technical PROGRAM

Friday, February 9, 2024

(all the times are in local time of  the Netherlands, i.e., CET or UTC+01)

Technical Program

09:15 - 09:45      Registration and Coffee

09:45 - 10:00      Opening and meeting overview

10:00 - 10:45      Talk 1: Towards Theoretical Foundations of Prompt Engineering

Prof. Aki Härmä (Maastricht University)

10:45- 11:30       Talk 2: Large Language Models: from NLP to Cognition and Back

Prof. Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)

11:30 - 11:45      Coffee break

11:45- 12:30       Talk 3: Generative AI for Images: Navigating between Creative Worlds and Fake Art

Prof. Patrick Vandewalle (KU Leuven)

12:30 - 13:30      Lunch

13:30 - 14:15      Talk 4: Bumpy Highway from Experimentation to Productization of Generative AI for MedTech

Prof. Steffen Pauws (Philips) 

14:15- 15:00       Talk 5: Language Models at Work: Exploring the Practical Applications of Language-Based AI

Olivier Segers and Alexander de Pauw (Texterous)

15:00 - 15:15      Coffee break

15:15- 16:00       Talk 6: Can Machines be Creative?

Marnix Verduyn / Nix (Cartoonist and PhD student at KU Leuven)

16:00 - 16:10      Closing by WIC Chair

Liesbet Van der Perre (KU Leuven)