Organizing Committee

The NGEN-AI 2026 committee will bring together experts from academia and industry to guide the conference on federated learning, LLMs, generative AI, and agentic AI systems.

Committee

General Chairs

  • Marco Roveri
    University of Trento, Italy
  • Sadi Alawadi
    Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Program Chairs

  • Jacopo Staiano
    University of Trento, Italy
  • Fahed Alkhabbas
    Malmö University, Sweden

Publicity Chairs

  • Khalid AlKharabsheh
    Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan
  • Moamin Abughazala
    University of L'Aquila, Italy

Publication Chairs

  • Addi Ait-Mlouk
    University of Skövde, Sweden
  • Hadi Khalilia
    University of Trento, Italy

Local Organizing Chairs

  • Enrico Saccon
    University of Trento, Italy
  • Chiara Camilla Rambaldi Migliore
    University of Trento, Italy

Steering Committee

  • Fausto Giunchiglia
    University of Trento, Italy
  • Magnus Johnsson
    Högskolan Kristianstads, Sweden
  • Abbas Cheddad
    Tartu University, Estonia
  • Helena Holmström Olsson
    Malmö University, Sweden

Program Committee

(to be completed/updated)

  • Abbas Cheddad
    Tartu University, Estonia
  • Alexander Galozy
    Halmstad University, Sweden
  • Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele
    Malmö University, Sweden
  • Ashir Javeed
    Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • David Mera Perez
    Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Emiliano Casalicchio
    Sapienza University, Italy
  • Erdal Akin
    Malmö University, Sweden
  • Fabio Liberti
    Universitas Mercatorum, Italy
  • Jafar Alzubi
    Al Balqa’ Applied University, Jordan
  • Jamal Toutouh
    Malaga University, Spain
  • Jose Angel Taboada Gonzalez
    Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Jose Manuel Cotos Yañez
    Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Jonne van Dreven
    Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Kayode Sakariyah Adewole
    Malmö University, Sweden
  • Li Ju
    Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Majed Ayyad
    Birzeit University, Palestine
  • Majed Elwardy
    Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Manuel Fernandez Delgado
    Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Mario Lemes Proença Jr.
    State University of Londrina, Brazil
  • Moamin Abughazala
    University of L'Aquila, Italy
  • Mohamed Nezar Abourraja
    University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Mohammad Sharaf
    An-Najah National University, Palestine
  • Mohammed Alsadi
    Verizon, USA
  • Suhail Odeh
    Bethlehem University, Palestine
  • Naveed Muhammad
    Tartu University, Estonia
  • Omar Achbarou
    University of Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
  • Omar Almousa
    Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
  • Omar Alzubi
    Al Balqa’ Applied University, Jordan
  • Pedro Guijas Bravo
    Universidad da Coruña, Spain
  • Prayag Tiwari
    Halmstad University, Sweden
  • Rachid Ouchikh
    Lund University, Sweden
  • Rawan Gedoen
    Bethlehem University, Palestine
  • Sonika Arora
    Salesforce, USA
  • Suejb Memeti
    Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Tarik Agouti
    University of Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
  • Umair Khadam
    Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Carlos Huertas Blanco
    Univesitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
  • Victor Kabande
    Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden