Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: May 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 May and 30 June 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

5 May 2026

Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project

Speaker: Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Organised by: University of Oslo

Watch on the University of Oslo RITMO YouTube channel.

7 May 2026

Data Generation, Heuristics, and Machine Learning for Materials Discovery and Simulation

Speaker: Janine George (BAM)

Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science

Join here, password: ai4science.

12 May 2026

Developing competencies for the future of data and computing: The role of K–12

Speaker: Shuchi Grover (Raspberry Pi Foundation)

Organised by: Raspberry PI

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19 May 2026

Power diffusion through pluralism: The case for decentralized AI

Speaker: Christopher Howard

Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford

Register here.

27 May 2026

Making AI (truly) sustainable – from environmental costs to social impacts

Speaker: Sasha Luccioni

Organised by: Alan Turing Institute

Register here.

11 June 2026

Multiscale Neural Network Potential for the Simulation of Protein Dynamics and Enzymatic Reactions

Speaker: Sereina Riniker (ETH Zurich)

Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science

Join here, password: ai4science.

16 June 2026

Title to be confirmed

Speaker: Gianfranco Polizzi (University of Birmingham)

Organised by: Raspberry PI

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18 June 2026

Evaluating Extreme Precipitation Forecasts: A Threshold-Weighted, Spatial Verification Framework for AI and NWP Model Comparison

Speaker: Nick Loveday (Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia)

Organised by: ECMWF

Teams link is here.

To see past and forthcoming events for 2026, please see our dedicated 2026 seminar page.

If you’d like to visit the webpages of the universities and other organisations that are running regular programmes of seminars, then click here to see our list.

If you are aware of any seminars (both standalone and series) that we’ve missed then please just send us an email and we’ll add them to the list.