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.

🚀 Seats Are Limited — Register Now!

👉 Register here

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See you this September in Riva del Sole! — The IAISS 2026 Organizing Committee

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IEEE FG 2027

The 21st IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

https://fg2027.ieee-biometrics.org

The IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) is the premier international forum for research on image- and video-based face, gesture, and body behavior analysis and recognition. Its broad scope encompasses advances in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, computer graphics, and related areas, as well as innovative methods and applications involving faces, gestures, human behavior, and body movements.

The 21st IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2027) marks an important milestone in the history of the conference series, as it will be held in Africa for the first time.

FG 2027 will take place April 26–30, 2027, in Marrakesh, Morocco, as a fully in-person event. We invite submissions addressing both foundational and emerging research topics in face, gesture, body, and human behavior analysis and recognition.

Important Dates — All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

• Abstract submission: October 9, 2026
• Paper submission: October 16, 2026
• Author notification: December 20, 2026
• Camera-ready paper: January 26, 2027
• Author registration deadline: January 26, 2027
• Conference: April 26–30, 2027

Topics of Interest Include, but Are Not Limited To

• Face, gesture, and body detection and tracking
• Robust recognition under varying conditions, including pose, occlusion, and illumination
• Generative modeling and neural rendering, including deepfakes and AR/VR
• Advanced learning paradigms, including self-supervised learning, few-shot learning, and foundation models
• Soft biometrics and behavioral analysis, including emotion, personality, and demographic attributes
• Multimodal fusion and cross-modal analysis
• Benchmark development and dataset creation
• Cognitive and bio-inspired vision systems
• Bias mitigation, interpretability, fairness, privacy, and ethical considerations
• Real-world applications and deployment studies

Submission

IEEE FG 2027 will follow a one-round review process.

For submission guidelines and further details, please visit:

https://fg2027.ieee-biometrics.org/call-for-papers/

We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this Call for Papers among potentially interested colleagues, researchers, and students.

We look forward to welcoming you to Marrakesh for IEEE FG 2027!