Do not miss the opportunity to participate in the SAND Challenge! 

Join this competition, where your expertise in speech analysis, signal processing, and artificial intelligence can make a real difference in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

We're inviting you to tackle two critical tasks:
– Classifying subjects;
– Predicting disease progression over time.

The top-scoring teams will have the opportunity to present their work at the prestigious 2026 edition of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Barcelona and publish their contributions in the official conference proceedings, which are indexed in major academic databases.

For more information and to participate, please, visit the official website: www.sand.icar.cnr.it

The SAND challenge is organized by ICAR-CNR – University of Naples Federico II – University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” 

A particular thanks to the Fondazione D³4Health for its technical support.