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6 March 2026

Paper
Conjuring Positive Pairs for Efficient Unification of Representation Learning and Image Synthesis
Petia Radeva, Imanol G. Estepa and 1 more
- Petia Radeva, Matemáticas e Informática, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Imanol G. Estepa, Universitat de Barcelona,Barcelona,Spain
- Jesús M. Rodríguez-de-Vera, Universitat de Barcelona,Barcelona,Spain
Paper
CraftSVG: Multi-Object Text-to-SVG Synthesis via Layout Guided Diffusion
Ayan Banerjee, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Computer Vision Center · Josep Lladós, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Computer Vision Center
Paper
Leveraging Semantic Attribute Binding for Free-Lunch Color Control in Diffusion Models
Javier Vazquez-Corral, Joost van de Weijer and 4 more
- Javier Vazquez-Corral, Computer Vision Center
- Joost van de Weijer, The Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Barcelona,Spain,08193
- Alexandra Gomez-Villa, Computer Vision Center,Spain
- Bogdan Raducanu, Computer Vision Center,Spain
- Héctor Laria, Computer Vision Center,Spain
- Muhammad Atif Butt, Computer Vision Center,Spain
Paper · VIS - Visió Artificial i Sistemes Intel·ligents
Pipeline curvature detection using a pipeline inspection gauge equipped with multiple odometry
Grau Saldes, Antoni · Lugo-del-Real, Eloina
Podcast · Podcast de Itnig: Historias de startups
Snowflake, Anthropic y OpenAI: así cambia la IA el software y el trabajo

5 March 2026

Event
4YFN 2026
3 sessions · 14 people
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1. Imagination Meets Technology: The Science of Creativity Cecilia Mosze Tham, Ella Weston, Otto Plesner
2. AI Won’t Steal Your Job, But… Agur Jõgi, Asghar Jameel, Francesco Ciulla, Katrina Logie, Marcel Queralt, Oana Iordachescu, Per Krogslund, Sead Ahmetovic
3. One Size Fits None: Can AI Accelerate Inclusion? Andrea Barberà, Emma Sesmero, Mary Lynn Parnell
Newsletter · ResonanceMetrics - Le Blog
Vous mesurez votre visibilité IA. Et alors ?
Antoine Heftler, ResonanceMetrics

4 March 2026

Event
4YFN 2026
12 sessions · 33 people
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1. Hacked by Design? AI’s Overlooked Backdoors and What They Mean for Security Chema Alonso, Andrea Garcia Beltran, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, Jessica Souder, Katie Paxton-Fear, Steven Latre
2. Physical AI: From Virtual to Real Carla Gómez Cano, Andrew Feldman, Andy Hock, Julie Linn Teigland, Pep Viladomat, Raymond Liao
3. The (VC) World Beyond AI Cristina Fonseca, Miguel Arias, Seena Amidhozour
4. Funding Deep Tech: Lessons from Both Sides of the Term Sheet Guifre Belloso Manera
5. AI Eats the World David McClelland
6. Robots, AI and Fundamental Rights: Just Another Member of the Family? Carme Torras, Meritxell Borràs I Solé, Xavier Urios Aparisi
7. The AI Time Machine: Why Speed is the New Competitive Edge Aleix Valls Tomas
8. AI that’s Already Moving the Needle Pablo Palafox, Ryan Foutty, Jonathan Abrahamson, Pablo Moro Casquete
9. Eyes on AI. Ears to the ground for Quantum. What’s going on with Blockchain? Antoni Martin, Ursula O'Kuinghttons
10. Investor Workshop: Spotting High‑Performance AI‑Era Leaders Daniel Illes
11. AI Agents for Wildfire Prevention: From Prediction to Action Isabel Guerrero, Rubén Estebala, Samuel Lacarta
12. Africa AI Networking Event Celina Lee, Youcef Rahmani
Paper · RAIG - Mobile Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group
Anchoring actions using conditional behavior trees and genetic programming
Escudero Rodrigo, Diego
Event
MWC Barcelona 2026
8 sessions · 19 people
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1. Hacked by Design? AI’s Overlooked Backdoors and What They Mean for Security Daryan Dehghanpisheh, Katie Paxton-Fear
2. Cloud Fusion: Mastering Data Centres for the AI Era Bejoy Pankajakshan
3. Digital Disparity: Addressing the Language Gap in AI Catherine Holloway, Leena Sukumar, Peter John Alexander, Sepi Chakaveh
4. Data, Compute, Energy: The Power Equation of the AI Era Ishwar Parulkar
5. Keynote 10: Blueprints for the Intelligent Future Charlotte Kan, Justin Hotard
6. Are We Heading Towards an AI Governance Cold War? Hobeom Cha, Jayne Stancavage, Joaquina Salado, Lauren Hurcombe, Namrata Sharma
7. Robots, AI and Fundamental Rights: Just Another Member of the Family? Carme Torras, Meritxell Borràs I Solé, Xavier Urios Aparisi
8. Physical AI: From Virtual to Real Julie Linn Teigland
Article · Nearby Computing Blog
Servitization of Industry X.0 Assets powered by secure, Resilient and immersive digital twin teCHnologies
Published by NEARBYCOMPUTING

3 March 2026

Event
MWC Barcelona 2026
11 sessions · 37 people
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1. Keynote 6: Architects of the AI Age Alex Blania, Chaobin Yang, Cristiano Amon, Kate Crawford, Michael Weening
2. Keynote 8: Building The Intelligent World Justin Springham, Kate Johnson, Tom Hale
3. Agentic Intelligence: Building the Autonomous AI Ecosystem Andy Markus, China Widener, Colin Bannon, Martin Kon
4. #ChangeTheFace Summit: Designing Inclusion at Scale: DE&I in the Future of AI-Enabled Work Stephanie Cohen
5. From Principles to Practice: Operationalising Responsible AI across the Ecosystem Andrea Cartwright, Eoin Coughlan, Irish Salandanan-Almeida
6. Managing the Dark Side of AI: Ethics, Safety, and Trust Jerry Sheehan, Mark Lindsey, Sylvia Wairimu Njuguna Mulinge
7. Building Equitable Foundations for Inclusive AI Futures Anthony Rodrigo, Mili Shah, Rishal Balkissoon, Sean Blagsvedt, Silviu Petricescu
8. Scaling While AI Eats the World Benedict Evans
9. Embodied AI: Leading a New Paradigm for AI Development Ben Amor, Dong Zhang, Emanuela Girardi, Francis Gurry, John Higgins
10. Robots Among Us: Are We Ready for Embodied AI? Kevin Shatzkamer, Nakul Duggal, William Shi
11. Agentic Core Summit Daniel Krook, George Gao, Jeffrey Wu, Leo Ma
Event
4YFN 2026
14 sessions · 50 people
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1. Scaling While AI Eats the World Benedict Evans, Eynat Guez, Natalia Olson-Urtecho
2. When Vibes Become Code Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit, Ben Marrel, Diego Perino, Emma Burrows, Vik Li
3. Miracle Cure or Placebo? AI’s Current Impact on Healthcare Carmen Pauline Rios Benton, Edward Kliphuis, Jacky Abitbol, Jorge Juan Fernández García, Louise Gookey, Lukas Saari, Malbinder Fagura, Yolanda Puiggrós
4. Orchestrating Intelligence: Building The Ultimate Enterprise AI Layer Martin Kon
5. Founders AI Advantage: Productivity Anna Cejudo
6. Navigating Pivots, People, and AI-Driven Scale Atif Rafiq
7. Founders AI Advantage: Building MVPs Enrique Calvo
8. Growth Before and After the Prompt Inflection Bernat Farrero Badal, Iñaki Berenguer, Paula Clemente
9. AI for Meaningful Impact. Critical Thinking. Positive Change Liliana Arroyo, Irene Unceta, Alison Lee, Ana Valenzuela, Daniel Traça, Davide Rovera, Hisham Anwar, Javier Recuenco, Lisa Hehenberger, Marisol Jiménez, Migle Laukyte, Nuno Brito, Olivia Calafat, Salomé Gozalishvili, Sergi Bastardas, Thomas Bigagli, Xavier Domingo
10. Harnessing AI Without Losing the Human Advantage Alejandro Mañez, Alessandra Antonelli, Errol Gardner, Maria Delgado Alvarez
11. Founders AI Advantage: Sales Parker Crockford
12. Founder AI Advantage: Creativity & Design Jorge Lana
13. Building the Next Wave of AI‑Native Companies Alexander Martynau, Eduardo Ordax Duque, Laurent Arens Van De Perre
14. The Sovereignty Frontier: Scaling Europe’s Strategic Tech Mike Butcher

2 March 2026

Event
4YFN 2026
16 sessions · 54 people
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1. From Apps to Agents: Your Next Teammates Will Be AI Esteve Almirall
2. 4YFN Opening Session: Orchestrating the Exponential Gap for Infinite AI Azeem Azhar
3. From SaaS to Agent-Driven Economy Alvaro Martinez, Ariadna Font Llitjós, Arvind Jain, Daniel Hulme, Elisenda Bou Balust, Ivan Landabaso
4. 4YFN Opening Session: Exponential Value in the AI Economy Azeem Azhar, Pere Duran
5. Climate Tech: AI, Energy and the Future of Carbon Alexandra Rasch, Anish De, Anna Heim, Daniel Hires, Pol Valls Soler, Rodrigo Liang, Talia Rafaeli
6. Founders Revenue Engine: From SEO to AEO David Tomas, Eugenia Dunaeva
7. AI x Fintech: The New Rules of Intelligent Finance Aamir Ibrahim, Beatriz Gimenez, Jose V Fernandez, Melike Kara Tanrikulu, Paula Blazquez, Sophia Bantanidis, Yali Yin
8. Local Heroes Cesare Cugnasco
9. 4YFN Awards Semi-Finals: Health Tech Jamie Arkin, Keith Tsui
10. 4YFN Awards Semi-Finals: Climate Tech & Digital Horizons Haon Park, Lalit Gautam, Sukyeon Jung
11. AI, IoT, and the Standards That Decide Who Scales Alexandra Cooke, Dominik Kirchdorfer, Stephen Tulip
12. 4YFN Awards Semi-Finals: Fintech & Mobile Frontiers Junyoung Seo
13. Accelerating AI Innovation with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA Alessandro De Sario, Alexandre Défossez, Andrea Cappelletti, Carlos Morlais, Ignacio Sarasua, John Burton, Markku Räsänen, Vincent Puard
14. Secure AI at Scale: Bridging the Adoption Security Gap Iñaki Pertusa, Jad Shimaly, Yuval Dvir
15. Hyper-Scale Health: Unleashing the Power of AI and HPC (High-Performance Computing) Christopher Morton, Cristian Marti, Roc Fages
16. When AI Becomes Agentic: The Next Evolution of Telco Intelligence Agustin Moro Canada, Jérôme Berger, Leander Zapheriou, Oscar Pallarols Brossa, Silvan Lohri
Event
MWC Barcelona 2026
9 sessions · 39 people · including Esteve Almirall
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1. Networks on Autopilot: When AI Takes the Wheel Lilac Ilan
2. From Apps to Agents: Your Next Teammates Will Be AI (MWC Barcelona) Esteve Almirall
3. Keynote 1: Leading the Future: Intelligent, Inclusive, Unstoppable Christel Heydemann, Gopal Vittal, John Stankey, Margherita Della Valle, Tim Peake, Vivek Badrinath
4. Agentic AI Summit Alex Jinsung Choi, Arpit Joshipura, Chema Alonso, Daniel Cuthbert, Danielle Rios, David Palmar, George Glass, Hakan Dursun, Junlan Feng, Lina Bariah, Luis Silva, Mark Austin, Ramesh Raskar, Rohit Batra, Usman Javaid
5. 4YFN Opening Session: Orchestrating the Exponential Gap for Infinite AI Pere Duran
6. Sovereign AI and the AI Supply Chain: Global Considerations Björn Weidenmüller, Chris Penrose, Inanc Cakiroglu, Manoj Prasanna Kumar, Vaishali Rastogi
7. AI x Fintech: The New Rules of Intelligent Finance Sophia Bantanidis
8. 4YFN Opening Session: Exponential Value in the AI Economy Azeem Azhar, David McClelland
9. AI and Us: What Are We Really Building Toward? Anna Scally, Chad Seiler, Jürgen Quittek, Khartoon Weiss, Lydia Smyers, Nigel Vaz, Peter Jarich
Preprint
<i>In vitro</i> fertilisation procedure assisted with computer vision models for organic Senegalese sole ( <i>Solea senegalensis</i> ) culture
Francesc Serratosa, Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili , Tarragona, Catalonia 43007, · Abdul Qadir, IRTA, Aquaculture, Centre de La Ràpita, 43540 La Ràpita, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics (DEIM), Tarragona, Spain
Preprint
Predicting Company Growth using Scaling Theory Informed Machine Learning
Veronica R. Cappelli, IESE Business School

1 March 2026

Paper
CARLA-Haze: A Synthetic Benchmark for Outdoor Image Dehazing
Leo Thomas Ramos, Computer Vision Center
Paper
Exploring Diffusion-generated Guidance for Thermal Image Super-resolution
Leo Thomas Ramos, Computer Vision Center · Angel D. Sappa, Computer Vision Center
Paper
From data to treatment plan: An AI‐driven path for automated breast radiotherapy planning
O. Díaz, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain · S. Balocco, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain
Paper
Improving Optimization Algorithms with Machine Learning and Visualization
Camilo Chacón Sartori, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) & Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)
Paper
SOVABench: A Vehicle Surveillance Action Retrieval Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
Sergio Escalera, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and Computer Vision Center, Bellaterra, Spain · Oriol Rabasseda, Universitat de Barcelona and Computer Vision Center

28 February 2026

Paper · Leo Thomas Ramos's articles on arXiv
A Parameter-efficient Convolutional Approach for Weed Detection in Multispectral Aerial Imagery
Leo Thomas Ramos, Computer Vision Center

26 February 2026

Article
Document processing isn't one problem - it's three
Alfred Subietas, Thoughtworks

Published by Thoughtworks
Podcast · Podcast de Itnig: Historias de startups
El futuro del software: agentes que “hacen el trabajo”, regulación y modelos chinos

24 February 2026

Paper
Automated Multi-Modal MRI Segmentation of Stroke Lesions and Corticospinal Tract Integrity for Functional Outcome Prediction
Domenec Puig, Hatem A. Rashwan and 2 more
- Domenec Puig, Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Hatem A. Rashwan, Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Daniyal Iqbal, Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Muhammad Mursil, Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Article · CIDAI
IA i l’evolució dels llocs de treball: la visió de l’emprenedor en els pròxims cinc anys

23 February 2026

Article · HTTP Toolkit
Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
Published by HTTP TOOLKIT
Paper
Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges, and Recommendations
Antonio Andriella, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Paper · Evelina Leivada's articles on arXiv
Multilingual Large Language Models do not comprehend all natural languages to equal degrees
Evelina Leivada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

22 February 2026

Article
History of Artificial Intelligence in Europe: the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA)
Núria Agell, Enric Plaza and 1 more
- Núria Agell, ESADE Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona
- Enric Plaza, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
- Vicent Costa, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain