Updated on July 3, 2022
DAY 1: July 5, 2022
12:00 – 13:00 | Welcome coffee/ Networking
13:00 – 13:10 | Opening
Welcome words by FARI directors, Hans de Canck and Carl Mörch
13:10 – 15:00 | Session 1 (BOZAR M Hall)
Session theme: The challenges of defining AI, Data and Robotics for the Common Good
Session lead/moderator: Ann Nowé
“What vision of AI for the Common Good does the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI propose?”
by Maksim Karliuk, Program Specialist, Social & Human Sciences, UNESCO
“How AI for the common good is a key in Europe’s focus on technology sovereignty?”
by Morten Irgens, Co-founder, Director of Innovation, CLAIRE
“What are the challenges of defining and implementing AI, Data, and Robotics for the Common Good in big tech companies”
by Horst Urlberger, Data Modernization / Business lead, Microsoft
“ELSA: Between hope and fear? Balancing opportunities and risks of AI applications in the real world”
by Lisa Brüggen, Scientific Director, Poverty and Debt, ELSA Lab / Maastricht University (NETHERLANDS)
Moderated discussion: Linking up international perspectives to Brussels reality
Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut (Director General, Innoviris)
Mieke De Ketelaere (AI Strategy Consultant / Vlerick )
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break / Partner stands
15:30 – 18:00 | Session 2 (BOZAR M Hall)
Session theme: International and local initiatives in AI, Data and Robotics for the Common Good
Session lead/moderator: Tom Lenaerts
“Barcelona and AI: from strategy to action”
by Paula Boet Serrano, Barcelona City, Council & Cities Coalition for Digital Rights (Catalunya, SPAIN)
“What can national policymakers learn from cities when it comes to AI and Data Governance?”
by Stefaan Verhulst, The GovLab, NYU (US)
“Deconstructing AI saviorism: your AI is not as useful as you think”
by Hinda Haned, Civic AI Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“How can a world-renowned AI institute contribute to the Common Good?”
by Benjamin Prud’homme, Director, AI For Humanity, Mila (CANADA)
Moderated discussion: Linking up international initiatives to Brussels reality
Marc Van den Bossche (Deputy Senior General Manager, CIRB)
Saskia Van Uffelen (Digital Champion, Agoria)
Day 1 Program closing:
Petra de Sutter, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Civil Service, Public Enterprises, Telecommunications and Post, Belgium
18:10 – 21:00 | Cocktail and networking (Horta Gallery)
Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
Bernard Clerfayt, Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Employment and Vocational Training, Digital Transition, Local Authorities, and Animal Welfare
Barbara Trachte, Secretary of State of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Economic Transition and Scientific Research, Belgium
Nathanael Ackerman, AI4Belgium, Belgium
Benoit Macq, Digital Wallonia/ TRAIL, Belgium
Sabine Demey, AI Flanders Plan, Belgium
Networking / Partner stands open house / Open bar
DAY 2: July 6, 2022
09:00 – 10:30 | Session 1 (BOZAR M Hall)
Session theme: The EU is getting its AI Act together: How to develop AI systems under the Rule of Law?
Session lead: Mireille Hildebrandt, LSTS
Format: Dedicated provocations followed by a roundtable discussion
“Powerful decision-makers and adverse impacts on vulnerable humans” by Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the EDHEC Business School in Lille, France
“The AI Act in between the rule of law, the rule by law and the rule of techbros” by Nathalie Smuha, legal scholar and philosopher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law, Belgium
“Is it just me being so stupid, or is it you being so smart” by Jaap Henk Hoepman, Guest Professor at the PRISEC – Privacy And Security group of Karlstad University, Sweden
“The potential and pitfalls of product specifications for producers of AI systems” by Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy Officer at Wipro and Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break / Partner stands
11:00 – 11:15 | Partners’ Presentation: Proximus
“An approach & a call to action for Sustainable AI” by Stephanie Cox, Managing Director of Proximus Ada
11:15 – 12:45 | Session 2 (M Hall)
Session theme: Are robots sustainable?
Session lead: Bram Vanderborght, BruBotics
Format: Presentations and Roundtable discussion (hybrid format)
Arash Ajoudani, Senior Scientist on Collaborative Robots / Healthy Work, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Katleen Gabriels, Assistant Professor and moral philosopher, University of Maastricht: Ethics
Bhavani Rao, Dean of the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Mirko Kovac, Professor, Imperial College London
12:30 – 14:00 | Networking Lunch (Horta Gallery)
14:00 – 14:15 | Partners’ Presentation: Le Wagon
“Educating people to create AI models to benefit the society”
14:15 – 15:40 | Session 3 (M Hall)
Session theme: How to involve and mobilise citizens more around AI, Data and Robotics?
Session led by: Rob Heyman, imec-SMIT
Format: Presentations and Roundtable discussion
Alice Siu, Professor, Associate Director, Center for Deliberative Democracy, Communication, Stanford University
Pieter Duysburgh, Knowledge Centre Data & Society – Datawalks and Amai in Flanders
Vincent Mai – Université de Montréal, Mila – Deliberations on AI Ethics from Montreal to UNESCO
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:20 | Session 4 (M Hall)
Session theme: How are AI and Data used by and for cities?
Session led by: Gianluca Bontempi, Machine Learning Group
Format: Presentations and Roundtable discussion
Daan Bloembergen – CTO of the AI Innovatieteam of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ariela Valverde, Co-founder, Urban Analytics, Italy
Steven Latré, imec, City of Things Project, Belgium
Isabelle Rawart, Agence du Numérique, (BELGIUM)
Michel Herquet, B12, (BELGIUM)
17:20 – 17:30 | Special announcements from FARI