Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: April 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 2 April and 31 May 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

2 April 2026

What Do Our Benchmarks Actually Measure? Evaluation Challenges for African Language AI
Speaker: Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Zoom link is here. Password: AI.

7 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Shi Chen (MIT)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.

9 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Brian Trippe (Stanford University)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Join here, password: ai4science.

13 April 2026

Optimization Over Trained Neural Networks: What, Why, and How?
Speaker: Thiago Serra Azevedo Silva (University of Iowa)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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14 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yiping Lu (Northwestern University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.

Teaching youth to critically evaluate AI in healthcare while learning and applying data science and machine learning skills
Speaker: Kathryn Jessen Eller (Data Science, AI & You (DSAIY) in Healthcare)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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20 April 2026

Beyond MILP: A Hybrid Approach to Large-Scale Real-World Optimization with Hexaly
Speaker: Fred Gardi
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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21 April 2026

Operator learning meets inverse problems
Speaker: Nicholas Nelsen (Cornell University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration is here.

27 April 2026

Machine Learning for Faster Matheuristics: Perspectives and Advances
Speaker: Emma Frejinger (Université de Montréal)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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28 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Russel Schwab (Michigan State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.

Frontier AI under pressure – building resilience across layers
Speaker: Mikel Rodriguez
Organised by: Alan Turing Institute
Register here.

30 April 2026

lunch&LEARN: AI for formative feedback. From effective tools to adoption
Speaker: Fares Fawzi (ML4ED)
Organised by: EPFL
The Zoom link is here.

5 May 2026

Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project
Speaker: Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Organised by: University of Oslo
Watch on the University of Oslo RITMO YouTube channel.

7 May 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Janine George (BAM)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Join here, password: ai4science.

19 May 2026

Ethics in AI
Speaker: Christopher Howard
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Register here.

27 May 2026

Making AI (truly) sustainable – from environmental costs to social impacts
Speaker: Sasha Luccioni
Organised by: Alan Turing Institute
Register here.

To see past and forthcoming events for 2026, please see our dedicated 2026 seminar page.

If you’d like to visit the webpages of the universities and other organisations that are running regular programmes of seminars, then click here to see our list.

If you are aware of any seminars (both standalone and series) that we’ve missed then please just send us an email and we’ll add them to the list.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.