Productivity Gains from Generative AI in Project Management
Ole Mehlert, Sibylle Kunz, Claudia Hess
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Regular Sessions

IARIA Congress 2026, The 2026 IARIA Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications

Few-Shot Classification Using the OpenAI CLIP Model
Hsiao-Ju Lin, Shi-Jinn Horng, Pin-Siang Huang, En-Ping Lu
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Permutation Entropy and Statistical Complexity Analysis of MODIS Satellite NDVI Data for Discerning Xylella fastidiosa Infection in Olive Groves in Southern Italy
Luciano Telesca, Rosa Lasaponara
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Proposition of a Brain-Computer Interface based on Pictograms for Communication Purpose
Álvaro Fernández-Rodríguez, Simon Audren, Lou Guiochet, Véronique Lespinet-Najib, Jean-Marc André, Francisco Velasco-Álvarez, Ricardo Ron-Angevin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Green Energy Transformation: Policy Reversals, Geopolitical Shocks, and the Digital Infrastructure Imperative
Mahmood Ahmad, Arifa Younas
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Driving Digital Transformation in Precision Engineering: A Tooling Management Case Study
Shivam Sharma, Mohamed Kara-Mohamed, Andrew Naylor, Phillip Taylor, David Eadie
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Cascaded TSDF for Multi-Camera Volumetric Capture with Perceptual Mesh Reduction
Abdul Rehman, Francois Bouille
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Simplification Modeling System by Projecting Paradigmatic to Syntagmatic Simplification for Explaining Artistic Texts
Ryotaro Kamimura
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Model and Analysis of 5G Network Registration Procedure in Public Safety Scenarios
Christian Madsen, Michael Berger, Henrik Wessing
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Evolutionary Transfer Optimization for Diversified Investment Using Predictive Distribution for Asset Returns
Kiyoharu Tagawa, Yukiko Orito
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

LiDAR-Based Simultaneous Localization, Mapping, and Multiobject Tracking: Combining Semantic Segmentation and Interacting Multiple Model- Extended Object Tracking
Akio Okumura, Masafumi Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Majority Voting-Based Update of Point-Cloud Map Using LiDAR Information from Multiple Vehicles
Saki Fujisawa, Masafumi Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Evaluating LLM-based Pseudonymization for Cross-Platform Identifiers
Yeong Su Lee, Hendrik Bothe, Michaela Geierhos
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Agreement-based SVM One-Class Classification: an Ensemble Method for Software Defect Prediction
Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, Gabriele Rotoloni
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Process Simulation and AI: A Perfect Match?!
Carlo Simon, Merlin Tankred Philipp Hladik
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Assessing the Accessibility of Public Healthcare Web Services in Spain
Veronica Alvarez-Lopez, Daniel Fernandez-Lanvin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

From Relational and Property Graph Data to Large Language Models
Malcolm Crowe, Fritz Laux
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

PyWIB: A Python Library for a Multi-Modal Approach to Web Interaction Behavior Analysis
Guillermo Dylan Carvajal-Aza, Alejandro Alvarez-Varela, Javier De Andres, Martin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Daniel Fernandez-Lanvin, Mercedes Paino
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Engagement-Aware Response Generation for Educational Robots Using Grounded LLM Prompting
Nayanika Reddy Rajoli, Vennela Akula, Daniela Marghitu
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Parkinson’s Disease Severity Assessment on the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale Using Text Embeddings Generated from Speech
Christina Koumpogianni, Constantine Kotropoulos
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Articulating Multidisciplinary Knowledge Bundles for Urban Planning
Robert Laurini
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Proactive Link Failure Early Warning for Ultra-Long-Range Maritime 5G via Edge Intelligence and Random Forest
Kun Yang, Yu Xu, Li Qin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

AIMEDIA 2026, The Second International Conference on AI-based Media Innovation

Cybersecurity Awareness of OWASP LLM Risks: A Pre-Study of Digital Media Professionals in Germany
Alexander Lawall, Stephan Böhm
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Ethical Implications, Ownership, and Accountability of AI Usage in Media: An Empirical Inquiry from Non-Western Contexts
Amira Abdelhamid, Rodina ElSayed, Mariam Sherdy, Sama Olama, Malak Hamed
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

AI Representation in the Context of the Spanish Global Fashion Retailer Mango. A work in progress
Rosario Torres
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Co-Creating the Future of Media Content: AI Training, Higher-Order Thinking, and Reliance in Higher Education
Luc Chia-Shin Lin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Propaganda Detection Meets Generative AI: A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches on Social Media
Cristiane Melchior
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Participatory Artificial Intelligence for Climate: AI as Media for Collective Sensemaking and Climate Action
Petra Ahrweiler, Marta Maciejasz, Marco Guglielmo, Oscar Barberà, Lauri Frank, Stephan Böhm, Júlio Monteiro Teixeira, Blanca Luque Capellas, Dario Brockschmidt
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

From Oral Tradition to Digital Sheet: A Machine Learning Approach to Kulintang Music Transcription
Mary Robyn Bernabe, Atul Dubey
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Designing for Trust in AI: A Quantitative Study of Explainability at the Interface Level
Jeremy Bregulla, Marius Schönberger, Sibylle Kunz
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Evaluating Film Projects Considering Feasibility for Virtual Production – An LLM-based Assistant at Pre-Production
Can Bilgin, Julian Geheeb, Jonathan Partecke, Lena Fischer, Georg Groh
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Human-Validated Reverse Engineering as Semantic Conditioning for Media Generation from Technical Artifacts
Matthias Harter, Rafael Zajonz
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

The AI Trust Paradox in Journalism - Navigating Perception, Biometrics, and Economic Viability
Barbara Brandstetter, Anja Zenk
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Web-Based Platform for Interactive Comparison of Neural Network Image Segmentation Models
Viktoriia Vovchenko, Sergej Schultenkämper, Frederik Simon Bäumer
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Strategic Framing of AI Implementation in Media Organizations: A Vignette Study of Managerial Communication and Employee Responses
Melise Peruchini, Stephan Böhm, Júlio Monteiro Teixeira
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Structural Convergence in AI-Generated Media: How Specification Literacy Moderates Homogenization in GenAI-Assisted Interface Design
Thiago Kenji Corrêa Xikota, Séyido Frejus Donat Ephrem Azonnoudo, Júlio Monteiro Teixeira, Stephan Böhm
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Symbolic Communication in the 2025 U.S. Tariff Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of X and Weibo
Nitin Agarwal
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

GPTMB 2026, The Third International Conference on Generative Pre-trained Transformer Models and Beyond

PosePrompt: Soft-Prompted Large Language Models for Natural Language Description of Human Motion from 2D Pose
Liyun Gong, Oluwapelumi Alagbe, Sheldon McCall, Philp Williams, Huizhi Liang, Miao Yu
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Mitigating Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Stateful Agentic Workflows
Zahra Fakoor Harehdasht, Marius Schönberger, Silke Vaas
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Evaluating Policies to Improve Relational-Level Learning in Engineering Mathematics: An Approach based on Machine Learning and the Monte Carlo Method
Isaac Caicedo-Castro, Rubby Castro-Púche, Oswaldo Vélez-Langs
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Narrative Exploration of the Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Managerial Functions in Africa
Edward Phele, Pako Ntchupetsang, Modammed Aqil Malek, Aadil Malek, Nathan Davids, Anita Ratlou, Joshua Ebere Chukwuere, Richard Abolade Akinkunmi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

IoTAI 2026, The Third International Conference on IoT-AI

IoT-Supported Behavioural Descriptions for Return to Work Rehabilitation
Martin Holmberg, Maria Bergström, Tomas Westlund
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

DIGITAL 2026, Advances on Societal Digital Transformation - 2026

Enhancing Service Personalization with AI and Robot Agility
Edward Ku
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Enhancing Public Sector Agility Through Digital Transformation: A Technology-Organization-Environment Perspective
Aysha Youssef
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

The Role of Digital Government in the Digital Transformation of Society: Case Study of North Macedonia
Sandra Cvikić, Nadica Nikoloska, Goce Naumovski, Filip Vučen
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Digital Authoritarianism
Brian Gannon
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Agent-Based Simulation and Digital Twin Modeling for Dynamic Storage Strategies in Dark Warehouses
Simon Holzhauer, Philipp Nenninger
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

AI Agent-Driven Insurance Platform: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Intelligent, Deterministic, and Auditable Insurance Processing
Vidya More, James Zhang
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Using AI-Generated Fake News to Teach Source Evaluation to Norwegian Upper Secondary School Students
Andrea Marie Sæter, Jesper Edvin Kraft, Lasse Berntzen
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Farewell Message