Program — RETRAI 2026
Tuesday 18 August 2026, co-located with RE’2026 in Montreal, Canada. Full keynote abstracts and speaker biographies are on the Keynotes page.
Welcome & Introduction
If you plan to attend the workshop, please first register via RE registration website.
Keynote 1 – Professor Kurt Schneider
Delegating Human Values to LLMs
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany — full details
Presentation Session 1
- KPAI: Engineering Trustworthy and Impactful AI Systems
- Trustworthy AI in Avionics Systems: What Can We Learn from Certification Argumentation?
- MESA: Requirements-Oriented Review of AI Benchmarks as Measurement Instruments
Coffee Break
Keynote 2 – Professor Mehdi Mirakhorli
Engineering Trustworthy AI Systems: Lessons from Autonomous Cyber Operations
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA — full details
Panel 1 – The Benefits, Limitations and Risks of AI for Humanity and Society
With Professor Mehdi Mirakhorli, Professor Lionel Briand and Professor Kurt Schneider —
panelist biographies
Lunch Break
Keynote 3 – Professor Jocelyn Maclure
AI Ethics and Governance: Why the “Value-Alignment” Project is Misguided
McGill University, Canada — full details
Presentation Session 2
- A Vision for Compliance-Aware Requirements Engineering in the Age of the EU AI Act
- Value-based Requirements Engineering for Human-centred AI: Foundations, Challenges, and a Research Agenda
- Liability as a Requirement: Allocating Civil Responsibility for Agentic AI Systems
Coffee Break
Industry Talk – Dr Annie Desmarais
Université de Montréal & IVADO, Canada — title to be confirmed —
full details
Panel 2 – The Benefits, Limitations and Risks of AI for Vulnerable Users
With Professor Jocelyn Maclure, Cimon Chapdelaine, Dr Annie Desmarais and Camille Normandin —
panelist biographies
Discussion & Closing Remarks
If you attended the workshop, please at the end, complete the post-workshop survey using the following LINK.