Festival of Data Science & AI - call for contributions
27th to 29th October 2025 in the Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
Mark your calendars!
Advanced Research Centre. 27 - 29 October 2025.
This festival is for everyone!
The Centre for Data Science & AI is delighted to announce an exciting three-day celebration, bringing together vibrant research and creative practice across the fields of data science and artificial intelligence. Featuring interactive workshops, stimulating talks, creative performances, installations, provocative debates, and more, the festival invites us to explore where we are—and where we could go next.
The Data and AI Festival will showcase current and future research happening at the University, and invite discussion, debate and provocation whilst providing space for developing potential new research collaborations, and exploring how the Centre can support these new collaborations.
Festival themes
Submissions should explore one or more of the following themes.
AI for...
- Everyday Life
- Smart Technologies
- Social Purpose
- Creativity
- Governance, Risk, and Responsible Innovation,
- Infrastructure and Foundations
- Discovery
Why should you take part?
The festival is intended to be for everyone - those who are already working with AI and data science, those who are interested in working with Data Science and AI, and those who are skeptical about these evolving fields and how they embed into a higher education context.
This is a unique and valuable opportunity to share your work with a wider audience within the University, build interdisciplinary collaborations, and contribute to a growing community committed to responsible innovation. The festival provides a dynamic platform to showcase research, exchange ideas with experts from different disciplines, and explore real-world applications of data and AI. By participating, you can help shape conversations around emerging technologies while forging new research connections that can lead to future partnerships and impact.
What you can apply for
Tabletop displays
Interactive tabletop research displays will be arranged in the atrium of the ARC each day, where you can creatively showcase your research.
Seminar room 237a will also be available for tabletop displays and is more suitable if your display features audio or visual elements, please indicate in your application that you are applying to present in this space.
Exhibition
The Data Science and AI Images Exhibition will feature large, high quality printed images of research involving data science and/or AI, which will be displayed at the entrance to the Festival in the ARC Exhibition space for the duration of the event, and later hung in the ARC.
We encourage you to take or produce a unique and creative image that relates to your research.
Have another idea?
In addition to the tabletop displays and exhibition, we encourage you to apply to run other activities, such as panel discussions, workshops, debates, etc.
We’re aware that you may have creative ways of engaging colleagues and we encourage you to apply with your own unique ideas that may fall outside of the set categories.
