Preliminary program

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

  8.00 – 9.00Registration 
9.00 – 10.30Tutorial AI: Causality (B. Schölkopf et al.)

Tutorial CNS: The Virtual Brain (V. Jirsa et al.)

Tutorial Dynamic Field Theory Tutorial (Gregor Schöner)
10.30 – 11.00Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00Tutorial AI: Causality (B. Schölkopf et al.)

Tutorial CNS: The Virtual Brain (V. Jirsa et al.)

Tutorial Dynamic Field Theory Tutorial (Gregor Schöner)
12.00 – 13.00Lunch
13.00 – 15.00Tutorial AI: GFlowNets (E. Bengio et al.)

Tutorial CNS: Simulated Bayesian inference (J. Macke et al.)

Tutorial Brain Visual Decoding with Generative Models (Weihao Xia)
15.00 – 15.30Coffee break
15:30 – 17.00Tutorial AI: GFlowNets (E. Bengio et al.)

Tutorial CNS: Simulated Bayesian inference (J. Macke et al.)

Tutorial Brain Visual Decoding with Generative Models (Weihao Xia)
17.00 – 18.00Opening Keynote lecture on causality Bernhard Schölkopf (Max Planck, Tübingen)
20.00-23.00Welcoming Reception, Science Island

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

8.00 – 9.00Registration 
  9.00 – 10.00Keynote lecture: computational neuroscience and brain simulations
Viktor Jirsa (Aix-Marseille University, France)
10.00 – 10.30Coffee break 
10.30 – 12.00Invited talks EBRAINS morning session
10.30 – 11.00Mihai Petrovici: neuromorphic systems (University of Bern, Switzerland)
11.00 – 11:30TBD
11.30 – 12.00TBD
12.00 – 13.00Lunch 
13.00 – 14.30Poster Session
14.30 – 16.00Invited talks AI afternoon session
14.30 – 15.00TBD
15.00 – 15.30Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik ETH Zurich, Chair of Neurotechnology Laboratories
15.30 – 16.00Scalable Strategies for AI Oversight of AI — Progress, Pitfalls and Path Forward
16.00 – 16.30Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30Public Keynote Lecture on Ethics in AI, Neuroscience, Digital Twins, and Consciousness Research  Christiane Woopen (University of Bonn, Germany)
17:30 – 18.30Coffee break
18.30 – 19.30Public Panel Discussion: Bernhard Schölkopf, Christiane Woopen, Viktor Jirsa, Emmanual Bengio, Yoshua Bengio. Discussion lead: Walter Senn   
20.00 – 20.15Concert 
20.15 – 23.00Dinner

Thursday, 11 September 2025

8.00 – 9.00Registration 
  9.00 – 10.00Keynote lecture: AI and generative models Emmanuel Bengio (Valence Labs/Recursion, Canada)
10.00 – 10.30Coffee break 
10.30 – 12.00TBD
10.30 – 11.00TBD
11.00 – 11.30Workshop // AI in Drug discovery (Igor Tetko)

Parallel sessions
11.30 – 12.00Workshop // AI in Drug discovery (Igor Tetko)

Parallel sessions
12.00 – 13.00Lunch
13.00 – 14.30Workshop/ Parallel Sessions
13.00 – 14.30Parallel Sessions
14.30 – 15.00Coffee break 
15.30 – 16.00Parallel Sessions
16.00 – 16.30Keynote lecture on echo state machines Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa, Italy)
16.30 – 17.30Best paper award
18.30 – 19.30ENNS GA meeting
20.00Sport evening 

Friday, 12 September 2025

  8.00 – 9.00Registration 
  9.00 – 10.00Keynote lecture:
Gintare Dziugaite (USA)
10.00 – 10.30Parallel Sessions
10.30 – 11.00Coffee break
11.00 – 12.003rd International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (Domenico Tortorella)

Special Session on Neurorobotics (Kristina Malinovska)
12.00 – 13.00Lunch break
13.00 – 14.303rd International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (Domenico Tortorella)

Special Session on Neurorobotics (Kristina Malinovska)
15.00 – 15.30Coffee break
15.30 – 17.303rd International Workshop on Reservoir Computing (Domenico Tortorella)

Special Session on Neurorobotics (Kristina Malinovska)
17.30 – 18.00Closing Remarks and Farewell