XAI Summer School 2025
Dates: September 1- 5, 2025
Place: Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
From September 1 to 5, 2025, the third edition of the XAI School will take place, building on the success of the previous two fully booked sessions. This specialized program offers participants a hands-on introduction to the latest advancements in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), focusing on practical applications and methodological innovations.
Due to high demand and intense interest, the XAI Summer School provides an excellent opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and students to deepen their understanding of trustworthy and interpretable AI.
🗯️ Registration information
Registration takes place via the form.
You can register until 22nd August. After that time, registration will be closed. The registered participants will receive an informative email regarding the organization and other details of the school by 26th August 2025 at the latest.
🗯️ Fees
Participation is free of charge.
Participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.
The event is supported by the CERIT-SC infrastructure.
Read more about the previous editions of the school here:
Tentative Program
Monday 01|09
- 09:00–10:00– Registration
- 10:00–10:10– Opening (Petr Holub)
- 10:10–10:30– Metacentrum registration (Vít Musil)
- 10:30–12:00– Introduction to pathology (Rudolf Nenutil)
- 12:00–13:00– Lunch break
- 13:00–15:30– Hands-on: Simple AI model in digital pathology (Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
- 15:30–16:00– Coffee break
- 16:00–18:00– State of the art in (X)AI in digital pathology (David Steiner)
Tuesday 02|09
- 09:00–10:00– Handling sensitive data (Petr Holub)
- 10:00–10:15– Coffee break
- 10:15–11:50– Hands-on: Hydra & Omegaconf (Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
- 12:00–13:00– Lunch break
- 13:00–14:00– Hands-on: Hydra & Omegaconf (Karel Štěpka)
- 14:00–15:00– Hands-on: Training a simple AI model in digital pathology(Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
- 15:00–15:15– Coffee break
- 15:15–17:00– Hands-on: Training a simple AI model in digital pathology (Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
Wednesday 03|09
- 09:00–10:00– Explainability of AI in Digital Pathology (Aray Karjauv)
- 10:00–10:15– Coffee break
- 10:15–11:50– Hands-on: Explainability of the simple model (Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
- 12:00–13:00– Lunch break
- 13:00–14:00– Mining clinical data (Aleš Horák)
- 14:00–15:00– Hands-on: Tiling and preprocessing of Whole Slide Images (Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
- 15:00–15:15– Coffee break
- 15:15–17:00– Hands-on: Training an AI model on Whole Slide images (Adam Kukučka, Matěj Pekár, Vojtěch Kůr, Tomáš Balák, Adam Džadoň, Šimon Bořil)
Thursday 04|09
- 09:00–10:00– Implementation of Digital Pathology (Markus Plass)
- 10:00–10:15– Coffee break
- 10:15–12:00– Hands-on: Model Inference & result assembly (Adam Kukučka, Vojtěch Kůr, Adam Bajgar, Šimon Bořil)
- 12:00–13:00– Lunch break
- 13:00–14:00– Digital pathology at FI MUNI (Tomáš Brázdil)
- 14:00–15:00– Hands-on: Report generation (Adam Kukučka, Vojtěch Kůr, Adam Bajgar, Šimon Bořil)
- 15:00–15:15– Coffee break
- 15:15–17:00– Hands-on: Foundational model (Adam Kukučka, Vojtěch Kůr, Adam Bajgar, Šimon Bořil)
Friday 05|09
- 09:00–10:30– Hands-on: Explainability (Adam Kukučka, Vojtěch Kůr, Šimon Bořil, etc.)
- 10:30–10:45– Coffee break
- 10:45–12:00– (to be confirmed)
- 12:00–13:00– Lunch break
- 13:00–15:00– Data in digital pathology & Clinical AI applications (Norman Zerbe)
- 15:00–15:15– Wrap-up of the school (Petr Holub)
Keynote Speakers
The event is supported by the CERIT-SC infrastructure.
