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Talks

Where I have gone to explain this work, and who I explained it to. Newest first. Invited means someone asked me to come. Conference means I submitted it and it was accepted.

A large conference stage. Ashkan Pirmani stands at a lectern in front of a wide
                  screen showing slides about bias and generalization. Several hundred people are
                  seated in front of him.
Slides on where a model goes wrong when it is asked to be right for everybody at once.
Ashkan Pirmani at a lectern in front of a slide that reads: Good for all. Not
                  always good enough for one.
Genova, 2026. The talk behind the note Letting go of FL4E.
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The European cities in the list below, placed by their real coordinates and joined in the order of the talks.

All talks

May 2026

ConferenceMedical Informatics Europe 2026, Genova

Lessons learned from FL4E, and why we retired it instead of building a second version. The paper: Good for all, not good enough for one.

Dec 2025

SeminarKU Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering

Personalized federated learning in clinical settings.

Nov 2025

IndustryRoche, federated learning team for multiple sclerosis

Federated prediction of disability progression from records of everyday care.

Nov 2025

SeminarNorth American Society of Artificial Intelligence in Multiple Sclerosis

Routine clinical records and federated modeling.

Sep 2025

ConferenceECTRIMS 2025, Barcelona

FLoRank. Abstract accepted and awarded a personal grant for scientific quality. ECTRIMS runs the largest multiple sclerosis research congress in the world.

Dec 2024

CommunityFlower Monthly

Invited by the Flower community, one of the most widely used open federated learning frameworks.

Sep 2024

ConferenceECTRIMS 2024, Copenhagen

Abstract and poster.

Aug 2024

ConferenceMedical Informatics Europe 2024, Athens

Unlocking the power of real world data: a framework for sustainable healthcare.

Nov 2019

InvitedMultiple Sclerosis Data Alliance, Baveno

Scaling up real world data research across the alliance, a global collaboration of registries and consortia.

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