Program

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Tuesday, 9 September 2025

    8.00 – 9.00Registration  
      9.00 – 10.30Tutorials
 The Virtual Brain Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France)Dynamic Field Theory  Gregor Schöner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
10.30 – 11.00   Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00Tutorials
 The Virtual Brain Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France)Dynamic Field Theory  Gregor Schöner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
12.00 – 13.00   Lunch
13.00 – 15.00Tutorials
 GFlownets Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada)    Simulated Bayesian Inference Michael Deistler (Machine Learning in Science, University of  Tübingen, Germany)Brain Visual Decoding with Generative Models Weihao Xia (University of Cambridge, UK) Cengiz Öztireli (University of Cambridge, UK)   
15.00 – 15.30   Coffee Break
15:30 – 17.00   Tutorials
 GFlownets Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada)    Simulated Bayesian Inference Michael Deistler (Machine Learning in Science, University of  Tübingen, Germany)Brain Visual Decoding with Generative Models Weihao Xia (University of Cambridge, UK) Cengiz Öztireli (University of Cambridge, UK)   
17.00 – 17.30   Coffee Break
17.30 – 18.00   Opening and Welcome
    Stefan Wermter (President of European Neural Network Society)    Juozas Augutis (Rector of Vytautas Magnus University)
18.00 – 19.00  Opening Keynote Lecture on AI Extracting Causality
   Bernhard Schölkopf   (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany)
    19.00 – 21.00Welcoming Reception at Vytautas Magnus University

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

  7.30 – 8.30Registration
  8.30 – 9.00   Opening and Welcome
    Viktor Jirsa (EBRAINS Chief Science Officer) Rimantas Benetis (Rector of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)
  9.00 – 10.00Keynote Lecture on Neuroscience and Whole Brain Simulations
 The Virtual Brain for Personalized Whole Brain Models in Health and Disease Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France)
10.00 – 10.30Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.00Invited Talks EBRAINS Morning Session
10.30 – 11.15Teacher Propagation Through Space, Time and the Brain Mihai Petrovici (NeuroTMA Lab, University of Bern, Switzerland)
11.15 – 12:00Engineering Brain Activity Patterns for Therapeutics Mehmet Fatih Yanik (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
12.00 – 13.00Lunch
13.00 – 14.30Poster Session
 Poster Session 1Poster Session 2
14.30 – 16.00Invited talks AI Afternoon Session
14.30 – 15.00Building Mechanistic Models of Neural Computations with Simulation-based  Machine Learning Michael Deistler (Machine Learning in Science, University of Tübingen, Germany)
15.00 – 15.30Scalable Strategies for AI Oversight of AI – Progress, Pitfalls and Path Forward Ameya Pandurang Prabh (Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen, Germany)
15.30 – 16.00Embodied Reasoning in the Physical World Ignas Budvytis (University of Cambridge, UK)
16.00 – 17.00Coffee Break
17.00 – 19.00Public Keynote Lecture & Panel Discussion
17.00 – 18.00Public Keynote Lecture on Ethics in AI, Neuroscience, Digital Twins, and Consciousness Research Neuroscience and AI for a Flourishing Life    Christiane Woopen (University of Bonn, Germany)   
18.00 – 19.00Public Panel Discussion Where does AI lead to? Oportunities and Risks Bernhard Schölkopf, Christiane Woopen, Viktor Jirsa,  Gintare Dziugaite, Emmanuel   Bengio, Yoshua Bengio (remote)
20.00 – 22.00   Gala Dinner at Science Island, Kaunas, Lithuania

Thursday, 11 September 2025

   8.00 –  9.00Registration
   9.00 – 11. 00Keynote Lectures on AI
   9.00 – 10.00AI and Generative Models Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada)
10.00 – 11.00On Memorization and Unlearning Gintare Dziugaite (DeepMind, USA)
11.00 – 11.30Coffee Break
11:30 – 13.00Parallel Sessions & Workshop
 Parallel Session 1Parallel Session 2Workshop AI in Drug Discovery Igor Tetko (Helmholtz Munich, Germany)
13.00 – 14.00Lunch
14.00 – 15:30Parallel Sessions & Workshop
 Parallel Session 3Parallel Session 4Workshop AI in Drug Discovery Igor Tetko (Helmholtz Munich, Germany)
15.30 – 16.00Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00Parallel Sessions
 Parallel Session 5Parallel Session 6Parallel Session 7
17.00 – 18.00Keynote Lecture on AI
 A Journey through Efficient Deep Learning on Graphs Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa, Italy)
18.00 – 19.00European Neural Network Society ENNS General Assembly Meeting* Best Paper Award
20.00Sport Evening at Zalgirio Arena, Kaunas, Lithuania

Friday, 12 September 2025

     9.00 – 10.00Registration
   10.00 – 12.00Workshops
 3rd International Workshop on Reservoir Computing Domenico Tortorella (University of Pisa, Italy)Special Session on Neurorobotics Kristina Malinovska (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
12.00 – 13.00Lunch Break
13.00 – 15.00Workshops
 3rd International Workshop on Reservoir Computing Domenico Tortorella (University of Pisa, Italy)Special Session on Neurorobotics Kristina Malinovska (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
15.00 – 15.30Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.30Workshops
 3rd International Workshop on Reservoir Computing Domenico Tortorella (University of Pisa, Italy)Special Session on Neurorobotics Kristina Malinovska (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
17.30 – 18.00 Closing Remarks and Farewell