Peter Sinčák is a University Professor in the branch of AI at Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia. He is a member of Center for Intelligent Technologies and Program director for the branch of Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia. He is a program director of AI Bc, MSc and PhD program at Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia. Prof. Sincak is former head of Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, European Union. He is also involve in number of collaborations with companies in the past and present.  He is lecturing AI basic course, AI advance course and he is a head of State exam committee for AI in all degrees. He is a IEEE member, Slovak AI Society member. Prof. Sinčák is a Vice-President of Slovak AI Society He has number of contacts in Slovak Industrial and Banking domains. He was 2009-2012 also an executive director of Kosice IT Valley group which consist of 20 IT companies in the regions. His efforts go towards boosting application potential of Artificial intelligence in industry and everyday life. He is a member of number of EU related projects including Technological Research Park at TU Kosice. His main interest is integration of Cloud Computing, Artificial or Computational Intelligence and Robotics. He had number of invited talks in Japan, Korea, EU and USA. He is a Co-chair of RITA conferences devoted to Robot Intelligence and Theory and Applications led by prof. Johwam Kim from KAIST. He is author and co-author of more than 100 papers on conferences, journals he is author of 2 monographs a editor in number of books in Physica Verlag, IOS press and WorldScientific Publication Houses.

Title of the plenary lecture: From Teaching to Co-Thinking: Digital Intelligence and Personal AI Agents in University Education

Sebastian Lang is professor for »AI application in production and logistics« at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU) and senior researcher at the Robotics Systems department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF. At OVGU, he is deputy director of the Institute for Product and Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Furthermore, he is co-founder and director of the study program »AI Engineering – Artificial Intelligence in Engineering«, which is considered as the first bachelor's program in Germany to educate undergraduate students in the design, development, integration, and operation of industrial AI systems for engineering problems. He holds a doctoral degree in Engineering from OVGU. Furthermore, he holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering with focus on production technologies and a master’s and bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and logistics. For his doctoral thesis on methods of reinforcement learning for production scheduling, he received the 2023 VDI Incentive Award of the Association of German Engineers (VDI), the 2023 Dissertation Award of OVGU and the 2024 BVL Logistics Science Award of the German Logistics Association (BVL). His research interests include studying and applying methods of artificial intelligence, simulation modeling and mathematical optimization for planning, control and optimization problems in production and logistics.

Title of the plenary lecture: Best practice curriculum development: The bachelor's degree program »AI Engineering – Artificial Intelligence in Engineering« at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Isabela Drămnesc is Associate Professor at the Department of Computational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence of Faculty of Computer Science from West University of Timișoara. She teaches various subjects: Introduction to Robotics, Logic and Functional Programming, Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Automated Theorem Proving, Algorithm Synthesis and Mathematical Theory Exploration. Her research interests include: AI; robotics; logic; automated reasoning; mathematical theory exploration; proof—based algorithm synthesis, verification and transformation. She received her PhD in Computer Science in 2013 from West University of Timișoara under the supervision of Tudor Jebelean from Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. Afterwards, she was a postdoc at West University of Timișoara and at INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France. She has experience in European projects both as a member, and also as a manager of the Erasmus+ projects strategic and cooperation partnerships for higher education “ARC: Automated Reasoning in the Class”, “AiRobo: Artificial Intelligence based Robotics”. She received in 2020 the “Mihail Ghermănescu” award for Mathematics and Computer Science from West University of Timișoara at the sixth edition of Gala Premiilor UVT.

Title of the plenary lecture: Artificial Intelligence-based robotic applications for higher education

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