International AI Summit 2023 | Forum Europe | 7 November 2023 | Thon EU Hotel, Rue de la Loi 75, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium

As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to build at speed, and in the wake of the rapid advances in generative AI, governments are racing to adopt national policies and develop global regulatory cooperation. While jurisdictions will necessarily develop differing approaches at varying speeds, international regulatory cohesion can lead to improved outcomes, particularly where there is close cooperation between policymakers, industry, civil society, and other stakeholders.

Several initiatives promoting international cooperation are underway: the OECD has been active for some time; the G7, G20, and United Nations have all adopted broad principles and new initiatives, such as the G7’s recent ‘Hiroshima AI process’ to regulate generative AI, have been launched. Cooperation between like-minded partners is also ramping up in various bilateral and multilateral forums, with the EU and the US notably working on voluntary codes of conduct and other mechanisms designed to avoid divergence and foster responsible, human-centric AI. Meanwhile, the EU is finalising the first comprehensive regulatory scheme for AI. The extent to which major players that are also looking at regulating the technology, but do not share similar political and social values and see AI as an instrument of geopolitical competition, will be included in these discussions will shape the scope and potential for global AI governance.

The governance of AI has emerged as one of the most pressing questions of our time. This conference, presented by Forum Europe and Euronews and curated by Cameron Kerry and Joshua Meltzer of The Brookings Institution and Andrea Renda of the Centre for European Policy Studies, founders of the Forum for Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence, will seek to address many of the questions around global regulatory cooperation, and what this will mean in practice.

2023 Speakers

Věra Jourová
Vice-President, European Commission

Nadia Calviño
First Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister for Economy and Digitalization

Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology/ Under Secretary General

Simon Coveney
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ireland

Neema K. Lugangira
MP, Tanzania; Chair, African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance (APNIG)

Dragoș Tudorache
MEP

Eva Maydell
MEP

Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva
Ambassador to the EU, Brazilian Mission to the European Union

Maive Rute
Deputy Director-General and Chief Standardisation Officer, DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW), European Commission

Simon Kennedy
Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Canada

Rumman Chowdhury
Data Scientist

Alan Davidson
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, Administrator NTIA

Elham Tabassi
Associate Director for Emerging Technologies, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST

Yoichi Iida
Assistant Vice Minister, Ministry for Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan; Chair of Hiroshima Process WG

Juha Heikkilä
Adviser for Artificial Intelligence, DG CONNECT, European Commission

John Kamara
Founder of AI Center of Excellence (AICE) Africa

Rebecca Finlay
CEO, Partnership on AI

Gemma Galdón Clavell
CEO, Eticas Tech

Davio Larnout
CEO, Radix

Wael William Diab
Chair of JTC 1/ SC 42, ISO/ IEC

Bob Kimball
Vice President & AGC, Amazon

Jeremy Rollison
Head of EU Policy, European Government Affairs, Microsoft Europe

Elena Fersman
Vice President and Head of Global AI Accelerator, Ericsson

Jean-Marc Leclerc
Director of EU Affairs, Government and Regulatory Affairs, IBM

Aliki Foinikopoulou
Senior Director, EU Government Affairs and Public Policy, Salesforce

Matteo Quattrocchi
Director, Policy - EMEA, BSA | The Software Alliance

Corinna Schulze
Director, EU Government Affairs, SAP

Matthew McDermott
Director of Growth, Access Partnership

Marjorie Buchser
Executive Director, Digital Society Initiative, Chatham House

Jerry Sheehan
Director, Directorate for Science, Technology & Innovation, OECD

Rebecca Arcesati
Lead Analyst, The Mercator Institute for China Studies

Anu Bradford
Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia Law School

Matt Sheehan
Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Méabh Mc Mahon
European Affairs Correspondent, Euronews

Andrea Renda
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation & Digital Economy, The Centre for European Policy Studies

Cameron F. Kerry
Distinguished visiting fellow, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

Joshua P. Meltzer
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Andrew Wyckoff
Former Director of Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD; Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Transnational Governance, EUI

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Access Partnership
• Amazon
• BSA | The Software Alliance
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Salesforce
• SAP

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Fiscal Note EU Issue Tracker