Add new image file 'russo.jpg' to the project

Author: giammy677dev

Diego Russo.jpg

@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ h1, h2, h3, h4 {
   line-height: 1.3;
 }
 
+/* Use serif font for ampersands */
+.amp {
+  font-family: 'Playfair Display', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
+  font-style: italic;
+}
+
 h2.section-title {
   font-size: 2rem;
   margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
@@ -484,7 +490,6 @@ h2.section-title::after {
 }
 
 .page-hero h1 {
-  font: "Playfair Display", serif; 
   color: #fff;
   font-size: 2.8rem;
   margin-bottom: 0.75rem;
@@ -611,6 +616,13 @@ h2.section-title::after {
   flex-shrink: 0;
 }
 
+.organizer-avatar img {
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
+  object-fit: cover;
+  border-radius: 50%;
+}
+
 .organizer-info h3 {
   font-family: var(--font);
   font-weight: 700;
@@ -674,6 +686,39 @@ h2.section-title::after {
   color: var(--text-light);
 }
 
+/* ===== Keynote Speaker ===== */
+.keynote-card {
+  background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--primary-mid), var(--primary-light));
+  border-radius: var(--radius);
+  padding: 2.5rem;
+  color: #fff;
+  display: flex;
+  gap: 2rem;
+  align-items: center;
+  box-shadow: var(--shadow);
+}
+
+.keynote-card .organizer-avatar {
+  width: 100px;
+  height: 100px;
+  background: rgba(255,255,255,0.15);
+  font-size: 2rem;
+}
+
+.keynote-card h3 {
+  color: #fff;
+  font-size: 1.35rem;
+  margin-bottom: 0.3rem;
+}
+
+.keynote-card .organizer-role {
+  color: var(--accent-light);
+}
+
+.keynote-card .organizer-bio {
+  color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8);
+}
+
 /* ===== Footer ===== */
 .footer {
   background: var(--primary);

Gian Marco Orlando.jpeg

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
       <div class="hero-badge">ECML PKDD 2026 Workshop</div>
       <h1><span class="highlight">AGENSYS</span></h1>
       <p class="hero-full-title">Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Maintenance and Distributed Intelligence in Multi-Agent Systems</p>
-      <p class="hero-conference">In conjunction with <strong>ECML PKDD 2026</strong></p>
+      <p class="hero-conference">In conjunction with <strong>ECML PKDD 2026</strong> &mdash; Naples, Italy, September 7&ndash;11, 2026</p>
 
       <div class="hero-dates">
         <div class="hero-date-item">
@@ -45,8 +45,12 @@ <h1><span class="highlight">AGENSYS</span></h1>
           <div class="date">TBA</div>
         </div>
         <div class="hero-date-item">
-          <div class="label">Workshop Date</div>
-          <div class="date">September 2026</div>
+          <div class="label">Conference</div>
+          <div class="date">September 7&ndash;11, 2026</div>
+        </div>
+        <div class="hero-date-item">
+          <div class="label">Location</div>
+          <div class="date">Naples, Italy</div>
         </div>
       </div>
 
@@ -70,11 +74,10 @@ <h2 class="section-title">Scope</h2>
   <section class="section" id="challenges">
     <div class="container">
       <h2 class="section-title">Key Challenges</h2>
-      <p class="section-subtitle">Core research questions we aim to explore</p>
       <div class="challenges-grid">
         <div class="challenge-card">
           <div class="icon">&#x1F310;</div>
-          <h3>Grounding &amp; Coordination</h3>
+          <h3>Grounding <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Coordination</h3>
           <p>How does access to heterogeneous external knowledge affect collaborative strategies among agents operating across distributed sites? How do retrieval-augmented agents coordinate when evidence is partially inconsistent?</p>
         </div>
         <div class="challenge-card">
@@ -89,7 +92,7 @@ <h3>Knowledge Drift Detection</h3>
         </div>
         <div class="challenge-card">
           <div class="icon">&#x1F6E1;</div>
-          <h3>Mitigation &amp; Resilience</h3>
+          <h3>Mitigation <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Resilience</h3>
           <p>Can uncertainty modeling, confidence-weighted voting, graph-based consistency checks, or Byzantine-tolerant aggregation reduce collective errors across knowledge and distributed training dimensions?</p>
         </div>
         <div class="challenge-card">
@@ -110,10 +113,10 @@ <h3>Scalable Distributed Training</h3>
   <section class="section" id="topics">
     <div class="container">
       <h2 class="section-title">Topics of Interest</h2>
-      <p class="section-subtitle">We welcome contributions on topics including, but not limited to</p>
+      <p class="section-subtitle">We welcome contributions on topics including, but not limited to:</p>
       <div class="topics-container">
         <div class="topic-group">
-          <h3>&#x1F9E0; Knowledge Discovery &amp; Grounding</h3>
+          <h3>&#x1F9E0; Knowledge Discovery <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Grounding</h3>
           <ul>
             <li>Knowledge grounding and external knowledge integration in multi-agent systems</li>
             <li>Learning and coordination under heterogeneous or inconsistent evidence</li>
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ <h3>&#x1F9E0; Knowledge Discovery &amp; Grounding</h3>
           </ul>
         </div>
         <div class="topic-group">
-          <h3>&#x1F5A7; Distributed Intelligence &amp; Decentralized Learning</h3>
+          <h3>&#x1F5A7; Distributed Intelligence <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Decentralized Learning</h3>
           <ul>
             <li>Distributed and decentralized training of agentic architectures and foundation models</li>
             <li>Decentralized optimization, consensus mechanisms, and convergence guarantees</li>
@@ -138,7 +141,7 @@ <h3>&#x1F5A7; Distributed Intelligence &amp; Decentralized Learning</h3>
           </ul>
         </div>
         <div class="topic-group">
-          <h3>&#x2705; Evaluation, Trust &amp; Infrastructure</h3>
+          <h3>&#x2705; Evaluation, Trust <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Infrastructure</h3>
           <ul>
             <li>Evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for knowledge-grounded and distributed agent systems</li>
             <li>Trust, explainability, and certifiability in distributed generative and agentic systems</li>
@@ -176,14 +179,25 @@ <h2 class="section-title">Important Dates</h2>
           </tr>
           <tr class="highlight-row">
             <td>Workshop Day</td>
-            <td>September 2026 (co-located with ECML PKDD 2026)</td>
+            <td>September 7&ndash;11, 2026 &mdash; Naples, Italy (co-located with ECML PKDD 2026)</td>
           </tr>
         </tbody>
       </table>
+    </div>
+  </section>
 
-      <div class="special-issue">
-        <h3>&#x1F4DA; Special Issue</h3>
-        <p>Selected contributions will be invited for a special issue in a journal such as <strong>EPJ Data Science</strong> or <strong>ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology</strong>.</p>
+  <!-- Keynote Speaker -->
+  <section class="section" id="keynote">
+    <div class="container">
+      <h2 class="section-title">Confirmed Keynote Speaker</h2>
+      <p class="section-subtitle">Invited talk</p>
+      <div class="keynote-card">
+        <div class="organizer-avatar">DC</div>
+        <div class="organizer-info">
+          <h3>Prof. David Camacho</h3>
+          <div class="organizer-role">Full Professor, Universidad Polit&eacute;cnica de Madrid</div>
+          <p class="organizer-bio">Head of the Applied Intelligence <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Data Analysis (AIDA) group. Expert in Multi-Agent Systems, Swarm Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence. Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems (Wiley). His research targets agentic aerial intelligence, exploring how autonomous UAVs use reasoning and memory to collaborate in disaster response and infrastructure inspection.</p>
+        </div>
       </div>
     </div>
   </section>