Session

AI Trustworthiness in the Wild: Closing the Reality Gap

Tuesday July 7, 2026  | 15:30-16:30 CEST

Albert II Auditorium

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Description

While AI trustworthiness has emerged as a top priority, operationalizing it in the real world remains highly complex. This session brings together researchers and industry leaders to examine current challenges and evaluate existing solutions. Together, we will explore how these approaches can be practically applied and how upcoming regulations and standards will shape the future of trustworthy AI.

Speakers

Sebastian Heil

Senior Researcher, TUC
Sebastian Heil is a Senior Researcher at the Distributed and Self-organising Systems Group at Chemnitz University of Technology. His research is in the field of Web Engineering and focuses on trustworthy and human-centric AI-driven methods for the analysis and creation of web user interfaces, technologies for web-based frontends, as well as interaction aspects in the context of conversational user interfaces and Web of Things. To that end, he combines his experience in Applied AI, Software Engineering and HCI to explore new methods of designing, implementing and assessing user interfaces towards a future in which humans and AI co-create and interact within the next generation of the Web. In ENFIELD, he contributes a Software Engineering/HCI perspective to the creation of trustworthy-by-design web-based systems, co-leading research activities in the Trustworthy AI research pillar.

Giovanni Bonati

Manager, Gruppo Maggioli and Digital Innovation Advisor
Giovanni Bonati serves as an advisor to the Italian Parliament, the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean on matters related to digital transition, research and innovation. A member of the Technical and Scientific Committee for Digital Transformation of the Lombardy Region, Bonati also advises the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato on innovation projects for public administrations and citizens. As President of the Associazione Cittadinanza Digitale, Bonati holds executive and advisory roles in public and private organisations focused on emerging technologies.

Georgios Spathoulas

Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Georgios Spathoulas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He serves as the Technical Coordinator of the ENFIELD project, while he also leads the Trustworthy AI research pillar. His research background is in cybersecurity with a strong focus on cyber-physical systems security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, blockchain-based security mechanisms, and trustworthiness of AI systems. Overall, his work combines theoretical and applied cybersecurity research aimed at improving the resilience, trustworthiness, and security of emerging digital infrastructures.