Connectionists: Final Call for Participation - 9th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - ACDL 2026 - From AI Agents to Agentic AI | June 8-12 | Riva del Sole Resort & SPA Tuscany ⏰ Registration by 15 May

[ICAS Organizing Committee]

**Master Agentic AI in 5 Days + Earn 8 ECTS in Tuscany!**

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Learn directly from researchers at DeepMind, Meta and Top Universities — in
a top, residential program in Tuscany.

🎓 8 ECTS recognized credits
🧠 Focus on Agentic AI & cutting-edge ML
🌍 International cohort (PhD, researchers, engineers)
🏡 Full immersive experience in Tuscany
👉 Apply now — Limited to 250 participants, Applications close May 15 —
seats filling fast.

🎓 ACDL 2026, A Residential Course: From AI Agents to Agentic AI, 📆 June
8-12, Tuscany   ⏰  Registration: by May 15

📚 ACDL 2026  is a full-immersion 5-day course in Riva del Sole Resort &
SPA - Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Data
Sc., Generative AI, AI Agents & Agentic AI  with lectures delivered by
world-renowned experts.


📍Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany, June 8-12, 2026
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events
📧 acdl at icas.cc


⏰ EARLY REGISTRATION: by May 15 (AoE) ⏳
➡️ Register here: https://acdl2026.icas.events/registration/


📝 LECTURERS:
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/lecturers/

It follows the (partial) list of the confirmed 👩‍🏫 ACDL 2026 Lecturers:

* Lucas Beyer, Meta, Zürich, Switzerland
3 Lectures on "Transformers & Vision Transformers"

* Sven Giesselbach, T Systems International & Fraunhofer Institute - IAIS,
Germany
3 Lectures on “Agentic AI”

* Anirudh Goyal, Google DeepMind & Mila, Université de Montréal, Canada
3 Lectures on  “Metacognition as a Control Plane for Reasoning”

* Arthur Gretton, UCL & Google DeepMind, UK
2 Lectures on "Causal Effect Estimation with Context and Confounders”

* Mario Guarracino, University of Cassino and Souther Lazio, Italy
Lectures TBA

* Katja Hofmann, Microsoft, UK
3 Lectures on “World Models”

* Arnulf Jentzen, University of Münster, Germany
Lecture 1/3 “Mathematical Introduction to Stochastic Gradient Descent
Optimization”
Lecture 2/3 “Error Analyses for Adam and further Accelerated and Adaptive
Optimizers”
Lecture 3/3 “Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Partial Differential
Equations”

* Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind, UK
Lectures TBA

* Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Lectures TBA

* Michal Valko, Stealth Startup, INRIA, MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Lecture 1/3 “Lightspeed RL Fine Tuning for LLMs”
Lecture 2/3 “Online and Offline RL Considerations for LLMs “
Lecture 3/3 “New Advances on the Theory of Language Generation and
Hallucination”


* Jason Weston, META, USA
Lecture 1/3 “Self-Improving Language Models”
Lecture 2/3 “Self-Improving Agents”
Lecture 3/3 “The Future of Self-Improvement & the Promise of Co-Improving
AI”

More Lecturers TBA


📑 LECTURES:
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/lectures/

📚 PAST LECTURERS:
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/past-lecturers/

✅ VENUE:
🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/venue/
Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
Località Riva del Sole‚ Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto)
CAP 58043‚ Tuscany‚ Italy
p: +39-0564-928111
📧  booking.events at rivadelsole.it
🔗 https://www.rivadelsole.it/en/
📍Map of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA:
https://acdl2026.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2023/05/Riva-del-Sole-Resort-SPA-map.pdf

PAST EDITIONS: 🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events/past-editions/

📚 CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS:
The 9th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning – ACDL 2026 is a
full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
(Castiglione della Pescaia – Grosseto  – Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge
advances in Deep Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with lectures
delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating
environment for PhD students, Post-Docs,  junior academics (only up to
assistant professors), early career researchers,  and industry leaders (and
highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students).
Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks,
and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and
productive environment.

PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only
up to assistant professors)  will be typical profiles of the ACDL
attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36–40 hours of lectures,
according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent
to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master
Student – BSc Student) attending the Course.

Language: English.

To participate in the ACDL 2026, all attendants must

(1/2) register for the course (by May 15) and
(2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”
(by May 15); all attendants must stay at the “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”.
Booking accommodation at the Riva del Sole must be made exclusively using
the accommodation form attached to the registration confirmation email. No
other methods must be used (if you use other booking methods the hotel will
cancel the reservation).  Finally, it is not possible to extend the stay,
the special accommodation rates are valid only for the period of the
course, no exceptions will be made. To contact the Riva del Sole Resort &
SPA (the course venue) use the following email:
booking.events at rivadelsole.it

Once accommodation has been booked at “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA“, the
participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to
the ACDL organizing committee (acdl at icas.cc).

ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside
in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made.

For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to
share the apartment with (or a double room in Hotel), please send to the
Hotel ( 📧  booking.events at rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email
address. Otherwise the solution is to book a hotel room in single use.

Please note that only ACDL registered participants can book a room (in
hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the
accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the ACDL
Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will
 verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration
number to confirm the booking.

Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2026 should register as soon as
possible.

See you in Riva del Sole in June!
         ACDL 2026 Directors.
         ACDL 2026 Scientific & Organizing Committees.

🔗 https://acdl2026.icas.events
📧 acdl at icas.cc

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Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation, to have complete and
updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: 🔗
https://acdl2026.icas.events

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