Beyond ChatGPT:

How Can Europe Get Ahead in Generative AI?

Our goal is to facilitate a European brand of trustworthy, ethical AI that enhances Human capabilities and empowers citizens and society

  When? Thursday, May 25th (14:00 - 16:00)
  Where? Brussels, Belgium @ the European Parliament | Room A5G1

Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Rue Wiertz 60, 1047 Brussels, Belgium

  What? In-person event (by invitation) + Public Online Event (by registration)
  How to Register? Fill out this form to get the streaming link (Deadline: Tuesday, May 23rd)

Agenda

 

The event is moderated by Ms. Lenneke Hoedemaker.

Please note that the agenda is subject to minor changes

 

14:00 Welcome and setting the stage: State of Play in European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence by Irena Joveva MEP, Committee on Culture and Education.
14:10 Welcome from ICT 48 AI Project Coordinators
  • Humane AI represented by Paul Lukowicz, DFKI.
  • ELISE represented by  Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • TAILOR represented by Fredrik Heintz,  Linköping University, Sweden.
  • AI4Media represented by Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH 
14:25 Scientific Foundations of Large Language Models (LLMs) by Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
14:40 Panel on Industrial and Research Potential of AI in Europe

MODERATOR: Lenneke Hoedemaker, Moderator and Presenter.

  • Virginia Dignum, Professor in Responsible AI, Umea University, Sweden and the Scientific Director of WASP-HS.
  • Ieva Martinkenaite, Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Innovation, Telenor Group.
  • Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader and AAAI President.
15:10 Message from the Co-Sponsoring Organisations
  • CLAIRE and EurAI are represented by Holger Hoos, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
  • IRCAI-UNESCO and OECD views are represented by Marko Grobelnik, International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) under the auspices of UNESCO, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia.
15:20 Panel on the Societal Impact and AI Policies in Europe

MODERATOR: Lenneke Hoedemaker, Moderator and Presenter.

  • Catelijne Muller, President and co-founder of ALLAI.
  • Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament.
  • Clara Neppel,  Senior Director of the IEEE European office.
  • Dino Pedreschi, Professor at the University of Pisa, Italy and GPAI member.
15:55 - 16:00 Closing remarks by Cécile Huet, Deputy Head of the Unit “Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Excellence” at the European Commission
16:30 – 18:00 Social Reception: Networking and Informal Scientific Discussions (Attendance is in-person only by invitation. The location will be shared by email.)

What is the purpose of the HumaneAI European Parliament event?

We would like to suggest a half-day event on May 25th at the European Parliament, Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Rue Wiertz 60, 1047 Brussels, Belgium, titled Beyond ChatGPT: How can Europe get in front of the pack on Generative AI Models?, organized by a broad consortium from science and civil society, including the HumanE-AI-Net European Network of Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence.

HumanE-AI-Net is a research network of leading European universities, AI institutes, and corporations funded by Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) and dedicated to benefiting people’s empowerment through the scientific and technological development of AI, in accordance with European ethical, social, and cultural values.

Other European partners and communities that support this event and will be involved in its organization are the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) under the auspices of UNESCO, the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence in Europe (CLAIRE), and other ICT-48 networks such as TAILOR, AI4Media, and VISION, and language projects like ELG and ELE.

The Beyond ChatGPT aims to bring together AI experts, policymakers, and other stakeholders to demystify and critically examine some of the key concepts and concerns, and to provide an opportunity for a well-grounded discussion of the question of what needs to be done to ensure that European economies and societies will benefit from the development and deployment of AI technologies, such as LLMs.

Which questions will be addressed?

  1. To which extent does Europe have the capability and capacity to compete with US-based industries on LLMs and similarly impactful AI technologies?
  2. What can and must be done to ensure European competitiveness in this area?
  3. How can we best harness the opportunities afforded by the latest AI technologies for the benefit of European economies and societies? What role does the proposed AI Act play in this context?
  4. Which of the widely debated risks are real, and how should these be addressed? Is there a need for a moratorium or similar restrictions on research and innovation in key areas of AI?

What is the rationale?

Artificial intelligence has been an intense focus of public debate in recent years, and – following recent progress in so-called large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGTP – is now an area of increasingly vigorous economic activity and societal concerns.

Europe carries the responsibility of shaping the AI revolution. The choices we face today are related to fundamental ethical issues about the impact of AI on society, in particular, how it affects labor, social interactions, healthcare, privacy, fairness, and security. The ability to make the right choices requires new solutions to fundamental scientific questions in AI and human-computer interaction (HCI).

What is the vision?

This vision closely follows the ambitions articulated by the EC in its Communication on AI:  A European brand of AI that, by design, is trustworthy, adheres to European ethical, political, and social norms, and focuses on the benefit to European citizens as individuals, European society and the European economy.  At the heart of our vision is the understanding that those ambitions can neither be achieved by legislation or political directives alone nor by traditional research in established disciplinary “silos”. Instead, it needs fundamentally new solutions to core research problems at the Interface of AI, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social science, combining theory, real-world use cases, and innovation-oriented research.

What are we trying to achieve?

The HumaneAI community aims to develop the scientific foundations and technological breakthroughs needed to shape the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) revolution to fit the above vision. Key challenges include: learning complex world models; building effective and fully explainable machine learning systems; adapting AI systems to dynamic, open-ended real-world environments achieving an in-depth understanding of humans and complex social contexts; and enabling self-reflection within AI systems.

What will be the impact?

The HumanE AI community has mobilized a research landscape far beyond the direct project funding and brought together a unique innovation ecosystem.  This has the potential for significant disruption across its socio-economic impact areas, including Industry 4.0, health & well-being, mobility, education, policy, and finance. We aim to spearhead the efforts required to help Europe achieve a step-change in AI uptake across the economy.

Why are we the best to do it?

The project consortium, with 53 institutions across 20 European countries, advocates that Artificial Intelligence is made by us humans, European researchers and citizens, who care deeply about the future of AI in Europe and its use for the benefit of all Europeans.

HumaneAI across Europe
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7 PM CET Start

Background

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to contribute over $15 Billion to the global economy by 2030 (PWC) and shape the future of human society. A critical challenge for the industry to live up to its potential is the need for more diversity in the development, research, application, and evaluation of new AI technology. With their series “Remarkable Women in AI,” the AI Competence Center at German Entrepreneurship and the Transatlantic AI eXchange invite all genders to a series of inspirational, educational, collaborative, and global discussions on gender diversity in AI – with the aim of inspiring attendees to take steps in their respective roles to address the gender gap in AI.

Target Audience
This event is directed towards all gender students, entrepreneurs and women in research institutions and corporations.

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18:00 Start

Background

#ShareTheFailure - We change the view on failure.

On February 6th we will continue with FuckupNights®Munich Vol.3 Artificial Intelligence.

◉F_ckuppers tell stories about burned money, personnel decisions that led to total failure and products that had to be recalled. They tell it all, with us on stage.

🔥 The idea comes from Mexico, where five friends realized that it takes a very humid evening to let your pants down instead of adulating each other about professional successes. In other words, to tell the stories that no one includes in their résumé. Because without failure there is no success.◉

◉ CURRENT:

✅ Check-in 6:00 p.m.

✅ Start 6.30 p.m.

✅ End approx. 21.00 hrs.

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1:00 to 4:30 pm Dr. Julian Wörmann

Background

Experts agree that artificial intelligence is as disruptive as electricity or the Internet. But what does that mean for you and your mid-sized company? Which use cases are really relevant for you? And what do you need to do to actually implement them? We would like to discuss these questions with you again this year and provide answers.

The aim of the event is to accompany small and medium-sized companies in particular as they enter the field of artificial intelligence. The benefits and potentials of the technology for your company will be highlighted, and entrepreneurs who have already successfully tackled the topic of artificial intelligence will show how AI can succeed.

Expect leading AI experts and users to share their knowledge with you, contacts to support you with your projects and questions, and interactive formats where you can learn how to harness the potential of AI for your business today.

This was the EU-funded HumanE-AI-Net project brings together leading European research centres, universities and industrial enterprises into a network of centres of excellence. Leading global artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories will collaborate with key players in areas, such as human-computer interaction, cognitive, social and complexity sciences. The project is looking forward to drive researchers out of their narrowly focused field and connect them with people exploring AI on a much wider scale. The challenge is to develop robust, trustworthy AI systems that can ‘understand’ humans, adapt to complex real-world environments and interact appropriately in complex social settings. HumanE-AI-Net will lay the foundations for designing the principles for a new science that will make AI based on European values and closer to Europeans.

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  • CHETOUANI (Sorbonne University)

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  • Chetouani (Sorbonne)

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9:30 Mohamed Chetouani (Sorbonne University) Introduction & Objectives
9:45 Paul Lukowicz (DFKI) HumanE AI NET
10:00 Ioannis Pitas (AI4MEDIA) Lessons learnt from the AI4Media Curriculum formation exercise
10:20 Helena Lindgren (Umeå University) Human-Centered AI Education Addressing Societal Challenges
10:50 Wendy Mackay (INRIA) Participatory Design for Human-Centered AI
11:10 Andrea Aler Tubella ( University) How to teach Trustworthy AI? Challenges and recommendations from expert interviews.
11:30 Loïs Vanhée (Umeå University) Towards a GEDAI academy - Growing Ethical Designers of AI
11:50 Martin Welß (Fraunhofer Institute) AI4EU Experiments (alias VirtualLab in HumaneAI)
12:10 Mohamed Chetouani (Sorbonne University) De-briefing and Conclusions

Background

Objectives:
Human Centric AI should be beneficial to individuals and the society as a whole, trustworthy, ethical and value-oriented, and focused on enhancing user’s capabilities and empowering them to achieve their goals.

Human Centric AI requires new approaches to train current and future actors in AI, human-machine interaction, cognitive science and the social sciences. These approaches are central to HumanE AI Net and should be now translated into Human Centric AI curricula that could be used to derive local curricula.

The focus of this workshop is the design of coherent Human Centric AI curricula by defining disciplines, strategies, methods and learning outcomes aligned with the needs of the society

Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89703561322?pwd=SEQ2V3BvbGNZWXpWN2pvbFpJRjFTQT09

ID : 897 0356 1322
Code: 269442

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June 27th 14:00-16:00 Hackathon Opening Session During this session, you will have the opportunity to hear different keynote speakers with focus on the Hackathon challenges and tooling tutorials.
June 27th 16:00-19:00 Hackathon development During the first day, you will start the development of your projects supported by international mentors.
June 28th 09:00-19:00 Hackathon development During the second day, you will start the development of your projects supported by international mentors
June 29th 09:00-15:30 Hackathon development Final phase of development, where you will finish the projects and provide the presentations
June 29th 15:30-17:00 Hackathon Pitching! You will be pitching your projects to an audience and juris
June 29th 17:00-18:00 Awards session During this session we will provide the different Awards.

Background

The EU-IoT Hackathon focuses on “sustainable next generation IoT applications”. We invite you to bring your ideas and to develop solutions that address IoT skills training, IoT sustainable business models, IoT novel technical solutions in the context of 6 challenge domains: IoT interfaces, far Edge, near Edge, infrastructure, and also: a specific challenge domain of the European Factory Platform (EFPF), with focus on manufacturing. It will take place between 27th-29th June 2022, in Munich (Germany). The hackathon is co-located with CONASENSE2022.

The aim of the EU-IoT Hackathon is to disseminate new business ideas, experiments and prototypes as first step to best support next generation sustainable IoT solutions.

The teams shall have the opportunity to develop their ideas within an international flagship environment being mentored by several international experts from the Next Generation IoT (NGIoT) community and being in contact with NGIoT community flagship events.
Awards

EU-IoT Challenges Award – UnternehmerTUM Makerspace Award – first prize. Corresponds to 1 year membership for incubation in the UnternehmerTUM Makerspace in Munich for the best project overall, across all domains and project categories.
EU-IoT Challenges Award – IoT Week 2023 Ticket – second prize. One free registration for 1 person of a team, full programme of the IoT Week 2023.
EU-IoT Challenges Award IoT-starter kit – All winning teams (3). IoT starter kit provided to each team member of the 3 winning teams
EFPF Challenges Award – 1st prize. 1 smartphone valued at 600 Euros.
EFPF Challenges Award – 2nd prize. Smart home kit valued at 300 Euros.
EFPF Challenges Award – 3rd prize. IoT starter kit valued at 200 Euros
EFPF Challenges Award – 4th prize. IoT starter it valued at 100 Euros.

Deadlines

Team registration and challenge selection: 15.05.2022
EU-IoT Hackathon preparation event (online): 31.05.2022
Hackathon: 27th-29th 2022, co-located with the CONASENSE 2022 symposium in Munich, Germany

If you are interested:

1. Check the hackathon page, awards and rules and register via DevPost: https://eu-iot-hackathon.devpost.com/
2. Register your project, team (1-6 persons) : https://forms.gle/5BvJL8dj7Zk4S3EX9
3. Join the Hackathon via slack, https://eu-iot-hackathon.slack.com/, where we will be regularly disseminating information about the different tools, and updates to the EFPF catalyser programme and final hackathon event.
4. Contact us to get more information via eu-iot-hackathon@fortiss.org!

Committees:
- Organizers: fortiss GmbH (Mitula Donga, Rute C. Sofia); UnternhemerTUM Makerspace GmbH (Florian Küster)

Technical Committees :
-EU-IoT Committee: Rute Sofia (fortiss), Lamprini Kolovou (Martel); John Soldatos (Intracom); Mirko Presser (Aarhus University); Brendan Rowan (Bluspecs)
-EFPF Committee: Mitula Donga (fortiss), Alexandros Nizami (ITI-CERTH), Florian Jasche (Fraunhofer FIT), Ingo Martens (Hanse Aerospace); Carlos Coutinho (Caixa Mágica), Usman Wajid (Information Catalyst)

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9:00 Wolfgang Köhler

Background

In this webinar, fortiss presents the potentials and benefits of a data-driven digitization strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Success stories and practical application examples also illustrate how networked information systems and artificial intelligence (AI) can create targeted added value for companies.

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18:00 Welcome and Introduction
18:05 TBA Keynote
18:30 Albrecht Schmidt, Virginia Dignum, Arno De Bois, Marc Hilbert Panel on the European AI Act

Background

Regulation to foster or hinder the AI community? Join our discussion on the proposed European AI Act with Albrecht Schmidt, Virginia Dignum, Arno De Bois and Marc Hilbert on March 3, 18:00 CET (12pm EST, 9am PST).

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18:05 Roberto Di Cosmo Keynote
18:30 Roberto Di Cosmo, Ana Trisovic, Sebastian Feger, Feng Wang Panel: OpenData Business Cases – What is the Value of Data?

Background

Panel on OpenData Business Cases – What is the Value of Data?

18:00 – Welcome, Introduction
Albrecht Schmidt

18:05 – Keynote: Roberto Di Cosmo, Founder and CEO of Software Heritage
Roberto Di Cosmo

18:30 – Panel: OpenData Business Cases – What is the Value of Data?
Roberto Di Cosmo, Ana Trisovic, Sebastian Feger, Feng Wang

19:30 – Wrap up and Closing
Albrecht Schmidt

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  • Roel Dobbe (TU Delft)
  • Ana Valdivia (King's College London)

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  • Maria Perez-Ortiz (University College London)

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Monday 13. June 2022 Workshops, Tutorials and other Events
Tuesday 14. June 2022 Workshops, Tutorials and other Events

Background

HHAI-2022 workshops will provide a platform for discussing Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence in more informal settings and for a broad audience. We invite proposals for full-day and half-day events during the two days leading up to the main conference. Registration for the main conference is expected, arrangements for non-traditional conference attendees can be requested.

The goal of workshops is to bring together academics, professionals and users of technology to better understand the socio-technical benefits, risks and limitations that artificial intelligence has when interacting with humans from different perspectives. Thus we encourage workshops presenting broad concepts of human-artificial intelligence interaction or specific cases. We invite submissions for events that foster cross-disciplinary interaction, scientific discourse, and creative and critical reflection, rather than just being mini-conferences. To do so, we offer organizers flexibility for format that best suit the goals of their event. We especially welcome submissions of communities that are usually not featured prominently in artificial intelligence events and conferences.

Important Dates

January 31, 2022: Workshop proposals due
February 7, 2022: Workshop proposal acceptance notification
February 14, 2022: Deadline for announcing the Workshops Call for Papers/Contributions
April 1, 2022: Workshop application deadline for contributions to the workshop
April 29, 2022: Recommended deadline for paper acceptance notification
June 13,14 2022: HHAI2022 Workshops

Organizers

  • Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Maria Perez-Ortiz (University College London)
  • Myrthe Tielman (TU Delft)
  • Ana Valdivia (King's College London)
  • Roel Dobbe (TU Delft)
  • Shenghui Wang (University of Twente)

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  • Maria Perez-Ortiz (University College London)

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Monday 13. June 2022 TBC Workshops, Tutorials and other Events
Tuesday 14. June 2022 TBC Workshops, Tutorials and other Events
Wednesday-Friday 15-17. June 2022 TBC Main Research Program

Background

Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI2022) is the first international conference focusing on the study of Artificial Intelligent systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence.

HHAI2022 is organised by the Dutch Hybrid Intelligence Center and the European HumaneAI Network, as the first conference in what we intend to become a series of conferences about Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence.

HHAI2022 will be an in-person event at the VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and will be organized as a single-track conference.

HHAI aims for AI systems that assist humans and vice versa, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems that leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. This field of study is driven by current developments in AI, but also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. In addition, we need collaboration with areas such as HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others. In this first international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original, new as well as in progress, visionary and existing work on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence.

Please for more information visit our website at https://www.hhai-conference.org/