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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:#0E101A">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0E101A">We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the thematic session on "DISTRIBUTED LEARNING AND HYBRID AI: BRIDGING TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND ETHICS" (<a href="https://metroxraine.org/thematic-session-14">https://metroxraine.org/thematic-session-14</a>)
hosted by the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025), which will be held on October 22-24, 2025, in Ancona, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0E101A">Authors interested in submitting their work should prepare an abstract of 1-2 pages</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0E101A"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">by
March 15th</span></strong><span style="color:#0E101A">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:#0E101A">Please see the CfP (<a href="https://metroxraine.org/call-for-papers">https://metroxraine.org/call-for-papers</a>) for more details and forward it to colleagues interested in contributing to this thematic session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0E101A">If you have any questions or need any clarifications, don't hesitate to contact us. We'd be happy to assist you in any way we can.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0E101A">We look forward to receiving your valuable submissions and meeting you at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0E101A">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Davide Calvaresi</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Francisco Fernández de Vega</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simona Tiribelli</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elia Pacioni</p>
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