Arrival of participants in Innsbruck

11:00-12:30 Introduction

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13:30-17:00 Presentations:

• Kirill Solovev. Mapping Political-Elite Networks in Europe with a Multilingual Joint Entity-Relation Extraction Pipeline: The VALPOP Project

• Felipe Perilla Reyes. Disentangling the past: Automatic network reconstruction from unstructured textual sources using large language models

• Clare Fenwick. Using Large Language Models to Construct Cross-National Bureaucratic-Politico-Business Networks for Studying Rule of Law Backsliding

• Zheng Zhang. From RAGs to riches: collecting and processing elite formal networks from large-scale Chinese text through LLMs.

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19:00 – 21:00: dinner followed by fireside chat with Mathias Winkler (local government of Tyrol): Can AI Increase Transparency in Governance?

9:00-12:30 Presentations

• Tu Ngo. Webs of Power: Unveiling Autocratic Elite Networks and Their Influence on Leader Constraints Using Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Christopher Crellin and Alexandre Piron. The EU's Humanitarian Aid Network: Explaining Aid Allocation between 2016 – 2025

• Qiange Liu. Corrupt Political Elites in Nigeria: Who Gets Exposed and Who Gets Prosecuted? A Social Network Analysis

• Claudia Salas Gimenez. Who Influences Whom? Analyzing the Interplay of Mainstream and Outsider Parties in Social Media Campaigns

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13:30-15:00 hands-on training quallmer R package by Seraphine Maerz

15:30-17:00 Presentations

• Scott Michael Hamilton. Rearming Europe: Domestic Governance Ecosystems and the Demand for European Defence Integration

• Mert Ugur and Mert Kılıç. From Fringe to Mainstream: Turkish Far-Right Parties' Influence on Legislative Agenda​

9:00-12:30 Presentations 

• Yuequan Guo. Mapping out Elite Networks: Methods and Application to German Political and Economic Elites between 2013 and 2023

• Yifei Zhu. Dataframes within text haystacks: Evaluating Automation Framework for Structured Information Synthesis using LLMs

• Ivan Fomichev. Identifying Social Class and Networks from US Legislative Biographies using LLMs

• Naim Bro. LLM‑Extracted Political Networks as a Basis for Ideological Mapping: Evidence from Chilean Elites, 2019–2025

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13:30-15:00 hands-on training package by Felipe Arturo Perilla Reyes: text2rel

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15:30-17:00 Presentations 

• Jorge Velazco. Authoritarian Connectivity: Chinese Business Elites and Internet Control in Africa

• Seraphine F. Maerz. Shifting words, shifting regimes: Elite discourse and democratic decline​​

9:45-12:30 Presentations (3)

• Mykola Makhortykh. What can go wrong? Using LLMs to extract networks of political actors from multilingual cross-platform search results on Swiss popular votes

• Seray Yalaz. Networks of Resource Extraction: Firm Alignments and Rebel Violence

• Kirill Melnikov. Connections and Political Survival in Personalist Autocracies: The Case of Russia’s Governors

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13:30-15:00 wrap up: discussing lessons learned, themes, etc. with an eye to writing a joint article on the state of the field.