Programme

Programme overview

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

The programme schedule for 4 november 2026 is as follows:

9:00-9:15 am in the Studiensaal B
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 in the Studiensaal B
Toni Steimle, Prof. Dr. Dieter Wallach “Are LLMs More Human Than We Would Like? How AI Systems Decide Whom to Believe – and What This Means for Human Oversight”.
Moderated by Prof. Dr. Samuel A. Fricker

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

10:45 am-11:00 am at the URAI Café-Bar on the first floor
Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Presentations in three parallel programme sessions (see below)

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm on the first floor
Poster Pitches

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm at the URAI Café-Bar (first floor) and on the first floor
Lunch Break / Poster Sessions

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Presentations in three parallel programme sessions (see below)

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm at the URAI Café-Bar (first floor) and on the first floor
Coffee Break / Poster Sessions

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Presentations in two parallel programme sessions (see below)

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm in the Studiensaal B
Outlook and Conclusion / Wrap-Up

The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Norbert Seyff (FHNW), Prof. Dr. Samuel A. Fricker (FHNW) and Prof. Dr. Stefanie Betz (Hochschule Furtwangen, DE)

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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:

11:00 am – 12:00 pm in the Forumsraum
Ethics & Governance (Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lampert)
– Gérnot Meier: Human-in-the-Loop or Legitimacy-in-the-Loop? Effective Human authority in AI Governance

11:00 am – 12:00 pm in the Studiensaal A
LLMs (Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Martin)
– Elias Mouaheb, Ali Ismail Fawaz, Christophe Cudel, Jonathan Weber, and Germain Forestier: Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Biases and Limitations in Evaluating Chain-of-Thought Outputs
– Clara-Maria Barth, and Anton Fedosov: LLM-powered Workflow to Support Qualitative Data Analysis: Lessons Learned from an Applied Research Project

11:00 am – 12:00 pm in the Studiensaal B
Applied AI Systems (Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Suter)
– Manav Madan, André Moser, V.C. Haas, Christoph Reich: Hybrid Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Automated Kinetic Parameter Calibration in Bio Manufacturing: A Human-in-the-Loop Case Study
– Christof Weickhardt, Gregor Hammer, Susanne Suter, and Moritz Kirschmann: From Promise to Practice: Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models for Semantic Segmentation of Industrial Defects

1:30 pm – 3.00 pm in the Studiensaal B
AI & Skills (Session Chair: Dr. Rabih Amhaz)
– 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

1:30 pm – 3.00 pm in the Studiensaal A
Multimodal & Spatial AI (Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Felix Wick)
– Sebastian Binggeli, Alain Zanchetta, Julia Hartmann, Teresa Zulli, Monica Bronner, Henning Timcke, Arzu Çöltekin, and Susanne Suter: Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval for Media Archives
– 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

1:30 pm – 3.00 pm in the Forumsraum
AI for Networks & Infrastructure (Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Samuel A. Fricker)
– Alexander Niedermayer, David Monschein, and Oliver Waldhorst: Measuring Concept Completeness for Explainability in AI-Driven Network Functions
– Samira Hamouche, Toni Waefler: Human-AI interaction in safety-critical network infrastructures
– Klaus Bertsch, and Oliver P. Waldhorst: XNDT: Towards Explainable Network Digital Twins using a High–Fidelity Hardware Testbed

3:30 pm – 4.30 pm in the Studiensaal B
AI for Sustainability (Session Chair: Dr. Nitish Patkar)
– 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

3:30 pm – 4.30 pm in the Studiensaal A
AI for Health (Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Maja Temerinac-Ott)
– Oscar Alonso Simental, Philippe Valmaggia, Simone Bonato, Arzu Cöltekin, Peter Maloca, and Susanne Suter: Shape-Aware Deep Segmentation in Retinal Vessel Imaging from Sparse and Weak Labels
– Ethan Fuchs, Jérôme Kochenburger, Paula Liebrich, Johannes Merschroth, Nina Mugele, Marit Zenker, Angela Dieterich, and Uwe Hahne: Human-Size Interactive Mirror for Real-Time Movement Feedback: A Technical Framework for Physiotherapy Applications

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Part of the programme consists of a poster session featuring poster pitches on the first floor. The poster pitches will be chaired by Prof. Dr. Norbert Seyff (FHNW). The following topics will be presented:

• Julie Klingelschmitt, Bettina Schneider, Hermann Grieder, and Frank Grimberg: 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 Language Model Compliance
• Marcus Plach, Gustav Gutsche, Jan Conrad, and Dieter Wallach: CRAFT: Exploring AI as a Critical Partner in Design Problem Solving
• Rainer Gasper: Comparison of different RL Algorithms for the energy management of bidirectional charging of EVs
• 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-Chavez Panduro, Mathilde Berger, Lijin Aryananda Blatter, and Vera Kaelin: Toward Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration in Neurorehabilitation: A Multimodal Data Registry for Clinical Decision Support
• Widiane Ferchakhi, Jonathan Ledy, Karima Lahmouz, Abderazik Birouche, and Michel Basset: Human-AI Interactions: The case of an AI-based well-being chatbot for students
• Bertrand Marconnet, Sara Taguemount: Human-Cobot Energy Feedback for Closed-Loop Sustainable Design for Disassembly: A Taxomony
• Saira Moinuddin-Huber, Daniel Stehle: Human-AI Co-Evolution in Industrial Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of AI Adoption in Manufacturing and Business Functions in the Trinational Upper Rhine Region