Two one-day events in September: BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON AI

BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BCS-SGAI)

 

There are two one-day SGAI events arranged for September, both at the British Computer Society London office (near Moorgate underground station).

 

Trustworthiness and Safety in Generative AI - Friday September 11th 2026

https://www.bcs-sgai.org/genai2026/

 

Real AI 2026 - Friday September 25th 2026

https://www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2026/

 

There are online registration forms available from the event websites.

 

Trustworthiness and Safety in Generative AI - Friday September 11th 2026

Despite impressive breakthroughs in capabilities across text, vision, audio, and multimodal reasoning, current generative models remain prone to unpredictable failures and exhibit unresolved challenges in alignment, grounding, and robustness techniques, including hallucinations, instability under distribution shift, hidden internal representations, and limited theoretical understanding of how large‑scale models encode and propagate knowledge. This colloquium aims to create a forum for discussing cutting edge advances and emerging challenges in the trustworthiness and safety of generative AI.

 

The talks will include:

• Beyond the Pixel: Trustworthy and Safe Generative AI for Medical Image Quality Transfer
• Spoofing Deep Leakage Attacks in Federated Learning
• Can We Trust the Voice on the Line? Robust Audio Deepfake Detection from Real-World Calls to the First “Hi”
• The Scenic Route to Deception: Dark Patterns and Explainability Pitfalls in Conversational Navigation
• Differential Adjusted Parity for Learning Fair Representations
• Decision-theoretic uncertainty quantification in generative deep learning
• Zero Trust Architectures for Secure Multi-Agent AI Systems: From Identity to Collaboration Integrity

Registration fee: £50 (plus VAT) for BCS and SGAI members and £90 (plus VAT) for others. This includes attendance at the event, lunch and refreshments.

Students and unwaged: £35 (plus VAT).  Group discounts are also available.

 

Real AI 2026 - Friday September 25th 2026

This event is aimed less at deep AI specialists and more at those who may be interested in understanding what AI can offer, and what it is doing right now. The event will feature talks from leading exponents and case studies outlining practical applications of AI from a wide range of application domains. Plenty of time has been allowed in the programme for discussion.

 

The talks will include:

• Evolving the SDLC: Our Journey Towards Agentic Software Engineering
• Robotics in the Age of AI: Adoption, Illusion and Direction of Travel
• Is Judgement Uniquely Human?
• Agent Trust and Coordination in Autonomous Multi-Agent Cyber Defence Systems
• Agentic AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Three Real-World Use Cases

Registration fee: £90 (plus VAT) for BCS and SGAI members and £110 (plus VAT) for others. This includes attendance at the event, lunch and refreshments.

Students and unwaged: £50 (plus VAT).  Group discounts are also available.

 

Max Bramer, Chair, BCS-SGAI 

bcs-sgai.org

[And my source.]

2nd International Conference on Health Medical Systems and Services (HMSS 2026)

Dear Colleague,

🚨 Last Chance to Submit – Deadline: August 05, 2026

Are you shaping the future of smart, secure healthcare? Join global pioneers at the

The 2nd International Conference on

Health Medical Systems and Services (HMSS 2026)

📍 When & Where? 17–20 November 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

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📝 Submission Portal: https://hmss-conference.org/authors.php

💡 From AI to cybersecurity, health and medical informatics, and digital health breakthroughs—HMSS 2026 is where innovation meets real-world impact.

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Warm regards,
HMSS 2026 Organizing Committee

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Shining a light on Dark Patterns

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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PERSONAL DATA^	PERSONAL DATA DATA, DESIGN BIOMETRICS^ PERSONAL DATA  DARK   PATTERNS
PERSONAL DATA*	CONTROL TECH GIANTS TRANSPARENCY LAW CONSUMER PROTECTION ...

*And the data of family members.
^Data that is specific to an individual, organic, can include fingerprint, facial images, DNA, behaviours (including keyboard use, online).

Prompt: Mention of 'dark patterns' on BBC World Service promoting their tech coverage.

Previously: 'interface(s)'

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