Two keynote talks (30-minute slots including Q&A) are planned for HCRS@WWW 2027, covering the workshop’s three thematic pillars of agency, alignment, and long-term value in human-centered recommendation, spanning academic and industrial perspectives.

Talk titles and abstracts will be announced on this page as they are confirmed.

Keynote · Tentative
Portrait of Maarten de Rijke
Maarten de Rijke
University of Amsterdam
30-minute slot incl. Q&A · afternoon session (IST, UTC+1)
Distinguished University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval at the University of Amsterdam; Fellow of the ACM and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Keynote · Confirmed
Portrait of Yupeng Hou
Yupeng Hou
Google DeepMind
30-minute slot incl. Q&A · afternoon session (IST, UTC+1)
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, focusing on generative recommendation and LLMs, with publications at ICML, KDD, and WWW.

All keynote slots and times are tentative and subject to the final workshop schedule, which will be published closer to the conference.