04/03/19: AI in the 21st century: Opportunities and challenges. Presentación de la Estrategia Española de I+D+I en Inteligencia Artificial. Palacio de Congresos. Granada, Spain.
19/02/19: AI and Democracy. Plenary Panel Session. ICAART 2019 - International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence.
01/02/19: Evolution of Hierarchical Organization in Language. Evolution of Hierarchical Organization in Adaptive Systems - WIKO - Institute for Advanced Study
21/01/19: Nazicht Notulen Hoorzitting Digitale “slimme samenleving". Hearing of the Belgian Senate - Belgium
12/01/19: Language is a Slippery Thing. Stop Making Sense. The New Alphabet. HWK - Haus der Kulturen der Welt. https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_146043.php
08/12/18: A brief history of agent-based models for the emergence of human language like communication systems. Thirty-second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada.
08/11/18: Human Genius in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Falling Walls - The International Conference on Future Breakthroughs on Science and Society.
06/11/18: Language grounding using evolutionary language games. Collaborative Research Center "Everyday Activity Science and Engineering (EASE)"
31/10/18: Cultural heritage as a unique asset for artificial intelligence. Time Machine Conference 2018 at the Swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.
18/10/18: Hate speech and big data. ODYCCEUS Conference in Digital History and Digital Humanities. Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
08/10/18: What needs to be done to ensure the ethical use of AI. 21st International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2018.
12/09/18: Fluid Construction Grammar – A progress report. Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
20/08/18: Fluid Construction Grammar Workshop. Bagergue, Lleida.
16/07/18: Meetings and discussions on precision language processing using Fluid Construction Grammar at the 10th International Conference on Construction Grammar. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
22/06/18: Discussion on the Opinion Facilitator. 1st ODYCCEUS conference on Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Space - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
19/06/18: How can we probe deeper in social texts? 1st ODYCCEUS Conference on Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Space - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
03/05/18: Fourth and final Francqui Lecture - Faust revisited: "mind uploading" and digital immortality. Catholic Univeristy of Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven.
02/05/18: De Robo Sapiens. Artificial Intelligence Symposium, Flemish Academy of Science
26/04/18: Third Francqui lecture: Language grounding based on cognitive semantics and pragmatics. MSI1 01.16, Mgr. Sencie Instituut Erasmusplein, Leuven, Belgium.
24/04/18: Second Francqui Lecture: Fluid construction grammar. MSI1 01.08, Mgr. Sencie Instituut Erasmusplein Leuven.
17/04/18: Inaugural Lecture: Het enigma van taalevolutie. Francqui Chair for 2018. Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven.
27/03/18: A European Union Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. EU Commission, ESPC, Brussels
23/03/18: Fact check: Where does AI stand & where is it heading? Conference on AI and Law. University of Leuven. Faculty of Law.
22/03/18: When AI met cybernetics (again). Conference on the state of cybernetics. University of Amsterdam.
21/03/18: AI - mogelijkheden en verwachtingen. Warande, Brussels.
19/03/18: AI and Big Data. Databeers conferences. Muntpunt, Brussels.
29/01/18: The Social Complexity of Big Data: On the Limits of Naturalism in a Digital World Odycceus Workshop. University Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.
22/01/18: Time Machine Conference. University of Amsterdam, Humanities Faculty.
20/10/17: Artificial Intelligence - A science and arts point of view. JRC Art-science Symposium. Science and Technology Museum Leonardo. Milan (Italy).
19/09/17: Artificiële intelligentie - studiedag & debat. Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.
12/06/17: Comment pouvons nous développer des théories scientifiques relatives à l'origine et à l'évolution des langages. Académie Européene Interdisciplinaire des Sciences - Paris.
24/03/17: Special Session: Language processing and language evolution. CUNY 2017, 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing- MIT, USA
20/03/17: Computational construction grammar and natural language understanding. AAAI Spring Symposium- Palo Alto, California, USA. https://aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss17.php
09/03/17: IK2017 Creativity and Intelligence in Brains and Machines. Spring School. Interdisciplinary College. Heinrich-Lübke-Haus Möhnesee- Günne, Germany
27/02/17: Origin of Language Evolution. Programming 2017, VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
23/02/17: The promise of AI and Machine Learning. Global Digital Foundation - Amsterdam, Netherlands.
02/02/17: KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Museum Aibteiberg. Germany.
25/01/17: Consultation meeting on AI. European Commission. Belgium.
27/10/16: History and impact of research on the emergence of language. Sony CSL Science Festival/La science autrement, Paris, France 2016: http://csl.sony.fr/openhouse2016/index-en.html
25-27/09/15: Usage Based Grammar Learning as Insight Problem Solving. EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science. Torino, Italy 2015: http://www.eapcogsci2015.it/
05-11/07/15: Putting Evolution into Semantics. 11th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW) Bertinoro, Italy 2015: http://sssw.org/bici/2015/index.html
25-31/07/15: Co-Acquisition of Spatial Language Syntax and Semantics. 24th International Join Conference in AI (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015: http://ijcai-15.org/
05/12/14: Round Table: Can intelligence exist without a body? Casparo: A tragicomic opera (Steels, L. and Vilarroya, O.). Iers College, Leuven, Belgium https://ai.vub.ac.be/casparo/2014/roundtable/ENG/
09/11/2013: Breaking the wall to living robots. How Artificial Intelligence Research Tries to Build Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Falling Walls Conference, Berlin, Germany: http://www.falling-walls.com/videos/Luc-Steels-1648