Official Launching Event – International WoMenX in Business for Ethical AI

Time & Location

Mar 11, 2024, 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM GMT+1

Rue d’Arlon 25, Rue d’Arlon 25, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium

About the event

Welcome to the Official Launching of IWIB4AI Think-Tank

International WoMenX in Business for Ethical AI (IWIB4AI) is a global think-tank created to represent civil society in the AI conversation.

IWIB4AI serves as a multidisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive platform to voice civil society’s concerns and to help build a world where AI is developed, deployed, and used ethically.

IWIB4AI stems from the Swedish professional network International Women In Business (IWIB), founded under the umbrella of The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in 2018. IWIB has been registered as an interest group at The European Parliament transparency register since 2021 to monitor The EU AI Act.

Agenda

16:30 Arrival

17:00 Welcoming by EGIC

17:15 Presentation of IWIB4AI by Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger

17:45 Panel Discussion

18:30 Cocktails & Conversations

20:00 End

Panelists:

🌟Dr. Ansgar Koene, Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY (Ernst & Young) Global Public Policy.

Dr. Koene leads the AI related public policy team and contributes to the work on AI governance and EY’s Trusted AI framework. As part of this work, he represents EY at the OECD Working Party on AI Governance and the Business at OECD Committee on Digital Economic Policy (BIAC CDEP).

Ansgar chaired the IEEE P7003 Standard for Algorithmic Bias Considerations working group and is a co-convener for the European standards body (CEN-CENELEC JTC21) “AI” committee’s work on AI conformity assessment. He is a trustee for the 5Rights foundation for the Rights of Young People Online, advises on AI and Data Ethics for the pan-African NGO AfroLeadership, and is part of the SteerCo of the International Observatory on Information Democracy and the EU-funded research project on Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (FINDHR).

He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience.

🌟Esther Paniagua, Award-winning independent journalist and author, specialised in science, technology and innovation.

Most known for her book Error 404 – a book about the imminent internet blackout that experts have been warning us of for years. Forbes Top 100 Most Creative People in Business. Top 100 Women Leaders Spain. Accenture Journalism Award on Artificial Intelligence. Vodafone Journalism Award on Economics. Roche Institute Foundation Award on Precision Medicine. Spanish Science Writer of the Year by the ABSW.

🌟Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss (European People’s Party Group) in the European Parliament.

Currently, he is involved in the political negotiations on the AI Act, AI liability directive, eprivacy Regulation and GDPR revision. In his individual capacity, he is pushing for reforms within the European Parliament and for bringing back the Better Regulation agenda to EU policy making.

He is member of the OECD.AI Network of Experts since 2021, was awarded best MEP Assistant in 2023 (“APA who has gone above and beyond in his duties”) and ranked Place #13 in Politico&amp;#x27;s Power 40 – class 2023 (“top influencers who are most effectively setting the agenda in politics, public policy and advocacy in Brussels”).

🌟Luca Bertuzzi, Euractiv Journalist and Editor for the digital, where he leads an international team based in Brussels, Paris and Berlin.

As a journalist, he specialises in digital policy and EU affairs. Mr. Bertuzzi, regularly collaborates with IAPP, Tagesspiegel, la Repubblica and other publications.