Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: October 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place in the next couple of months. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

5 October 2026

Socialism after AI
Speakers: Evgeny Morozov
Organised by: London School of Economics and Political Science
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6 October 2026

Advancing robotics education: directions for school and tertiary contexts
Speaker: Eleni Petraki and Damith Herath (University of Canberra)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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Online Panel: “The Future of Computer Science in Academia”
Speakers: Gaétan Hains, Paola Inverardi, and Alexander Wolf
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

From Motion to Mission Planning via Augmented Graphs of Convex Sets
Speaker: Tyler Summers (University of Texas at Dallas)
Organised by: EPFL
The Zoom link is here.

12 October 2026

Optimization and machine learning for decision making: competitors or partners?
Speaker: Maria Grazia Speranza (University of Brescia)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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13 October 2026

Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference 2026
Speaker: Various
Organised by: Information Commissioner’s Office
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Paul Hand
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.

14 October 2026

Statistics-Powered Detection of LLM-Generated Text
Speaker: Jin Zhu
Organised by: The University of Birmingham
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19 October 2026

Best of Both Prediction and Decision Worlds: Benefits of Decision-Reweighted Prediction Loss
Speaker: Angela Zhou (University of Southern California)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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26 October 2026

Young researcher session: 1) Optimization Approaches for Explainable Models in Distributed Settings, 2) Hard Feature Selection in Nonlinear SVMs via Exact Convex MIQP Reformulation, 3) Constraint Learning by Optimizing over Trained Neural Networks: A Pragmatic Tutorial
Speakers: J. Carlos Castro (Universidad de Sevilla), Ilaria Ciocci (Sapienza University of Rome), Jiaxiao (Frances) Fang (University of Iowa)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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27 October 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Huan Lei (Michigan State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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28 October 2026

Ethics in AI
Speaker: Jim Everett
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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5 November 2026

Trust, Sensing, and Learning for Provable Multi-Robot Performance
Speaker: Stephanie Gil (Harvard University)
Organised by: EPFL
The Zoom link is here.

9 November 2026

Out-of-the-Box Global Optimization for Packing Problems: New Models and Improved Solutions
Speakers: Timo Bertholdt and Imre Polik (FICO)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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11 November 2026

Ethics in AI
Speaker: Ljupcho Grozdanovski
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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16 November 2026

Supply chain risk management: sharing information and exploring uncertainty
Speaker: Stefan Minner (Technical University of Munich)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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23 November 2026

Beyond Modeling: How ML Is Reshaping Operations Research for Dynamic Decision Making
Speaker: Shadi Sharif Azadeh (TU Delft)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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24 November 2026

Let Me Inform (and Entertain) You: News Recommender Systems to Support Democratic Society
Speaker: Sanne Vrijenhoek
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yinuo Ren (Stanford)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.

25 November 2026

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

30 November 2026

Decision-Focused Scenario Learning for Contextual Stochastic Programming
Speaker: Tito Homem-de-Mello (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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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.