Programme

Connecting Visions to Build Resilient Futures

SustainableICT Doctoral Winter School
26th - 30th January 2026 @ ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Day 1: History

26/01/2026
09:30 - 10:30 Registration / Breakfast Open Area
10:30 - 11:00 Opening Ceremony Jan Tobias Mühlberg Lecture Hall
11:00 - 12:30 Ice Breaker Session Joanna Murzyn Workshop
12:30 - 13:00 Poster Session Attendees/Organisers Open Area
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Open Area
14:00 - 15:00 History of Technology Adrien Tournier Lecture Hall
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break Open Area
15:30 - 17:00 History of Technology (Continued) Lecture Hall

Day 2: Politics

27/01/2026
09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast Open Area
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote: An extractivist AI: The global circulation of data work and critical natural resources Paola Tubaro Lecture Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break Open Area
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote: Geopolitics of Cryptocurrency Mining in Kazakhstan Hugo Estecahandy Lecture Hall
12:00 - 13:00 Networking: Lightning Talks Organisers Lecture Hall
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Open Area
14:00 - 15:00 Workshop: Life Cycle Assessment and Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis Andrea Di Maria, Dominik Hubert, Geert Te Boveldt Lecture Hall
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break Open Area
15:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Life Cycle Assessment and Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (Continued) Lecture Hall

Day 3: Economy/Ecology

28/01/2026
09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast Open Area
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote: Digital Industry and Extractivism in Congo Fabien Lebrun Lecture Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break Open Area
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote: TBD Natalia Calderón Beltrán Lecture Hall
12:00 - 13:00 Networking: Attendee Coffee Tables/Speed Dating Organisers/Attendees Open Area
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Open Area
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote: TBD Patrick Brodie Lecture Hall
15:00 - 17:00 Mystery Activity - Bring Weather-Appropriate Clothes Outside

Day 4: Alternative/Mixed Methodologies

29/01/2026
09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast Open Area
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote: Critical Investigation of Federated Learning and Privacy Marie Garin Lecture Hall
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break Open Area
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote: Impact on Society in the Use of AI, Use/Bias of Biometry Patrick Brodie Lecture Hall
12:00 - 13:00 Networking: Lightning Talks Organisers Lecture Hall
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Open Area
14:00 - 15:00 Workshop: Workshop: How can we ask effective questions? Attendees Workshop
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break Open Area
15:30 - 17:00 Panel: On the Topic of Connecting Visions to Build Resilient Futures Sophia Falk Lecture Hall
15:30 - 17:00 Networking dinner Restaurant − TBA

Day 5: Social Sustainability

30/01/2026
09:30 - 10:00 Breakfast Open Area
10:00 - 11:00 Computer science research and the consequences of accounting for climate change on the discipline Antoine Hardy Lecture Hall
11:00 - 11:30 Morning Break Open Area
11:30 - 13:00 Workshop: From publication to public action: scientists as activists in a world in crisis Anne Baillot Lecture Hall
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Open Area
14:00 - 15:00 Closing Ceremony Lecture Hall
15:00 - 15:30 Farewells All Open Area

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