First TRUST Annual Conference 2026

Program Annual Conference 20th October

 

TimeWhat 
8:30Registration 
8:55Start  
9:00-9:05What is Trustworthy AI? A Vox Pop Video 
9:05- 9:20Welcome and status update: Arnoldo Frigessi, TRUST’s director, Andre' Teigland, chair of the TRUST Board and Pia Zacharias, chair of TRUST Innovation Board. 
09:20 - 10:30Developing Trustworthy AI at Scale: Six TRUST projects, with a moderated Q&A by Kjersti Aas and Jonas Moræus. 
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break 
11:00 - 11:45Building TRUST Together: a multi-perspective study of current TRUST’s projects, with Malcolm Langford, Joey Pollock and Arnoldo Frigessi. 
11:45-12:00Can TRUST’s projects be veridical? Developing a common agenda, with Geir Kjetil Sandve, Milena Pavlovic and Anders Strand. 
12:00-13:00Lunch with time for networking, mingling 
13:00-14:10Developing Trustworthy AI in Times of Change: Six TRUST projects with a moderated Q&A by Mike Barnes and Tobias Mahler. 
14:10-14:30Next Generation: a conversation among junior scholars on dreams, wishes and fears on TRUST’s research and impact 
14:30- 15:00Coffee Break 
15:00-15:30Innovation in TRUST: Accelerating good practices together, with Morten Dæhlen and some TRUST partners. 
15:30-15:50Thinking ahead on TRUST’s development: a conversation among members of TRUST's community on ambitions, visions and dangers. 
15:50-16:00Surprise! 
16:15- 19:30Dinner: Buffet, networking, music, conversation 

 

TRUST-projects that will be presented: 

- Foundations for a trustworthy Spatio-Temporal Foundation Model (TruSTFM)  (presenter: Filippo Bianchi)

- Prototype to Product: Integrating AI into Complex Systems (P2P-AI) 
(presenter: Antonio Martini)

- Reasoning foundation models or Project 75 
(presenter: Benjamin Ricaud)

- Agentic Sim-Based Inference under Computational and Data-Quality Constraints: Digital Twins for Healthcare 
(presenter: Kjetil Olsen Lye)

- Deepfakes and crime 
(presenter: Ingvild Bruce)

- Interacting traders 
(presenter: Kristian Lindbäck Løvland)

- AI in professional conduct 
(presenter: Joey Pollock)

- Human expertise in AI-powered knowledge work 
(presenter: Monika Nerland)

- Emergent cognition /Human agency and learning in AI-enhanced collaboration 
(presenter: Crina Damsa)

- AI for Signal analysis of Human behaviour: Identification, Forecasting, dynamics Contact person: Francesco di Ruscio

- Measuring bias in multimodal image–text model
Contact person: Erik Velldal Presenter: Lilja Øvrelid

- Emergent cognition /Human agency and learning in AI-enhanced collaboration (TeamLearn AI)
Contact person: Crina Damsa

- GALTS
Contact person: Tobias Mahler
 

Read about all approved TRUST projects and pre-projects here.

PS. As part of the TRUST Annual Conference, on October 21, all participants are encouraged to join organised meetings with our Research Areas, individual TRUST projects, action clusters and other TRUST initiatives. Read more here.

 

Published Sep. 14, 2026 11:25 AM - Last modified Oct. 14, 2026 11:42 AM