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09:00
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Keynote - Věra Jourová
(until 09:30)
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09:00
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Keynote - “Trust and Transparency”
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Věra Jourová (Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency)
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09:30
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Research Track
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Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
(until 10:45)
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09:30
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Research Track „Human centric Search / User Experience“
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Session Chair: Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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09:31
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Understanding and mitigating Cognitive Bias during Web Search
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Simon Hitzginger (Graz University of Technology)
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09:45
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Interfacing generic and specialized search engines on the User side
- Dr
Steffen Leich-Nienhaus
(MBG AG)
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10:00
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Linknovate startup radar – datalife use case
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Manuel Noia (Linknovate Science)
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10:15
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Reaching beyond Ethics – Perspectives of Human Rights Education on an open Search Index
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Manuel Theophil (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern- Landau)
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10:30
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Session Q&A
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10:45
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:15
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Workshop Session
(until 12:30)
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11:15
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Parallel Workshops
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11:16
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Workshop 1: Ethical Aspects
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11:16
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Workshop 2: Cross-Border Legal Considerations
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11:16
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Workshop 3: Energy Efficiency in Open Web Search
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09:00
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Keynote
(until 09:45)
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09:00
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Keynote „Inclusion by whose terms? When being in doesn’t mean digital and web search inclusion“
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Angella Ndaka (The Centre for Africa Epistemic Justice and University of Otago)
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09:45
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Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”
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Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)
(until 11:00)
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09:45
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Research Track - “Machine Learning and Retrieval”
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Session Chair: Saber Zerhoudi (University of Passau)
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09:46
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Customizable Categorization of Documents in Evidence Based Research for Biopharma
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Reihaneh Manteghi (Graz University of Technology)
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10:00
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A System for Geospatial Question-Answering using LLMs, LangChain, ChromaDB, and a Modern React.Js Frontend
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Patrick Lovric (Graz University of Technology)
Maximilian Theiner (Graz University of Technology)
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10:15
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Extending Power ISA for Search with SVP64
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Luke Leighton (Vantosh, Belgium)
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10:30
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Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering: Evaluating a Machine Learning Recommender System in a Large Interconnected Organization
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Igor Jakovljevic (CERN)
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10:45
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Session Q&A
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11:00
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--- Coffee Break ---
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11:30
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Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem”
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Session Chair: Maria Dimou (CERN)
(until 13:00)
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11:30
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Research Track - “Open Search Ecosystem”
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Session Chair: Maria Dimou, CERN
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11:31
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Towards a smart network schema builder using anonymous and implicit interaction data
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Aleksandar Bobic (CERN, Graz University of Technology)
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11:45
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Exploiting Key Information from Open Scientific Search Results to Enhance User Experience
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Sarah Frank (CERN & Graz University of Technology)
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12:00
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Exploring the Landscape of Innovation: A Network-Based Approach for Visualizing and Analyzing Heterogeneous Patent Graphs
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Andre Rattinger (Graz University of Technology)
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12:15
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Open (Web) Search, a booster for Open Science?
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Tobias Hecking (German Aerospace Center)
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12:30
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Europe’s Technical Debt: Why We Need Web Search in the Age of Generative AI
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Pedro Ortiz Suarez
(German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence)
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12:45
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Session Q&A
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13:00
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Symposium Opening: Welcome & Keynote & Invited Talks
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Stefan Voigt
Michael Granitzer
Andreas Wagner
(CERN)
(until 14:30)
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13:00
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Welcome
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Michael Granitzer
Stefan Voigt
Andreas Wagner
(CERN)
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13:05
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CERN Welcome
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Bob Jones (CERN)
(CERN)
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13:15
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Democratizing AI through community organizing
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Christoph Schumann (LAION)
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14:00
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Next Generation Internet – Initiative of the European Commssion. What’s next?
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Jorge Gasos (European Commission/DG Connect)
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14:15
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openwebsearch.eu – Where do we stand?
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Michael Granitzer (University of Passau, Germany)
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14:30
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ows.eu Track
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Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)
(until 15:30)
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14:30
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“OpenWebSearch.eu I” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers
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Session Chair: Tobias Hecking (DLR German Aerospace Center, Munich, Germany)
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14:31
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Product Spam on YouTube: A Case Study
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Janek Bevendorff (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
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14:45
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Challenges of index exchange for search engine interoperability
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Djoerd Hiemstra (Radboud University)
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15:00
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Prototyping Open Web Search Applications with TIRA: A Case Study in Research-oriented Teaching
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Maik Fröbe (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)
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15:15
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Session Q&A
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15:30
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--- Coffee Break ---
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16:00
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ows.eu Track
(until 17:45)
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16:00
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“OpenWebSearch.eu II” Research and Updates from the EU Project groups and researchers
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Session Chair: Arjen de Vries (Radboud University)
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16:01
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OWler: Preliminary results for building a Collaborative Open Web Crawler
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Michael Dinzinger (University of Passau)
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16:15
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Commercialized Generative AI: A Critical Study of the Feasibility and Ethics of Generating Native Advertising Using Large Language Models in Conversational Web Search
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Ines Zelch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)
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16:30
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A Comprehensive Dataset for Webpage Classification
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Mohammed Al-Maamari (University of Passau)
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16:45
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Governance Towards an Open Web Index
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Jasmin Tietgen (Open Search Foundation)
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17:00
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Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Prototype Search Application using the Open Web Search Index
- Dr
Alexander Nussbaumer (Graz University of Technology)
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17:15
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Cooperate via Open Console
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Mark Overmeer (MarkOv Solutions)
(MarkOv Solutions)
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17:30
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Session Q&A
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18:30
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--- Ice Breaker - Welcome Drink ---
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12:30
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--- Lunch Break ---
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14:15
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Panel Session
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Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai)
(until 15:30)
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14:15
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Panel Session „Business Applications and Economic Value of Open Search“
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Session Chair: Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai); Jacqueline Erhart, ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH; Prof. Uwe Seebacher, Author and Editor, Springer Nature Group
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15:30
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Keynote & Invited Talk
(until 17:00)
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15:30
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Keynote „Bias in Search and Recommender Systems“
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA
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16:15
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--- Coffee Break ---
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16:45
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Invited Talk "Building Authentic AI: The Synergy of Decentralized Knowsledge Graph and Community Incentives"
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Branimir Rakić, co-founder and CTO at Trace Labs
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17:00
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Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“
(until 18:15)
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17:00
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Industry Track „Alternative Search Engines“
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Session Chair: Christine Plote (Open Search Foundation)
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17:01
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Web Scale Search from the Ground Up: Establishing a Viable Alternative to Big Tech.
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Colin Hayhurst, CEO, Mojeek, United Kingdom
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17:20
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For children only – the search engine fragFINN
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Anke Meinders, Managing Director, fragFINN e.V., Germany
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17:40
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Assumptions about the shape of the web
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Viktor Lofgren, Founder, Marginalia Search, Sweden
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18:00
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Session Q&A
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18:15
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Closing Day 2
(until 18:20)
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19:30
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--- Conference Dinner ---
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13:00
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Closing
(until 13:30)
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