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Tuesday, 9 September 2025
| 8.00 – 9.00 | Registration | |||
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Tutorials | |||
| The Virtual Brain Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France) | Dynamic Field Theory Gregor Schöner, Raul Grieben, Minseok Kang, Stephan Sehring (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) | |||
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Tutorials | |||
| The Virtual Brain Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France) | Dynamic Field Theory Gregor Schöner, Raul Grieben, Minseok Kang, Stephan Sehring (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) | |||
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | |||
| 13.00 – 15.00 | Tutorials | |||
| GFlownets Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada) | Simulation-based Bayesian inference Michael Deistler (Machine Learning in Science, University of Tübingen, Germany) | |||
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 – 17.00 | Tutorials | |||
| GFlownets Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada) | Simulation-based Bayesian inference Michael Deistler (Machine Learning in Science, University of Tübingen, Germany) | |||
| 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 – 21.00 | Welcoming Reception at Vytautas Magnus University | |||
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
| 7.30 – 8.30 | Registration | |
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Opening and Welcome | |
| Viktor Jirsa (EBRAINS Chief Science Officer) Rimantas Benetis (Rector of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences) | ||
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Keynote 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 – 10.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10.30 – 12.00 | Invited Talks EBRAINS Morning Session | |
| 10.30 – 11.15 | Teacher Propagation Through Space, Time and the Brain Mihai Petrovici (NeuroTMA Lab, University of Bern, Switzerland) | |
| 11.15 – 12:00 | Engineering Brain Activity Patterns for Therapeutics Mehmet Fatih Yanik (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) | |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 – 14.30 | Poster Session | |
| Poster Session 1 | Poster Session 2 | |
| 14.30 – 16.00 | Invited talks AI Afternoon Session | |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Building Mechanistic Models of Neural Computations with Simulation-based Machine Learning Michael Deistler (Machine Learning in Science, University of Tübingen, Germany) | |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Scalable Strategies for AI Oversight of AI – Progress, Pitfalls and Path Forward Ameya Pandurang Prabh (Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen, Germany) | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Embodied Reasoning in the Physical World Ignas Budvytis (Stealth robotics startup, Cambridge, UK) | |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 17.00 – 19.00 | Public Keynote Lecture & Panel Discussion | |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Public 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 – 19.00 | Public 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 – 9.00 | Registration | ||
| 9.00 – 11. 00 | Keynote Lectures on AI | ||
| 9.00 – 10.00 | AI and Generative Models Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada) | ||
| 10.00 – 11.00 | On Memorization and Unlearning Gintare Dziugaite (DeepMind, USA) | ||
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 – 13.00 | Parallel Sessions & Workshop | ||
| Parallel Session 1 | Parallel Session 2 | Workshop AI in Drug Discovery Igor Tetko (Helmholtz Munich, Germany) | |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch | ||
| 14.00 – 15:30 | Parallel Sessions & Workshop | ||
| Parallel Session 3 | Parallel Session 4 | Workshop AI in Drug Discovery Igor Tetko (Helmholtz Munich, Germany) | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Parallel Sessions | ||
| Parallel Session 5 | Parallel Session 6 | Parallel Session 7 | |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Keynote Lecture on AI | ||
| A Journey through Efficient Deep Learning on Graphs Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa, Italy) | |||
| 18.00 – 19.00 | European Neural Network Society ENNS General Assembly Meeting* Best Paper Award | ||
| 20.00 | Sport Evening at Zalgirio Arena, Kaunas, Lithuania | ||
Friday, 12 September 2025
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Registration | |
| 10.00 – 12.00 | Workshops | |
| 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 – 13.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.00 – 15.00 | Workshops | |
| 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 – 15.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15.30 – 17.30 | Workshops | |
| 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 | |