Programme

Social Justice in the Digital Era: AI's Impact on work and society

A contribution to the Global Coalition for Social Justice

Monday 3 February 2025, 02.30 – 05.30 p.m.

European Economic and Social Committee, room JDE62, rue Belliard / Belliardstraat 99-101, 1040 Brussels

Draft programme

Moderator: Shada ISLAM

02.00 p.m. - 02.30 p.m. | Registration of participants

02.30 p.m. - 02.50 p.m. | Opening remarks

Introduced by: Cinzia DEL RIO, President of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC) of the European Economic and Social Committee

• Oliver RÖPKE, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
• Gilbert F. HOUNGBO, Director-General of the International Labour Organization

02.50 p.m. - 04.00 p.m. | High-level panel: How can AI be leveraged to contribute to decent work and a socially just society in the EU and beyond?

Scene setting presentation: Jeremias ADAMS-PRASSL, Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

• Agnieszka DZIEMIANOWICZ-BĄK, Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy of Poland 
• Yolanda DIAZ, Second Vice President of the Government of Spain and Minister of Labour and Social Economy
• Niki KERAMEUS, Minister of Labour and Social Security of Greece
• Olta MANJANI, Deputy Minister of Economy, Culture, and Innovation of Albania
• Estela ARANHA, Special Adviser to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio LULA DA SILVA
• Esther LYNCH, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
• Anna KWIATKIEWICZ, Senior Adviser in Social Affairs of BusinessEurope

Q & A session

04.00 p.m. - 05.20 p.m. | High-level panel: How can AI be used to promote inclusive labour markets and gender equality?

Scene setting presentation: Stefano SCARPETTA, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD

• Maria do Rosário PALMA RAMALHO, Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security of Portugal
• Anousheh KARVAR, Delegate of the French government to the ILO and to the G7-G20 Labour & Employment
• Li ANDERSSON, Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament
• Mario NAVA, Director-General of Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG EMPL of the European Commission
• Heather ROY, President of the Social Platform
• Isabel YGLESIAS, Member of the Employers' group of the European Economic and Social Committee
• Franca SALIS-MADINIER, Vice-President of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC) and of the Workers' group of the EESC, Rapporteur of EESC's opinion on Pro-worker AI: levers for harnessing the potential and mitigating the risks of AI in connection with employment and labour market policies
• Giovanni MARCANTONIO, Member of the Civil Society Organisations' group of the EESC, Co-rapporteur of the EESC opinion "AI for public services, organisation of work, more equal and inclusive societies"

Q & A session

05.20 p.m. - 05.30 p.m. | Closing session

• Oliver RÖPKE, President of the European Economic and Social Committee

05.30 p.m. - 07.00 p.m. | Networking reception

Practical information

Venue: European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), rue Belliard 99-101, 1040 Bruxelles/Brussels, Room JDE62

Interpreting: Participants can speak in and listen to French, German, English, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Albanian In addition, they can speak in Estonian, Lithuanian and Romanian

Contacts at the EESC: Ana Dumitrache, +32 2 546 81 31

  Valentin HILLEN, valentin.hillen@eesc.europa.eu , +32 2 546 89 56