Program
The programme combines online preparatory sessions with an intensive on-site week in Cagliari. Times are shown in local Cagliari time (CEST).
Lecture
Tutorial
Keynote
Group activity
Break / Recreation
Deadline
Online part
Access details for online sessions will be shared privately with participants.
Monday
22 June 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Welcome |
| 09:30-10:00 | Introduction and Course Presentation All instructors |
| 15:00-16:00 | Building and Deploying Modern Applications Prof. Silaghi |
| 16:00-17:00 | Building and Deploying Modern Applications Prof. Silaghi |
Tuesday
23 June 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-11:00 | AI Development Toolkit Prof. Buscaldi |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-13:00 | AI Development Toolkit Prof. Buscaldi |
| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00-16:00 | Machine Learning Prof. Ayala & Prof. Salmerón |
| 16:00-17:00 | Machine Learning Prof. Ayala & Prof. Salmerón |
Wednesday
24 June 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-11:00 | Deep Learning Prof. Ayala & Prof. Salmerón |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-13:00 | Deep Learning Prof. Ayala & Prof. Salmerón |
On-site part
Monday
13 July 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 08:30-09:00 | Welcome and Registration Room: Room F |
| 09:00-11:00 | Language Models Prof. Buscaldi Room: Room F |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 11:30-13:00 | Language Models Prof. Buscaldi Room: Room F |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Room: Entrance Hall |
| 14:00-18:00 | Enjoy Cagliari! |
Tuesday
14 July 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-11:00 | Knowledge Graphs Prof. Ghiran Room: Lab Pes |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 11:30-13:00 | Knowledge Graphs Prof. Ghiran Room: Lab Pes |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Room: Entrance Hall |
| 14:00-15:00 | Retrieval-Augmented Generation Prof. Ayala & Prof. Salmerón Room: Lab Pes |
| 15:00-16:00 | Group Projects Presentation and Assignment Room: Lab Pes |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 16:30-18:00 | Groups work on Projects Room: Lab Pes |
Wednesday
15 July 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-11:00 | Integrating LMs and KGs: Security and Reliability Prof. Silaghi Room: Room B |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 11:30-13:00 | Integrating LMs and KGs: Security and Reliability Prof. Silaghi Room: Room B |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Room: Entrance Hall |
| 14:00-16:00 | Practical LLM Development Prof. Ayala & Prof. Salmerón Room: Room B |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 16:30-18:00 | Groups work on Projects Room: Room B |
| 18:00-20:00 | Relax and Get Ready! |
| 20:00-23:30 | Social Dinner Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Via Sant’Alenixedda, 09128 Cagliari CA |
Thursday
16 July 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-10:00 | From simple LLM-based applications to Agentic architectures Prof. Ghiran Room: Lab Pes |
| 10:00-11:00 | Attention, please Prof. Daniel Salmerón Room: Lab Pes |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 11:30-13:00 | Groups work on Research Projects Room: Lab Pes |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Room: Entrance Hall |
| 14:00-15:00 | Engineering LLM-Enhanced Applications Prof. Livio Pompianu Room: Lab Pes |
| 15:00-16:00 | When Large Language Models Meet the Microbiology Lab Prof. Inma Hernández Room: Lab Pes |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 16:30-18:00 | Groups work on Research Projects Room: Lab Pes |
Friday
17 July 2026
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote Prof. Buscaldi Room: Lab Pes |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Three-Stage Multi-Turn Retrieval with Query Rewriting, Hybrid Search, and Cross-Encoder Reranking Prof. Gheorghe Silaghi & David-Maximilian Caraman Room: Lab Pes Cardinality-Gated Reranking for Text-Based Knowledge Graph Completion Prof. Gheorghe Silaghi & Cosmin Rosculet Room: Lab Pes |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 11:30-12:30 | Groups work on Research Projects Room: Lab Pes |
| 12:30-13:00 | Projects Delivery Room: Lab Pes |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Room: Entrance Hall |
| 14:00-15:00 | Groups work on Presentations Room: Lab Pes |
| 15:00-16:00 | Presentations Delivery Room: Lab Pes |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break Room: Entrance Hall |
| 16:30-17:30 | Research Projects Presentation and Discussion Room: Lab Pes |
| 17:30-18:00 | Closing Room: Lab Pes |
The programme may be subject to minor updates.
