Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025
8:00am
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8:30am		 Registration
Location: BAR/0I89/U
8:30am
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9:00am		 Opening Remarks
Location: BAR/0I88/U
9:00am
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9:45am		 Keynote: Prof. Dr. Andrew Gambino (University of Delaware, USA)
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Sven Engesser
"Meaningful, Complex, and Collaborative: Building Communication Theory in the Age of Generative AI"
9:45am
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10:00am		 Coffee Break
Location: BAR/0I89/U
10:00am
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11:15am		 Session 1: Institutional and Societal Perspectives on the Machine Actor
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Daniela Mahl
11:30am
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12:30pm		 Session 2: Technological Perspectives on the Machine Actor
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Esther Greussing
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Lunch
1:30pm
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2:45pm		 Session 3: Ontological Perspectives on the Machine Actors – Peculiarities in Classification
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Katharina Frehmann
2:45pm
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3:00pm		 Coffee Break
Location: BAR/0I89/U
3:00pm
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4:30pm		 Session 4: Ontological Perspectives on the Machine Actors – Impact of Classification
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Katrin Etzrodt
4:45pm
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5:45pm		 DigiKomm: Business Meeting (hybrid)
Location: BAR/0I88/U
6:30pm
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10:00pm		 Conference Dinner
Location: Johann Restaurant & Elbe Lounge