The Preliminary Programme

The programme schedule for 4 november 2026 is as follows:

9:00-9:15 am
Welcome address by Professor Dr. Crispino Bergamaschi, President FHNW, and Professor Dr. Doris Agotai, Director of the FHNW School of Computer Science

9:15-10:00 am
Prof. Dr. Toni Steimle “Are LLMs More Human Than We Would Like? How AI Systems Decide Whom to Believe – and What This Means for Human Oversight”

10:00-10:45 am
Prof. Dr. Maja Temerinac-Ott “Human in the Loop: When Humans Become Part of the Algorithm”

10:45 am-11:00 am
Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Presentations in three parallel programme sessions

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Poster Pitches

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch Break / Poster Sessions

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Presentations in three parallel programme sessions

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Coffee Break / Poster Sessions

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Presentations in two parallel programme sessions

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Outlook and Conclusion / Wrap-Up

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Presentations will be held in the form of talks across two to three parallel programme sessions. Below you will find the presentations per programme session:

Ethics & Governance

• Marcel Will: An Ethics of Thinking: Human-in-the-Loop Responsibility and Authorship in Academic Work with AI
• Gérnot Meier: Human-in-the-Loop or Legitimacy-in-the-Loop? Effective Human authority in AI Governance

LLMs

• Elias Mouaheb, Ali El Hadi Ismail Fawaz, Jonathan Weber, Christophe Cudel and Germain Forestier: Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Biases and Limitations in Evaluating Chain-of-Thought Outputs
• Anton Fedosov, David Kern and Clara-Maria Barth: LLM-powered Workflow to Support Qualitative Data Analysis: Lessons Learned from an Applied Research Project

Applied AI Systems

• Manav Madan: Hybrid Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Automated Kinetic Calibration in Bio Manufacturing
• Gregor Hammer, Christof Weickhardt, Susanne Suter and Moritz Kirschmann: From Promise to Practice: Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models for Semantic Segmentation

AI & Skills

• Andreas Martin and Sandro Schwander: A Lean and Spec-Driven AI-Assisted Software Development Lifecycle for Applied AI Education: The AI-SDLC Approach
• Ulf Ehlers and Julia Marcia Mann: Integrating AI Competencies into Higher Education: A Framework for Curriculum Development
• Anne Jansen and Anja Mücke: Human AI Collaboration in Strategic Competency Analysis for Future-Oriented Recruitment

Multimodal & Spatial AI

• Sebastian Binggeli, Alain Zanchetta, Julia Hartmann, Teresa Zulli, Monica Bronner, Henning Timcke, Arzu Çöltekin and Susanne Suter: Human-in-the-Loop Multimedia Curation through Multimodal Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval
• Abdelhak Benamirouche, Lucas Deregnaucourt, Mihreteab Negash Geletu, Hind Laghmara, Remi Boutteau and Jean-Philippe Lauffenburger: Reliability-Aware Multimodal Fusion for Robust Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
• Marit Zenker, Ethan Fuchs, Lukas Willmann, Maja Temerinac-Ott and Uwe Hahne: City-scale Motion Planning in Radiance Fields for Generating Virtual Walk-Throughs

AI for Networks & Infrastructure

• Alexander Niedermayer, David Monschein and Oliver Waldhorst: Measuring Concept Completeness for Explainability in AI-Driven Network Functions
• Samira Hamouche and Toni Waefler: Human-AI interaction in safety-critical network infrastructures
• Klaus Bertsch and Oliver Waldhorst: XNDT: Towards Explainable Network Digital Twins using a High–Fidelity Hardware Testbed

AI for Sustainability

• Christian Reichhardt, Patrick Baier, Roy Elkayam and Ovadia Lev: Predicting Infiltration Rates in Soil Aquifer Treatment: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models Using Operational and Weather Data
• Dhia Abdelli, Fabian Dill and Magnus Kandler: A Multi-Modal Pipeline for Automated Building Energy Performance Estimation at Urban Scale

AI for Health

• Oscar Alonso Simental, Philippe Valmaggia, Arzu Cöltekin, Simone Bonato, Peter Maloca and Susanne Suter: Shape-Aware Deep Segmentation in Retinal Vessel Imaging from Sparse and Weak Labels
• Ethan Fuchs, Johannes Merschroth, Nina Mugele, Jérôme Hosp, Paula Liebrich, Marit Zenker, Angela Dieterich and Uwe Hahne: Human size interactive mirror for functional diagnosis and visual feedback in physiotherapy

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Part of the programme consists of a poster session featuring poster pitches on the folowing topics:

• Bettina Schneider, Hermann Grieder and Julie Klingelschmitt: LLM-Driven Scenario Generation for Serious Game Moderation: A Process Model Approach
• Nerissa Dettling, Samira Hamouche, Julia Usher, Manuel Renold and Toni Waefler: Avoiding black box problems by assigning an active role to humans in the control of autonomous AI: A methodological approach
• Stefan Bühler, David Exler, Markus Reischl and Mark Schutera: The Pushback Paradox: A Two-Probe Diagnostic for Large Language Model Controllability
• Marcus Plach, Jan Conrad, Gustav Gutsche and Dieter Wallach: CRAFT – Critical Agent for Formative Thinking: Exploring the Role of Critical AI Agents in Design Processes
• Rainer Gasper: Comparison of different RL Algorithms for the energy management of bidirectional EV charging
• Khodor Kandouli: Agentic AI for Root Cause Analysis
• Kinga Quaaden, Simone Bonato, Rudolf Füchslin, Martina Spiess, Anne Deblock-Bellamy, Susanne Suter, Yara Peterko, Celina Schweizer, Mathilde Berger, Lijin Aryananda Blatter and Vera Kaelin: Toward Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration in Neurorehabilitation: A Multimodal Data Registry for Clinical Decision Support
• Jonathan Ledy, Widiane Ferchakhi, Abderazik Birouche, Lahmouz Karima and Michel Basset: Human-AI Interactions: The case of an AI-based well-being chatbot for students
• Bertrand Marconnet and Sara Taguemount: Human-Cobot Energy Feedback for Closed-Loop Sustainable Design: A Taxomony
• Saira Moinuddin-Huber: Human-AI Co-Evolution in Industrial Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of AI Adoption in Manufacturing and Business Functions in the Trinational Upper Rhine Region

An overview of the programme structure can be found in the programme overview.