Dear SIGDIAL list, I'm forwarding information from ISCA. ISCA Online Distinguished Lectures 2026 — October series Join the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) for three online lectures by its 2026–2027 Distinguished Lecturers. Each session lasts two hours, including Q&A. 5 October 2026 | 13:00–15:00 UTC Kai Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; AISpeech) Towards Reliable Task-oriented LLM Agents Register by 2 October 2026, 13:00 UTC. 14 October 2026 | 13:00–15:00 UTC Joseph Keshet (Technion—Israel Institute of Technology) Speech AI in the real world: noise, latency, and the languages we left behind Register by 11 October 2026, 13:00 UTC. 30 October 2026 | 13:00–15:00 UTC Kong Aik Lee (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Speaker Recognition and Anti-Spoofing: State of the Art, Metrics, and Ethics Register by 27 October 2026, 13:00 UTC. Register for one or more sessions: https://forms.gle/iC2EZTGvyMkH5dA18 Full abstracts and speaker biographies are available in the registration form. Zoom links will be emailed separately to the address provided, beginning three days before each lecture; they are not sent automatically upon registration. Please register by each session's deadline to ensure receipt of its Zoom link. Programme details and updates: https://www.isca-speech.org/Distinguished-Lecturers Enquiries: education@isca-speech.org -- Koichiro Yoshino, Ph.D. <koichiro.yoshino@riken.jp> PI, Knowledge Acquisition & Dialogue Team, GRP, R-IH, RIKEN Affiliate Professor, Intelligent Robot Dialogue Laboratory, NAIST