december, 2020

11dec09:3011:00European Leadership in Human-Centred, Trustworthy AI: The Path Forward09:30 - 11:00 Event Type:Conference Session in cooperation with CLAIRE

Time

(Friday) 09:30 - 11:00

Location

Zoom Virtual Debate

Event Details

Description

This session will address what can and needs to be done to ensure European excellence and sovereignty in AI, for the benefit of the citizens of Europe, and how to make the best use of the momentous opportunity Europe has at this moment in history to take leadership in this area, building on and improving over the current plans of the European Commission.

In order to participate please register here.

Organizer

Conference Session in cooperation with CLAIRE

Host

Tsvetelina Marinova Penkova, MEP, S&D, Bulgaria

Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, MEP, S&D, Portugal

Maria da Graça Carvalho, MEP, Chair of the K4I Forum, EPP, Portugal (tbc)

Speakers for this event

  • Charlotte Stix

    Charlotte Stix

    PhD Researcher, Fellow, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Cambridge

    Charlotte Stix is an experienced technology policy expert with a specialization in AI governance. Her PhD research at the Eindhoven University of Technology critically examines ethical, governance and regulatory considerations around artificial intelligence In that context, she serves as Fellow to the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge and as Expert to the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies. Most recently, Charlotte was the Coordinator of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Formerly, she was a Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, a Fellow to the World Economic Forum's AI Council, a Policy Officer at the European Commission's Robotics and AI Unit, consulted international start-up Element AI as an Advisor on their European AI engagement and worked as a Policy Officer at the World Future Council where she advocated for rights for future generations. Charlotte is awarded for her work as a 2020 Forbes' 30 under 30 (Europe). In her spare time, Charlotte runs the bi-monthly EuropeanAI newsletter with >1900 subscribers, widely seen as the definitive resource for insights into developments in AI policy across the European Union.

    PhD Researcher, Fellow, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Cambridge

  • Fredrik Heintz

    Fredrik Heintz

    Associate Professor of Computer Science; Coordinator, Linköping University; TAILOR

    Dr. Fredrik Heintz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University, Sweden. He leads the Reasoning and Learning group within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Systems (AIICS) in the Department of Computer Science. His research focus is artificial intelligence especially autonomous systems, stream reasoning, and the intersection between knowledge representation and machine learning. He is the Director of the Graduate School for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), the coordinator of the TAILOR ICT-48 network of AI research excellence centers, the President of the Swedish AI Society, a member of the CLAIRE extended core team, a member of the EurAI board, a researcher at the AI Sustainability Center, and a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is also very active in education activities both at the university level and in promoting AI, computer science and computational thinking in primary, secondary and professional education. Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

    Associate Professor of Computer Science; Coordinator, Linköping University; TAILOR

  • Holger Hoos

    Holger Hoos

    Chair of the Board of Directors; Professor of Machine Learning, CLAIRE; Leiden University

    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 the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), chairman of the board of the Confederation of Laboratories of Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), vice-president of EurAI, past president of the Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC), Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and leader of the VISION coordination mandate for the recently launched European networks of centres of excellence in AI. 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).

    Chair of the Board of Directors; Professor of Machine Learning, CLAIRE; Leiden University

  • Iarla Kilbane-Dawe

    Iarla Kilbane-Dawe

    UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence

    Dr. Iarla Kilbane-Dawe is the Deputy Head of the UK Government Office for AI, with responsibility for International AI Policy, the AI Council and Engagement. Previously in the private sector, UK civil service and head of the European Space Agency's AI lab in Frascati, his goal is to accelerate development of the UK's AI research and industry ecosystem to ensure UK collaboration and leadership in AI, with a focus on responsible AI and its application to major societal and industrial challenges.

    UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence

  • Maria Manuel Leitão Marques

    Maria Manuel Leitão Marques

    MEP, S&D, Portugal

    Maria Manuel Leitão Marques is a full professor of the faculty of economics at the University of Coimbra and was elected MEP in the last European elections of 2019 for the Portuguese Socialist Party. She is currently vice-chair of the International Market and Consumer Protection committee and a member of the delegations to both the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. She is also a substitute MEP in the ITRE and FEMM committees, as well as in the delegation to EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. She previously served as Minister of the presidency and administrative modernisation between 2015-2019 and as a secretary of state for administrative modernisation between 2007-2011.

    MEP, S&D, Portugal

  • Morten Irgens

    Morten Irgens

    Dean, CDO, Oslo Metropolitan University Kristiania University College, CLAIRE

    Dr. Morten Irgens is Dean of School of Economics, Innovation and Technology and Chief Development Officer at Kristiania University College, Advisor to the Rector at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), and Vice Chair if the Board of Directors of the Confederation og Laboratories of Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE). He also serves a board member of Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet) and the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA), both which he initiated and cofounded. He has previously participated in establishing Actenum Corp., Center for Cyber and Information Security, the Housing Laboratory and the Competence Center for Work Inclusion. His background in Artificial Intelligence includes the areas of Constraint Reasoning, and Modern Heuristics.

    Dean, CDO, Oslo Metropolitan University Kristiania University College, CLAIRE

  • Tsvetelina Marinova Penkova

    Tsvetelina Marinova Penkova

    MEP, S&D, Bulgaria

    Ms Penkova is from Bulgaria and a Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. She is also a Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO).

    MEP, S&D, Bulgaria

  • Yiannis Kompatsiaris

    Yiannis Kompatsiaris

    Research Director, Co-ordinator, Certh-ITI / AI4Media

    Dr. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris is a Research Director at CERTH-ITI, the Head of Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Institute. His research interests include machine learning and AI, multimedia, big data and social media analytics, semantics, human computer interfaces (AR and BCI), eHealth, security and culture applications. He is the co-author of 171 papers in refereed journals, 63 book chapters, 8 patents and more than 500 papers in international conferences. Since 2001, Dr. Kompatsiaris has participated in 89 National and European research programs, in 18 of which he has been the Project Coordinator. He has also been the PI in 14 research collaborations with industry including Motorola US and UK. He has been the co-chair of various international conferences and workshops including the 13th IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP 2018) Workshop and has served as a regular reviewer, associate and guest editor for a number of journals and conferences currently being an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and of the Big Data Journal. He has served as proposals and programs evaluator for many National Research Agencies including the French Research Agency (“Chaires AI” and “PhD contracts in AI”). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CHIST-ERA funding programme, an elected member of the IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing - Technical Committee (IVMSP - TC), a Senior Member of IEEE and member of ACM. Since January 2014, he is a co-founder of the Infalia private company, a high-tech SME focusing on data intensive web services and applications.

    Research Director, Co-ordinator, Certh-ITI / AI4Media

Speakers

Chair

Charlotte Stix, PhD Researcher, Fellow, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Cambridge

 

Speakers

Holger Hoos, Chair of the Board of Directors; Professor of Machine Learning, CLAIRE; Leiden University

Fredrik Heintz, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Coordinator, Linköping University; TAILOR

Morten Irgens, Dean, CDO, Oslo Metropolitan University Kristiania University College, CLAIRE

Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Research Director, Co-ordinator, Certh-ITI / AI4Media

Iarla Kilbane-Dawe, UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence

 

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