Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Wednesday 1 October

09:00-09:45
Welcome and introduction

09:45-10:45
Individual presentations (10 minutes per person). Please introduce yourselves and comment on how your work and interests relate to the overall symposium description. You are welcome to present with or without slides

10:45-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00
Individual presentations (continued) - we have allocated more time to ensure that there is sufficient space to engage each other’s presentations and to ask questions

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:30
AI futures - what technological presuppositions and expectations are at work in the EUs AI Act? What does the AI Act foreclose and what opportunities does it bring?

14:30-14:45
Coffee break

14:45-16:30
AI futures - what technological presuppositions and expectations are at work in the EUs AI Act? What enactments of imagined future are/can be operationalised through the AI Act?

16:30-17:00
Summing up

19:00
Dinner

Day 2, Thursday 2 October

09:00-09:30
Introduction to Day 2

09:30-10:45
AI politics - (how) will AI values promote a European digital market? Can we have 'digital sovereignty' through AI and legislation?

10:45-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00
AI politics - connecting legislation, technical innovation, market logics, and future imaginaries - where does/can/should it go from here?

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-16:00
Summing up and the way forward. We will ask everyone to revisit the initial presentation from Day 1. Taking into account our common discussions: how would you like to take it further? (in terms of: collaborations, networks, publications, etc.)

18:00
Dinner for those still around