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
Reverend Sebastian Feydt, Managing Director Frauenkirche Dresden Foundation

10.45

Opening speeches

The social vulnerabilities of artificial intelligence

danah boyd, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research and Founder/President, Data & Society

Can artificial intelligence be ethical?

Peter Singer, Philosopher & Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

11.45

Interview: “Silicon Saxony“ shaping Germany‘s digital future?

Michael Kretschmer, Prime Minister of the Freestate of Saxony in conversation with Daniel Rettig, Chief Editor, ada

11.55

CEO wake-up call

Thomas Sedran, CEO, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in conversation with Daniel Rettig, Chief Editor, ada

12.30

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

Moderated by Astrid Maier, Chief Reporter, ada
Jen Gennai, Head of Responsible Innovation, Global Affairs, Google
Jörg Hellwig, CDO, LANXESS
Andrea Martin, CTO, IBM Germany, Austria and Switzerland

13.15

Networking lunch break

(Kurländer Palais)

14.30

Inspirational sparks

Moderated by Milena Merten, Reporter, ada

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

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

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

15.30

Panel discussion: Editing us – merging humans and technology

Moderated by Léa Steinacker

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

16.15

Networking break

Kurländer Palais

17.15

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