Program at a glance
22.9.2026 9am-6pm
Room: BAR/I88/U
Language: English
| Time | Session | Speakers / Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome and Opening – From Prompt to Propaganda | Workshop Chairs |
| 09:10 – 09:45 | Opening Keynote – The Media Perspective | Caroline Lindekamp, CORRECTIV (t.b.c.) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Germany – Building a National Research Ecosystem | Maja Denisova and representatives of German projects and initiatives |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break and Poster Session | Scientific posters and networking |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | France – From Research to Operational Capabilities | Jean-Luc Gibernon, Pole d’Excellence Cyber / Sopra Steria, and further contributors |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Scientific Talk – Disinformation in Urban Crisis | Sandrine Turgis, Leandre Lebon – AI-Generated Disinformation in Times of Urban Crisis: Lessons from the Rival Youth Groups Case in North Holland |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Ukraine – Lessons from the Frontline of Information Warfare | Anatolii Marushchak |
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Scientific Talk – Is Technology Enough? | Peter Schoo – More Regulation, Please: Technical Privacy Protection Alone Can Only Partially Limit Democratic Harm from Microtargeting – A Position Statement |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Panel – From National Ecosystems to European Action | Maja Denisova, Jean-Luc Gibernon, Anatolii Marushchak, Peter Schoo |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Hands-on – Can You Spot It? Can You Create It? | JudgeGPT challenge + team-based creation of disinformation from current real news |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Scientific Talk – Building Influence | Alexander Loth, Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl – [GenTool] as Agentic Infrastructure: Seeding Cross-Lingual Misinformation Simulations and Red-Teaming Social Media Agents |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Scientific Talk – Spreading Influence | Jordan Ricker, Clement Benesse, Darius Beucler – From Peripheral Seeding to Systemic Contamination: Multi-Vector Monitoring of Information Propagation |
| 15:20 – 15:30 | Joint Discussion – Infrastructure to Propagation | Speakers + audience |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Coffee Break and Scientific Poster Session | All scientific contributions |
| 16:30 – 16:55 | Live Challenge – Real or Fake? | Three participant teams present their real and manipulated news; audience votes and teams reveal their strategies |
| 16:55 – 17:15 | Expert Survey – From Experience to Evidence | Interactive community survey: definition, ecosystem mapping, gaps and roadmap |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Scientific Talk – Understanding Human Vulnerability | Alexander Loth, Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl – Interrupting the Chain: Human Perception of AI-Generated Disinformation Through a Kill Chain Lens |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Scientific Talk – Detecting Influence | Maged Mortaga, Marvin Sieger, Moritz Goeke, Andre Calero Valdez – Not All Errors are Equal: Comparing Humans and LLMs on Detecting Argumentative Flaws in Misinformation |
| 17:40 – 17:50 | Scientific Talk – Language as a Weapon | Maurice Langner – Scalar Evaluative Expressions and Their Manipulative Use in LLM-Generated Text |
| 17:50 – 18:00 | Joint Discussion and Closing | From manipulation and detection to the workshop roadmap |
| 18:00 | End of Workshop |