SINFO33 took place during the week of 20 to 24 April, marking the 2026 edition of the largest free technology conference in Portugal. Continuing tradition, INESC-ID was featured in two panels on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a stand at the job fair.

On the late morning of 23 April, our researchers, Inês Lynce, President of the Board of Directors at INESC-ID, Luísa Coheur, Joana Campos, Miguel Couceiro and Alessandro Gianola took part in the panel “AI at DEI: Projects designing the future”. Throughout the conversation, moderated by Inês Lynce, each shared their work in AI, covering topics from human language technologies to robotics focused on society and software reliability, and how it has the potential to contribute to the future.

The following day, we set up our stand at the job fair, where master’s student Daniela Goulão presented her work on “Automated Vishing with AI in European Portuguese”, joined by PhD student João Figueiredo, and researcher in secure systems, Daniel Castro. Daniela’s work, advised by Luísa Coheur and Nuno Santos, investigates two aspects of voice phishing (vishing). First, whether text-to-speech technology, in European Portuguese, has reached a level where it’s indistinguishable from human speech, demonstrated through a digital “Simon Says” game, where participants identify which voices are human and which are AI. Second, how convincing voice cloning technology is, prompting participants to clone their own voice, speak with it, and evaluate its quality.

Returning to the main stage, the panel “AI in Healthcare” was moderated by Luísa Coheur and had the participation of former INESC-ID PhD student, Ricardo Rei, who is now Head of AI Research at Sword Health, alongside researchers from GIMM and Champalimaud Foundation. The discussion explored what the latest research and developments in AI could mean for the future of healthcare.

SINFO is a free tech conference, created by students from Instituto Superior Técnico, that hosts an annual week-long event in Lisbon, where participants (students, professionals or industry leaders) can connect with each other and share their knowledge in computer science and technology. Over the five days attendees were able to attend lectures, workshops and panels in a wide range of topics, from Multimedia to AI, as well as get in touch with companies displayed around the job fair.

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