SAIL Spring School 2026

Mar 17, 2026, 8:30 AM → Mar 19, 2026, 2:00 PM Europe/Berlin

ZM2 (Paderborn)

We are pleased to present the SAIL Spring School 2026 at Paderborn University. At this Spring School we will offer exciting lectures in the field of Resilience and AI. The whole event will be accompanied by a poster session and a social program, which will provide opportunities for networking and professional exchange. 

We look forward to welcoming you in Paderborn! 

Prof. Dr. Axel Ngonga and the team of the DICE Research Group

© Universität Paderborn, Kamil Glabica

Status Updates Spring School: 

06 October 2025: Registration is now open! Register for the SAIL Spring School until 5th January 2026. The program is still being worked on and will be made available ASAP on this page. More information including how to participate in the poster session will follow soon. The preliminary program of the AI Winter School will be published and can be viewed under "Timetable

Arrival to Venue

The AI Winter School will take place at Zukunftsmeile 2 (ZM2). Please note that the building is not located on the main campus of Paderborn University, but on Fürstenallee. By public transport, the best way to reach the Zukunftsmeile from the main train station is to take bus line 9 to the bus stop "Ferrariweg" (journey time about 15 minutes).

Accommodation

You may find some hotel recommendations and booking links below. Please visit the links to finalize your bookings directly with the hotels. 

• Welcome Hotel Paderborn: Special rates for guests of Paderbon University when using the personal booking code „WHPBUNIY61“: Standard Single Room 114 EUR incl. breakfast and WLAN. 
• Hotel Aspethera Paderborn: Special rates for guests of Paderborn University, please indicate when booking! Regular price: Single Room about 92 EUR inkl. breakfast. 
• B&B Hotel Paderborn: Single room from 61 EUR per night, (74,90 EUR with breakfast).
• ibis Hotel Paderborn City: Single room from 56 EUR per night (73,50 EUR with breakfast).
• Best Western Plus Arosa Hotel: Single room from 126 EUR (144EUR with breakfast)
• Intercity Hotel Paderborn:  Single Room from 68 EUR (82.50 EUR inluding breakfast)

 
 

Tuesday, March 17

1:00 PM → 1:30 PM Registration and Coffee

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Welcome

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Data-efficient learning of physics systems by exploiting knowledge (Prof. Sebastian Peitz, TU Dortmund)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Knowledge Representation as Political AI (Prof. Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

6:00 PM → 10:00 PM Spring School Dinner

Wednesday, March 18

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Symbol emergence in explainable and continual learning (Prof. Natalia Diaz Rodriguez, University of Granada)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Chances and Limits of AI in the Engineering of Resilient Software Systems (Prof. Eric Bodden. Paderborn University)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM TBD (Prof. Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Engineering Cognitive Sustainability: How to Implement Social XAI (Prof. Kary Främling, Umeå University)

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Poster Session

Thursday, March 19

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM On the Role of Uncertainty-Awareness for Resilient AI Systems (Prof. Eyke Hüllermeier, LMU München)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Efficient DNN Inference through Approximation and Streaming Dataflow Accelerators (Prof. Marco Platzner, Paderborn University)

12:30 PM → 1:00 PM Summary and Farewell

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch