Ancillary Events

 

Early Career Researchers (ECR) Social Networking Event
This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow students, early career researchers, and build your professional network in a relaxed setting.

  • When: 19:00 – 21:00, 29 October 2025
  • Where: Hyatt Centric The Liberties, Dublin
  • Address: Dean St, The Liberties, Dublin, D08 W3X7
  • What’s included: Finger food and drinks will be served
  • Who can attend: Students and ECRs (within 3 years of PhD graduation)
  • Capacity: Limited to 200 places – first in, first served.

If you meet the criteria of an ECR and wish to join us, then please register early to secure a place.

 

Huawei Night & Networking Dinner

The Huawei Night & Networking Dinner offers a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere for academic scholars and Huawei industry experts to connect and exchange ideas. It aims to foster deeper collaboration between academia and industry — a moment to share insights, spark innovation, and explore future opportunities in intelligent media development and cooperation.

  • When: 19:00-21:00 Oct 28th 2025
  • Where: Adam Suite – The Shelbourne
  • Address: The Shelbourne, 27 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland, D02 K224, Ireland
  • What’s included: Hot buffet food and drinks will be served
  • Who can attend: Professors, scholars, students, and ECRs (within 3 years of PhD graduation)
  • Capacity: Limited to 80 places, sign-up below.

If you wish to join, then please register in advance by clicking this link here

 

Invited Tutorial (Research2Biz) – Translating Research to Business
João Ribeiro will lead a 2.5-hour interactive workshop designed where researchers explore how scientific or technical outputs can evolve into businesses. Through a mix of real-world examples and hands-on exercises, participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of Lean Startup and experiment with building different business models around a research output. By the end, participants will gain a first-hand understanding of what it means to shift from a lab mindset to a market mindset.

  • When: 09:00– 12:30, 27 October 2025
  • Where: Dublin Royal Convention Centre
  • Address: One Le Pole Square, Ship Street Great, Dublin, D08 E6PD
  • Who can attend: Any delegate
  • Capacity: Limited to 24 places – first in, first served!

If you wish to join, then please register in advance. Note that capacity is very limited.

 

Invited Tutorial (Data Governance for MM)
Daragh O’Brien will give an invited tutorial on AI and GenAI for multimedia data becoming enablers of organisation transformation. However, this promised transformation, if not executed with care and intentionality, risks undermining the very foundations of organisation capability and competence. Drawing on 30 years’ experience in data transformation and data governance, as well as some of the early perspectives informing his own doctoral research into Human Factors in Data Governance, Daragh O Brien sets out three possible pathways and a manifesto for action to ensure a pragmatic hybrid intelligence future.

  • When: 16:30–18:30, 31 October 2025
  • Where: Dublin Royal Convention Centre
  • Address: One Le Pole Square, Ship Street Great, Dublin, D08 E6PD
  • Who can attend: Any delegate

 


Music Meets Science
Music is an exquisite content. Before being generated by AI, recorded, mastered, searched and retrieved, it was born in the mind of composers and is brought to audience by interpreters. In this event different musical spaces will be explored: from dynamic Folia of Vivaldi, Haendel’s Passacaglia, Schubert to contemporary composers throughout the world: Irish Garth Knox, Finnish Jarno Vanhanen (composed for ACM MM). The artists are internationally acclaimed French musicians of new generation: François Pineau-Benois, violin and Olivier Marin, viola. Music Meets Science is running with support of ACM SIGMM.

  • When: 29th October, starting at 8PM (during the Welcome Reception)
  • Where: Dublin Royal Convention Centre
  • Address: One Le Pole Square, Ship Street Great, Dublin, D08 E6PD
  • Capacity: All can attend

 


Halloween Dance Instruction 
Exercise is good for the mind. We have arranged for a professional dance instructor to come to the conference on the final afternoon to teach how to dance Thriller.

  • When: 13:30 – 15:30
  • Where: Robinson, Dublin Royal Convention Centre
  • Address: One Le Pole Square, Ship Street Great, Dublin, D08 E6PD
  • What’s needed: Relaxed clothes and a willingness to dance
  • Who can attend: Any delegate
  • Capacity: Limited numbers, please sign up.

If you wish to join, then please register in advance.

 

Samhain Festival 
31st October is Halloween (called Samhain in the Irish Language). Halloween is based on the ancient Irish festival of Samhain, and it remains one of the most important celebrations in Ireland’s calendar. On Samhain night, the streets of Ireland come alive with costumed parades, glowing lanterns, and the warm light of bonfires. Visitors can enjoy spooky storytelling, traditional games, and music that fills the crisp autumn air. Halloween in Ireland offers a magical blend of ancient Celtic tradition and modern festivity. To get us into the spirit of Halloween, we will be providing (brave) delegates with various masks to wear in the final sessions of the conference. Delegates may also choose to wear a costume on the final conference day. We will have masks and a very limited number of costumes to pick up at the registration desk.

  • When: 31st October (after lunch)
  • Where: Dublin Royal Convention Centre
  • Address: One Le Pole Square, Ship Street Great, Dublin, D08 E6PD
  • Who can participate: Any delegate
  • Capacity: Limited to 200 masks, first-come, first served.

 

Bookable Boardroom
We have set aside a boardroom in the main conference venue to support delegate meetings and discussions. This can be booked from the registration desk and it must be booked in advance. If you wish to book the boardroom, please ask at the conference registration desk.