Author: Davide Dei Cas

On 16 January 2026, the “Guido Petter” Conference Hall at the School of Psychology hosted the annual meeting dedicated to the UNIPD’s activities within the DARE (DigitAl lifelong pRevEntion) initiative. The event featured an overview of the ongoing DARE projects led by UNIPD researchers, a seminar delivered by the Arsenal.IT consortium on the secondary use of healthcare data, and two roundtable discussions designed to encourage multidisciplinary exchange.

During the meeting, Professor Barbara Di Camillo took part in an insightful roundtable discussion entitled “From Research to Healthcare Practice: Working Together for New Perspectives in Prevention.” In addition, our researcher Enrico Longato presented the current progress of Work Package 3, Task 3.3a, entitled “Digitally-Empowered Management of Type 2 Diabetes: From Diagnosis to the Prediction of Complications.”

Overall, the meeting provided an important opportunity to exchange ideas, strengthen collaborations, and gain a comprehensive view of the diverse and innovative contributions of UNIPD within the DARE initiative.

Last week, our group attended the 23^rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2025) in Pavia, Italy.

It was a fantastic opportunity to follow high-quality presentations and engage with leading researchers and professionals from across the AI and healthcare communities.

We are proud to share that we contributed to the scientific program with four research papers:

• Davide Dei Cas held a short oral presentation entitled “Exploring the Use of Projecting Conflicting Gradients in Multi-Task Neural Networks with an Application to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.”

• Erica Tavazzi co-authored the poster “Towards Distributed Process Discovery in Healthcare: Testing and Proving the Feasibility of the Federated Alpha+ Algorithm.”

• At the 2^nd International Workshop on Process Mining Applications for Healthcare (PM4H 2025), our group was also involved in two contributions: “Predicting Next Clinical Event in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis using Process-Oriented Machine Learning Models: a Case Study” and “Federated I-PALIA: Privacy-By-Design Distributed Process Discovery for Duplicated Activities in Healthcare” (🏆Best Paper Award – PM4H 2025).

We sincerely thank the conference organizers for hosting this event and for giving us the opportunity to share our research.