The Festival of Data Science and AI
Advanced Research Centre. 27 - 29 October 2025.
Mark your calendars!
27th to 29th October 2025 in the Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
The Centre for Data Science & AI is delighted to announce an exciting three-day celebration, bringing together vibrant research and creative practice across the fields of data science and artificial intelligence. Featuring interactive workshops, stimulating talks, creative performances, installations, provocative debates, and more, the festival invites us to explore where we are—and where we could go next.
The Data and AI Festival will showcase current and future research happening at the University, and invite discussion, debate and provocation whilst providing space for developing potential new research collaborations, and exploring how the Centre can support these new collaborations.
Festival themes
The festival will explore the following themes:
AI for...
- Everyday Life
- Smart Technologies
- Social Purpose
- Creativity
- Governance, Risk, and Responsible Innovation,
- Infrastructure and Foundations
- Discovery
Festival Programme (Registration links available soon!)
Monday 27 October
Morning sessions:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm (all day): Interactive Deathbot (installation)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Using AI Ethically (Panel and workshop)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm: Solving Real-World Problems with Statistics and Data Science (Talk)
Afternoon Sessions:
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Human AI relationahips. Riccardo Volpato (Workshop and discussion)
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Accessing data TRE (Talks)
Tuesday 28 October
Morning sessions:
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Political Economy of AI (Panel discussion)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Future of info access/ Information Access and Retrieval in the AI age (Keynote, panel, workshop demo)
Afternoon Sessions:
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Equitable and Just AI (Roundtable)
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Research Literature Demo (Workshop/hackathon)
Wednesday 29 October
Morning sessions:
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: AI community development (Panel discussion)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm: Lego metadata game (Game)
Afternoon Sessions:
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: CREATe - AI regulation workshop
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Broken canvas - research game (Research-led discussion based game)
4:00 - 5:00: AI Debate
