Program 2026

DAY 12.10.26 - Monday

09:00 – 09:30 | Check-in & Coffee
09:30 – 10:15 | PVF 2026 Opening | [Opening Session] Luis Almeida Mendes, Timo Meynhardt
10:15 – 11:00 | Public Value, Public Values and AI | [Keynote & Talk] Timo Meynhardt, Barry Bozeman
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 | Will machines soon be conscious? | [Keynote] Howard Corvington
12:00 – 12:45 | The Common Good Economy | [Keynote] Mariana Mazzucato (online)
12:45 – 14:15 | Lunch break
14:15 – 14:45 | AI, Chess and Productive Organizations | [Keynote] Álvaro Costa
14:45 – 16:00 | AI in Urban Planning | [Panel] Patricía Melo, Juval Portugali, Bernardo Caldas, Miguel Castro Neto
16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 | Best Student Essay Award | [Award with Presentation] Inga Liepa
17:00 – 18:00 | AI and Consciousness | [Panel] Arlindo Oliveira, Howard Corvington
19:30 – 22:15 | Evening Program with Failing Forward Hub

09:00 – 09:30 | Check-in & Coffee
09:30 – 10:00 | AI in Higher Education | [Opening Session] Monica Gaughan & Lia Habighorst
10:00 – 11:00 | Humans, Cities and AI | [Paper Panel] Manuel Caldeira, Juval Portugali, Egbert Stolk
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 | Who Creates Public Value Now? AI, Governance, and Democratic Legitimacy | [Paper Panel] Julia Dahlvic, Luca Papi, Wolfgang Reising, Stefan Anderer
13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch break
14:30 – 15:45 | Still a Triangle? Stress-Testing Moore’s Public Value Model in the Age of AI | [Co-creative session] Marc Vermeulen & Anke Vroomen
15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee break
16:15 – 16:45 | Still a Triangle? | Result session
16:45 – 17:00 | PVF 2026 Closing