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3 December 2024
Meet the Robotics for Good start-ups advancing sustainable development
16:00 - 17:30 CET Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Guillem Martínez Roura (ITU)
Innovation Factory
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19 November 2024
AI-powered exoskeletons revolutionizing rehabilitation and mobility
16:00 - 17:30 CET Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Discovery - AI and Robotics
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5 November 2024
AI for Good Innovation Factory 2024 live pitching session – 2nd session
16:00 - 17:30 CET Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Guillem Martínez Roura (ITU), Giovanni Baldassarri (Istituto EuropIA Italia), Brandon Andrews (Gauge)
Innovation Factory
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30 October 2024
Meet the top Africa entrepreneur finalists 2024
15:30 - 16:10 CET Geneva | 16:30-17:10 EDT, Johannesburg | 22:30-23:10 CST, Beijing
Guillem Martínez Roura (ITU)
Innovation Factory, Webinar
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18 October 2024
Experience India’s thriving AI for Good start-up ecosystem – AI for Good Impact Summit India 2024
15:30 - 16:30 IST, New Delhi
Guillem Martínez Roura (ITU)
Innovation Factory
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17 October 2024
Robotics for Good Youth Challenge India
09:00 - 18:00 IST, New Delhi
Guillem Martínez Roura (ITU)
Discovery - AI and Robotics, Robotics Challenge, Robotics for Good Stage, Robotics for Good Youth Challenge.
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25 September 2024
MathDance: Hands-on workshop to learn Math, Coding, and AI
15:00 - 17:00 CEST Geneva | 09:00-11:00 EDT, New York | 21:00-23:00 CST, Beijing
CJ Chung (Lawrence Technological University)
Discovery - AI and Robotics
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24 September 2024
Unraveling history’s enigmas with AI and robotics in archaeology
16:00 - 17:30 CET Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Guillem Martínez Roura (ITU)
Discovery - AI and Robotics
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18 September 2024
MathDance: Hands-on workshop to learn Math, Coding, and AI
15:00 - 17:00 CEST Geneva | 09:00-11:00 EDT, New York | 21:00-23:00 CST, Beijing
CJ Chung (Lawrence Technological University)
Discovery - AI and Robotics
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26 June 2024
Leveraging LLMs for advanced spatial decision support: The case of SATGPT
10:00 - 11:00 CEST Geneva | 04:00-05:00 EDT, New York | 16:00-17:00 CST, Beijing
Hamid Mehmood (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific), Maria Antonia Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano)
Discovery - GeoAI
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25 June 2024
AI for Plasma Control in Fusion Energy
11:00 - 12:00 CEST Geneva | 06:00-07:00 EDT, New York | 18:00-19:00 CST, Beijing
Egemen Kolemen (Princeton University), Palak Jain (IAEA)
Webinar
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19 June 2024
Daron Acemoglu: Can we have pro-worker AI?
16:00 - 17:30 CEST Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EDT, New York | 22:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Janine Berg (ILO), Pawel Gmyrek (ILO)
Discovery - AI and Work
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31 May 2024
Canvas of the Future award ceremony & Farewell reception (open to all participants)
19:00 - 20:00
Mariagrazia Squicciarini (UNESCO), Frederic Werner (ITU), LJ Rich (BBC News)...
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31 May 2024
Closing AI-inspired artistic performance
18:30 - 18:45
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31 May 2024
Closing remarks
18:15 - 18:30
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (ITU)
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31 May 2024
Global telecommunication and AI standards development for all
18:10 - 18:15
Seizo Onoe (ITU)
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31 May 2024
AI for a sustainable and equitable future for all
17:45 - 18:05
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31 May 2024
Safe and responsible AI: from principles to implementation
17:00 - 17:45
Virginia Dignum (Umeå University), Stuart Russell (UC-Berkeley), Rumman Chowdhury (Humane Intelligence)...
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31 May 2024
Keynote interview with Geoffrey Hinton (remote) and Nicholas Thompson (in-person)
16:00 - 16:45
Geoffrey Hinton (), Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic)
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31 May 2024
Embark on a journey into the worlds of robotics and programming, delving deep into the profound significance of comprehending AI
16:00 - 18:00
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31 May 2024
Robots and AI in Schools (Parents & Professionals) – Focus on deployment in Swiss schools
16:00 - 16:45
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31 May 2024
Robots to help save the climate
15:25 - 15:30
Alexis Costas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), RMF-Owl (NTNU), Marsupial walking-and-flying robot deployment (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)...
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31 May 2024
Advancing human-centered social robots for good
15:20 - 15:55
Selma Šabanović (Indiana University Bloomington), Ginevra Castellano (Department of Information Technology of Uppsala University), Janet Wiles (University of Queensland)...
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31 May 2024
AI’s next frontier: The future of brain-computer interfaces for good
15:00 - 18:00 CEST Geneva
Daniel Rubin (Massachusetts General Hospital), Milena Costas Trascasas (United Nations), Taryn Southern ()...
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31 May 2024
Understanding biodiversity – AI to decode non-human communication
15:00 - 15:25
Aza Raskin (Earth Species Project), Philip Stier (University of Oxford)
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31 May 2024
Supervised & reinforcement learning through fun robotics activities using ThymioAI educational robot
15:00 - 16:00
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31 May 2024
Earth virtualization engines: Exposing the new frontiers in climate science through AI
14:45 - 15:00
Bjorn Stevens (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology), Philip Stier (University of Oxford)
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31 May 2024
Catalyzing a community on AI for climate change: From climate informatics to environmental data science and beyond
14:30 - 14:45
Claire Monteleoni (University of Colorado Boulder), Philip Stier (University of Oxford)
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31 May 2024
Breathing nature: Unveiling the biosphere’s secrets through AI and earth observation
14:15 - 14:30
Markus Reichstein (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Philip Stier (University of Oxford)
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31 May 2024
We can’t let AI accelerate environmental destruction
14:05 - 14:15
Sage Lenier (), Philip Stier (University of Oxford)
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31 May 2024
Taking the pulse of the planet
14:00 - 14:05
Tomas Lamanauskas (ITU), Philip Stier (University of Oxford)
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31 May 2024
Large Language Models, from sectoral applications to implications for human-machine collaboration in manufacturing
14:00 - 18:00
Lihui Wang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Lin Zhang (Beihang University), Lei Ren (Beihang University)...
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31 May 2024
Discover the Thymio educational robot and the VPL programming language
14:00 - 15:00
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31 May 2024
Forecasting the future: AI in early warning systems
14:00 - 18:00 CEST Geneva
Andrew Zolli (Planet), Ayelet Benjamini (Google), Bapon Fakhruddin (Green Climate Fund)...
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31 May 2024
Inclusive AI: From special projects to scalable workplace solutions
13:40 - 13:55
Olivier Oullier (Inclusive Brains), Prometheus (Inclusive Brains)
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31 May 2024
Unveiling the future of surface electromyography (‘sEMG’) live demonstration of NeuroStrip and AI drive chat crackers
13:20 - 13:35
Jeremy Steele (Control Bionics), Pascale Davies (Euronews)
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31 May 2024
AI to bridge the gender gap
13:00 - 13:45
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (ITU), Caitlin Kraft Buchman (Women@TheTable), Mia Shah-Dand (Women in AI Ethics™)...
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31 May 2024
AI-powered exoskeleton for mobility
12:15 - 12:30
Nicolas Simon (Wandercraft), Atalante X (Wandercraft)
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31 May 2024
AI in action: Empowering people with disabilities through technology
11:50 - 12:10
Chieko Asakawa (IBM)
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31 May 2024
AI in action: Shaping the future of international development
11:30 - 11:45
Sabeen Dhanani (USAID)
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31 May 2024
Confronting the digital paradox
11:30 - 11:50
(), Abdullah Alrashid (Ithra)
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31 May 2024
The future of autonomous driving
11:10 - 11:25
Khurram Hassan (Aspire UAE), Pascale Davies (Euronews)
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31 May 2024
Harnessing AI for a better future
11:05 - 11:20
Kevin White (Microsoft AI for Good Lab), Frits Bussemaker (I4ADA)
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31 May 2024
Build a paper structure and bring it to life with the Thymio educational robot
11:00 - 12:00
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31 May 2024
Quantum for Good
10:50 - 11:05
Georges-Olivier Reymond (Pasqal), Pascale Davies (Euronews)
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31 May 2024
How can AI enable green operation of cloud network infrastructure
10:45 - 11:00
Guirong Wang (China Telecom)
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31 May 2024
SARA, the first Saudi Made Humanoid Robot
10:45 - 11:00
Elie Metri (QSS AI & Robotics), SARA (QSS), Frits Bussemaker (I4ADA)
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31 May 2024
Navigating the ethical and technical challenges of AI with regards to data privacy, bias, harm and accuracy
10:30 - 12:00 CEST Geneva
Fadwa Saad AlBawardi (Fadwa AlBawardi Consulting Office)
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31 May 2024
Powering an inclusive future through AI: Connecting the unconnected
10:30 - 12:00 CEST Geneva
Nicole Isaac (Cisco)
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31 May 2024
Distorting or enhancing realities using Generative AI
10:25 - 10:45
Hao Li (Pinscreen)
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31 May 2024
AI Ready – Towards a standardized readiness framework
10:00 - 13:00 CEST, Geneva
Chenxi Qiu (CAICT), Tongning Wu (CAICT), Buse Bilgin (Turkcell Technology)...
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31 May 2024
From diverse datasets to United Nations public good tasks
10:00 - 12:30
Luis Oala (Dotphoton), Steffen Vogler (Bayer), Alexandros Karargyris (MLCommons)...
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31 May 2024
Supervised & reinforcement learning through fun robotics activities using ThymioAI educational robots
10:00 - 11:00
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31 May 2024
AI Futures
10:00 - 12:50 CEST Geneva
Amir Banifatemi (AI Commons), Aimee van​ Wynsberghe (Foundation for Responsible Robotics), Caroline Gans Combe (OMNES EDUCATION - INSEEC)...
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31 May 2024
Explainable AI in the era of Large Language Models
10:00 - 16:30 CET Geneva
Wojciech Samek (Technical University Berlin), Gitta Kutyniok (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München), Fosca Giannotti (Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa)...
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31 May 2024
AI for Good: Corporate trailblazers
09:55 - 10:25
Danny Tobey (DLA Piper), Sooji Seo (3M), Rob Beard (Mastercard)...
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31 May 2024
Forecasting the future: AI in early warning systems
09:30 - 12:30 CEST Geneva
Giulia Martini (WFP), Markus Reichstein (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), Joachim Denzler (University of Jena)...
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31 May 2024
Welcome remarks
09:25 - 09:30
Sami Kanaan (Ville de Genève )
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31 May 2024
The role of standards in shaping a safe and sustainable AI-driven future
09:20 - 09:25
Seizo Onoe (ITU)
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31 May 2024
Detecting deepfakes and Generative AI: Standards for AI watermarking and multimedia authenticity
09:15 - 16:00 CEST Geneva
Alessandra Sala (Shutterstock), Bilel Jamoussi (ITU), Thomas Wiegand (HHI)...
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31 May 2024
Explore AI EdTech innovation: Interactive robotics experience for education and inspiration
09:00 - 18:00
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31 May 2024
Robotics for Good Youth Challenge workshop at the AI for Good Global Summit 2024: A youth journey in disaster response
09:00 - 14:00
Robotics for Good Youth Challenge.
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31 May 2024
Artificial intelligence: What’s under the hood?
09:00 - 15:00
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31 May 2024
Robotics aid in emergency scenarios: Simulating rescue missions and navigation
09:00 - 18:00
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31 May 2024
AI for Good Global Summit 2024 – Day 2
09:00 - 17:30 CEST Geneva | 03:00-11:30 EDT, New York | 15:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
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31 May 2024
Opening AI-inspired artistic performance: Meeting of Minds
09:00 - 09:15
Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal (University of Houston), Tyler Orcutt (Meeting of Minds), Lauren Serrano (Meeting of Minds)
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31 May 2024
Collective AI for Impact
09:00 - 15:45 CEST Geneva
Virginia Dignum (Umeå University), Amir Banifatemi (AI Commons), Frank Dignum (Umeå University)...
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31 May 2024
Unveiling the future of amphibious robotics and bio-inspired locomotion
08:30 - 08:45
Auke Jan Ijspeert (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Envirobot (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Pascale Davies (Euronews)
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31 May 2024
Unleashing the power of open-source AI: Transforming digital public services for a better tomorrow
08:30 - 12:15 CEST Geneva
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31 May 2024
Imagining tomorrow: The convergence of AI, Robotics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse
07:45 - 08:45
Brendan Schulman (Boston Dynamics), Georges-Olivier Reymond (Pasqal), Taryn Southern ()...
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30 May 2024
Leaders pass reception & cocktail dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Taryn Southern (), Spot (Boston Dynamics/Leica Geosystems), Go2 (Unitree Robotics)
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30 May 2024
Innovation Factory grand finale & Evening reception (open to all participants)
18:30 - 19:30
HRH Princess Beatrice (United Kingdom), Seizo Onoe (ITU), Ulrike Tagscherer (KUKA)...
Innovation Factory
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30 May 2024
Keynote interview with Sam Altman (remote) and Nick Thompson (in-person)
17:40 - 18:30
Sam Altman (OpenAI), Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic)
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30 May 2024
AI for Good – use cases and skills
17:15 - 17:40
Juan Lavista Ferres (Microsoft AI for Good Lab), Kate Behncken (Microsoft Philanthropies)
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30 May 2024
AI’s ability to transform
16:55 - 17:15
Costi Perricos (Deloitte)
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30 May 2024
Supercomputers for the SDGs: The Swiss ICAIN Initiative
16:45 - 16:55
Christian Wolfrum (ETH Zurich), Katharina Frey (Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs), Philippe Stoll (ICRC)
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30 May 2024
AI and future horizons: Shaping personalized education for all
16:30 - 16:45
HRH Princess Beatrice (United Kingdom)
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30 May 2024
AI for Good Impact Initiative
16:20 - 16:30
TBA (MIIT), Ebtesam Almazrouei (AIE3), Frederic Werner (ITU)...
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30 May 2024
Saving children with AI
16:00 - 16:20
Baroness Joanna Shields (BenevolentAI), Yalda Aoukar (Bracket Foundation), Sherrie Caltagirone (GEN)...
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30 May 2024
Carbon footprint of AI
16:00 - 16:15
Golestan Sally Radwan (UNEP), Melissa Heikkilä (MIT Technology Review)
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30 May 2024
Robots and AI in Schools (Parents & Professionals) – Focus on deployment in Swiss schools
16:00 - 16:45
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30 May 2024
Fighting AI-related threats: How to bring trust back to the digital world
15:30 - 15:45
Michal Pechoucek (Gen™), Melissa Heikkilä (MIT Technology Review)
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30 May 2024
Fusion, the world’s first AI ballet
15:20 - 15:50
Gadi Sassoon (), Harry Yeff ( REEPS100 ) (R100 Studios), Neil Sahota (ACSILabs Inc)
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30 May 2024
Neurotech horizons: Transforming lives through brain-machine interfaces, bioelectronic therapy, and assistive communication innovations
15:20 - 15:55
Ryan Field (Kernel), Carolina Aguilar (INBRAIN Neuroelectronics), Andreas Forsland (Cognixion)...
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30 May 2024
AI-powered communication networks: Shaping a greener digital future
15:15 - 15:30
Summer Chen (ZTE)
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30 May 2024
Robots for Good: Ethical guidelines and standardization for the design and deployment of societally beneficial assistive robots
15:00 - 18:00 CEST Geneva
Maja Matarić (University of Southern California), Selma Šabanović (Indiana University Bloomington), Vicky Charisi (UCL, Institute of Education, iMerc, London, UK)...
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30 May 2024
Revolutionizing accessibility: Next-gen brain-machine interfaces unveiled
14:35 - 15:15
Taryn Southern ()
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30 May 2024
AI in global development: Help us set the agenda for the playbook
14:30 - 16:00 CEST Geneva
Craig Jolley (USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub), Stefanie Falconi (USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub), Christopher Burns (USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub)
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30 May 2024
Discover the Thymio educational robot and the VPL programming language
14:00 - 15:00
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30 May 2024
Ada Lovelace reimagined: A live interactive journey with Generative AI
14:00 - 14:15
Marco Tempest ()
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30 May 2024
Navigating GeoAI: Plotting the course for future education
14:00 - 18:30 CEST Geneva
Maria Antonia Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano), Céline Rozenblat (University of Lausanne), Laxmi Thapa ()...
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30 May 2024
Financial inclusion through AI
13:45 - 14:00
Hyemin Lee (Finda)
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30 May 2024
Glasses empowering the blind to live a better life
13:25 - 13:40
Cornel Amariei (.lumen), .lumen glasses (.lumen)
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30 May 2024
How AI neurotwins, digital replicas of the brain, improve neuromodulation treatments for mental health disorders?
13:10 - 13:20
Ana Maiques (Neuroelectrics)
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30 May 2024
AI and the next generation: Revolutionizing education and career opportunities for youth
13:00 - 13:45
Pelonomi Moiloa (Lelapa AI), Sage Lenier (), Janine Berg (ILO)...
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30 May 2024
AI x space: Can we monitor a microscopic organism from space?
12:55 - 13:05
Ronan Fonseca (Harvard University), Emily Mocek (Harvard University), Vivien Kocsis (Harvard University)
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30 May 2024
Perception for agile and safe robotics
12:35 - 12:50
Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zurich)
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30 May 2024
UN Leaders Roundtable Lunch – How to leverage AI in the UN in support of safe, responsible and equitable AI?
12:30 - 14:00
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (ITU), Rumman Chowdhury (Humane Intelligence), Vincent Vanhoucke (Google DeepMind)...
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30 May 2024
Organizing African talent to move humanity forward: Language technology for Africa
12:10 - 12:30
Pelonomi Moiloa (Lelapa AI)
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30 May 2024
Keynote
11:50 - 12:10
He Biao (China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd)
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30 May 2024
AI and the global economy: Navigating challenges, unleashing opportunities
11:30 - 11:50
Gita Gopinath (IMF), Greg Williams (WIRED)
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30 May 2024
AI for health
11:30 - 11:45
Le Lu (Alibaba DAMO Academy), Melissa Heikkilä (MIT Technology Review)
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30 May 2024
AI and fusion
11:15 - 11:30
Matteo Barbarino (IAEA), Allen Wang (), Melissa Heikkilä (MIT Technology Review)
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30 May 2024
Build a paper structure and bring it to life with the Thymio educational robot
11:00 - 12:00
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30 May 2024
Innovations in prosthetics and rehabilitation engineering: Pioneering the future of bionic dexterity and rehabilitation technology
10:50 - 11:30
Dima Gazda (Esper Bionics), Heike Vallery (RWTH Aachen), Robert Riener (ETH Zurich)...
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30 May 2024
One-on-one with a robot rockstar
10:50 - 11:20
Janet Adams (SingularityNET), Desdemona (SingularityNET), Neil Sahota (ACSILabs Inc)
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30 May 2024
AI for peace
10:45 - 11:00
Jordan Robert (AWS), Adam Marlatt (Help.NGO), Melissa Heikkilä (MIT Technology Review)
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30 May 2024
Geneva’s AI frontier: Pioneering tomorrow’s solutions
10:45 - 10:50
Delphine Bachmann (République et canton de Genève)
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30 May 2024
Innovate for impact: The winning AI use cases
10:30 - 18:00 CEST Geneva
TBA (MIIT), Afrah Hussein Seid (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University), Alone Somerai ()...
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30 May 2024
Harmonizing global collaborations in AI industry: A Roundtable on the future of AI standardization, regulation and industry development
10:30 - 12:30
Seizo Onoe (ITU), Sergio Mujica (ISO), Philippe Metzger (IEC)...
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30 May 2024
The future of climate action: patterns, predictions and possibilities
10:20 - 10:40
Anna Koivuniemi (Google DeepMind)
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30 May 2024
Generative AI and regulation: From local implementations to global standards
10:00 - 18:00 CEST Geneva
Alexandre Zavaglia Coelho (Legal&Tech.Design), Jeremias Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford), Kai Zenner (European Parliament)...
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30 May 2024
AI for health: Applying AI to model and understand multimorbidity
10:00 - 18:00
Aroon Hingorani (University College London), Birgit Sawitzki (BIH), Gertraud Stadler (Charité Berlin)...
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30 May 2024
AI and Machine Learning in communication networks
10:00 - 18:00 CET Geneva
Cristina Badulescu (Ericsson), Jakob Hoydis (NVIDIA), Karim Rabie (Red Hat)...
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30 May 2024
The AI dilemma
10:00 - 10:20
Tristan Harris (CHT)
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30 May 2024
AI for the future of climate prediction
10:00 - 18:00
Bjorn Stevens (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology), Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich), Yifang Ban (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)...
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30 May 2024
How I envision AI impacting the world by 2030
09:40 - 10:00
Azeem Azhar (Exponential View)
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30 May 2024
Welcome remarks
09:35 - 09:40
Alexander Fassel (FDFA)
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30 May 2024
tinyML: Pioneering sustainable solutions in resource-limited environments
09:30 - 17:30 CEST Geneva
Evgeni Gousev (tinyML Foundation), Andrea Dunbar (CSEM), Fran Baker (Arm)...
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30 May 2024
AI Futures
09:30 - 17:30 CEST Geneva
Amir Banifatemi (AI Commons), Aimee van​ Wynsberghe (Foundation for Responsible Robotics), Caroline Gans Combe (OMNES EDUCATION - INSEEC)...
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