AI – The Big Picture | Part I: What legislative framework for AI in Europe?

Speakers for this event

• Bakker, Babette

  Bakker, Babette

  Program Manager, TNO Appl.AI

  Babette Bakker works as a program manager of TNO Appl.AI (Applied AI) and as a researcher in innovation policy at TNO. Appl.AI is TNO’s initiative to stimulate AI innovation by bringing governments, companies and researchers together in joint innovation projects. Her role is to set up and coordinate this new program. As a researcher, she is especially involved in AI for public policy and services. Babette is also an advisor and researcher in innovation policy and strategy. She has ample experience in data-driven foresight studies, impact assessment of technology, roadmaps and national research agendas. Her role is to bridge the gap between policy/strategy questions, technological/market expertise and data science. Babette completed the data expert program of the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, the European Master in System Dynamics and a bachelor in (International) Economics from the Radboud University Nijmegen.

  Program Manager, TNO Appl.AI

• Hoos, Holger

  Hoos, Holger

  Professor of Machine Learning, Leiden University, lead author of the European Vision on AI, CLAIRE initiative

  Holger H. Hoos is Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (Canada), where he also holds an appointment as Faculty Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a Fellow of AAAI and past president of the Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC). Holger's research interests span artificial intelligence, empirical algorithmics, bioinformatics and computer music. Known for his work on machine learning and optimisation methods for the automated design of high-performance algorithms and on stochastic local search, he has developed - and vigorously pursues - the paradigm of programming by optimisation (PbO); he is also one of the originators of the concept of automated machine learning (AutoML). Holger has a penchant for work at the boundaries between computing science and other disciplines, and much of his work is inspired by real-world applications. In 2018, together with Morten Irgens (OsloMet) and Philipp Slusallek (DFKI), Holger launched CLAIRE, an initiative by the European AI community that seeks to strengthen European excellence in AI research and innovation. CLAIRE promotes excellence across all of AI, for all of Europe, with a human-centred focus (for details, see claire-ai.org).

  Professor of Machine Learning, Leiden University, lead author of the European Vision on AI, CLAIRE initiative

• King, Dave

  King, Dave

  Founder and CEO, Exaptive, Inc

  CEO David King founded Exaptive in 2011 to show that technology platforms could augment human creativity to facilitate innovation at scale. Frustrated that radical innovation often hinged on serendipity, Dave was driven to build a software ecosystem that uses data-science to facilitate unexpected, cross-disciplinary connections and more ah-ha! moments for scientists, researchers, designers, and industry analysts tackling complex problems. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a concentration in the social sciences, Dave has spent 20+ years working in software development – from system architecture and large-scale database design, to the psychology of user interfaces, to the management of agile teams.

  Founder and CEO, Exaptive, Inc

• Koene, Ansgar

  Koene, Ansgar

  Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader, EY

  Dr. Ansgar Koene is Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY where he supports the AI Lab’s Policy activities on Trusted AI. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the RCUK funded Horizon Digital Economy Research institute (University of Nottingham) where he contributes to the policy impact activities of the institute and leads the policy related stakeholder engagement activities of the ReEnTrust project. As part of this work Ansgar has provided evidence to twelve UK parliamentary inquiries, co-authored a report on Bias in Algorithmic Decision-Making for the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, and was lead author of a Science Technology Options Assessment report on a Governance Framework for Algorithmic Accountability and Transparency for the European Parliament.

  Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader, EY

• Madigan, Mary Carol

  Madigan, Mary Carol

  Strategy Expert, Machine Learning, SAP

  Mary Carol Madigan is a strategist for artificial intelligence at SAP, where she helps define how SAP leverages artificial intelligence to builds Intelligent Enterprises. Mary Carol also focuses on implementing AI ethics at SAP as well as other strategic topics key to the success of innovation. Prior to joining SAP, Mary Carol worked in new product development for UnitedHealth Group, where she focused on launching new healthcare services. She received her MBA from the University of Notre Dame and has a degree in Political Science from College of the Holy Cross.

  Strategy Expert, Machine Learning, SAP

• Robbert Fisher

  Robbert Fisher

  President, Knowledge4Innovation

  Robbert Fisher specializes in strategy and policy in the fields of R&D, technology transfer and innovation in general. His key focus is on ICT policy. Since 1st January 2020 he is principal associate investigator at the University de las Campinas in Sao Paolo Brazil, where he focuses on the further development of Big Data and AI for policy analysis, development and monitoring. Robbert is on the board of several start up companies, a trusted expert for the European Commission in the field of big data and AI, and since 2017 the president of K4I. From 2011 to 2019 Robbert was the managing director of the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy, a Brussels based think tank of four renowned RTO’s (TNO, VTT, Tecanalia and Joanneum Research). Prior to that he has founded two companies, from 1989 until 2000 he was a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers. From 1991-1995 Robbert was seconded as an expert to the European Commission DG XIII (now DG CONNECT) in Luxembourg. Robbert received a Master’s degree Law, Leiden University, the Netherlands with special subjects Intellectual property, Information Systems and Business economics. He holds degrees in marketing and public relations. In addition, he is an alumnus of the PwC International Management Development Programme, and has followed executive courses at Darden Business School and Oxford Said Business School.

  President, Knowledge4Innovation

• Smuha, Nathalie

  Smuha, Nathalie

  Assistant lecturer and Researcher FWO Fellowship, KU Leuven

  Nathalie holds a Master of Laws with specialization in International and European law, as well as a Bachelor of Philosophy from the KU Leuven. She also pursued an LL.M. at the University of Chicago Law School (where she focused both on law and ethics), after which she qualified at the New York Bar. After completing her studies, Nathalie worked as an associate in an international law firm in Brussels, advising companies on EU competition law, EU procedural law and EU regulation more generally. Since her return to the Law Faculty in 2017, when she joined the Department of International and European Law as an assistant lecturer, Nathalie has been focusing on the (EU) regulation of new technologies and - in particular - of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her research deals with the impact of AI and other technologies on fundamental rights, and the broader legal and ethical issues raised thereby. In 2018, Nathalie obtained an FWO Fellowship to conduct her research in this field. In the context of her research, Nathalie also worked at the European Commission (DG Connect), where she assisted with ethical and legal matters relating to AI and coordinated the work of the EC High-Level Expert Group on AI, which delivered two documents: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, addressed to AI practitioners and AI Policy and Investment Recommendations, addressed to the European Commission and Member States.

  Assistant lecturer and Researcher FWO Fellowship, KU Leuven

• Zucker, Michelle

  Zucker, Michelle

  Director Community Activation, EIT Climate-KIC

  Michelle believes that the only way to make big, bold and meaningful change is to bring people together. She has worked extensively in complex innovation initiatives, exploring novel ways to tackle long standing and systemic challenges. Over the last 15 years she has worked in innovation across the entire spectrum – from grass roots through to whole of systems. Michelle’s current role is the Director of Community Activation at EIT Climate-KIC, a pan-European innovation initiative for climate change. Here she works to bring unusual actors, communities and voices not normally heard into action-based initiatives for climate – think sci-fi economics, ownership of commons, art, culture and museums

  Director Community Activation, EIT Climate-KIC