Welcome to our free one-day workshop for celebrating women studying and working in computing! Alice & Eve aims to bring together talents in the field of computing. The seventh edition of this workshop will be hosted on 20 October 2026 by Utrecht University.
Alice and Eve event is inspired by the BCS Lovelace Colloquium that started in 2008. For more details about earlier editions of Alice & Eve, see the websites of 2020, 2021, 2022 , 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The event is held during a single day, and features:
Join us, and participate in our poster contest on the topic of your choice!
Alice & Eve will take place on October 20, 2026.
The workshop will be held at Neude11 Utrecht Public Library in Utrecht.
Register here: Alice & Eve 2026 Registration Form
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Opening |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Talk on Knowledge Engineering |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Keynote talk by Pınar Yolum on Machine Learning |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Keynote talk by Vanessa Evers on Human–Computer Interaction |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Keynote talk by Maria Vlasiou on Algorithms |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | 🍽 Lunch Break & Exhibition |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Sponsor Lightning Talks |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Talk on Computer Networks |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Talk on Security |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Poster Awards |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Panel on “Resilience in Computing” |
| 17:00 – 17:10 | Closing |
| 17:10 – 18:00 | 🥂 Drinks |
We are thrilled to announce the Alice & Eve 2026 poster contest with exciting prizes awaiting the winners!
We invite all female students (Bachelor/Master/PhD) and early career researchers of computing and related subjects (in the broadest sense) to submit a poster. Your poster can be on any computing topic you like: from social networking to quantum computing and from medical image processing to formal verification. If it involves computers, we are interested. The preferred poster language is English. We welcome you to reuse any existing/published work or poster, no need to print it again.
To enter the poster contest, please write a half-page abstract (word limit: 250 words) on the topic of your poster and submit it by 15 September 2026 via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aliceeve2026
Notifications will be sent out by 25 September 2026. Selected participants are expected to bring the poster (up to size A0 portrait or A1 landscape) described by their abstract with them to Utrecht to present during the poster session. At the end of the day, prizes will be awarded for the winning posters in each category.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch: alice.eve@uu.nl. We look forward to seeing you in Utrecht!
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We have invited inspiring women working on the cutting edge of computing to give a keynote on their research topic. Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Pınar Yolum, Professor of Trustworthy AI at Utrecht University
Pınar Yolum is Professor of Trustworthy AI at Utrecht University, where she leads the Responsible AI research group within the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. Her recent research focuses on human–AI collaboration, with an emphasis on trust, autonomy, and privacy. Pınar serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of AI Research, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and IEEE Internet Computing. She is the program leader of the AI Master’s program at Utrecht University, co-founder of the Global Justice Investigations Lab, and an active member of the Hybrid Intelligence Center. She regularly contributes to activities to promote women participation in computer science. She is an enthusiastic reader and a restless skier.
Vanessa Evers, Director at CWI, Chief Science Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (OCW), Full professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction at University of Twente
Vanessa Evers is the director of CWI, the National Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. She is also Chief Science Advisor for the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (OCW) of the Dutch government. Apart from that, she is a full professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction at the computer science department of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is also founder and scientific director of the DesignLab at the University of Twente. Vanessa Evers is a visiting professor of Computer Science at Nanyang technological University in Singapore and was the founding Director of the Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (2019-2022). Finally, she is a member of the supervisory board of Radboud University in the Netherlands. She is Co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Physical AI and Autonomous Systems and in the Advisory Board of the WASP-HS Wallenburg foundation, and the Global Learning Council. Her research interests focus on Social Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; the societal impact of AI, autonomous systems and robots; human-robot collaboration as well as cross-cultural aspects of Human Machine Interaction. Vanessa has taught courses on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology and Teamwork, and Social Robotics at the undergraduate and graduate level, she also taught executive training courses, developed online courses and courses for continuing education.
Maria Vlasiou, Full Professor at the University of Twente, Research Fellow of the European research institute EURANDOM, Director of the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations research, LNMB
Maria Vlasiou’s research centres on the performance of stochastic processing interacting networks. She develops mathematical tools in performance evaluation, optimisation, control, and decision making and applies these tools to design new algorithms that can be deployed in data centres, the electricity grid, communication systems, high-tech manufacturing and beyond. Prof. Vlasiou has received the best paper award in ICORES 2013, the Marcel Neuts student paper award in MAM8, the 3rd prize of the 8th conference in Actuarial Science, the 2022 the UPS George D. Smith prize of INFORMS, and the Hypatia chair of the University of Twente. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for IISE Transactions, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, OR Spectrum, and INFOR.
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Alice and Eve is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers. Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If someone makes you or anyone else feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report it as soon as possible by contacting us ether in person or via email.
This Code of Conduct was adapted from the Geek Feminism Wiki anti-harassment policy.
Interested in sponsoring Alice & Eve 2026? We’d love to hear from you — please contact our sponsor chair at s.s.kerkhove@uu.nl.
🥉 Bronze Sponsors
🥈 Silver Sponsors
🥇 Gold Sponsors
For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at alice.eve@uu.nl.
Utrecht is one of the Netherlands’ oldest and most vibrant cities, located right at the heart of the country. It is home to the iconic Dom Tower, medieval canal wharves, world-class museums, and three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Utrecht Centraal station is the largest railway hub in the Netherlands — just 30 minutes from Amsterdam and 35–40 minutes from Schiphol Airport.
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