GAME 2026—Generative AI Modelling for Extreme Events

11–12 June 2026
Bologna, Italy

Overview

Extreme events—such as market crashes, wildfires, unprecedented flooding, intense hurricanes, and extreme heatwaves—cause major disruptions across societal and ecological systems. Accurately modelling and simulating such rare, high-impact phenomena remains one of the central challenges in statistics, machine learning, and risk analysis.

The Generative AI Modelling for Extreme Events (GAME 2026) workshop aims to stimulate discussion on the use of generative models for extreme events and to promote the exploration of novel research directions in this rapidly emerging area.

The event will focus on both the opportunities and current challenges of using generative models to simulate extreme phenomena, particularly in high-dimensional and sparse-data settings.

A central objective of the workshop is to foster dialogue between the Statistical Learning and Generative Modelling community and researchers in Extreme Value Theory, climate science, and financial risk assessment. By bringing together experts from these domains, the workshop seeks to encourage cross-disciplinary exchange and identify promising avenues for joint research.

Registration

Registration is closed due to reached capacity.

For inforation about the event, please contact Luca Trapin at:
luca.trapin@unibo.it

Preliminary Programme

The preliminary programme is reported below. Talk titles and further details will be announced soon.

Day 1—Thursday, 11 June 2026

Time	Speaker / Details	Affiliation
13:00 – 13:30	Registration
13:30 – 14:00	Opening—Introduction to the Workshop
14:00 – 14:30	Miguel de Carvalho	University of Edinburgh
14:30 – 15:00	Giorgia Ramponi	University of Zurich
15:00 – 15:30	Luis Alberto Gutiérrez Inostroza	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break—Group photo
16:00 – 16:30	Sebastian Engelke	University of Geneva
16:30 – 17:00	Maud Thomas	Université Lyon 1
17:00 – 17:30	Lambert De Monte	University of Edinburgh

Day 2—Friday, 12 June 2026

Time	Speaker / Details	Affiliation
09:30 – 10:00	Antonio Tirri & Melchiorre Danilo Abrignani	Leithà – Unipol Group
10:00 – 10:30	Antonello Squintu	CMCC
10:30 – 11:00	Matteo Angelinelli	CINECA HPC
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00	Olivier Lopez	CREST – ENSAE IP Paris
12:00 – 12:30	Alison Peard	University of Oxford
12:30 – 13:00	Ashley Turner	Imperial College London
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30	Amir Khorrami Chokami	University of Cagliari
14:30 – 15:00	Nathan Huet	Ca' Foscari University of Venice
15:00 – 15:30	Jean Pachebat	École Polytechnique
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30	Jordan Richards	University of Edinburgh
16:30 – 17:00	Daniela Castro-Camilo	University of Glasgow
17:00 – 17:30	Johnny Lee	University of Edinburgh