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📅 When

Tuesday 27 October 2026

08:30 to 17:15, followed by an informal social

📍 Where

314 Main St, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02412

Venue details on the DCASE 2026 website

🎟️ Registration

Included in DCASE 2026 registration

Discounted AIR-only ticket available


Programme

Time Programme Format
08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 Welcome from the organisers
09:15 to 10:30 Session 1: Listening machines in the real world
09:15 Building Ears for Robots: Machine Hearing in the Age of Autonomy
Xuan Zhong (Zoox) Keynote
09:45 Sonaid: Life-Saving Sound Detection on MCU-Class Devices, Tested Live by the Audience
Nicolas Turpault (Sonaid) Demo
10:00 Professionally Recorded and Annotated Non-Speech Audio Corpora for Research & Development
Bradford Swanson, John Sloan, Willy Jones (Pro Sound Effects) Demo
10:15 Designing AI Music Tools With Students: A Balanced Study of Classroom Self-Efficacy and the Participatory Design of an Educational AI Interface
Anish Ghosh (University of Miami) Demo
10:30 to 11:00 ☕ Coffee break and demos
Sonaid, Pro Sound Effects
11:00 to 11:45 Session 2: Simulating acoustics at scale
11:00 Generating Large-Scale High-Quality Room-Acoustic Datasets for Sound Event Detection and Localization
Georg Götz, Daniel Gert Nielsen, Vineet Ganju (Treble Technologies) Tutorial
11:30 Scalable Audio Scene Generation with the Treble SDK
Georg Götz, Daniel Gert Nielsen, Vineet Ganju (Treble Technologies) Demo
11:45 to 13:00 Panel: DCASE in the age of rapid AI advancements
Panelists: Noboru Harada (NTT), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL), Kao Kitichotkul (ADI), Marko Stamenovic (Bose), Mrudula Athi (Amazon) Panel
13:00 to 14:30 🍽️ Lunch and demos
University of Miami, Treble Technologies
14:30 to 15:45 Session 3: From benchmarks to devices
14:30 Beyond the Leaderboard: Taking Sound Recognition from DCASE to Millions of Devices
Mateusz Matuszewski (Samsung R&D Institute Poland) Keynote
15:00 Linguistic Sensitivity in Deepfake Speech Detection: What You Read Isn't What You Hear
Thai Le (Indiana University) Demo
15:15 Seiche: An Accessible Tool for Room Acoustics Design
William Chen, Evan Matthews (Independent) Demo
15:30 Cochl.Sense: Real-Time Sound Event Recognition on MCU-Class Devices
Il-Young Jeong (Cochl) Demo
15:45 to 16:15 ☕ Coffee break and demos
Indiana University, Seiche, Cochl
16:15 to 17:00 Session 4: Separation in production
16:15 Speech Separation as a Product: Where the Benchmarks Break
Ondřej Cífka, Elio Gruttadauria, Jessica Powell, Hendrik Schreiber, Fabian-Robert Stöter (AudioShake) Keynote
17:00 Closing remarks
17:15 🥂 Informal social

Formats

Keynote

30 min. A technical deep dive and lessons learned from real-world systems.

Tutorial

30 min. A practical introduction to a method, tool or workflow you can reuse.

Demo

15 min on stage, then hands-on at a demo table during one of the breaks.

Presenters guidelines (link)

Organisers

Nicolas Turpault (Sonaid)

Mikolaj Kegler (Bose)

Sile Yin (Bose)

Tornike Karchkhadze (Apple)

Shuo Zhang (Bose/Tufts)