About the Conference

After several years of collaborative research within the SAIL initiative, the SAIL Closing Conference brings together researchers from all partner institutions and the broader AI community to present results, exchange ideas and discuss future perspectives in sustainable and efficient AI.

Key Information

  • Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026
  • Location: CITEC Building, Bielefeld University
  • Target group: Researchers at all career stages, practitioners
  • Participation fee: None (free of charge)

Program overview: tbd

Keynotes:

Mira Mezini (TU Darmstadt) | Topic: tbd

Poster Session: Call for Abstracts

As part of the SAIL Closing Conference, we invite contributions to the Poster Session, which provides an informal and interactive setting for presenting research, exchanging ideas and receiving feedback. We welcome submissions from researchers at all career stages, including Master’s students, doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers. Posters may present:

  • completed research results
  • ongoing projects
  • innovative methods or applications
  • demonstrations of software, tools or systems
  • interdisciplinary work within or beyond the SAIL context

The poster session is designed to encourage discussion and constructive exchange in a collegial atmosphere.

Topics of Interest

We welcome poster submissions related to the broad research agenda of SAIL. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Sustainable & Efficient AI
  • resource-efficient model architectures and training methods
  • AI for sustainability (e.g. environmental modelling, smart energy systems)
  • hardware-aware algorithms and efficient computing
  • benchmarking, Green AI and lifecycle analysis
Human-Centered & Interactive AI
  • human–AI collaboration and interaction
  • explainable and interpretable AI
  • ethical, social and legal aspects of AI
  • AI for social good, healthcare and assistive technologies
Theoretical & Methodological Foundations
  • transfer, meta- and few-shot learning
  • learning from limited, imbalanced or noisy data
  • federated and privacy-preserving learning
  • robustness, optimization and generalization
Knowledge-Augmented & Neuro-Symbolic AI
  • hybrid approaches combining symbolic reasoning and neural models
  • knowledge graphs and structured knowledge integration
  • data-efficient learning through prior knowledge
Foundation Models & LLMs in Practice
  • efficient adaptation and fine-tuning of large language models
  • prompt engineering and in-context learning
  • applications and critical assessments of LLMs
AI for Modelling & Understanding Complex Systems
  • physics-informed and simulation-based machine learning
  • AI for control, optimization and dynamical systems
  • applications in climate science, biology and engineering

This list is indicative and not exhaustive. We aim to attract high-quality submissions from across the AI community and its numerous application fields. Whether your work presents a finished result, an ongoing project, or a compelling research idea, we invite you to share it with our interdisciplinary audience.

Submission Information

Submission Process

1. Abstract Submission2. Poster Upload
Please submit your poster title, a brief abstract (max. 300 words), and the names and affiliations of all authors via our online submission portal.Upon acceptance, presenters will be asked to upload a digital version of their final poster via the same system. Please note: All presenters are responsible for printing and bringing their physical poster to the conference.

Poster Format

  • Orientation: Portrait (vertical) preferred
  • Recommended size: A0 (84.1 × 118.9 cm)
  • Maximum width: 90 cm

Posters should be visually clear and easy to read. A logical structure, high-resolution graphics and sufficiently large fonts are recommended.

Dates

  • Abstract submission deadline for poster session:  15 March
  • Notification of decision for poster session: 22 March
  • Conference registration: 23 March

How to Submit

➡️ Abstract submission:
Please submit your abstract through our online submission system: https://indico.global/event/16794/abstracts/. Information on poster upload will be sent together with the acceptance notification.

Tentative Organizing Committee