This year as well, FAIR is part of the organization of Ital-IA, the National Conference of CINI on Artificial Intelligence: an annual event aimed at bringing together the Italian scientific research community with public institutions and industry, fostering a “national network” among all the initiatives currently shaping the development of artificial intelligence technologies in Italy.
The conference is organized by the National Laboratory “Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems” (AIIS), established by CINI (National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics). The laboratory was founded in June 2018 with the support of the Department of Information Security of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and today includes 58 nodes covering almost all Italian universities, as well as public and private research centers.
The 2024 edition, taking place in Naples, is organized by the University of Naples Federico II at the Maritime Station Congress Center (Molo Angioino, Naples Port) and will run over two days, May 29 and 30.
The first day is dedicated to thematic workshops, two of which will be hosted by FAIR on the afternoon of May 29:
– the workshop of Transversal Project 2 “Vision, Language and Multimodal Challenges”, chaired by Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)
– the workshop of Transversal Project 7 “Data-Centric AI and Infrastructures”, chaired by Donato Malerba (University of Bari) and Antonella Poggi (Sapienza University of Rome)
During the plenary session on May 30, opened by the Mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, there will be a speech by Giuseppe De Pietro, President of the FAIR Foundation. This will be followed by two sessions focusing on the development of Large Language Models in Europe and Italy (with a focus on Minerva, the LLM developed by Roberto Navigli’s team at Sapienza University of Rome), and on the AI Act, its evolution from regulation to technical implementation, and future prospects for Italy.
On the Ital-IA website you can find both the plenary program and the workshop schedules.