The event Ital-IA, the national conference on artificial intelligence promoted by CINI (National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics), takes place at the CNR Research Area in Pisa from May 29 to 31. It represents a key moment of discussion between the research community, institutions, and industry, aimed at sharing ongoing initiatives and outlining the future directions of artificial intelligence in Italy. The afternoon of Tuesday, May 30 is dedicated to seven workshops on FAIR Transversal Projects:
- Legal and Ethical design of Trustworthy AI systems
- Vision, Language and Multimodal Challenges
- Learning and Reasoning from Individual to Communities to Society
- Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence
- Frontiers of Machine Learning: Hard-Sciences for Machine learning
- Frontiers of Machine Learning: Lifelong Learning
- Data Centric AI and Infrastructures
Here is the full workshop program.
The three-day agenda is rich with content: the plenary session on May 31 will feature a discussion among experts on ChatGPT, contributions on legal aspects and the AI Act (the European regulation under development to ensure ethical and human-centered AI), and a focus on Italian companies embracing the AI challenge.
Among the speakers are Allaine Cerwonka, Director of International Strategy at the Alan Turing Institute (in dialogue with FAIR President Giuseppe De Pietro), writer Marco Malvaldi, and MEP Brando Benifei. The sessions on May 29 and 30 will instead focus on more technical workshops covering AI applications in industry, healthcare, public administration, ethics and law, cybersecurity, and more.
The conference is organized by the AIIS National Laboratory (Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems) of CINI together with the CNR. The AIIS Lab, established to enhance the Italian AI research ecosystem, currently includes 57 nodes involving nearly all Italian universities, along with CNR, the Bruno Kessler Foundation, and the Italian Institute of Technology. The event is supported by the University of Pisa, the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Scuola Sant’Anna, and the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC).
The sponsors include major tech companies and promising startups, highlighting the cross-sector relevance of AI for Italian businesses: Digitiamo, Almawave, Almaviva, Obda, Leonardo, Lutech, and Bracco. The plenary session on May 31 will be streamed live on the YouTube channel of the CNR Research Area in Pisa.