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AI Summit Styria 2026 · 22–23 October 2026 · FH JOANNEUM Kapfenberg, Werk-VI-Straße 46

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Speakers

Keynotes

Patrick Ratheiser

AI-H.A.B.I.Ts – From Idea to Productive Use of Artificial Intelligence

Thu 22 Oct · 15:30 · Audimax

Elisabeth André

From Output to Agency: Rethinking Human-AI Collaboration in the Age of Overproduction

Thu 22 Oct · 16:05 · Audimax

Klaus Steinmaurer

Power and Control – Will AI Determine Its Own Rules in the Future?

Fri 23 Oct · 09:30 · Audimax

Florian Brugger

From AI Point Solutions to AI System Solutions – So Necessary and So Difficult!

Fri 23 Oct · 10:00 · Audimax

Paper sessions

24 talks shown

HS102 · Fri 10:30

Session 1 Interdisciplinary

  • Human Rights for All? AI Facial Recognition at EU Borders and the Limits of European AI Governance

    Neil Carelse

  • FORTRESS: A Sovereign, Reproducible Provenance Layer for AI-Era Content with a Null-Controlled False-Attribution

    Hagen Schmidt

  • The Secret Life of a Model Context Protocol and How to Unveil It

    Johannes Feiner, Sabine Prossnegg, Florian Temel, Harald Schwab, Klaus Gebeshuber, Helmut Lindner and Heidemarie Koellinger

HS103 · Fri 10:30

Session 2 Foundations & Infrastructure

  • Leveraging Temporal Context for 4K Video Super-Resolution

    Mario Negovetić and Horst Possegger

  • Negative Results for Structure-Aware Extensions of Museformer for Symbolic Music Generation

    Felix Schön and Hans Tompits

  • RAGnaroX: A Rust-Based, Local-Hosted ChatOps Assistant Using Small Language Models

    Benedikt Dornauer and Mircea-Cristian Racasan

HS102 · Fri 11:50

Session 3 IT Security

  • AI-Threat-Detect: A Containerized Multi-Model Pipeline for Intelligent Network Anomaly Identification

    Georg Mittenecker, Fabian Oratsch, Matthias Paar, Johannes Pailer and Franz Unterlercher

  • On-Device Generative AI for GDPR-Compliant Visual Monitoring: Natural Language Alerts from Local Object Detection

    Gudrun Schappacher-Tilp, Nicoletta Kaehling, Jan Kornberger and Egon Teiniker

  • An LLM Dual-Use Lens on IT Security

    Florian Temel, Patrick Deininger, Stefan Rappl and Klaus Gebeshuber

HS103 · Fri 11:50

Session 4 Software Engineering

  • Layered Hallucination Containment for Agentic AI: A Taxonomy, Framework, and Empirical Study

    Inshirah Hassan and Müslüm Atas

  • Vibe Coding — Current Opportunities and Challenges with a Focus on Software Development Education: A Literature Review

    Hannah Wimmer, Wilhelm Zugaj, Fatima Jammoul, Marie-Christine Maierbrugger and Nadja Pertl

  • What Weak Teams Already Knew

    Stefan Sedelmaier

HS102 · Fri 14:00

Session 5 Software Engineering

  • Extreme Prompting: How to Use Extreme Programming to Integrate Coding Agents into Embedded Development

    Egon Teiniker, Jan Kornberger, Nicoletta Kaehling and Gudrun Schappacher-Tilp

  • Automated Quality Assessment of User Stories Using Large Language Models: A Cautionary Study of Agreement Metrics on a Violation-Sparse Baseline

    Helmut Lindner, Dzenis Djuhić and Patrick Deininger

  • AI-Augmented Continuous Integration

    Mathias Knoll and Gabriel Ostermann

HS103 · Fri 14:00

Session 6 Foundations & Infrastructure

  • A Sovereign, Reproducible Trust Layer for LLM Systems: Two-Number Prompt-Injection Detection with Post-Quantum, Browser-Verifiable Audit Receipts

    Hagen Schmidt

  • Event-Sourced Replay for Policy Governance in LLM Agent Orchestration

    Tobias Simperl

  • Utilization of Large Language Models in Agent-Based Modeling to Simulate Human Decision-Making and Communication

    Georg Jäger, Daniel Pfitzner and Felix Temel

HS102 · Fri 15:20

Session 7 Foundations & Infrastructure

  • Explainability Methods in Code Summarization

    Fatima Jammoul, Hannah Wimmer and Nadja Pertl

  • Knowledge on Demand: A Practitioner's Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Pharmaceutical Engineering

    Gert Breitfuss, Julian Gratzer and Daniel Proell

  • Beyond Generative AI: Integrating Predictive Intelligence into LLM-Based Architectures for Reliable Decision Systems

    Uwe Seebacher, Carolin Meyer and Bernd Trummer

HS103 · Fri 15:20

Session 8 Interdisciplinary

  • From Paper to Pipeline: LLM-Assisted Cross-Domain Algorithm Implementation in Applied Quantum Research

    Afik Eschel

  • Temporal-Majority Provenance Watermarking Survives Real Video Codecs: An H.264/HEVC/VP9/AV1 Scorecard with Audio Context

    Hagen Schmidt

  • HAIC: Evidence-Based Automated Compliance Checking for High-Risk AI Systems under the EU AI Act

    Franz Unterlercher and Gerhard Sprung