We are happy to have Dr. Ryan Smith (Laureate Institute for Brain Research) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Flache (University of Groningen) as keynote speakers at our kick-off network meeting in January 2025. Dr. Smith will give a talk on Active Inference (An introduction to active inference models and applications to empirical data) and Prof. Flache on Agent-Based Modeling (Potential and pitfalls of empirically realistic agent-based models).