The EU’s Artificial Intelligence legislative proposals are due in April and will attempt to further develop a European approach to and application of AI that balances social, economic, innovation, and ethical imperatives.
Forum Europe’s 3rd Annual Artificial Intelligence conference will gather some 1000 participants from around Europe and beyond to examine what the proposals should look like, focussing on the following key areas:
This year’s event will feature a significant focus on AI and its potential to deliver positive impacts in the area of health and disease prevention and will look ahead to new rules on clarifying AI liability coming later in the year.
Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market, European CommissionBio will follow shortly
Commissioner for Internal Market
European Commission
*pre-recorded speech
Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, European CommissionBulgarian-born Mariya Gabriel is the current European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society and Commissioner-designate for Innovation and Youth in the 2019-2023 Commission.
She was the Vice-President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament from 2014-2017.
Mariya Gabriel was a Member of the European Parliament, EPP/GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) from 2009-2017.
Since 2012, Mariya Gabriel has served as Vice-President of EPP Women. Prior to this she was Parliamentary Secretary to MEPs from the GERB political party within the EPP Group in 2008-2009.
She is part of project teams, such as Digital Single Market, Energy Union, Better Regulation and Interinstitutional Affairs, Budget and Human Resources, and Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness.
As a member of the project teams, her responsibilities include launching ambitious proposals for the completion of a connected Digital Single Market, supporting the development of creative industries and of a successful European media and content industry, as well as other activities turning digital research into innovation success stories.
Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
European Commission
Dragoş Tudorache, MEP, Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA)Dragoș Tudorache is the Minister of Internal Affairs of Romania. He was also the Head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery from November 2015 until September 2016 when he assumed the new office.
He started his career as a judge in the Court of Galati, in 1997, a position he held for three years. As of 2000, he was the coordinator of analysis team in the Department of Rule of Law and Protection of Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Pristina (Kosovo). Between 2003 and 2005 he worked as the Head of the Legal Department of the UN team of International Judges at the UN Interim Administration for Kosovo.
In the next two years, Dragoș Tudorache joined the European Commission Delegation in Bucharest being responsible for Justice and Anti-Corruption issues.
In 2007 he joined the European Commission as the coordinator for the Schengen Facility. In 2009 he was appointed Head of Unit in charge of the Unit dealing with Large EU IT Projects: Schengen and Visa Information Systems. He went on to become the Interim Executive Director of the eu-LISA, the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice, in 2012. As of 2013 he was in charge of International Affairs and in 2015 he became responsible for General Coordination and Strategic Issues in the General Directorate for Migration and Home Affairs.
Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA)
European Parliament
Carme Artigas, Secretary of State for Digitalization and AI, Government of SpainSecretary of State for Digitalization and AI
Government of Spain
Kilian Gross, Head of Unit, Artificial Intelligence Policy and Coordination, DG CONNECT, European CommissionHead of Unit, Artificial Intelligence Policy Development and Coordination, DG CONNECT
European Commission
Yvo Volman, Acting Director of Data and Head of Unit, Data Policy and Innovation, DG CONNECT, European CommissionYvo Volman (1965) is acting Director of the Data directorate in the Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission.
Yvo studied at the Universities of Amsterdam and Strasbourg and holds a PhD in European law awarded by the European University Institute in Florence. He worked for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs in the areas of industrial and technology policy, before joining the European Commission in 1998. In the Commission, he dealt with legislative and strategic issues as well as funding programmes related to the information market, digitisation and data.
Acting Director of Data and Head of Unit, Data Policy and Innovation, DG CONNECT
European Commission
Dr. Sebastian Wieczorek, Vice President - Artificial Intelligence Technology, SAP SEDr. Sebastian Wieczorek is Vice President – Artificial Intelligence Technology at SAP. His team builds a platform which serves as central vehicle for customers to manage and for partners to extend AI content utilized across all of SAP offerings. In addition, he is a key spokesperson for AI and member of SAP’s AI ethics steering board, which provides company-wide guidelines on how to apply AI in a human-centric way.
Sebastian is member at Bitkom’s AI working group, member of the steering board of the EU-project SHERPA, which conducts research on ethical questions in regard to the use of AI, and serves as an academic expert and reviewer for the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Until October 2020, Sebastian was a member of the Enquete Commission on AI of the German Bundestag.
In previous positions at SAP, Sebastian coordinated all startup engagement activities of the SAP Innovation Center Network, including the scouting of companies for partnering and M&A, the mentoring of startups at accelerators like TechStars, Startupbootcamp, Seedcamp and SAP.io, as well as representing SAP at the German Startups Association.
While at SAP Research, Sebastian managed EU-funded research projects and led the “Application Engineering Group”. During this time, he was an organizer and member of various scientific program committees for peer-reviewed conferences and workshops, conducting lectures on Web Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and published numerous papers on software engineering.
Dr. Sebastian Wieczorek is based at SAP SE in Berlin, Germany.
Vice President - Artificial Intelligence Technology
SAP SE
Yiannos Tolias, Legal Officer, AI Data and Liability in Healthcare, Unit B3, Digital Health, European Reference Networks, DG SANTEYiannos is a lawyer in DG SANTE (Health and Food Safety) in the European Commission. He is in the team working on AI liability in Healthcare, Digital Health and Health Data. He was a Senior Emile Noel Fellow at NYU Law School working on a project on machine learning in medicine and law. Prior to joining the European Commission he was an Assistant Professor of EU law at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee. He holds a Ph.D. in EU Constitutional law from the University of Edinburgh and was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh University).
Legal Officer, AI Data and Liability in Healthcare, Unit B3, Digital Health, European Reference Networks, DG SANTE
European Commission
*** TIMES ARE IN CET ***
10:00 - 10:30
Opening Keynote Session
10:30 - 11:45
Session One | Trust, Excellence, and the Governance of AI
In September 2020, President Von der Leyen reiterated the Commission’s ambitions to support the development and use of ‘human centric AI’. Prior to the release of the legislative proposals on Artificial Intelligence in April 2021, this session will examine what the proposal’s provisions are expected to be and explore the extent to which they address the twin objectives of boosting the development and uptake of AI and of addressing the risks in line with European values. Speakers will debate the extent to which new proposed rules clarifying AI liability expected to be released later on this year are necessary in order to offer protections against specific risks that could be triggered by the use of certain AI applications. This session will also discuss how concepts of an ‘ecosystem of trust’ and an ‘ecosystem of excellence’, previously introduced in the White Paper released in 2020 are closely interlinked and how they can reinforce each other to support the adoption of AI across society and to develop a solid and vibrant AI industry in Europe.
11:45 - 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:45
Session Two | Data, Cloud and Computing Infrastructure for AI: Where is Europe headed?
AI’s true potential in supporting Europe’s economic growth can only be unleashed if quality data is accessible and if the appropriate computing infrastructure is deployed to underpin this. As AI applications depend on data to train and develop algorithms and machine-learning models, it is essential that data sets used are of high-quality, come in large enough volumes, are unbiased, and that an infrastructure capable of powerful data analysis is in place. To meet these conditions, the European Commission has released a number of initiatives including the European Strategy for Data – which outlines a series of actions for the coming years to and foresees spending of up to €6 billion to create a European single market for data, – along with infrastructure plans under the Digital Europe Programme to support high-performance, edge and quantum computing, as well as cloud infrastructure. This session will discuss these policy initiatives, identify possible gaps and challenges that will need to be addressed to accelerate access to, and the sharing and processing of industrial data, both key elements to the deployment of Artificial Intelligence across Europe.
14:15 - 14:45
Session Three | AI and Healthcare
Nowhere is the application of AI more controversial and at the same time, promising, than in the area of healthcare. In 2021, the European Commission proposes to further the development of its health data spaces in Europe, both for primary and secondary use of data, as a means of facilitating innovation and insight to improve health outcomes. With the global pandemic as the context, this session will look at how artificial intelligence is currently being utilised in Europe within the health care sector, how it could be applied in future and deployed to support disease prevention, and where the medical profession and society might see the greatest benefit. Given Covid-19 and its impact on economies, livelihoods and lives, is it necessary to rethink how technology is utilised in the health sector?
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David Kirby
Event Executive
Forum Europe
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