European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
Programme
EESC Premises - Interpretation: EN – FR
9:30 Introduction by moderator: Vivienne Parry
9:30 – 9:35 Opening remarks
- Louise Grabo, DSMO president, EESC
- Dragoş TUDORACHE, AIDA chair, European Parliament
9:35 – 10:35 Panel session: AI MADE IN EUROPE - WHERE WE ARE?
- Lucilla Sioli, Director, European Commission
- Catelijne Muller, EESC member and rapporteur on the AI Act
- Marie-Françoise Gondard-Argenti, EESC member and rapporteur on the Coordinated plan on AI
- Brando Benifei, MEP, IMCO rapporteur for the AI Act
- Q&A
10:35 – 11:30 Panel session: AI IN THE WORLD OF WORK - HIGH RISK AI
- Franca Salis-Madinier, EESC member
- Valerio De Stefano, Institute for Labor Law, KU Leuven
- Aída Ponce Del Castillo, Senior Researcher, ETUI
- Kim van Sparrentak, MEP
- Q&A
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:05 Foresight talk: Future of AI
- Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, Oxford Internet Institute
- Q&A
12:05 – 13:00 Panel session: PROHIBITED AI PRACTICES – BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS
- Gregor Strojin, President, CAHAI, Council of Europe
- Philip Brey, Professor of Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente
- Leonardo Cervera Navas, Director, European Data Protection Supervisor
- Tamás Molnár, Programme Officer, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
- Q&A
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch Break
EP Premises - Interpretation: Full language regime
13:45 – 16:00 Interparliamentary Committee meeting: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE DIGITAL DECADE
High-level policy panel
- Dragoş TUDORACHE, AIDA chair, European Parliament
- Dita Charanzová, Vice-President of the European Parliament
- Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition
- Christa Schweng, EESC president
Exchange of views
- Intervention by national parliaments
- Exchange of views with AIDA MEPs and national parliamentarians
(Commission representative attending: Lucilla Sioli, Director, DG CNECT)
Closing remarks
- Axel Voss, Rapporteur of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA), European Parliament
- Dragoş Tudorache, AIDA chair, European Parliament