🧠 A Full-Immersion Experience in Frontier AI
Join us for an unforgettable week of cutting-edge lectures on AI and Generative AI, delivered by some of the most renowned researchers in the field — set against the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan coast.
🎤 Meet Your Lecturers
An extraordinary faculty from leading institutions across the globe — each delivering up to four lectures on the frontiers of AI research:
Stefano V. Albrecht — Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- If Multi-Agent Foundation Models is the Answer, What is the Question?
- Becoming an AI Researcher: Practical Advice for Graduate Students
Rafal Bogacz — University of Oxford, UK
- Predictive coding: training neural networks with local rules
- Predictive coding: advantages over backpropagation
- Predictive coding: implementation
Giuseppe De Giacomo — University of Oxford, UK
- Foundations of Guardrailing Agentic AI via Temporal Synthesis (3-part course)
Christoph Feichtenhofer — Meta Superintelligence Labs, USA
- On the impact of data for vision-language learning (parts 1–2)
- Building frontier visual segmentation models
Sven Giesselbach — T-Systems International, Germany
Jamie Hayes — Google DeepMind, UK
- Agentic Security: how to attack and defend against prompt injection (2 parts)
Sumi Helal — University of Bologna, Italy
- Two lectures — titles to be announced
Albert Q. Jiang — Mistral AI, Paris & University of Cambridge, UK
- Machines That Prove: Foundations of AI for Formal Methods and Mathematics
- Machines That Reason: Foundation Models and the State of the Art in AI for Mathematics
- Machines That Discover: The Future of Automated Mathematics
Marine Le Morvan — INRIA Saclay, France
- The rise of Tabular Foundation Models
- TabICL: an open Tabular Foundation Model
- Next frontiers for TFMs
Bruno Lepri — FBK, Italy
- Three lectures — titles to be announced
Sebastian Risi — Sakana AI, Japan & IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Three lectures — titles to be announced
George Paliouras — NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
- Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting and Applications
- Large-Scale Probabilistic Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting
- Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning and Learning for Complex Event Recognition/Forecasting
Panos Pardalos — University of Florida, USA
- Impact of AI and Optimization on the economics of sustainability
🏆 Present Your Own Research
Want to share your work with a world-class audience? Submit a research abstract (max 2 pages, any format) during registration. Our scientific committee will select contributions for poster presentations and/or short talks — plus a chance to compete for the IAISS Norbert Wiener Best Presentation Award in Artificial Intelligence.
✅ Why Attend?
- 36–40 hours of intensive lectures from top-tier researchers
- Earn 8 ECTS points (PhD students and highly motivated Master's/BSc students)
- Network with peers in a convivial, professional, and inspiring setting
- A rare opportunity to learn directly from — and mingle with — the people shaping the future of AI
Who should attend: PhD students, PostDocs, junior academics (up to Assistant Professor level), industry practitioners, and exceptionally motivated Master's/BSc students.
Language: English
🏨 The Venue
IAISS is a fully residential school — all participants and lecturers stay together at the same resort, creating a truly immersive, community-driven learning experience. No exceptions.
To join us, simply:
- Register for the school
- Book your stay at Riva del Sole Resort & SPA using the IAISS discounted rates (accommodation form provided at registration)
- Send your booking confirmation number to iaiss@icas.cc
Sharing an apartment? Send the Hotel your co-guest's name, surname, and email — otherwise, book a single-use apartment.
IAISS is proudly organized as a non-profit scientific event.
🚀 Seats Are Limited — Register Now!
See you this September in Riva del Sole! — The IAISS 2026 Organizing Committee
