Agenda
under the patronage of the presidents of Carnegie Mellon University, Farnam Jahanian and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Jan S. Hesthaven.
June 25, 2026
| 07.00pm | Reception | Hotel Steigenberger (Europäischer Hof), Kaiserallee 2, D-76530 Baden-Baden |
June 26, 2026
Kurhaus Baden-Baden
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Coffee |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Welcome |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Alexander Wieland (First Mayor of Baden-Baden) |
| 09:05 - 09:15 | Jan S. Hesthaven (President, KIT) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Farnam Jahanian (President, CMU) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Alex Waibel (interACT, KIT&CMU) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Speech Processing, Panel (Chair: Dirk Van Compernolle, KU Leuven) |
| 09:45 - 09:55 | Introduction: Joseph Mariani (LISN, CNRS) |
| 09:55 - 10:30 | Sanjeev Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins University) |
| Roger Moore (University of Sheffield) | |
| Alex Acero (Zoom) | |
| Shinji Watanabe (CMU) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Language Processing and Translation, Panel (Chair: Jan Niehues) |
| Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI) | |
| Marcello Federico (Amazon) | |
| Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST/CUHKSZ) | |
| Luisa Bentivogli (FBK) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | AI - A new Industrial Revolution, Panel (Chair: Michael Beigl) |
| Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI) | |
| Xuedong Huang (Zoom) | |
| Feiyu Xu (Board Member of Siemens Energy, ZF and FAZ) | |
| Marco Trombetti (Translated) | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Robotics, Talks (Chair: Tamim Asfour) |
| Oussama Khatib (Stanford University) | |
| Nagin Cox (Space Exploration Robotics) | |
| Giorgio Metta (IIT) | |
| Manuela Veloso (CMU) | |
| Tamim Asfour (KIT) | |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | AI - Where do we go from here? Panel (Chair: Alex Waibel) |
| Jakob Uszkoreit (Inceptive) | |
| Roni Rosenfeld (CMU) | |
| Paolo Benanti (Pontifical Academy for Life) | |
| 13:15 - 13:20 | Closing Remarks |
| Bernhard Beckert (KIT) | |
| 13:30 | Transfer from Baden-Baden (Kurhaus) to Baden-Airpark (Victoria Boulevard E100) |
| 13:45 | Arrival Driving Center Baden and Eventhangar |
| 13:45 - 17:00 | Lunch and Social (Car Racing, Helicopter flights,...) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Exploration - Oceans, Aviation, Space. Panel (Chair: Alex Waibel) |
| Marco Trombetti (Sailing around the world without GPS) | |
| Clayton Eveland (from Bush Pilot to United Airlines) | |
| Scott Hourin (tech experimentation) | |
| Mark Armstrong (Apollo-11 and Moon Landing) | |
| Jack Roosa (Apollo-14 and Future Space Programs) | |
| 17:30 - 20:00 | Spaceship Earth: Mark & Kali Armstrong and The Astrophonics |
| 20:00 | Refreshments |
| from 20:30 | The After Party with THE REAL PUSH |