Meaningful Human Control Of Autonomous Intelligent Technology

Speakers for this event

• Berendsen, Tom

  Berendsen, Tom

  Member of the European Parliament

  Tom Berendsen is a Dutch politician for the Christian democrats (CDA). He is Member of the European Parliament since 2 July 2019. Berendsen has a degree in Public Administration from the Tilburg University and has spent time at the Catholic University Leuven as part of the Erasmus programme. Between 2009 and 2015 Berendsen worked as a parliamentary assistant at the CDA delegation in the European Parliament. After his first period in Brussels he worked as an advisor on sustainability at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Netherlands. After being chairman of the local Breda section of the CDA, Berendsen got elected in 2019 as Member of the European Parliament.

  Member of the European Parliament

• 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

• Houben, Geert-Jan

  Houben, Geert-Jan

  Full Professor, TU Delft, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Software Technology

  Full professor of Web Information Systems at the Software Technology department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Leading a research group on Web Information Systems and involved in the education in Computer Science in Delft, with a focus on the role of Web data in the engineering of Web-based information systems. Also, scientific director of Delft Data Science, TU Delft’s coordinating initiative in the field of Data Science, and holding the KIVI-chair Big Data Science. Serving as Director of Education at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at TU Delft. Serving as Coordinator for AI, Data & Digitization in research and education at TU Delft.

  Full Professor, TU Delft, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Software Technology

• Jonker, Catholijn

  Jonker, Catholijn

  Full Professor, TU Delft, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Department of Intelligent Systems

  Prof. dr. Catholijn Jonker is head of the Interactive Intelligence group of the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, TU Delft. Jonker is also full professor of Explainable Artificial Intelligence at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science of Leiden University. She is a board member and a Fellow of EurAI, member of the Academia Europaea, member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. In the past she was chair of the Dutch Network of Female Full Professors and of De Jonge Akademie of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is co-PI of the 20 million Euro ten-year research programme on Hybrid Intelligence (starting 1.1.2020).

  Full Professor, TU Delft, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Department of Intelligent Systems

• Kilbane-Dawe, Iarla

  Kilbane-Dawe, Iarla

  UK policy lead, CLAIRE

  Dr Iarla Kilbane-Dawe is UK policy lead for CLAIRE, the European AI confederation. His work aims to advance European AI research and commercial development, in particular by accelerating collaboration between AI and climate change researchers and practitioners. An atmospheric scientist by background, he previously led the European Space Agency's phi-lab leading work on AI for Earth observation, and was head of the Chief Scientific Advisor's Office at the UK Department for Transport.

  UK policy lead, CLAIRE

• Kober, Jens

  Kober, Jens

  Assistant Professor, Cognitive Robotics department, TU Delft

  Jens Kober is an associate professor at the TU Delft, Netherlands. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar jointly at the CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany and at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany. He graduated in 2012 with a PhD Degree in Engineering from TU Darmstadt and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. For his research he received the annually awarded Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best PhD thesis in robotics in Europe and the 2018 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award. Jens was awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2018. His research interests include robotics, machine learning, and control.

  Assistant Professor, Cognitive Robotics department, TU Delft

• Santoni de Sio, Filippo

  Santoni de Sio, Filippo

  Assistant Professor, TU Delft Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Department of Values, Technologies and Innovation

  I have a PhD in Moral Philosophy. I am currently Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at the Section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology of TU Delft, and an adjunct professor in Ethics of Transportation at the Politecnico di Milano. I am Rapporteur of the EU Commission Expert Group to advise on ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (E03659) and co-director of the NWO-funded interdisciplinary project Meaningful Human Control over Automated Driving Systems (2017-2020). I am in the Management Team of the 4TU.Ethics federation, and in the Work Council (OdC) of the faculty TBM at TU Delft.

  Assistant Professor, TU Delft Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Department of Values, Technologies and Innovation

• van ’t Klooster, Ronald

  van ’t Klooster, Ronald

  Senior R&D Engineer / Project Leader, Quantib B.V.

  Ronald van ‘t Klooster joined Quantib, a scale-up company developing medical image analysis software, in 2014 after finishing his studies at Delft University of Technology and completing a PhD in medical image segmentation and registration at Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden. As a senior R&D engineer, Ronald's expertise covers the whole chain of product development, from prototyping, algorithm development to designing software for the end user and obtaining regulatory approval, as well as bringing the final software product to market. Additionally, he is involved as project leader in European subsidy projects, such as the ITEA3 project IMPACT. One of Ronald's current focus points is AI and getting these technologies into society both from a user and regulatory point of view.

  Senior R&D Engineer / Project Leader, Quantib B.V.

• Viola, Roberto

  Viola, Roberto

  Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT)

  Roberto Viola is Director General of DG CONNECT (Directorate General of Communication, Networks, Content and Technology) at the European Commission. He was the Deputy Director-General of DG CONNECT, European Commission from 2012 to 2015. Roberto Viola served as Chairman of the European Radio Spectrum Policy group (RSPG) from 2012 to 2013, as Deputy Chairman in 2011 and Chairman in 2010. He was a member of the BEREC Board (Body of European Telecom Regulators), and Chairman of the European Regulatory Group (ERG) in 2007. He held the position of Secretary General in charge of managing AGCOM, from 2005 to 2012. Prior to this, he served as Director of Regulation Department and Technical Director in AGCOM from 1999 to 2004. From 1985-1999 he served in various positions including as Head of Telecommunication and Broadcasting Satellite Services at the European Space Agency (ESA). Roberto Viola holds a Doctorate in Electronic Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA).

  Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT)