The University of Palermo is proud to host the 18th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) in Palermo, Italy, from July 20 to July 23, 2025. EDM is the annual flagship conference of the International Educational Data Mining Society. This year's theme is "New Goals, New Measurements, New Incentives to Learn." The theme highlights the shift toward an era dominated by artificial intelligence--where machines can surpass human performance in numerous cognitive tasks--and highlights the imperative for educational systems to evolve accordingly. The scientific program for EDM2025 includes: (1) two keynote talks by outstanding researchers in the field; (2) a plenary Prof. Ram Kumar Educational Data Mining Test of Time Award talk; (3) an invited Data Set Award talk; (4) five workshops and three tutorials; (5) eight presentation sessions with parallel (2 and 3) tracks; (6) a poster presentation session; (7) an industry track session; (8) a doctoral consortium session; and (9) a cross-conference panel. [Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]