ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe Brussels Event

The ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe will host panel discussions on their recent strategy document, “Informatics for All: The Strategy” and their recently published white paper, “When Computers Decide: European Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making.”

The panel discussions will take place on Thursday, 15 March 2018 at the Brussels Marriott Hotel Grand Place, Rue Auguste Orts 3-7, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Program

16:30 – 17:30 – Panel 1 – “Informatics for All: The Strategy”

Moderator:

  • Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England

Panelists:

  • Michael E. Caspersen, Managing Director of It-vest - networking universities, and Honorary Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University
  • Georgi Dimitrov, Deputy Head of Unit Innovation and EIT, EU Commission DG Education
  • Judith Gal-Ezer, Professor Emerita of The Open University of Israel
  • Enrico Nardelli, Professor of Informatics at the Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
  • Alexander Riedl, Head of Unit Digital Economy and Skills, EU Commission DG CONNECT

17:30 – 17:45 – 15 Minute Break

17:45 – 18:45 – Panel 2 – “When Computers Decide: European Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making”

Moderator:

  • Jim Larus, Professor and Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Panelists:

  • Oliver Grau, Associate Director of Operations, Intel Visual Computing Institute, Germany
  • Chris Hankin, Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology, and Professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London
  • Johannes Klumpers, Head of the Scientific Advisory Mechanism, EU Commission DG Research and Innovation
  • Lucilla Sioli, Director for Digital Industry, EU Commission DG CONNECT

18:45 – 20:00 – Networking Cocktail Reception