The full program of the 11th Australia-Spain Research Forum “Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?“ is described below, and it is also available in a PDF file including the Conference Poster.
The Conference Booklet compiling all the information (program, abstracts, bios, acknowledgements) is available from this PDF file.
PROGRAM
| Time | Talk | Speaker |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | REGISTRATION + WELCOME COFFEE | |
| 10:30 – 12:05 | SESSION 1: OPENING AND OVERVIEW | Chair: A/Prof Ángel R. López-Sánchez (SRAP & MQ) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | FORMAL OPENING: Welcome speeches | – HE Ms Esther Monterrubio Villar, Spanish Ambassador of Australia – HE Mr Luis Sánchez-Vellisco, Spanish Ambassador of New Zealand (pre-recorded) – Ms Inmaculada Riera, General Director of the Chamber of Commerce of Spain (pre-recorded) |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | The role of Spanish Researchers in the Australia-Pacific community | A/Prof Ángel R. López-Sánchez (SRAP & MQ) |
| 11:00 – 11:05 | Joint La Cámara – Spanish-Australia Chamber of Commerce & SRAP Announcement | – Mr Rod Noel, General Manager, Spanish-Australian Chamber of Commerce – A/Prof Ángel R. López-Sánchez (SRAP & MQ) |
| 11:05 – 11:15 | Promoting Spanish Culture in Australia: The SRAP–Instituto Cervantes Sydney Collaboration | Ms Coral Martínez (Director, Instituto Cervantes Sydney) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | KEYNOTE LECTURE : The impact of AI | Prof Ian Oppermann (UTS) |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | AI systems as an anticorruption tool | Dr José Miguel Bello-Villarino (USyd & SRAP) |
| 12:05 – 1:15 | LUNCH & NETWORKING | |
| 1:15 – 2:30 | SESSION 2: AI applied | Chair: José Miguel Bello-Villarino (USyd & SRAP) |
| 1:15 – 1:30 | Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University | Prof Jian Yang (MQ) |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | AI in gender equality legislation | A/Prof Ramona Vijeyarasa (USyd) |
| 1:45 – 2:00 | AI in teaching languages | Dr Macarena Gordillo de Paz (UTS, USyd & SRAP) |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Clinical Text Meets AI: Privacy, Bias, and Beyond | Dr Óscar Pérez-Concha (UNSW &SRAP) |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | AI, media, social media & fake news | Dr John Postill (RMIT & SRAP) |
| 2:30 – 3:25 | COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING | |
| 3:25 – 5:00 | SESSION 3 | |
| 3:25 – 4:05 | SRAP-frA Early Career Researchers (ECR) presentations | Chair: Dr Marcos Roca-Cusachs (UNSW & SRAP), Chair of the 2025 SRAP-frA ECR Award Committee |
| 3:28 – 3:38 | SRAP-frA Early Career Researcher 2025 Nominee 1 | Ms Inmaculada Conde (USyd & SRAP) |
| 3:40 – 3:50 | SRAP-frA Early Career Researcher 2025 Nominee 2 | Dr Arola Moreras Martí (Auckland University of Technology & SRAP) |
| 3:52 – 4:02 | SRAP-frA Early Career Researcher 2025 Nominee 3 | Dr Miguel Ángel Berrocal-Rubio (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute & SRAP) |
| 4:05 – 4:45 | PANEL DISCUSSION: AI: Friend or Foe? | Chair: Dr José Miguel Bello-Villarino (Used & SRAP) – Pablo Roman (Healthdirect Australia) – Dr Macarena Gordillo de Paz (UTS, USyd & SRAP) – Juan Antonio López de Vergara (Ferrovial Australia) – Claudio Vazquez (SBS Spanish) |
| 4:45 – 4:55 | SRAP-frA Early Career Researcher 2025 Winner Announcement | Dr Marcos Roca-Cusachs (UNSW & SRAP), Chair of the 2025 SRAP-frA ECR Award Committee |
| 4:55 – 5:00 | Concluding remarks | Prof Sergio León-Saval (USyd & SRAP) |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Conference Photos & Networking | |
| 7:00 – 9:00 | Conference Dinner (BY INVITATION ONLY) | Gure Txoko Euskal Etxea Basque Club Darlinghurst NSW |