The European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD), the largest European event dedicated to Machine Learning and one of the most important worldwide in the field of Artificial Intelligence, took place in Porto between 15 and 19 September 2025.
The organisation counted on the active participation of several students and researchers from the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), notably Carlos Soares (General Co-Chair) and João Mendes Moreira (Workshops Co-Chair).
Held at Alfândega do Porto, the conference brought together more than 1,300 participants from 60 countries, including around 450 students. The programme featured seven keynote speeches by some of the world’s leading researchers in the field, including Pedro Domingos (University of Washington), Cynthia Rudin (Duke University), Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh), Francisco Herrera (University of Granada), Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute) and Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante – Institute of Humanity-Centric AI).
The scientific programme included around 400 accepted papers, in addition to numerous presentations at the 32 workshops associated with the event, reflecting the vitality and diversity of the European Machine Learning and Data Science community.
ECMLPKDD 2025 was supported by several national and international companies, including BNP Paribas, EDF, Google, ASML, NOS, NEC, Amazon, AstraZeneca and Banco de Portugal, as well as an institutional partnership with Porto Digital.
More information on the ECMLPKDD website.