Day 1: Foundations: Governance, Ethics & Translation

Thursday, 22. October, 2026

10:00 - Opening
Vice Rector Michaela Fritz

10:30 - Session 1 (in cooperation with Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine, Univ. Vienna)

Keynote: Regulation of Medical AI: Current Trends in the EU
Prof. Dr. Karl Stöger
Professor of Medical Law and Director of the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine
University of Vienna
AI and Religion(s) — Current Initiatives and Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Müller
Professor of Theological Ethics and Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine
University of Vienna
When Patients Turn to AI: Ethical Perspectives on Patient-Initiated Use of GenAI in Healthcare
Dr. Elisabeth Langmann
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society (IEHHS),
University of Augsburg

12:15 - Poster Session Lightening Talks

13:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session

14:30 - Session 2

Keynote: AI and the Age of Digital Humanism
Mag.a Dr.in Katja Mayer
Senior Postdoc, Department of Science and Technology Studies
University of Vienna; Senior Scientist, Center for Social Innovation
Injury Reduction and Performance Optimization
Dr. Dario Cazzola
CEO & Co-Founder, Forceteck

15:30 - Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 - Agentic Session

Prof. Dr. Björn Menze
Professor of Biomedical Image Analysis and Machine Learning
University of Zurich; Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

17:30 - Wrap Up by AIM