9.30

Breakfast reception & check-in

(Kurländer Palais)

10.30

Opening organ recital & kick-off

Miriam Meckel, Founding Publisher, ada
Léa Steinacker, Chief Strategy Officer, ada
Sebastian Feydt, Priest of the Frauenkirche & Managing Director, Frauenkirche Foundation

10.45

Opening speeches

Peter Singer, Philosopher & Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

11.30

CEO wake-up call

Herbert Diess, CEO, Volkswagen

12.00

Panel discussion: AI in practice – value-driven business in the digital age

Jen Gennai, Head of Responsible Innovation, Global Affairs, Google
Jörg Hellwig, CDO, LANXESS
Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM

13.00

Networking lunch break

(Kurländer Palais)

14.30

Inspirational sparks

Future of biology: Osh Agabi, Founder & CEO, Koniku and Neuroelectronic Interfacing Expert

Future of law: Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

Future of art: Christian “Mio” Loclair, Creative Director, Waltz Binaire & former Robo-Dancer and Computer Scientist

15.15

Panel discussion: Editing us – merging tech and humans

Osh Agabi, Founder & CEO, Koniku and Neuroelectronic Interfacing Expert
Françoise Baylis, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy, Dalhousie University
Bertolt Meyer, Professor & Director of the Institute of Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology

16.00

Networking break

(Kurländer Palais)

17.00

Video: Geopolitics around the globe

Audrey Tang, Minister for Digitalization, Taiwan

17.30

Visionary keynote & talk: What shapes AI is also shaping our world

Meredith Whittaker, Co-Founder & Co-Director, AI Now Institute, NYU; Distinguished Research Scientist, NYU and Founder, Google’s Open Research Group in conversation with Léa Steinacker

18.15

Opposition talk: Building our future together

Robert Habeck, Chairman of Germany’s Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party in conversation with Astrid Maier, Chief Reporter, ada

19.15

Arrival of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel