Program at a glance

Day 1: Wednesday 17/09/2025             Day 2:Thusday 18/09/2025             Day 3: Friday 19/09/2025

DAY 1 Wednesday 17/09/2025

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening Speech
09:30 – 09:45 Start of the Hackathon
09:45 – 10:45 Hackathon work: Discovery and Ideation
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 Hackathon work: Development of Solutions (Part I)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Hackathon: Development of Solutions (Part II) and Slide Deck
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Hackathon Pitch (3 minutes for each team + 2 minutes for questions)
17:30 – 18:00 Free time
18:30 – 19:15 Recital – Vocal Quintet “Anatoly” – Rectorate building
19:15 – 21:20 Welcome Dinner – Rectorate building, open space

 

DAY 2 Thursday 18/09/2025

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening

L. Jaccheri & A. Vasilescu & D.Filipczuk
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote 1: Luigina Ciolfi
10:30 – 10:45 Group Photo
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45
Diversity, equity
and inclusion in our universities and in our teaching
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Presenters: 
V. Vimarlund, E. E. İsler, H. Chaabi, R. Altin, S. Dedò
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(room: UI7)
Innovative Teaching with Social Robots:
A Path to Interactive Learning
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Presenters: A. Pande, D. Mishra, S. Kundu
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(room: UII3)
The human side of
tech for social good
and the different hats of a designer
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Presenter:A. Brinzaniuc
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(room: UI5 – the great amphitheater)
Generative AI as a Crutch or Catalyst? Exploring Responsible Use in Computer Science Education
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Presenter: L. Cernau,
L. Dioșan
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(room: UI3)
Filling the Gap: Addressing Machine Learning’s Environmental Footprint Through Memes
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Presenter: S. Görücü,
E. Simperl, G. Panagiotidou
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(room: UI2)
From Messy Data
to Medical Insights: Creating Knowledge Graphs for Drug Repurposing
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Presenter:
M. Pato,
C. Pereira, N. Datia
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(room: UI6)
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Keynote 2: Laura Kovacs
14:45 – 15:30 Panel Discussion

Open Science as a Catalyst for Inclusive Innovation in Computing

Chairs: L. Alboaie & T.Pinkston

(room: UI5 – the great amphitheater)
15:30 – 16:15 Round Table Flash Mentoring

Chairs: T.Pinkston & L. Alboaie
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:15
Working Together to Increase Visibility: ACM-WE Workshop on Wikipedia Editing
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Presenter:
ACM-W Europe
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(room: UI7)
Digital Dynamics: Tech-Driven, Ethical, and Inclusive Paths to Digital Pedagogy and Foreign Language Acquisition. A Workshop for Language and Computing Educators
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Presenters: A. Nechifor,
C. Dimulescu
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(room: UI2)
Interactive Human-Computer Interaction: The Basic of the Design Thinking Cycle
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Presenter:
C. Vazquez Gonzalez 
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(room: UI5 – the great amphitheater)
Inclusion4EU: Co-Design Approaches for Inclusion by Design in Computer Science Education
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Presenters:
D. O’Sullivan, C. Rivera, A. Becevel,
E. Murphy, S. Hensman
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(room: UI3)
Privacy and Security: Essential Practices for Responsible Computing
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Presenter:
L. Nemec Zlatolas
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(room: UI6)
18:15 – 19:00 Free Time
19:00 – 22:00 Gala Dinner – ARO Palace Hotel

 

DAY 3 Friday 19/09/2025

09:00 – 09:15 Opening
09:15 – 10:15 Keynote 3: Adriana Wilde
10:15 – 10:30 Group Photo
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40 Poster Session 1 Career Fair
11:40 – 12:20 Poster Session 2
12:20 – 13:00 Poster Session 3
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Be a Leader in Your Community: ACM-WE Workshop on Chapters
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Presenter:
ACM-W Europe
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(room: UI3)
Meaningfully Engaging Gender in Computing: Moving Beyond Inclusion Toward Structural Understanding
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Presenter:
J. De Miguel Velázquez
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(room: UI2)
Building for Impact: Lessons from the Civic Tech space
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Presenter:
M. Muscan
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(room: UI6)
Explainable AI and Challenges in Education
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Presenter:
C. Chituc
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(room: UII3)
The GenieAI Workshop- Including Our Embodied Emotions and Testing Together
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Presenter:
S. Hookway, J. Maric
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(room: UI7)
Unlocking the Black Box: Model Explainability in Machine Learning
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Presenter:
O. Onicescu
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(room: UI5 – the great amphitheater)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote 4: Reyyan Ayfer & Rukiye Altin
17:00 – 17:30 ACM-WE Town Hall
17:30 – 18:00 Awards & Closing