Opening Conference of the Sustainability Days
The opening conference of the Sustainability Days entitled "When AI Meets Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Ethical Perspectives" will focus on the social, ethical, and environmental dimensions of artificial intelligence.
The keynote lecture by Dr. Prof. Aimee van Wynsberghe will explore these three dimensions, followed by a round‑table discussion with experts from EPFL and ETH Zurich.
The conference examines the environmental and societal impacts of AI systems, introduces the concept of Sustainable AI, distinguishes it from AI for Good, and addresses emerging challenges related to governance, digital sovereignty, and democracy.
Programme :
17:30 : Doors open
18:00 : Welcome words and introduction by Stéphanie Lacour, Vice-President for Support to Strategic Initiatives
18:10 : Talk entitled "Repairing AI for Environmental Justice" by Aimee van Wynsberghe, Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence & Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics at Bonn University
18:40 : Round table and Q&A moderated by the Journalist Julie Winz with:
19:30 : Aperitif
Biography of the main speaker:
For nearly two decades, the Canadian Professor Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe has been active in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) as well as robotics. After studying in Canada and the Netherlands, she defended her acclaimed doctoral dissertation on the ethical design of care robots at the University of Twente in 2012. She subsequently held assistant professorships in Twente and at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, and assumed an associate professorship in ethics and technology at TU Delft in 2020. She was then already director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. For her research work and her contributions to scientific dialogue, the philosopher received the L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science award in 2018. In February 2021 she took up her position as a Humboldt Professor at the University of Bonn.
Registration
EPFL Forum Rolex
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The keynote lecture by Dr. Prof. Aimee van Wynsberghe will explore these three dimensions, followed by a round‑table discussion with experts from EPFL and ETH Zurich.
The conference examines the environmental and societal impacts of AI systems, introduces the concept of Sustainable AI, distinguishes it from AI for Good, and addresses emerging challenges related to governance, digital sovereignty, and democracy.
Programme :
17:30 : Doors open
18:00 : Welcome words and introduction by Stéphanie Lacour, Vice-President for Support to Strategic Initiatives
18:10 : Talk entitled "Repairing AI for Environmental Justice" by Aimee van Wynsberghe, Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence & Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics at Bonn University
18:40 : Round table and Q&A moderated by the Journalist Julie Winz with:
- Aimee van Wynsberghe
- Katharina Frey, Executive Director of ICAIN, a global initiative to democratize access to advanced AI capabilities for societal benefit, ETH Zürich
- Sylvia Quarteroni, Chief Transformation Officer & Head of Innovation at the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) of EPFL
- Rachid Guerraoui, Full Professor, Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL), EPFL
19:30 : Aperitif
Biography of the main speaker:
For nearly two decades, the Canadian Professor Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe has been active in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) as well as robotics. After studying in Canada and the Netherlands, she defended her acclaimed doctoral dissertation on the ethical design of care robots at the University of Twente in 2012. She subsequently held assistant professorships in Twente and at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, and assumed an associate professorship in ethics and technology at TU Delft in 2020. She was then already director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. For her research work and her contributions to scientific dialogue, the philosopher received the L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science award in 2018. In February 2021 she took up her position as a Humboldt Professor at the University of Bonn.
Registration
EPFL Forum Rolex
In English
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