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The MeVer team of CERTH-ITI was at the Thessaloniki International Fair. Team members presented and showcased their work on synthetic media detection that is being developed in the vera.ai project.

Meet vera.ai at the upcoming International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), 13-16 September 2024, in Amsterdam. You can find us in Hall 14 where the all-new IBC AI Tech Zone is introduced at this year’s event. The AI Tech Zone will be bustling with industry leaders and visionaries eager to explore how AI is transforming media and entertainment. Among them, vera.ai will showcase the cutting edge tools developed to enhance verification and combat disinformation.

For the second consecutive year, vera.ai was invited to present some of what we got up to at the world's largest fact-checking summit, Global Fact, now in its 11th edition - hence Global Fact 11. It took place from 26-28 June 2024, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our Denis Teyssou had the opportunity to present latest improvements incorporated in the verification plugin and share best practices to verify synthetic content and deepfakes. 

The previous article gave insights and summarized the overall event "Meet the Future of AI – Generative AI and Democracy", which was hosted by six European-funded projects, together with the European Commission. It took place on 19 June 2024 in Brussels. 
In this follow-up, veraAI's project coordinator, Symeon Papadopoulos points out which conclusions can be drawn from a full day of exchange and expertise.

"As a newbie, I was unprepared for the sheer scale of this event." Read about Milica Gerhardt's overwhelming experience at the five-day conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). The conference was held in Seattle from 17 to 21 June 2024. Over 12,000 participants attended, including several vera.ai partners. The conference kicked off with two days of workshops, followed by three days of the main track. 

Over the past months the vera.ai project had the privilege of participating in a number of significant webinars and events aimed at training fact-checkers and raising awareness of civil society on deepfakes and AI manipulations. This included disseminating our latest tools, sharing best practices, and raising awareness about potential threats. The overall aim: to help safeguarding the integrity of elections. Here's insights into what this involved in detail. 

On 19 June 2024 six European-funded projects, together with the European Commission, hosted the event "Meet the Future of AI - Generative AI and Democracy" in Brussels. Participants explored the critical interplay between AI and democratic processes, presenting innovative AI-powered solutions to counter disinformation and fostering insightful discussions. Here are the highlights and key takeaways from the sessions.

On 10 June 2024, EU projects AI4Media, veraAI and AI4Debunk co-organized a joint workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24). The event is now in its 3rd edition and was held in Phuket, Thailand. Here, one of the organisers, Luca Cuccovillo of Fraunhofer IDMT, provides a summary of the event and gives an outlook into the future of this successful event series. 

On 19 June 2024 from 2.30-7 pm we - together with sister projects AI4Media, Titan, AI4Trust, AI4Debunk and AI-CODE - are hosting another "Meet the Future of AI event" in Brussels, following the success of the 2023 edition. It takes place at the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT), Bld du Roi Albert II 35, in the Belgian capital. Reserve your slot now, as spaces are limited. (Last updated: 5 June 2024) 

Co-hosted with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR’24) that takes place in Phuket, Thailand, from 10-13 June 2024, vera:ai project partners are co-organising the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24) in Phuket, Thailand. Here's more, including the respective Call for Papers.