MORALS & MACHINES 2019 – AGENDA.
Building Bridges:
Can AI save Humanity?
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
Trust
10.45
Opening speeches
Peter Singer, Philosopher & Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Tradition vs. Change
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)
Hope
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
Humanity
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)
Curiosity
17.00
Video: Geopolitics around the globe
Audrey Tang, Minister for Digitalization, Taiwan
Social
Change
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
Courage
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
Values
19.30
Closing fireside chat: Germany‘s digital strategy and society – today and beyond
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel in conversation with Miriam Meckel
20.15
Conclusion & closing organ recital
20.30
Networking get-together
Kurländer Palais