19 May
14:00 – Excursion, Rila Monastery.
19:00 – Welcome party.
20 May
9:00 – Nikola Kasabov, Brain-inspired AGI for the benefit of the Humanity (video)
9:30 – Radoslav Nikolov, AI disruption at Enterprise Software
10:00 – Dimiter Dobrev, True AI should be a loser, not a winner
10:20 – Jörg Koppitz, AI and Graph Theory
10:40 – Vladislav Yurukov, Best Practices in AI Guardrails: Synthesis of Governance, Safety, and Ethical Safeguards (video)
11:00 – Zhivko Georgiev and Lyubomir Ivanov, The Epistemic Limits of Artificial General Intelligence: Between Accumulated Knowledge, Scientific Discovery, and Informational Vulnerability
11:30 – Registration.
12:00 – Lunch.
13:00 – Official opening of the conference. (video)
13:30 – Solomon Passy, i-Democracy: Autopilot of e-happiness
14:30 – Valentin Goranko, Artificial General Intelligence: viewpoints from logic, agency, and multi-agent systems
15:00 – Paul Werbos, Seeing the Sky: New Quantum Hardware Offers Millions-Fold More Power
16:00 – Moshe Y. Vardi, Are AI minds genuine minds? (video)
17:00 – Coffee break.
17:30 – Marcus Hutter, ASI Safety via AIXI
18:30 – Pei Wang, Competing Conceptions of AGI (video)
20:30 – Farewell party.
This is a preliminary program that will change and will not be followed too strictly.
The working language of the conference is English.