Modelling and AI, Brussels 2026
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Where do we go next? AI, communication, collaboration

Panel discussion

The closing panel of the workshop, with Andres Algaba, Karolien Poels and Marie-Cécile Dupas, moderated by Philippe Beutels.

Combining Infectious Disease Modelling and AI · Monday 14 September 2026, 15:20–16:15 (Europe/Brussels) · Learning Theatre, VUB campus Etterbeek · Sam Abbott, Andres Algaba, Karolien Poels and Marie-Cécile Dupas, moderated by Philippe Beutels

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The panel

The closing panel asks where modelling and AI go next, and how communication and collaboration fit in. I bring the two talks from earlier in the day. What coding agents changed in how I build outbreak models, and what we learned communicating model outputs during COVID-19. My guess is that agents build and check, while people keep the question, the judgement of whether a model is fit for use, and the trust of those who act on the numbers.

The organisers asked me to join the panel at the end of the day alongside the other speakers, moderated by Philippe Beutels of UAntwerp.

There are no slides. The talk pages for the keynote and the communication lecture carry the material I am likely to draw on.

Resources

  • Infectious disease modelling in the age of AI.
  • Science communication with and under AI.
  • Research exchange with the VUB AI group and SIMID.

Sam Abbott, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

 

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