Symposium on Green Artificial Intelligence

25 and 26 November 2025 - CITIC, A Coruña

The Green Artificial Intelligence Symposium is an initiative promoted by the Inditex-UDC Chair in Green Algorithms that will be held on 25 and 26 November 2025 at the CITIC of the University of A Coruña. The event will be held in hybrid mode, with face-to-face sessions in A Coruña and virtual access for remote participants.

The symposium aims to create a meeting point for the research community, the business sector and institutions to address the current challenges of Artificial Intelligence from a perspective of sustainability and environmental commitment.

Climate change affects our societies in a transversal way, and computational activity -including AI models and data centres- is already a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Faced with this challenge, the Chair proposes a multidisciplinary and cooperative approach to advance towards more sustainable algorithms, energy-efficient models and applications that actively contribute to the fight against the climate crisis.

Invited conferences

The symposium will feature internationally prominent speakers who will provide a critical and multidisciplinary view on the challenges and opportunities of AI in sustainable development.

Amparo Alonso Betanzos. Full Professor at the University of A Coruña, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Jorge Castellanos Claramunt. Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia and coordinating member of the Support and Institutional Relations Unit at the AEPD.
Mar Santamaria-Varas. Architect and co-founder of 300.000 Km/s, specialising in urban planning, public policy and sustainability.
Ricardo Vinuesa. Professor and researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Group, University of Michigan.

Contributions

The symposium opens its call for contributions for researchers, practitioners and students interested in exploring the potential of AI for sustainability.

Contributions will be accepted in oral communication or poster format, with a maximum length of 2 pages, including references. Research proposals, technical developments, practical applications and ethical or social reflections are welcome.

Those interested in participating should send an abstract of a maximum of 800 characters, indicating the thematic area of their work, using the form that will be available soon. Proposals written in Galician, Spanish or English will be accepted.

Each proposal will be evaluated by two members of the Scientific Committee, who will assess its quality and thematic suitability, and will propose its presentation mode: oral communication or poster. The possibility of rejecting proposals that do not fit in with the focus of the symposium will also be considered.

Successful applicants must submit a paper of no more than 2 pages in length, including references. Detailed instructions for the preparation of papers will be published after notification of acceptance.

Both oral communications and posters may be presented in any of the official languages of the symposium: Galician, Spanish or English.

Priority will be given to proposals aligned with the research lines of the Chair, which include:

Energy efficient algorithms: Low resolution, HPC, edge computing, federated learning, quantum computing, compact data structures, efficient PLN.
AI for energy efficiency and sustainability: Mobility, smart buildings, simulation of social behaviour, circular economy, application of AI in strategic sectors.
Sustainable robotics: environmental interaction, green production, efficiency in hardware and embedded software.
Ethical, social and economic implications of green algorithms: Impact assessment, algorithmic governance, justice and sustainability from AI.

9:00-9:30 Registration and accreditation

09:30 Welcome ceremony and institutional inauguration

10:00 Keynote speaker no. 1

Amparo Alonso Betanzos (University of A Coruña)

Introduced by Laura Morán

11:00 Green AI TIC Talk (new CITIC researchers)

Using Syntactic Theory to Study Properties of Human-Authored vs. LLM-generated News Text. Olga Zamaraeva, Adrián Gude, Roi Santos-Ríos, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez.
Exploratory Study on Predicting Glazed Surfaces from the Spanish Cadastre and Energy Performance Records. Daniel García-González, Jorge Rodríguez-Alvarez, Miguel R. Luaces, Susana Ladra.

11:30 Coffee break

12:00 Oral presentations

Moderator: Jorge González

12:00 Sistema de recomendación explicable y sostenible basado en texto para escenarios cold-start. Pablo Pérez-Núñez, Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Óscar Luaces, Jorge Díez

12:10 Do you really need the answer now? Polling carbon intensity data when submitting High-Performance Computing batch jobs. Gary Polhill

12:20 Computación distribuida sostenible: hibridando optimización metaheurística y bayesiana. Mariano Garralda-Barrio, Carlos Eiras-Franco, Verónica Bolón-Canedo

12:30 AgrIoT: IA verde e internet de las cosas para monitoreo árbol-árbol y gestión del agua en huertos. Joaquín I. Macías-Cáceres, Pedro P. Concepción Rancel

12:40 Dispositivo inteligente para la monitorización del estado de salud de ganado porcino en ganadería extensiva. Albano Carrera, Isaac Matheus de Sena Froes, Daniel Santos, Laura Grande-Pérez, Javier Prieto

12:50 Green Structured Prediction in NLP. Ana Ezquerro, Diego Roca, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Vilares

13:00 DeepForest: Modelización inteligente para la gestión sostenible de biomasa forestal mediante IA geoespacial. Sarai Cobas Merino, Guillermo González Cordero, Jairo Calderón Miñaca, Belén Pérez Lancho, Ana-Belén Gil-González

13:10 Optimización dinámica en prosumidores energéticos con DRL mediante PPO enmascarado. Víctor García Chico, Manuel Ramos Jiménez, Lucía Riera Presmanes, Roberto Salamanca Barrios, Ana Belén Gil González

13:20 GreenWest: inteligencia artificial para la predicción de créditos de carbono en proyectos de (re)forestación en España, y que corresponde al grupo B1 (GreenWest) de las líneas de investigación de DemIA. Maider Araceli Urbón Jiménez, Jaime Gabriel Vegas, Ana de Luis Reboredo, Belén Pérez Lancho, Ana-Belén Gil-González

13:30 Keynote speaker no. 2

Ricardo Vinuesa (University of Michigan)

Introduced by Verónica Bolón

14:30-16:00 Lunch break

16:00 Business round table – Data Processing Centres

Mercedes Fernández Escribano – Global Head of IA – Corporación Hijos de Rivera (HR)
Jorge Prado Casal – Data Protection and IT Service Management Officer – Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS)
Ignacio López Cabido – Director of Scientific Infrastructure and Research Support – Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)
Carlos González Jardón – Director of the Architecture, Technology and Processes Governance Area (ABANCA)

Moderator: Xosé Manuel García

17:00 Poster session + coffee

Algoritmos Verdes: Impacto Ambiental, Marco Jurídico y Ético en la Inteligencia Artificial. Vera Iglesias Losada
Infraestructura Robótica de Alta Precisión para la Validación Experimental de Algoritmos de IA Sostenibles. Tomás Domínguez Bolaño, Valentín Barral Vales, Carlos José Escudero Cascón, José Antonio García Naya, Ángel Carro Lagoa, Liz Gámez Picó.
Optimización Energética de Microrredes Híbridas mediante Algoritmos Genéticos de IA Inteligencia Artificial para la Gestión Energética Óptima en Microrredes Híbridas mediante Algoritmos Genéticos. Pablo Pallarés Font de Mora, Manuel F. Dolz, José I. Aliaga, Rafa Gandía.
Modelo baseado en axentes para avaliar a aceptación cidadá dun proxecto de sustentabilidade enerxética na illa de El Hierro. Alejandro Rodríguez-Arias, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos.
From idea to image: optimizing diffusion models for industry. Nicolás Pérez-Leis, David Lacalle and Paula M. Castro
CIFNet: Un método eficiente de un solo paso para el aprendizaje inremental por clases. Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Óscar Fontenla-Romero, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos
Selección de Características en GPUs para Inferir Redes Genéticas de Forma Energéticamente Eficiente. Jorge González-Domínguez, Javier Darriba.
Hacia un ECDIS Verde y Centrado en el Usuario: Diseño de Interfaz Sensible a la Carga Cognitiva en la Era S-100. Alsira Salgado Don, Francisco Javier Lama Carballo.
Exploratory Analysis of Energy Performance Certificates in the Community of Madrid. Laia García-Aguilera, Daniel García-González.
Optimización eficiente de CNNs mediante características precalculadas y entrenamiento ponderado. Daniel Vila-Cruz, Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Laura Morán-Fernández.
Optimización de métodos de selección de características en precisión reducida mixta para dispositivos con recursos limitados. Simón Noya Domínguez, Samuel Suárez-Marcote, Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Laura Morán-Fernández.
Optimización de ReliefF para entornos IoT con recursos limitados. Samuel Suárez-Marcote, Laura Morán-Fernández, Verónica Bolón-Canedo.
Propuesta para el Desarrollo de un Índice de Inteligencia Artificial Sostenible (IIAS): Hacia una Métrica Unificada. Javier Parra-Domínguez, Laura Sanz-Martín, Lorena Sánchez-Pravós, Manal Jammal, Joysiane Monroy-Tepepa.
Estimating Pi: A Use Case of Quantum Accelerated Monte Carlo. Samuel Magaz-Romero.
Prediction of mutational effects in plants using artificial intelligence. Eva Pardo-Otero, Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Rosalía Piñeiro.
Arquitecturas Eficientes para LLMs: Estudo de Mixture of Experts. Artur Gil Torres, Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Brais Cancela.
Del carbón a la IA verde: factores psicosociales en la aceptación de la transición energética en As Pontes. Francisco J. Rey Vizoso.
Reduciendo la Huella de la IA en la Estadística Oficial: un Caso Práctico sobre Clasificación Económica. Jorge Paz-Ruza, Adrián Pérz-Bote, Roi Santos-Ríos, Jesús Vilares.
Control estadístico de la calidad para la detección de anomalías y la monitorización de la eficiencia de procesos. Eva Soto-Antonio, Salvador Naya, Miguel Flores, Mario Francisco-Fernández, Luís Carral, Javier Tarrío-Saavedra.

18:00 End of day 1

09:30 Keynote speaker no. 3

Mar Santamaría Varas (300,000 Kms/s)

Introduced by Jorge Rodríguez

10:30 The National Green Algorithms Programme (PNAV)

David Gómez Cordero. Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence
Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Administration. Government of Spain.

Introduced by Amparo Alonso

11:30 Coffee break

12:00 Round table Royal Academy of Engineering (RAING)

María Mora Rodríguez – Head of Innovation and Digital Strategy– Fujitsu
Luis Casado Ayesta – Transformation Office Leader – Moeve Chemicals
Víctor Gaspar – CSO – Multiverse computing.

Moderator: RAING

13:00 Presentation of results of Citizen Science projects by the Chair:

Citizenship, Sustainability, and Algorithms: Towards an AI with Social and Environmental Awareness

Francisco Rey Vizoso – Cátedra UDC-ITX IA en Algoritmos Verdes
Beatriz Vázquez Guimeráns – Ingenyus Marketing Inteligente

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00 Keynote speaker no. 4

Jorge Castellanos Claramunt – Coordinator of the Support and Institutional Relations Unit – Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD)
Introduced by Javier Sanz

16:00 Seminar on the legal, economic and regulatory impact of Green AI.

Julián Valero – Innovation, Law and Technology Research Group – University of Murcia
Fernando González Laxe – Full Professor at the University of A Coruña
Enrique Calvo Cádiz –Legal and Institutional Relations Division – Spanish Artificial Intelligence Supervision Agency (AESIA)

Moderator: Isabel Novo

17:00 Oral presentations

Moderator: Susana Ladra

17:00 Edge-AIoT–Based Sustainable Architecture for Optimizing Water Resources in Community Kitchens in Cali, Colombia. Juan M. Núñez V., Diana M.Giraldo, Nancy Vásquez Sarria, Ana Belén Gil-González, Fernando De la Prieta.

17:10 Toward Green Agentic AI: Balancing Performance with Environmental Sustainability. Yuekai Wang

17:20 Análisis de sostenibilidad de Sistemas de Recomendación. Xesús Patiño, Jorge Paz-Ruza, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos.

17:30 Frenar la pesca furtiva costera mediante inteligencia artificial y algoritmos verdes: un camino hacia la sostenibilidad marina. Isabel Novo-Cortí, Ignacio Picatoste-Novo, Xose Picatoste, y Francisco J. Rey.

17:40 Surrogate Modeling for Efficient Energy Optimization in Robotic Manufacturing Cells. Alejandro González-Casal, Diego Crespo Pereira, Richard José Duro Fernández, Abraham Prieto García.

17:50 RAIDO, una aproximación holística en el desarrollo de algoritmos más verdes y energéticamente eficientes. Rebeca Gutierrez, Maria Dolores de Acuña.

18:00 Closing ceremony

Key dates

Abstract submission deadline	1 July 2025
Abstract submission deadline	19 September 2025
Notification of acceptance	10 October 2025
Submission of full paper (max. 2 pages)	24 October 2025
Early registration	Until 31 October 2025
General registration	Until 20 November 2025

Register

Participation in the symposium is free of charge, but prior registration is required. The registration form is now available. Click the button to register as an attendee.

Awards

With the aim of recognising the most relevant and original research work, the Green Artificial Intelligence Symposium will award three prizes for the best contributions submitted in the following categories:

Green-in Award: For the best contribution focused on energy-efficient algorithms or strategies that reduce the carbon footprint of Artificial Intelligence.
Green-by Award: For the best contribution that uses AI as a tool to promote sustainability and the development of applications with a positive impact on the environment, energy efficiency or urban planning.
Ethical, Social and Economic Implications Award: For the best contribution that critically and rigorously addresses the ethical, social or economic aspects linked to the development and deployment of green algorithms.

The awards will be announced at the closing session of the event and a certificate will be presented.

Event management

Verónica Bolón Canedo
Laura Morán Fernández
Xosé Manuel García García
María Merelas Ares
Amparo Alonso Betanzos
Jorge González Domínguez
Susana Ladra González
Isabel Novo Cortí
José Pernas García
Francisco José Rey Vizoso
Jorge Rodríguez Álvarez

UDC-Inditex Chair of AI in Green Algorithm

Centro de Investigación TIC
Campus de Elviña s/n – 15071 A Coruña – España

simposio.algoritmos.verdes@udc.gal