Scientific Programme and Timetable
May 8, 2021 (updated Sep 22, 2021)
Keynote speakers
- Yoshua Bengio, Scientific Director, MILA
- Bonnie Lei, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships - AI for Earth at Microsoft
- Mirjana Stankovich, Senior Digital Policy Specialist, Center for Digital Acceleration, DAI
- Neil Abroug, National Coordinator of the Quantum strategy, General Secretariat for Investment, Prime Minister’s Office, France
- Michel Morvan, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Cosmo Tech
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek, Executive Director, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Saarbrücken and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, Director of Strategy, CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe)
Topics and Convenors
The high-level topics selected for the event and the convenors are:
- The planet and biodiversity
- Bonnie Lei, Head of Global Strategy Partnerships - AI for Earth, Microsoft
- Weather and climate science
- Peter Dueben, European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
- Natural language processing
- Dominique Guellec, Scientific Advisor to the Observatory of Science and Technology (OST)
- Jean-Marc Deltorn, University of Strasbourg and UNISTRA - Centre d’études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle (CEIPI)
- Health (including COVID & medicine)
- Anurag Agrawal, Director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)
- Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Particle and nuclear physics
- Jennifer Ngadiuba, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
- Markus Diefenthaler, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab)
- Astrophysics and astronomy
- Elena Cuoco, Head of the Data Science Office at the European Gravitational Observatory and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- Željko Ivezić, University of Washington
- Lukas Nellen, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- Ethics and policy
- Karine Perset, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Alan Paic, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Quantum computing
- Scott Hamilton, Senior Expert of Emerging Technologies at ATOS
- Eric Aquaronne, IBM Worldwide Systems Strategy and IBM Quantum Ambassador
- Sofia Vallecorsa, CERN OpenLab
- Adhvan Novais Furtado, Executive Manager, SENAI CIMATEC
- Wolfgang Lechner CEO, ParityQC
- Neil Abroug, National Coordinator of the Quantum strategy, General Secretariat for Investment, Prime Minister’s Office, France
- AI enabling technologies for daily life
- Christoffer Petersson, Zenseact
- Vivien Bonvin, NetGuardians
- Xavier Perrotton, Driving Assistance Research R&I Software Department Manager and AI Senior Expert, VALEO
- Nozha Boujemaa, Data & Ethics Manager, Ingka Group, IKEA Group Digital
- Ivan Meza, Natural Language Processing and Indigenous Languages, IIMAS, UNAM
Schedule
The daily sessions are planned to take place 7-11 hours Central Daylight Time (14-18 hours Central European Summer Time), with a 15 minute break in the middle. More information in our timetable.