Events archive

Elisa Ricci will give a keynote speech during the opening ceremony of SpliTech 2026, entitled ‘Rethinking Multimodal AI Models: Beyond Accuracy, Towards Trust’, dedicated to the new challenges of multimodal AI and the need for increasingly reliable, transparent and responsible models.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are transforming everyday life and influencing not only the way we interact with images, texts and objects from the past and present, but also the way we read and interpret art history.

Solitude and community are intimately connected in the practice of tradition and authority in (Theravada) Buddhism, which is based on a variety of shared practices of hierarchy, authority, and relationships of power. The idea of tradition remains essential to thinking as well about modern politics and ethics.

At the EBN Congress 2026, which this year focuses on human-centric innovation, Paolo Traverso will deliver a keynote speech exploring how to develop transparent, responsible and human-centred artificial intelligence, inviting participants to rethink their role in shaping a future for AI in which trust is the driving force behind innovation.

The seminar examines how high movement costs created poverty traps and uneven regional development in Portugal and offer a data-driven framework for modern infrastructure planning and the pursuit of inclusive growth.

This seminar examines how Portugal’s overseas expansion was perceived from its beginning in the mid-1400s through the end of the 1600s.

A three-day training course on law, privacy and the AI Act, entitled “AI + DATA: PRACTICE & LAW”, organised by FBK in collaboration with the OECD Centre for Local Development in Trento.

The seminar examines loneliness in biblical theology - from Genesis to Job to Soloveitchik - focusing on halakhic loneliness during the Shoah through Rav Oshry's Kovno Ghetto Responsa. It explores how Jewish law confronts unprecedented rupture, and what ethical possibilities emerge from radical theological solitude.

On the occasion of the adoption of the Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy by the European Commission, Edoardo Gino Macchi will speak at the event organized by DG ENER to launch two flagship initiatives for the digital transformation of the energy sector, including AI.Grids, an initiative in which FBK is also participating.

As part of the exhibition ‘African Voices Against Slavery’, Justin Randolph Thompson – artist, educator and cultural facilitator, and co-founder and director of Black History Month Florence and The Recovery Plan – presents the Black Archive Alliance project: a reflection on mobile archives as tools for access, care and self-determination for communities of African descent.

The exhibition presents a different account of the abolitionist movement, focusing on African struggles against slavery and the slave trade, both past and present. The exhibition stems from UCL’s AFRAB project, directed by Benedetta Rossi, and is hosted by the BlackItaly project, in which FBK-ISIG is participating.

The 2nd Human & Things conference explores the human-thing bond. Shifting from mastery to a quantum-inspired relational model , it addresses how AI and digital shifts redefine agency. The goal is a new legal framework for our interconnected reality.