The 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025) will take place in Bologna, Italy, from 25-30 October 2025. The first two days will be dedicated to tutorials, workshops, and the doctoral consortium. The main conference will run from 27-30, and will include the 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2025).

Keynote talks

This year will see four keynote speakers take to the stage:

• Mohit Bansal – Trustworthy Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation
• Marco Dorigo – From Self-Organization to Control: Steering Robot Swarms
• Edith Elkind – Many Facets of Proportionality in Multiwinner Voting
• Marta Kwiatkowska – Provably Robust Artificial Intelligence? A Formal Methods Perspective

Frontiers in AI

Frontiers in AI is a series of short invited talks by members of the AI community whom the conference committee believe are currently doing particularly exciting and innovative work. The idea is to highlight important new results, techniques, and trends.

• Emir Demirovic – Synthesise Things You Can Understand Using Search: Supervised Machine Learning Models, Control Policies, and Certificates For Combinatorial Problems
• Nava Tintarev – Measuring Explanation Quality — a Path Forward
• Alessandro Abate – Neural Proofs for Sound Verification and Control of Complex Systems
• Eleonora Giunchiglia – A Posteriori Verification or A Priori Design? Navigating Deep Learning with Logical Requirements
• Franz Wotawa – On the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving and Its Verification
• Mykola Pechenizkiy – From Benchmarking to Understanding FairML
• Przemysław Biecek – Model Science: Getting Serious about Verifying, Explaining and Controlling AI
• Nadin Kokciyan – Enabling Responsible AI with Humans

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion panel

Join panellists Chris Freeman, Elisa Marengo, Nardine Osman and Tom Lenaerts on 28 October for a discussion into the ongoing efforts and future directions for promoting inclusivity and equitable participation within the AI research community. The panel will be chaired by Shihan Wang and Vahid Yazdanpanah.

Workshops

There are over 50 workshops to choose from this year, with topics ranging from healthcare to space, and from governance to bias. These will be held on 25-26 October, and you can find the complete list here.

Tutorials

The tutorials will also be held on 25-26 October, and there are over 20 of these on the programme. The tutorials are each a half day in duration. The full list is here.

Accepted papers

You can find the list of accepted papers here.

Find out more at the conference website.