09:00–09:15 Room LC.0.004 (Galerie)
Welcome
09:15–10:00 Room LC.0.004 (Galerie)
A Snapshot of Democratic Innovation, and the Bigger Story It's Telling
Miriam Hargašová (The Innovation in Politics Institute)
10:00–10:10 Room LC.0.004 (Galerie)
Pitches for demos
10:10–10:30 Room LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Coffee break
10:30–11:00
Context Engine: An open-source toolkit for deliberation and negotiation in large groups — Charlie Thompson (Clubraum)
Dembrane — Cesare Dalbagno (Galerie)
11:00–11:30
Plural: A Civic-Tech Platform for Structured Citizen Participation in Switzerland — Maurice Lanz (Clubraum)
CrowdInsights: A Civic Engagement Platform for Municipalities and Organisations — Marie Kern (Galerie)
11:30–12:00
Open DLP: Sortition Europe's 2-step democratic lottery platform — Krisztina Kocsis (Clubraum)
European Alternatives — Billie Dibb (Galerie)
12:00–12:30
The Democracy Test for public-sector AI — Herman Veluwenkamp, Jonne Maas (Clubraum)
A proposal interface for trustworthy Digital Democracy — Xenia Klinge (Galerie)
12:30–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–13:55 Room LC.0.004 (Galerie)
Building the Foundation for Deliberation at Scale using Open Democratic Lotteries
Alessandra Carrera, Brett Hennig
13:55–14:20 Room LC.0.004 (Galerie)
How representative are deliberations? Aligning perspectives in maxi- and mini-publics
Erica Celine Yu, Cesare Dalbagno
14:20–14:40 Room LC.0.004 (Galerie)
Pitches for posters
14:40–15:00 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Coffee break
15:00–17:00 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Enhancing Public Consultations in Citizen Assemblies through Online Participation Platforms
Nicolien Janssens
Organisational conditions for flourishing digital democracies: Analysis of coordinating and supporting stakeholders' perceptions of what matters
Laurien Coenen
Reasoning Enhances Robustness to Prompt Injection in LLM-Based Consensus
Jairo Gudiño, Juan Ignacio Zambrano, Umberto Grandi, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Support what you preach? Citizens' democratic conceptions and their support for democratic innovations
Zeynep Beyza Yildizdan
Algorithmic Shortlisting in Participatory Budgeting
Juan Ignacio Zambrano, Clément Contet, Jairo Gudiño, Felipe Garrido-Lucero, Umberto Grandi, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Lost in Deliberation: Informational Deadlocks
Matteo Michelini, Carlo Proietti
Assessing Debates Under Sparse Participation: Representing and Propagating Uncertainty to Summarize Digital Deliberation
Jordan Thieyre, Aurélie Beynier, Sebastien Destercke, Nicolas Maudet, Srdjan Vesic
Fairness Without Labelled Data: Assessing and Improving LLM Representational Fairness in Summarising Politically Polarised Discourse
Kaley Burg, Sylvia Kritzinger, Jan Maly, Sebastian Tschiatschek
People Are Not Just Their Countries. Disentangling Social Determinants of LLM Value Alignment Across Europe
Maria-Louisa Wightman, Guillaume Bied, Tijl De Bie
Liquid Democracy Is a Random Walk: A Spectral Theory of Delegation
Gustav Olaf Yunus Laitinen-Fredriksson Lundström-Imanov, Nurana Abdullayeva
From infrastructure to agonistic spaces: the role of civic tech as social innovation sites in democratic participation
Selin Oner, Shefali Virkar, Monica Edwards-Schachter, Chuan Li
The Democratic Resilience Index (DRI) as an Evaluation Framework for Civic Technology
Sophie Laurence Vériter
Beyond removal: Designing safer digital participation without losing voices
Michiel Nuytemans, Hanne Bastiaensen
09:15–10:00 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
The systemic challenges of AI to democracy
Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam)
10:00–10:30 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Coffee break
10:30–10:55 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
What works to reduce misinformation sharing online? Evidence from an intervention tournament
George Georgarakis
10:55–11:20 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
The Role of Search Engines in the Amplification and Suppression of LGBTIQ+ Polarization
Ronja Rönnback, Chris Emmery, Marie Safar Postma, Filip Milde, Jan Charvat, Henry Brighton
11:20–11:30
Short break
11:30–11:55 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Efficient Elicitation of Collective Disagreements
Mohamed Ouaguenouni, Umberto Grandi, Felipe Garrido-Lucero, Magdalena Tydrichova, Cesar A. Hidalgo
11:55–12:20 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Reducing Polarization via Bridging Comments in Deliberation Platforms
Nisarg Shah
12:20–13:30
Lunch break
13:30–13:55 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
How AI Reaches Communities: Why Digital Democracy Needs Civil Society
Julia Drumel, Barbara Weber
13:55–14:20 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Proactive Dialogue Management for Conversational Agents in Voting Advice Applications
Fynn Bachmann, Selene Baez Santamaria, Abraham Bernstein
14:20–14:30
Short break
14:30–14:55 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Graph-Augmented Digital Twins as Decision-Support Tools for Political Organizations
Jairo Gudiño, Joshua C. Yang, Dirk Helbing
14:55–15:20 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Multiwinner Voting with Incomplete Approval Preferences
Felicia Schmidt, Jan Maly, Anton Baychkov, Markus Brill
15:20–15:50 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
Coffee break
15:50–16:35 LC.2.400 (Clubraum)
From Opinion Polling to LLM-Based Preference Elicitation
Manon Revel (Google DeepMind)
16:35–16:50
Closing
9:30-11:00 LLMs for research: Hands on with the WU Competence Center for AI and Scientific Computing (Room: TC.2.03)
Coffee Break (Room: TC.3.21)
11:30–13:00 Computational social choice methods for digital democracy
(Room: TC.2.03)
11:30–13:00 Qualitative methods in social science
(Room: TC.3.21)