Conference Program Overview
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Default venue: QUT Gardens Point · P Block
Times in AEST
Day 1 — Wednesday, 26 November 2025
| Time | Program Item | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration Open | Venue: P Block Foyer |
| 09:00–09:10 | Opening & Acknowledgement of Country | Prof Richi Nayak, General Chair (QUT) Venue: P413 |
| 09:10–10:10 | Keynote 1: Bias in Humans and AI – What To Do About It? | Prof Gianluca Demartini (University of Queensland) Session Chair: Richi Nayak Venue: P413 |
| 10:10–10:30 | Morning Tea | Venue: Foyer |
| 10:30–12:30 | Session 1 – Research Track: Federated, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Machine Learning | Session Chair: A/Prof Quang Vinh Nguyen Venue: P413 |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch | Venue: Foyer |
| 13:30–14:30 | Keynote 2: Enabling Faithful Large Language Model Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs | Prof Shirui Pan (Griffith University) Session Chair: Prof Richi Nayak Venue: P413 |
| 14:30–16:15 | Session 2 – Application Track: Environment, information security, and productivity | Session Chair: Dr Yanchang Zhao Venue: P413 |
| 16:15–16:45 | Afternoon Tea | Venue: Foyer |
| 16:45–17:45 | Panel A: AI in Education | Chair: Dr Sangeeth Kutty (CQ University)
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Ritesh Chugh (CQ University)
Venue: P6 Atrium |
| 18:00–19:30 | Social Networking Session / Welcome Reception | Venue: QUT GP · S Block · S1215 OJW Room |
Day 2 — Thursday, 27 November 2025
| Time | Program Item | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration Open | Venue: Foyer |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote 3: Decoding the SDGs: a Bayesian Perspective | Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen (QUT) Session Chair: Richi Nayak Venue: P413 |
| 10:00–10:20 | Morning Tea | Venue: Foyer |
| 10:20–11:00 | Industry Invited Talk: Breaking New Ground in AI Marketing | Mellissah Smith (Robotic Marketer) Chair: Dr Khanh Luong Venue: P413 |
| 11:00–12:00 | Panel B: Women in STEM | Chair & Moderator: Dr Sangeeth Kutty (CQUniversity) Venue: P6 Atrium |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch | Venue: Foyer |
| 13:00–15:00 | Session 3 – Research Track: Deep Learning Fusion and Vision | Session Chair: Prof Yuefeng Li Venue: P413 |
| 15:00–15:20 | Afternoon Tea | Venue: Foyer |
| 15:20–17:20 | Session 4 – Application Track: Health and Social Good Paper Presentations Spotlight Talk: Rio - Federated Privacy-First Data Collection and Analysis for Clinical Trials (Prof Graham Williams) | Session Chair: A/Prof Paul Kwan Venue: P413 |
| 15:20–17:20 | Tutorial 1 – Data-Driven AI for Dynamic Service Ecosystems Parallel | Assoc. Prof. Priya K, Karthik S & Prof M. Prakash (SRM Institute, India) Session Chair: Dr Alan Woodley Venue: P410 |
| 15:20–17:20 | Doctoral Consortium Parallel | Session Chair: Jolin Qu Venue: P413 (a) |
| 17:30–17:50 | Getting to the Conference Dinner Venue | |
| 18:00–21:00 | Conference Dinner Cruise | Best Paper Awards Announcement Venue: Off-site |
Day 3 — Friday, 28 November 2025
| Time | Program Item | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration Open | Venue: Foyer |
| 09:00–09:40 | Industry Invited Talk | Dr Sankalp Khanna (CSIRO e-Health Research Centre) Session Chair: Prof Richi Nayak Venue: P413 |
| 09:40–10:20 | Industry Invited Talk | Dr Kenny Sabir (AgriWebb) Session Chair: Dr Tej Bahadur Shahi Venue: P413 |
| 10:20–10:45 | Morning Tea | Venue: Foyer |
| 10:45–12:00 | Panel C: Are We in the Right Direction? | Simon Townsend, Shane Muller,Jacky Hung (eHealth Queensland) Chair & Moderator: Dr Anton Lord (Metro South Addiction and Mental Health) Venue: P6 Atrium |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch | Venue: Foyer |
| 13:00–15:00 | Session 5 – Research & Application Track Paper Presentations (8 papers) | Session Chair: Dr Asara Senaratne Venue: P413 |
| 13:00–15:00 | Tutorial 2 – Trustworthy ML for Real-Time Operation & Control of Renewable Power Systems Parallel | Dr Yuchen Zhang (QUT) & Dr Yuting Zhu (UniSQ) Session Chair: Prof Susan Zhou Venue: P410 |
| 13:00–15:00 | Invited Industry Session 1 — Adoption of AI in Government Parallel | Speakers: Sankalp Khanna (CSIRO), Luke Hardwick-Greaves, Mark Gordon (Department of Natural Resources and Mines), Shane Muller (Paladin AI), Simon Townsend (Queensland Health) Session Chair: Joy Wang Venue: P413 (a) |
| 15:00–15:30 | Networking Coffee Chat / Afternoon Tea | Venue: Foyer |
| 15:30–17:00 | Invited Industry Session 2 — AI driving changes in industry | Speakers: Mitchell Fardell (Databricks), Lin Chen (Ampol), Cuan Naidoo (Q1 Group), Tom Fu(Motor Culture Australia), Anton Lord (Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services), Julien Monteil (Amazon) Session Chair: Dr Anton Lord Venue: P413 |
| 17:00 | Conference Closure | Venue: P413 |