VISION AI Open Day 2022

VISION AI Open Day 2022

Friday 24 June 2022, 15-19 CEST | Brussels, Belgium
Venue: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) – AI Experience Centre

Come discover the ICT-48 Ecosystem in the premises of the AI Experience Centre and interact with some of the main actors of the European AI community on “AI and Society”!

You could not come and join us in person?
Watch the round-table discussion here.

About this event

Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence and how it can impact our lives and society? Would you like to explore and get concrete demonstrations of some AI technologies?

Join us in person for a half-day event. Learn more about Artificial Intelligence that is around us or will be in a near future.

With live demonstrations of AI research and a round-table with some of the main actors of the European AI community, come experience and interact with experts on the pressing topic of “AI and Society” by joining us in person on Friday 24 June in the VUB AI Experience Centre in Brussels.

Our European AI community would like to invite the general public, with a specific focus on students, to come meet us in person for a half-day event to discover some AI applications and join in an open discussion with AI experts.

Experience, interact and discuss with the main actors of the European AI community on the pressing topic of “AI & Society”: Fake news, AI for the environment, AI for education, AI for healthier lives.

Programme

14:50-15:05 | Registration and arrival of the participants

15:05-15:20 | Presentation of VISION & the European AI ecosystem

Holger H. Hoos
| Professor of AI at RWTH Aachen University and Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden, VISION Project Coordinator and chairman of the board of CLAIRE

Ann Nowé
| Professor, the Computer Science Department of the faculty of Sciences, Computer Science group of the Engineering Faculty, VUB; Head of the AI Experience Centre

15:20-16:50 | Interactive Demonstrators and Open Discussions

17:00-18:00 | Round-table Discussion

18:00-19:00 | Networking & Cocktail

Round-table | 17-18 CEST

Don’t miss the moderated discussion between the AI expert, the student, the EC representative and the civil society artist and their interaction on “AI & Society”! Different views of people with a variety of backgrounds.

Moderator:

Carl-Maria Mörch, FARI

Evangelia Markidou
| Head of Sector in Artificial Intelligence Technology, Deployment and Impact
DG CONNECT at the European Commission, Luxembourg

Marc Schoenauer
| Senior Researcher of LRI with INRIA, France

Athina Georgara
| PhD Candidate, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute IIIA CSIC | Enyzme Advisory Group, Spain

Dewi Brunet
| Art Director at Diatom Studio and Folding Artist at DewiOrigami, Belgium

Photo Gallery

AI Demonstrators

  • Eduteams by Athina Georgana, TAILOR Network
    A software to form teams based on personalities and interests, will present the problem the team has been working on and the tools they have developed. The focus will be on the latest advances, which were recently presented in the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 22).
  • NRGcoin Smart Grid Demo
  • Maze
  • BruBotics
  • ETRO
  • AI Lab
  • DEFROST – Deformable Robotic Software – art-sciences between Inria and an artist on the behavioral modeling of soft robots

Venue

AI Experience Center
9 Boulevard de la Plaine
1050 Ixelles, Belgium

Live – Real – Interactive

  • Learn something new in a dynamic and entertaining way.
  • Join the insightful discussions with main personalities on AI.
  • Get to know what stays behind “AI made in Europe: Trustworthy, Human-centred & Ethical AI”

Event is Designed for

  • All people with an interest in new technologies
  • University Students
  • General Public
  • High-school students and pupils
  • Researchers, innovators and policy makers are also warmly welcome!

The event is organised by VISION in the cooperation with

The event is organised within the ICT-48 ecosystem

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Categorized as AI, Event