The Digital Heritage 2025 Congress runs from Monday, September 8 to Friday, September 12, 2025 at San Niccolò Palace.

  • Each day features plenary sessions and parallel scientific tracks across multiple rooms.
  • From Monday to Friday, the Digital Heritage Exhibition will be continuously open, including special events throughout the week.
  • On Saturday, September 13, participants are invited to join Trips & Tours across Tuscany’s cultural and historical sites.
Time Monday 8 Tuesday 9 Wednesday 10 Thursday 11 Friday 12 Saturday 13
08:00–09:00 Registration Registration Registration Registration Registration
09:00–11:00 Tutorials & Workshops Opening Ceremony + EU Talks Scientific Sessions Scientific Sessions, Panels & Workshop Scientific Sessions
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:30–13:30 Tutorials & Workshops Keynotes Keynotes Keynotes Keynotes
13:30–14:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Trips & Tours
14:30–15:30 Expo Opening Ceremony Scientific Sessions & Panels Scientific Sessions Scientific Sessions Closing Ceremony & Awards
15:30–16:30 Tutorials, Workshops & Roundtables Scientific Sessions & Panels Scientific Sessions Scientific Sessions
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
17:00–18:30 Tutorials & Workshops Scientific Sessions & Panels Scientific Sessions & Panels Scientific Sessions & Panels

 

 

Daily Program

Monday 8 Tuesday 9 Wednesday 10Thursday 11 Friday 12

Monday, 8 September 2025
08:00–09:00 Registration
09:00–11:00 Tutorials and Workshops
  • Room WEB3D: 370 – Increasing Heritage Accessibility (R. Haynes)
  • Room 1: 296 – Hands on with IIIF (G. Robson, Stanford Univ. IIIF Tech Coord)
  • Room 2: 27 – Mobile Mapping System (J. Bedkowski, Samsung)
  • Room 3: 5 – Digital Storytelling (L. Šejić et al)
  • Room 4: 264 – Cultural Heritage Tourism (J. Weber Sabil)
  • Room 5: 371 – Back to the past: Delorean? (M. Mateo-Pardo, D. Basulto)
  • Room 6: 388 – GDH LidArc LiDAR Archaeology (Campana et al)
11:00–13:00 Coffee Break
11:30–13:30 Tutorials and Workshops
  • Room WEB3D: 356 – Web3D Publishing Tools (Bergstrom, Polys, Brutzman)
  • Room 1: 345 – Aerial Point Cloud Classification (G. Mazzacca et al, FBK)
  • Room 2: 293 – Virtual Environments with ATON & Godot (Fanini et al, CNR ISPC, CINECA)
  • Room 3: 352 – Diverse Voices in Virtual Heritage
  • Room 4: 338 – ECHOES Workshop (X. Rodier et al)
  • Room 5: 111 – Engagement in Immersive Environments (M. Denni)
  • Room 6: 264 – Cultural Heritage Tourism
13:30–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30–15:30
  • Plenary: Opening
  • Exhibition: DigitalHeritage EXPO Opening Ceremony
15:30–16:30 Tutorials and Workshops
  • Exhibition: Special event @ DH25 expo
  • Room WEB3D: HAnim WG Meeting – Discussion on metaverse body/garments/motion standards
  • Room 1: 290 – Build Your Own Museum in the Metaverse (N. McDonnell, Univ. Glasgow)
  • Room 2: ESA Roundtable – Earth Observation & Heritage Sites (M. Hernandez & J. Paturno)
  • Room 4: DCH EU Policy Roundtable – From Hallucinations to Revolutions
  • Room 6: tbc
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break
17:00–18:30 Tutorials and Workshops
  • Exhibition: Special event @ DH25 expo
  • Room 2: 335 – SHIFT Project Tools for Accessibility (K. Valakou et al, FORTH)
  • Room 3: 343 – Knowledge Graphs with Matrix Language (E. Demetrescu et al)
  • Room 4: 245 – Combating Illicit Excavations via Digital Tools (D. Abate et al)
  • Room 5: 360 – Collections as Data across GLAM Labs (A. Irollo et al)
  • Room 6: tbc

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

08:00–09:00 Registration

09:00–11:00 Opening Ceremony + EU Talks
  • Plenary: DigitalHeritage CONGRESS Opening Ceremony
  • EU Talks: Ms K. VAN GOEY (Inclusive Society); P. ORTIZ DE LA TORRE COLLANTES (Culture)

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Keynotes
  • Plenary: J. Paturno (ESA): Driving Innovation in Cultural and Natural Heritage Management: Institutional Partnerships and Industry Innovation; Livio De Luca (CNRS): Building Cathedrals of digital data & multidisciplinary knowledge for heritage science

13:30–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:00 Scientific Sessions and Panels
  • Room A WEB3D: Paper Session 1
  • Room B WEB3D: Tutorial 1
  • Room 1: Round-Table – Digital Technologies for the Conservation and Management of Heritage (P. Lievaux)
  • Room 2: Panel 269 – Powering 3D digitisation of Europe’s heritage (K. Fernie et al)
  • Room 3: T6 – S1 – XR Platforms and Frameworks for Cultural Engagement
  • Room 4: T1 – S1 – Digital tools for monitoring heritage at risk (c. S. Campana)
  • Room 5: Panel 311 – Generative AI and the Narrative Turn in Digital CH Education

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30–18:30 Scientific Sessions and Panels
  • Plenary: T10 – H2IOSC Project Development
  • Room A WEB3D: Paper Session 2
  • Room B WEB3D: Workshop 1
  • Room 1: Round-Table – Beyond Digital Libraries (CNR, CINECA, MIC et al)
  • Room 2: Panel 127 – Multi-vocal Storytelling for CH (K. Hadick)
  • Room 3: T6 – S2 – Visual Archives and VR; T6 – S3 – History, Archaeology, VR Reconstruction
  • Room 4: T1 – S5 – Predictive analysis, AI, simulation, computational methods (c. G. Guidi)

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

08:00–09:00 Registration

09:00–11:00 Scientific Sessions and Panels
  • Plenary: T9 – Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECHOES)
  • Room A WEB3D: Paper Session 3
  • Room B WEB3D: Tutorial 2
  • Room 1: T6 – S4: Accessibility and Inclusive Engagement; T6 – S5: Immersive and Interactive VR/AR in CH
  • Room 2: T2 – S1: From DH Theory to Practice (c. A. Chrysanthi)
  • Room 3: T5 – S1: Semantics-driven Interaction with Digitized Heritage
  • Room 4: T4 – S1: Digitization and Technology (c. M. Hoffmann)
  • Room 5: T14 – S1: Modern Technologies for Serious Gaming (c. C. E. Catalano)

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Keynotes & Paper Sessions
  • Plenary: S. Kenderdine (EPFL) – Computational Museology; H. Maschner (GDH) – Global Digital Heritage and the Mass-Digitisation of Heritage: a Guerilla Manifesto
  • Room A WEB3D: Paper Session 4 – Web3D + Digital Heritage
  • Room B WEB3D: Industrial Use Cases
  • Room 2: Paper Session 5
  • Room 3: Industrial Use Cases

13:30–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:00 Scientific Sessions and Panels
  • Plenary: T6 – S6: Historical Imagery in VR
  • Exhibition: Special Event @ DH25 Expo
  • Room A WEB3D: Paper Session 6
  • Room B WEB3D: Workshop 2
  • Room 1: T1 – S2: Digitization, Documentation, Dissemination
  • Room 2: T2 – S2: Heritage, Tourism, Sustainability (c. A. Marasco)
  • Room 3: T5 – S2: Creation Process & Context
  • Room 4: T4 – S3: Digitization & Segmentation (c. F. Remondino)
  • Room 5: T14 – S2: Game Design Methods (c. K. Körner)

16:30–18:30 Scientific Sessions and Panels
  • Plenary: T6 – S7: Digitization & 3D Visualization; T6 – S8: Narratives, Multimodality, Emotional Engagement
  • Exhibition: Special Event @ DH25 Expo
  • Room A WEB3D: Demonstrations: HAnim + Web3D Tools Contest + Awards Ceremony
  • Room 2: T1 – S4: From 3D Models to Platforms & Digital Twins (c. V. Abergel)
  • Room 3: Panel 288 – AI and CH – values, law, openness (A. Foka et al)
  • Room 4: T5 – S3: Analysing Digitized Assets
  • Room 5: T4 – S2: Digitization Tools (c. P. Santos)
  • Room 6: T14 – S3: Explorative Approaches to History

 

Thursday, 11 September 2025

08:00–09:00 Registration

09:00–11:00 Scientific Sessions, Panels & Workshop
  • Plenary: 393 – Workshop: Data Collection and Reuse in Digital Heritage: Approaches and Results from the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster
  • Room 1: T1 – S3: Instrumental and Computational Approaches for CH Conservation (c. C. Miliani)
  • Room 2: T6 – S9: AI and Generative Techniques for Heritage Reconstruction
  • Room 3: T5 – S4: Analysing and Documenting Sites and Landscapes
  • Room 4: T12 – S1: Digital Technologies for CHANGES
  • Room 5: T3 – S2: Standards and Community-Driven Tools

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Keynotes
  • Plenary: D. Powlesland – Landscape Research Centre (UK): A Finger on the Button of Time: 41 Years of Digital Documentation in Field Archaeology in Yorkshire; tbc

13:30–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:00 Scientific Sessions and Posters
  • Exhibition: Special Event @ DH25 Expo
  • Room 1–5: POSTER presentations

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30–18:30 Scientific Sessions and Panels
  • Plenary: T8 – PERCEIVE: Exhibiting the “Unexhibitable”
  • Exhibition: Special Event @ DH25 Expo
  • Room 1: T4 – S4: Digitization Case Studies (c. P. Santos)
  • Room 2: T6 – S10: Storytelling and Interpretation in Digital Heritage
  • Room 3: T5 – S5: Extracting Knowledge from Digitized Asset
  • Room 4: T12 – S2: Digital Technologies for CHANGES
  • Room 5: T3 – S1: Infrastructures, Platforms and Digital Ecosystems

Evening Social Dinner

Friday, 12 September 2025

08:00–09:00 Registration

09:00–11:00 Scientific Sessions and Events
  • Plenary: GCH Working Group
  • Exhibition: Special Event @ DH25 Expo
  • Room 1: T12 – S3: Digital Technologies for CHANGES
  • Room 2: T3 – S3: Data Analysis, Datasets and Multimodal Approaches
  • Room 5: T13 – S1: Phygital Worlds & XR in Cultural Heritage

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Keynotes
  • Plenary: Keynotes

13:30–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–15:30 Closing Ceremony
  • Plenary: Digital Heritage Closing Ceremony and Awards

15:30–16:30 Meetings
  • Plenary: Digital Heritage Committee Meeting
  • Room 2–5: Meeting Slot Available