On 27–28 March 2025, the Hybrid Intelligence Consortium gathered at Lijm & Cultuur in Delft for two days of research presentations, project updates, and planning sessions.

Key Highlights:

• Keynote presentation:
  Filip Ilievski presented his book Human-Centric AI with Common Sense, covering cognitive, symbolic, and neural theories for commonsense reasoning. His talk addressed the integration of neural and symbolic methods for open-domain tasks and outlined future challenges in developing adaptive and responsible AI systems.
  
• Research presentations:
  • Urja Khurana – Toward More Robust and Reliable Language Model Deployment
  • Sharvaree Vadgama – Geometric Generative Models
  • Íñigo Martínez de Rituerto de Troya – Sociotechnical Misabstraction Considered Harmful
  • Lea Krause – Contextualising Conversational AI
  • Ilaria Tiddi, Victor de Boer & Stefan Schlobach – HIKE Framework
    
• Engineering Fund:
  • Demonstrations and updates on projects supported by the current Engineering Fund.
  • Announcement of the 2025 Engineering Fund round.
  • Short pitches for new proposals and a call for cross-read volunteers.
    
• TNO Appl.AI:
  • Cor Veenman presented ongoing work and perspectives from TNO’s Appl.AI programme.