5 Days. World-Class Experts. Tuscany.

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🧠 A Full-Immersion Experience in Frontier AI

Join us for an unforgettable week of cutting-edge lectures on AI and Generative AI, delivered by some of the most renowned researchers in the field — set against the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan coast.

📍 Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany, Italy 🗓 September 20–24, 2026 🔗 2026.iaiss.cc✉️ iaiss@icas.cc

🎤 Meet Your Lecturers

An extraordinary faculty from leading institutions across the globe — each delivering up to four lectures on the frontiers of AI research:

Stefano V. Albrecht — Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• If Multi-Agent Foundation Models is the Answer, What is the Question?
• Becoming an AI Researcher: Practical Advice for Graduate Students

Rafal Bogacz — University of Oxford, UK

• Predictive coding: training neural networks with local rules
• Predictive coding: advantages over backpropagation
• Predictive coding: implementation

Giuseppe De Giacomo — University of Oxford, UK

• Foundations of Guardrailing Agentic AI via Temporal Synthesis (3-part course)

Christoph Feichtenhofer — Meta Superintelligence Labs, USA

• On the impact of data for vision-language learning (parts 1–2)
• Building frontier visual segmentation models

Sven Giesselbach — T-Systems International, Germany

• Agentic AI (parts 1–3)

Jamie Hayes — Google DeepMind, UK

• Agentic Security: how to attack and defend against prompt injection (2 parts)

Sumi Helal — University of Bologna, Italy

• Two lectures — titles to be announced

Albert Q. Jiang — Mistral AI, Paris & University of Cambridge, UK

• Machines That Prove: Foundations of AI for Formal Methods and Mathematics
• Machines That Reason: Foundation Models and the State of the Art in AI for Mathematics
• Machines That Discover: The Future of Automated Mathematics

Marine Le Morvan — INRIA Saclay, France

• The rise of Tabular Foundation Models
• TabICL: an open Tabular Foundation Model
• Next frontiers for TFMs

Bruno Lepri — FBK, Italy

• Three lectures — titles to be announced

Sebastian Risi — Sakana AI, Japan & IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Three lectures — titles to be announced

George Paliouras — NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

• Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting and Applications
• Large-Scale Probabilistic Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting
• Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning and Learning for Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting

Panos Pardalos — University of Florida, USA

• Impact of AI and Optimization on the economics of sustainability

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🏆 Present Your Own Research

Want to share your work with a world-class audience? Submit a research abstract (max 2 pages, any format) during registration. Our scientific committee will select contributions for poster presentations and/or short talks — plus a chance to compete for the IAISS Norbert Wiener Best Presentation Award in Artificial Intelligence.

⏰ Abstract deadline: September 6 🔗 See the Best Presentation Award

✅ Why Attend?

• 36–40 hours of intensive lectures from top-tier researchers
• Earn 8 ECTS points (PhD students and highly motivated Master's/BSc students)
• Network with peers in a convivial, professional, and inspiring setting
• A rare opportunity to learn directly from — and mingle with — the people shaping the future of AI

Who should attend: PhD students, PostDocs, junior academics (up to Assistant Professor level), industry practitioners, and exceptionally motivated Master's/BSc students.

Language: English

🏨 The Venue

Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Località Riva del Sole, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto), 58043, Tuscany, Italy 📞 +39 0564 928111 | ✉️ booking.events@rivadelsole.it 🔗 rivadelsole.it

IAISS is a fully residential school — all participants and lecturers stay together at the same resort, creating a truly immersive, community-driven learning experience. No exceptions.

To join us, simply:

1. Register for the school
2. Book your stay at Riva del Sole Resort & SPA using the IAISS discounted rates (accommodation form provided at registration)
3. Send your booking confirmation number to iaiss@icas.cc

Sharing an apartment? Send the Hotel your co-guest's name, surname, and email — otherwise, book a single-use apartment.

IAISS is proudly organized as a non-profit scientific event.

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👉 Register here

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