2026 EDITION

Beyond the Black Box: Building Trustworthy AI through Literacy, Standards and Human-Centric Design

May 5, 2026 - 14:00 - 15:30
Room H2
Tracks
AI Ethics
Type
In person
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[14.00 – 14.30] Session title: Foundations of Trust: Data, Testing, and Reliability

Participants : Yuju SON (Mimer), Aleccio BUSCEMI (Luxembourgh AIF)

Description: This session will lay the foundations for infrastructure design, focusing on core principles, architectural coherence, and the essential building blocks needed to support scalable, interoperable, and future-ready systems.

[14.30 – 15.00] Session title: Human Oversight: Hybrid Intelligence and System Integration

Participants: Kabir FAHRIA (Mimer), Dimitris APOSTOLOU (Themis 5.0, FAITH), Natasa DANOPOULOU (AIXPERT), Toni Wäfler (AI4REALNET, FHNW Switzerland)

Description: This session will focus on human–AI task allocation and interaction design, exploring hybrid intelligence and continuous learning systems, while presenting vertical use cases alongside validation approaches for trust, ethics, and expert oversight.

[15.00 – 15.30] Session title: From Compliance to Trust: Governance, Standards, and AI Literacy

Participants: Claudia ESPOSITO (TANGO), Vrettos MOULOS (HumΑΙne), Susanne STENBERG (Mimer), George MANIAS (COMFORTage), Gregoris Mentzas (Themis 5.0, FAITH)

Description: This session will focus on AI governance and standards, translating regulatory requirements into practice, improving explainability for non-technical audiences, and presenting best practices, challenges, and recommendations for future standards.

practices, challenges, and recommendations for future standards.

 

Slides

Beyond the Black Box:​ ​ Building Trustworthy AI through​ Literacy, Standards, and Human-Centric Design

MODERATORS
Vrettos Moulos
Researcher at University of Piraeus
Yuju Son
Research Engineer at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
SPEAKERS OF THIS SESSION
Alessio Buscemi
Senior AI Scientist at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
George Manias
Assistant Professor at Tilburg University
Dimitris Apostolou
Professor at ICCS and University of Piraeus
Gregoris Mentzas
Professor at ICCS, National Technical University of Athens
Toni Waefler
Professor at School of Applied Psychology (APS); University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
Claudia Esposito
Senior EU Project Manager at Carr Communications
Natasa Danopoulou
R&D Technical Project Manager at Novelcore
Kabir Fahria
R&D Engineer at Research Institute of Sweden
Susanne Stenberg
Policy Expert at MIMER AI Factory
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