Greetings from the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Jari Mäkinen
ECAI2025 (man looks at the projector screen)

The space was prominently featured at the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025) in Bologna, where two full-day workshops explored the use of AI in analyzing space data. 

SpacEconomy's Marikka Heikkilä from the Centre for Collaborative Research of University of Turku was in attendance.

25 October 2025: AI-driven Data Engineering and Reusability for Earth and Space Sciences (DARES)

(Iraklis Klampanos, Antonis Troumpoukis, Manolis Koubarakis) 

 The DARES workshop brought together researchers exploring how AI methods – including machine learning, symbolic approaches, and their intersections – can effectively transform, explain, fuse, and prepare large, complex datasets from diverse sources in Earth and Space Sciences for use and reuse in downstream applications. 

Conference papers and presentation slides are available on the workshop website:
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26 October 2025: Explainable AI in Space (EASi) (HYPERVIEW2)

(Jakub Nalepa, Przemysław Biecek, Nicolas Longépé, Agata Wijata, Evridiki Ntagiou, Marek Kraft, Łukasz Tulczyjew)

 The invited speaker, Roberto Del Prete from ESA Φ-lab, presented how AutoML and explainable AI can enhance onboard satellite data processing. Edge AI solutions enable real-time analysis in orbit, allowing faster responses to natural disasters while reducing the energy costs of data transmission. The HYPERVIEW2 Challenge, held as part of the EASi workshop, invited researchers, engineers, and data scientists to explore innovative ways to make AI interpretable and explainable for satellite data processing, space operations, and Earth monitoring. 

Visit the workshop website for more details:
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