The program for AIxIA 2026 is available. 

Please check back here for updates on the schedule, sessions and keynote speakers.

Ore 10:30 - 13:00 (Room B1 - Accademia Belle Arti "Pietro Vannucci")

• Riccardo Manzotti (IULM). "Is consciousness beyond the inner strcture of LLMs"

• Giordana Truscelli (Università di Teramo), “De-responsibilization and Consciousness in the AI Era”

• Alessandro Bruno (IULM - Invited Speaker)

• Paolo D'Erasmo, (Università di Teramo), “Who Really Decides? Human Decision-Making Authority and Legal Attribution in AI-Assisted Public Decision-Making”

• Maurizio Gentilini (CNR) - Q&A 

Ore 13:00 - 14:30 (Oratorio di San Francesco dei Nobili)

• Lunch and Discussion Posters

Ore 14:30 - 16:30 (Room B1 - Accademia Belle Arti "Pietro Vannucci")

• Franco Campitelli (Università di Teramo), “The Distributed Subject: Extended Consciousness, Generative Models and the Limit of Anthropomorphism”

• Gigliola Staffilani (MIT - Invited Speaker)

• Andrea Dante Amicarelli, (Università di Teramo), "To calculate or to understand? The ontology of artificial cognition between probabilistic models and embodiment"

Ore 16:30 - 17:00 (Auditorium)

• Coffee Break

Ore 17:00 - 18:30 (Auditorium San Francesco)

• Tutorial: Andrea Omicini, “Multi-Agent Systems: Long Story Short”

Ore 18:30 (Auditorium San Francesco)

• Plenary Meeting

We look forward to welcoming you to Perugia for an exciting conference on artificial intelligence!