Programme
The Ital-IA 2026 programme spans two days. Thursday, 18 June 2026 will be dedicated to the thematic workshops, while Friday, 19 June 2026 will host the plenary session in the morning and the Doctoral Consortium in the afternoon.
The detailed timetable will be published soon. The structure currently planned is outlined below.
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Ital-IA 2026 Workshops
The entire Thursday programme will be devoted to the conference workshops, with parallel sessions focused on the main research and application areas of artificial intelligence.
Friday, 19 June 2026
Morning: Plenary Session
Afternoon: Doctoral Consortium
The plenary session will feature a round table, followed by a workshops summary coordinated by Carlo Sansone. In the afternoon, the Doctoral Consortium will include presentations of doctoral work and a thematic lecture on rapid LLM application development for a medical use case.
Plenary Session
The morning plenary session will revolve around a round table involving representatives from academia, scientific societies, and industry.
Cosma Belli
Southern & Western Europe Director | Country Manager, Italy | Quantum Computing for HPC & AI | IQM Quantum Computers
Andrea Orlandini
President of AIxIA
Sebastiano Battiato
CVPL Delegate for IAPR
Domenico Convertino
Senior Vice President at HCLTech
Giuseppe Fiameni
NVIDIA AI Technology Center EMEA
Maurizio Stumbo
Head of the Infrastructure, Data Center and Cyber Security Division, Sogei
Workshops Summary
The plenary session will also include a workshops summary coordinated by Carlo Sansone, Director of the CINI-AIIS National Laboratory.
Doctoral Consortium
The afternoon Doctoral Consortium will include presentations of doctoral research and an application-oriented lecture for the research community.
The session will offer participants an opportunity for scientific exchange on emerging AI topics, supporting discussion around ongoing research projects and interaction among PhD students, faculty members, and invited speakers. More information is available on the dedicated Doctoral Consortium page.
NVIDIA workshop on Rapid Application Development with LLMs and a Medical Use-case
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming many sectors including Healthcare and Medicine. This hands-on workshop offered by NVIDIA sponsored curriculum is designed to help developers quickly build and deploy LLM-powered applications by leveraging the vast open-source ecosystem. Participants will explore the full development lifecycle, from understanding transformer architectures and tokenization to implementing sophisticated agentic workflows. The workshop will finish with a medical expert system use-case demonstration.
The session aims to provide practical experience for developers with the Hugging Face Transformers API for tasks such as semantic analysis, zero-shot classification, and question-answering. Beyond text, attendees will delve into multimodal architectures, including CLIP and diffusion models, to integrate images and audio into their AI workflows. Finally, the workshop covers advanced orchestration using LangChain and LangGraph to build environment-aware agents capable of executing complex, real-world tasks.
This activity is part of the Doctoral Consortium programme as a training session focused on rapid development of LLM-based applications.
Eyup Cinar
Eskisehir Osmangazi University and NVIDIA University Ambassador