Date: July 10, 2025
NoE power combined! Join us for the ELIAS, ELLIOT & ELSA Theme Development Workshop on Foundation Models, a 4-hour hybrid event designed to explore relevant technical challenges, consider legal & ethical aspects, and present application examples of Foundation Models.
About the Event
What? ELIAS, ELLIOT & ELSA Theme Development Workshop on Foundation Models
When? July 10, 2025
Where? Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece & Online
Deadline: July 9th, 2025 – 18:00 CET
Overview
The emergence of Foundation Models and Large Language Models is transforming the way AI systems are developed and applied in various industry sectors. Trained on massive amounts of data of different modalities and using transfer learning to apply the knowledge learned from one task to another, models such as ChatGPT, GPT-4, BERT, CLIP, DALL-E, etc. can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks from media content generation to climate change modeling, healthcare monitoring, autonomous driving and many more.
The ELIAS, ELLIOT & ELSA Theme Development Workshop on Foundation Models aims to highlight the opportunities offered by Foundation Models, explore relevant technical challenges, consider legal & ethical aspects, and present application examples.
AGENDA
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome and Introduction | Opening remarks, introduction to Foundation Models, Overview of the sessions and objective – Elisa Ricci (UNITN & FBK) |
| 09:15 – 10:30 | Session on Training Foundation Models Moderator: Elisa Ricci (UNITN & FBK) | Keynotes – Open Foundation Models: Scaling Laws and Generalisation, Jenia Jitsev (JSC & LAION) – Tabular Foundation Models, Frank Hutter (PriorLabs, ELLIST) – Teaching Diffusion Models to Count, Cees Snoek (UvA) |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Session on Ethical & Safe Foundation Models Moderator: Lorenzo Baraldi (UNIMORE) | Keynotes – Security and Safety of Foundation Models, Mario Fritz (CISPA) – Ethical and Legal Aspects of Foundation Models, Flavia Giglio (KUL) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Break | |
| 11:40 – 12:55 | Session on Application of Foundation Models Moderator: Dimosthenis Karatzas (CVC-CERCA & UAB) | Keynotes – Spatial AI, Marc Pollefeys (Microsoft & ETHZ) – Driving through Generative Video Pretraining, Matthieu Cord (VALEO) – Training and Evaluating LLMs in European HPC centers, Dario Garcia-Casulla (BSC) |
| 12:55 – 13:15 | Conclusion & Wrap-up | Summary of key takeaways, final remarks and next steps – Elisa Ricci (UNITN & FBK), Dimosthenis Karatzas (CVC-CERCA & UAB), Lorenzo Baraldi (UNIMORE) |
Registration
Organised by ELIAS, ELLIOT & ELSA, this workshop offers a unique platform to address the crucial challenges at the intersection of AI development, policy, and societal impact.
Join us!
Please note that the registration for in-person attendance is closed.
July 9th, 2025 – 18:00 CET