GenAI Research Retreat 2025

Program

Programs are tentative. Please check back closer to the retreat days for a final schedule.

# Monday (09-Jun-2025) Tuesday (10-Jun-2025) Wednesday (11-Jun-2025) Thursday (12-Jun-2025) Friday (13-Jun-2025)
9:00 ! Live

Detecting social norms in online climate discourse using LLMs

Sandeep Chowdhary

! Live

Generative AI Agent-Based Modelling, Concordia Training Day

Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

! Live

ML-based methods for extracting hierarchies of world models for sequential AI decision making from socio-ecological systems models

Jobst Heitzig

! Live

Stable Diffusion image generation for social experiments - Uses, advantages and drawbacks

Daniel Valdenegro

9:30 ! Live

Analyzing media coverage of climate change and climate activism using large language models

Fabian Dablander

! Live

Human-machine social systems

Milena Tsvetkova

! Live

Using AI and simulation tools to explore future narratives

Ilona Otto

10:00 ! Live

Leveraging network science and large language models to understand the structure and content of climate narratives in the media

Max Falkenberg

! Live

AI you can trust - bringing public voices into AI assurance

Aleksandra Berditchevskaia

! Live

Coffee Break and Check-Out Time

10:30 ! Live

Coffee Break

! Live

Coffee Break

! Live

Coffee Break

11:00 ! Live

Towards a Foundation Model for Socioeconomic and Climate Interactions

Carlos Rodríguez – Pardo

! Live

Generative AI Agent-Based Modelling, Concordia Training Day

Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

! Live

Developing scientific smart agents to communicate complex environmental data

Hywel Williams

! Live

Conclusion

Viktoria Spaiser

11:30 ! Live

Ecosystems are showing symptoms of resilience loss

Juan Rocha

! Live

Collective attention patterns in social systems and the potential for intelligent agents

Tristan Cann

12:00 ! Live

Lunch Break

! Live

Lunch Break

! Live

Lunch Break

! Live

Lunch Break

12:30
13:00 ! Live

Synthetic surveys for social simulation

Max Pellert

! Live

Generative AI Agent-Based Modelling, Concordia Training Day

Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

! Live

Simulating social media with LLM agents

David Garcia

13:30 ! Live

Artificial Utopia - Simulation and Intelligent Agents for a Democratised Future

Yannick Oswald

! Live

Validation metrics and approaches of GABMs for social media research

Nicolo Pagan

14:00 ! Live

LLM-based simulations

Indira Sen

! Live

Emergent Behaviors in AI Agents Societies

Giordano de Marzo

14:30 ! Live

Coffee Break

! Live

Coffee Break

! Live

Coffee Break

15:00
15:30 ! Live

Rethinking Urban Futures - Generative AI and Scenario Exploration in Urban Digital Twins

Rico Herzog

! Live

Generative AI Agent-Based Modelling, Concordia Training Day

Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

! Live

Free Explorations of Collaboration Opportunities

16:00 ! Live

Arrival, Registration, Coffee

! Live

LLM-driven digital twins of social media platforms

João Pinheiro Neto

16:30 ! Live

Welcome note

Viktoria Spaiser

! Live

Generative AI to Leverage Research Evidence to Inform Risk Analysis with Different Personas

Weisi Guo

17:00 ! Live

Social change with social norms - current and future works

Ajaykumar Manivannan

! Live

Open Discussion

17:30 ! Live

Introducing participants

! Live

Break

! Live

Break

! Live

Break

18:00 ! Live

Dinner

! Live

Dinner

! Live

Dinner

! Live

Dinner

18:30
Caption
Intros
Talks
Workshop
Discuss & Collaborate
Breaks